Up we all went together, in they broke

O' the chamber late my chapel. There she lay,

Composed as when I laid her, that last eve,

O' the couch, still breathless, motionless, sleep's self,

Wax-white, seraphic, saturate with the sun

O' the morning that now flooded from the front

And filled the window with a light like blood.

"Behold the poisoner, the adulteress,

—And feigning sleep too! Seize, bind!" Guido hissed.

She started up, stood erect, face to face