Yes, when I got my maid to supplicate

The priest, whose name she read when she would read

Those feigned false letters I was forced to hear

Though I could read no word of,—he should cease

Writing,—nay, if he minded prayer of mine,

Cease from so much as even pass the street

Whereon our house looked,—in my ignorance

I was just thwarting Guido's true intent;

Which was, to bring about a wicked change

Of sport to earnest, tempt a thoughtless man