"Why was that throwing, that buffoonery?

Do you think I am your dupe? What man would dare

Throw comfits in a stranger lady's lap?

'T was knowledge of you bred such insolence

In Caponsacchi; he dared shoot the bolt,

Using that Conti for his stalking-horse.

How could you see him this once and no more,

When he is always haunting hereabout

At the street-corner or the palace-side,

Publishing my shame and your impudence?