This were our warrant for eruptive ire

"To whose dominion I impose no end."

(Virgil, now, should not be too difficult

To Cinoncino,—say, the early books.

Pen, truce to further gambols! Poscimur!)

Nor can revenge of injury done here

To the honor proved the life and soul of us,

Be too excessive, too extravagant:

Such wrong seeks and must have complete revenge.

Show we this, first, on the mere natural ground: