The wife who like a fury flings at us,

The crowd—and then the capture, the appeal

To Rome, the journey there, the jaunting thence

To shelter at the House of Convertites,

The visits to the Villa, and so forth,

Where was one minute left us all this while

To put in execution that revenge

We planned o' the instant?—as it were, plumped down

O' the spot, some eight months since, which round sound egg,

Rome, more propitious than our nest, should hatch!