Of guilty life: much less shall mercy sue

In vain that thou let innocence survive,

Precipitate no minim of the mass

O' the all-so precious moments of thy life,

By pushing Guido into death and doom!

(Our Cardinal engages to go read

The Pope my speech, and point its beauties out.

They say, the Pope has one half-hour, in twelve,

Of something like a moderate return

Of the intellectuals,—never much to lose!—