As in campaigns, we fight but others pay,

Suis expensis, nemo militat.

'T is Guido's self we guard from accident,

Ensuring safety to Pompilia, versed

Nowise in misadventures by the way,

Hard riding and rough quarters, the rude fare,

The unready host. What magic mitigates

Each plague of travel to the unpractised wife?

Money, sweet Sirs! And were the fiction fact

She helped herself thereto with liberal hand