Sorrow was over? 'T is an infant's birth,

Guido's first-born, his son and heir, that gives

The occasion: other men cut free their souls

From care in such a case, fly up in thanks

To God, reach, recognize his love for once:

Guido cries, "Soul, at last the mire is thine!

Lie there in likeness of a money-bag,

My babe's birth so pins down past moving now,

That I dare cut adrift the lives I late

Scrupled to touch lest thou escape with them!