Civility better, Marzi-Medici,

Governor for thy kinsman the Granduke!

Fit representative of law, man's lamp

I' the magistrate's grasp full-flare, no rushlight-end

Sputtering 'twixt thumb and finger of the priest!

Whose answer to the couple's cry for help

Is a threat,—whose remedy of Pompilia's wrong,

A shrug o' the shoulder, and facetious word

Or wink, traditional with Tuscan wits,

To Guido in the doorway. Laud to law!