How do the Christians here deport them, keep

Their robes of white unspotted by the world?

What is this Aretine Archbishop, this

Man under me as I am under God,

This champion of the faith, I armed and decked,

Pushed forward, put upon a pinnacle,

To show the enemy his victor,—see!

What 's the best fighting when the couple close?

Pompilia cries, "Protect me from the wolf!"

He—"No, thy Guido is rough, heady, strong,