That if I failed to save Count Guido's head,
Cinuccio should at least go see it chopped
From trunk—'So, latinize your thanks!' quoth I,
'That I prefer, hoc malim,' raps me out
The rogue: you notice the subjunctive? Ah!
Accordingly he sat there, bold in box,
Proud as the Pope behind the peacock-fans:
Whereon a certain lady-patroness
For whom I manage things (my boy in front,
Her Marquis sat the third in evidence;