Gather from out my speech the contrary!

It follows that Pompilia, unrelieved

By formal sentence from imputed fault,

Remains unfit to have and to dispose

Of property which law provides shall lapse:

Wherefore the Monastery claims its due.

And whose, pray, whose the office, but the Fisc's?

Who but I institute procedure next

Against the person of dishonest life,

Pompilia, whom last week I sainted so?