The ripe hate, like a wine: to note the way

It worked while each grew drunk! Men grave and gray

Stood, with shut eyelids, rocking to and fro,

How her Guelfs are discomfited.

Letting the silent luxury trickle slow

About the hollows where a heart should be;

But the young gulped with a delirious glee

Some foretaste of their first debauch in blood

At the fierce news: for, be it understood,

Envoys apprised Verona that her prince