For misdeeds non verbis sed factis?

"With folks all alive be my practice

Henceforward! O mortar, paint-pot O,

Farewell to ye!" cried Pacchiarotto,

"Let only occasion intérpose!"

XII

It did so: for, pat to the purpose

Through causes I need not examine,

There fell upon Siena a famine.

In vain did the magistrates busily