The evening star was high

When he reached Mantua, but his fame arrived

Before him: friends applauded, foes connived,

And Naddo looked an angel, and the rest

Angels, and all these angels would he blest

Supremely by a song—the thrice-renowned

Goito-manufacture. Then he found

(Casting about to satisfy the crowd)

He has loved song's results, not song;

That happy vehicle, so late allowed,