Thought it good for the country to forfeit their word,
And break the conditions they should have observed.
So they sent the police out to clear every street,
And seize whomsoever by chance they might meet;
And before the bright sun was aloft in the sky,
Twenty-two of the party were sentenced to die,—
And that was the way was ould Venice preserved.
Mr. Jaffier, who 'peach'd, was let off at the time;
But that wouldn't do, he committed a crime,
Which punishment more than his others deserved;