You have heard—to make tracks “and git out of the way.”
Now—scorning the aid of that personage odious,
The two-sticked dark gentleman known as Asmodeus;
We have unroofed the house of these portly old men,
And gaze without obstacle into their den!
St. Peter’s great bell tells one more day is dead;
Respectable persons lie snugly in bed;
Only a beggar or woman with shrewd eye,
Is prowling about, to pick up a few scudi;
But Jacopolo’s altar is all in a blaze,