The precious grapes which there I left...

Where is the fruit on which I counted?

Tell me of which I am bereft?’

Straight the Count himself imprison’d

In highest tower of Valderey:

—‘Ne’er shall bread assuage my hunger,

Ne’er shall wine my thirst allay.

Beard and hair grown rough and ragged,

Care from me shall ne’er receive;

Till the truth be plain before me,