The ring and the book . thus?Was it enough to make a wise man mad ?.^ Oh, but I 11 have your verdict at the end! Well, not enough, it seems : such mere hurt falls, 1255 Frets awhile, aches long, then grows less and less,And so gets done with. Such was not the schemeO the pleasant Comparini: on Guidos woundEver in due succession, drop by drop. Came slow distilment from the alembic here 1260 Set on to simmer by Canidian hate,*Corrosives keeping the mans misery fire-drop, — when he thought to make the bestO the bad, to wring from out the sentence , pitiful, absurd although it
The ring and the book . thus?Was it enough to make a wise man mad ?.^ Oh, but I 11 have your verdict at the end! Well, not enough, it seems : such mere hurt falls, 1255 Frets awhile, aches long, then grows less and less,And so gets done with. Such was not the schemeO the pleasant Comparini: on Guidos woundEver in due succession, drop by drop. Came slow distilment from the alembic here 1260 Set on to simmer by Canidian hate,*Corrosives keeping the mans misery fire-drop, — when he thought to make the bestO the bad, to wring from out the sentence , pitiful, absurd although it were, 1265 Yet what might eke him out result enough 1 Potitifix Maximus : in ancient Rome, ^ Firk : chastise any Vestal Virgin who let the sacred fire go * Canidian hair : Caiiidia was a Neapoli- out was scourged by the Pontifex tan beloved by Horace. When she deserted 2 Caponsacchi: in English, Head i the him, he held her up to contempt as an oldSack. The family is mentioned in Dantes witch. Paradise, HALF-ROME. 63 And make it worth while to have had the right And not the wrong i the matter judged at Rome. Inadequate her punishment, no less Punished in some slight sort his wife had been; 1270 Then, punished for adultery, what else? On such admitted crime he thought to seize, And institute procedure in the courts Which cut corruption of this kind from man, Cast loose a wife proved loose and castaway : 1275 He claimed in due form a divorce at least. This claim was met now by a counterclaim : Pompilia sought divorce from bed and board Of Guido, whose outrageous cruelty. Whose mothers malice and whose brothers hate i2c>o Were just the white o the charge, such dreadful depths Blackened its centre, — hints of worse than hate, Love from that brother, by that Guidos guile, That mothers prompting. Such reply was made, So was the engine loaded, wound up, sprung 1285 On Guido, who received bolt full in breast; But no less bore up, giddily perhaps. He had the Abate
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