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FILIPPO BALDINUCCI
Certain, a ray of light has burst
Your veil of darkness! Had you else,
Only for Mary's sake, disbursed
So much hard money? Tell—oh, tell 's!'

46.
"Round—like a serpent that we took
For worm and trod on—turns his bulk
About the Jew. First dreadful look
Sends Buti in a trice to skulk
Out of sight somewhere, safe—alack!
But our good Farmer faith made bold:
And firm (with Florence at his back)
He stood, while gruff the gutturals rolled—