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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!'
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—
"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—