Note 6 — Chapter I
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"The house from which your wailing sprang, because of the just anger which hath slain you and placed a term upon your joyous life,
"was honoured, it and its associates. Oh Buondelmonte, how ill didst thou flee its nuptials at the prompting of another!
"Joyous had many been who now are sad, had God committed thee unto the Ema the first time that thou camest to the city.
"But to that mutilated stone which guardeth the bridge 'twas meet that Florence should give a victim in her last time of peace."