Identifier: ringbook00brow (find matches)
Title: The ring and the book
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 Porter, Charlotte Endymion, 1859-1942, ed Clarke, Helen Archibald, d. 1926, joint ed
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Publisher: New York, Boston, T.Y. Crowell & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ugh street and street,At the Strozzi, at the Pillar, at the Bridge; no Till, by the time I stood at home againIn Casa Guidi by Felice Church,Under the doorway where the black beginsWith the first stone-slab of the staircase cold,1 had mastered the contents, knew the whole truth 115 Gathered together, bound up in this book,Print three-fifths, written supplement the rest. Romana Hgjnicidio7-tun — nay.Better translate — A Roman murder-case :Position of the entire criminal cause 120 Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman.With certain Four the cutthroats in his pay.Tried, all five, and found guilty and put to deathBy heading or hanging as befitted ranks. At Rome on February Twenty Two, 125 Since our salvation Sixteen Ninety Eight:Wherein it is disputed if, and when.Husbands may kill adulterous wives, yet scapeThe customary forfeit. Word for word,So ran the title-page : murder, or else 130 Legitimate punishment of the other crime.Accounted murder by mistake, ^—-just that Festas : feast days.
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THE RING AND THE BOOK. 5 And no more, in a Latin cramp enough When the law had her eloquence to launch, But interfilleted with Italian streaks 135 When testimony stooped to mother-tongue, — That, was this old square yellow book about. Now, as the ingot, ere the ring was forged. Lay gold, (beseech you, hold that figure fast!) So, in this book lay absolutely truth, 140 Fanciless fact, the documents indeed, Primary lawyer-pleadings for, against. The aforesaid Five ; real summed-up circumstance Adduced in proof of these on either side. Put forth and printed, as the practice was, 145 At Rome, in the Apostolic Chambers type, And so submitted to the eye o the Court Presided over by His Reverence Romes Governor and Criminal Judge, — the trial Itself, to all intents, being then as now 150 Here in the book and nowise out of it; Seeing, there properly was no judgment-bar, No bringing of accuser and accused. And whoso judged both parties, face to face, Before some court, as we conceive of cou

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