XVII + 

Yet were these Florentines as self-retired + 

In hungry pride and gainful cowardice, + 

As two close Hebrews in that land inspired, + 

Paled in and vineyarded from beggar-spies; + 

The hawks of ship-mast forests⁠—the untired + 

And pannier’d mules for ducats and old lies⁠— + 

Quick cat’s-paws on the generous stray-away,⁠— + 

Great wits in Spanish, Tuscan, and Malay. + 