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132 Maeterlinck
you that Prinzivalle seems wise, that he is humane and
reasonable. But where is the wise man that hath not
his private madness, the good man to whom no monstrous
idea has ever come? On one side is reason and pity and
justice; on the other ah! there is desire and passion
and what you will the insanity into which we all fall
at times. I have fallen into it myself, and shall, belike,
again so have you. Man is made in that fashion. A
grief which should not be within the experience of man is
on the point of touching you. . . . Hearken: this great
convoy, the victuals that I have seen, wagons running
over with corn, others full of wine and fruit; flocks of
sheep and herds of cattle, enough to feed a city for
months; all these tuns of powder and bars of lead, with
which you may vanquish Florence and make Pisa lift her
head all this will enter the city to-night, ... if you
send in exchange, to give her up to Prinzivalle until to
morrow s dawn, . . . for he will send her back when
the first faint gray shows in the sky, . . .
only, he exacts
that, in sign of victory and submission, she shall come
alone, and her cloak for all her covering. . . .
Guido. Who? Who shall thus come?
Marco. Giovanna.
Guido. My wife? Vanna?
Marco. Ay, your Vanna.
Guido Colonna, in the consciousness that the
woman belongs to him, that no man may even
look, with desire, upon her dazzling beauty, re
sents this mortal insult. He is willing that all
the other women should face danger, that the lit-
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