• A Sienese lady living in banishment at Colle, where from a tower she witnessed the battle between her townsmen and the Florentines. “Sapia hated the Sienese,” says Benvenuto, “and placed herself at a window not far from the field of battle, waiting the issue with anxiety, and desiring the rout and ruin of her own people. Her desires being verified by the entire discomfiture of the Sienese, and the death of their captain,” (Provenzan Salvani, see note 731 ,) “exultant and almost beside herself, she lifted her bold face to heaven, and cried, ‘Now, O God, do with me what thou wilt, do me all the harm thou canst; now my prayers are answered, and I die content.’ ” ↩
• Gower, Confessio Amantis , II :⁠— “Whan I have sene another blithe Of love and hadde a goodly chere, Ethna, which brenneth yere by yere, Was thanne nought so hote as I Of thilk e sore which prively Mine hertes thought withinne brenneth.” ↩