Had not the folk, which most of all the world 1620 Degenerates, been a step-dame unto Caesar, But as a mother to her son benignant, Some who turn Florentines, and trade and discount, Would have gone back again to Simifonte 1621 There where their grandsires went about as beggars. At Montemurlo still would be the Counts, 1622 The Cerchi in the parish of Acone, 1623 Perhaps in Valdigrieve the Buondelmonti. 1624 Ever the intermingling of the people Has been the source of malady in cities, As in the body food it surfeits on; And a blind bull more headlong plunges down 1625 Than a blind lamb; and very often cuts Better and more a single sword than five. 1626 If Luni thou regard, and Urbisaglia, 1627