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This poem is loosely based on historical events involving Alfonso, The Duke is the speaker of the poem, and tells us he is entertaining an emissary who has come to negotiate the Duke's marriage (he has recently been widowed) to the daughter of another powerful family. His musings give way to a diatribe on her disgraceful behavior: he claims she flirted with everyone and didn't appreciate his "gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name." The Duke returns to the business at hand: arranging for another marriage, with another marriage, with young girl. ...
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