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PUCCIO, _as making a report to_ JACOPO.
_Puc._ And here, your captain must report the rest; / For, as I say, the main engagement over / And Luria's special part in it performed, / How could a subaltern like me expect / Leisure or leave to occupy the field / And glean what dropped from his wide harvesting? / I thought, when Lucca at the battle's end / Came up, just as the Pisan centre broke, / That Luria would detach me and prevent / The flying Pisans seeking what they found, / Friends in the rear, a point to rally by. / But no, more honorable proved my post! / I had the august captive to escort / Safe to our camp; some other could pursue, / Fight, and be famous; gentler chance was mine -- / Tiburzio's wounded spirit must be soothed! / He's in the tent there.