Call them rather chains to bind the nation, lures and birdlime such as snarers use.

There is but one quarter to which the widowed and discrowned Queen of Nations can appeal for succor.

She turns to Carlo Emmanuele, Duke of Savoy, to the hills whence cometh help.

It was not, however, until two centuries after Marino penned these patriotic stanzas, that her prayer was answered.

And the reflection forced upon us when we read the _Pianto d'Italia_, is that Marino composed it to flatter a patron who at that moment entertained visionary schemes of attacking the Spanish hegemony.
To make any but an abrupt transition from Marino to Chiabrera would be impossible.