Samminiati bends before 'his lady' in an attitude of respectful homage, offering upon his knees the service of awe-struck devotion.

At one time he calls her 'his most beauteous angel,' at another 'his most lovely and adored enchantress.' He does not conceal his firm belief that she has laid him under some spell of sorcery; but entreats her to have mercy and to liberate him, reminding her how a certain Florentine lady restored Giovan Lorenzo Malpigli to health after keeping him in magic bondage till his life was in danger.[195] Then he swears unalterable fealty; heaven and fortune shall not change his love.
It is untrue that at Florence, or at Venice, he has cast one glance on any other woman.

Let lightning strike him, if he deserts Umilia.

But she has caused him jealousy by stooping to a base amour.

To this point he returns with some persistence.