Von George Eliot. Is not the anxious voting with black and white beans still going on down there Who are the Priori in these months, eating soberly-regulated official dinners in the Palazzo Vecchio, with removes of tripe and boiled partridges, seasoned by practical jokes against the ill-fated butt among those potent signors Are not the significant banners still hung from the windows— still distributed with decent pomp under Orcagna’ s Loggia every two months.