So his arms fell, the signal gave.
At this unlook’d for suddenness,
Th’ executioner surpriz’d was,
Did unprepar’d direct the blow,
That deep enough it did not go,
Before the second he turn’d his head,
As if in anger his jaws they gade,
Gnashing his teeth so veh’mently,
The head went off by blows three.
Upon red baize, the chopt-off head,