While now they’re running to the room,

And seek a light in haste, the sire,

No longer stifling of his ire,

Flies to the couch, where grouping round,

A head, but newly shaved, he found;

Then, as alone, he vengeance breath’d,

The sword within his bosom sheath’d—

The candle ent’ring, when he spied

The bleeding youth, and by his side

The spotless dame, who being fast