Azzo before the Kaiser's face: and how,

On Azzo's calm refusal to allow

A liegeman's challenge, straight he too was calmed:

As if his hate could bear to lie embalmed,

Bricked up, the moody Pharaoh, and survive

All intermediate crumblings, to arrive

At earth's catastrophe—'t was Este's crash,

Not Azzo's he demanded, so, no rash

Procedure! Este's true antagonist

Rose out of Ecelin: all voices whist,