Only, speak where your wife's voice can reply!"

And then he fingered at the sword again.

So, Guido called, in aid and witness both,

The Public Force. The Commissary came,

Officers also; they secured the priest;

Then, for his more confusion, mounted up

With him, a guard on either side, the stair

To the bedroom where still slept or feigned a sleep

His paramour and Guido's wife: in burst

The company and bade her wake and rise.