Just as the way was at Arezzo. Then,

Not for my sake but his who had helped me—

I sprang up, reached him with one bound, and seized

The sword o' the felon, trembling at his side,

Fit creature of a coward, unsheathed the thing

And would have pinned him through the poison-bag

To the wall and left him there to palpitate,

As you serve scorpions, but men interposed—

Disarmed me, gave his life to him again

That he might take mine and the other lives;