Shrieks Stephen in a beastly froth of rage:
'Judge now betwixt him dead and me alive!
Hath he intruded, or do I pretend?
Judge, judge!'—breaks wavelike one whole foam of wrath.
"Whereupon they, being friends and followers,
Said, 'Ay, thou art Christ's Vicar, and not he!
Away with what is frightful to behold!
This act was uncanonic and a fault.'
"Then, swallowed up in rage, Stephen exclaimed,
'So, guilty! So, remains I punish guilt!