If I had had my sword, as I had once

When I cut ears off, I had cut him down;

But having but my keys, and not my brand,

I only knock'd his head from out his hand.

XX.

"And then he set up such a headless howl,

That all the saints came out and took him in;

And there he sits by St. Paul, cheek by jowl;

That fellow Paul—the parvenu! The skin

Of Saint Bartholomew, which makes his cowl