ALL (starting back).
Now, God forgive you, what is this you've done!
BAUM.
What every free man in my place had done.
Mine own good household right I have enforced
'Gainst him that would have wrong'd my wife—my honor.
KUONI.
How! Wronged you in your honor, did he so?
BAUM.
That he did not fulfil his foul desire,
Is due to God and to my trusty axe.
WERNI.
And you have cleft his skull then, with your axe?