I lay no curse upon the innocent.
When he comes penitent to me in tears
I will receive him. Go! (Exit Amb.)
(To Cardinals.) Have ye no reverence for Gregory that,
Ye should revile revilings in this house?
God’s ministers should ever be men of peace,
And not a maddened rabble. As our Lord,
In that last season of his great martyrdom,
Bade holy Peter sheathe the angry sword,
So I rebuke ye. Had he slain me here,