Strike me, impious, with its awful thunders
While I eat this.
[Breaks the wafer in two and eats half.
A cry of wonder comes from the Cardinals. There ensues a pause of a few seconds, then he holds out the broken wafer to Henry.
Henry of Germany, wilt thou do the same?
Hen. (Starts back in confusion and horror.) Nay, nay,
’tis impious! ’tis impious!
Cards. Guilty, guilty!
Hen. (Aside.) What influence be this I fight against?
This devil doth ever place me in the wrong.