School me or chide me now: do what thou wilt:
I am resign'd and humble.
Ter. (advancing to them with alarm.)
Hear ye that noise without?—They force the door,
And angry Ulrick comes.
Erm. (starting from his knees furiously.)
Thank heaven this hated rival front to front
Shall now oppose me! God avenge the right!
Enter Ulrick, bursting into the room, followed by Bastiani.
Ul. (to Erm.) Vow'd, holy Knight; from all vain earthly love
Pure and divided; in a lady's chamber
Do we surprise thee? Quit it instantly:
It is a place for thee unfit: and know,
In sacred wardship will I keep that maid.
Erm. In sacred wardship! O unblushing face!
What of thy baseness, treachery, and falsehood
I could declare, my choaking voice forbids,
Which utterance hath not.—Here's a ready
tongue—(Drawing his sword.)
Defend thee then, and heaven defend the right!
(They both draw, and fight furiously, Bastiani endevouring in vain to interpose; when the Legate and his train, with Garcio and the Knights of St. John, enter, and separate them.)
Leg. Put up your weapons: to the holy church
