They raised the bleeding Otho, and the Leech

Forbade all present question, sign, and speech;

The others met within a neighbouring hall,

And he, incensed, and heedless of them all,[kk]

The cause and conqueror in this sudden fray,

In haughty silence slowly strode away;

He backed his steed, his homeward path he took, 740

Nor cast on Otho's towers a single look.