. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. hour of the night (one oclock, ant.) had now struck. The macebearers had bound Savonarola,and the rabble pressed about him in a thick mass, likea stormy sea ; helmets, breastplates, swords, and spearsglittered here and there in the dim light of lanterns andtorches. All gazed on him with threatening mien, theyflashed lanterns in his eyes, crying out : Behold the truelight! they singed him with torches, saying : Now givea turn to the key ; they twisted his fingers, struck him,and tauntingly inquired : Prophesy who it is that hasbuffeted thee. Their feroci
. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. hour of the night (one oclock, ant.) had now struck. The macebearers had bound Savonarola,and the rabble pressed about him in a thick mass, likea stormy sea ; helmets, breastplates, swords, and spearsglittered here and there in the dim light of lanterns andtorches. All gazed on him with threatening mien, theyflashed lanterns in his eyes, crying out : Behold the truelight! they singed him with torches, saying : Now givea turn to the key ; they twisted his fingers, struck him,and tauntingly inquired : Prophesy who it is that hasbuffeted thee. Their ferocity reached such a pitch, thathis guards had great difficulty in protecting him with afence of crossed spears and shields. The insults heendured by the way may be more easily imagined thandescribed, and the mob continued to wreak their brutalityon him until he had entered the palace. Even while inthe act of passing through the postern door, one of the * Burlamacchi, p. 143. • Burlamacchi, p. 143 ; Fra Benedetto, Cedrus Libani, chap. ^
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