Willingly do I renounce all ancient cause of enmity with any of my compeers.

Fortunately for me, my long absence from Rome has swept from my remembrance the feuds and rivalries familiar to my early youth; and in this noble conclave I see but one man (glancing at Martino di Porto, who sat sullenly looking down) against whom I have, at any time, deemed it a duty to draw my sword; the gage that I once cast to that noble is yet, I rejoice to think, unredeemed.

I withdraw it.

Henceforth my only foes shall be the foes of Rome!" "Nobly spoken!" said the Bishop, aloud.
"And," continued Adrian, casting down his glove amongst the nobles, "I throw, my Lords, the gage, thus resumed, amongst you all, in challenge to a wider rivalry, and a more noble field.

I invite any man to vie with me in the zeal that he shall show to restore tranquillity to our roads, and order to our state.