Fawnes murdered, wringing hir hands and beating hir delicate breſt, ſhe vſed theſe or ſutch like woordes: "Ah bloudy traitor and no more Knight, is it of thee that I oughte to looke for ſo deteſtable a villany and treaſon? How dareſt thou be ſo hardy to entreat me for an other, that haft in myne owne preſence killed him, whoſe death I will purſue vpon thee, ſo longe as I haue life within this body? Is it to thee falſe theefe and murderer, that I ought to render accompte of that which I meant to doe? Who hath appointed thee to be arbitrator, or who gaue thee commisſion to capitulate the Articles of my mariage? Is it by force then, that thou wouldeſt I ſhould loue that vnfaithfull Knighte, for whom thou haſt committed and done this acte, that ſo longe as thou liueſt ſhal blot and blemiſh thy renoume, and ſhal be ſo wel fixed in my mind, and the wounds ſhal cleaue ſo neare my heart, vntill at my pleaſure I be reuenged of this wrong? No, no, I aſſure thee no force done vnto mee, ſhall neuer make mee otherwyſe dyſpoſed, than a mortall Enimy both to thee which art a Theefe and rauiſher of an other man's wife, and alſo to thy deſperate frend Dom Diego, which is the cauſe of this my loſſe: and now not ſatiſfied with the former wrong done vnto me, thou goeſt about to deceiue me vnder the Colour of good and pure Friendſhip. But ſith wicked Fortune hath made me thy Pryſoner, doe with me what thou wylt, and yet before I ſuffer and endure that that Traytor Dom Diego doe enioy my Virginity, I will offer vp my lyfe to the ſhadowes and Ghoſtes of my faythful fryend and husband, whome thou haſt ſo trayterouſly murdred. And therefore (if honeſtlye I may or ought entreate mine Enimy) I pray thee that by doynge thy duety, thou ſuffer vs in peace, and gyue lycence to mee, thys Page, and my two pore Maydens to depart whether we lyſt." "God forbid" (quod Roderico) "that I ſhould doe a Treſpaſſe ſo ſhamefull, as to depryue my deareſt fryend of his ioy and contentation, and by falſifiing my faith be an occaſion of hys death, and of your loſſe, by leauing you without company, wandring amids this wilderneſſe." And thus he continued his former diſcourſe and talk, to reclaime thys cruell Damoſell to haue pity vpon hir poore penytent, but he gained as mutch thereby, as if he had gone aboute to number the Sands alongs the Sea Coaſtes of
