Now, loit’ring in a wood, they stay’d till night
Avail’d them for their unmolested flight,
And then sought refuge in a roadside-inn;
Where the carousal scarcely did begin
Ere some great noise excites the villains’ fear—
They’re startled! therefore try to disappear.
But there remain’d no shadow of a chance;
For six determined officers advance
And seize them. But what next ensued?—
They aim resistance, and with clubs of wood