And from his wife a brief epistle too,
Which told her sorrows since their last adieu:
VI.
How came the messengers with arméd men
To search her mansion for “the heretic;”
How his escape provoked their wrath—and then
How they condemned him for his feigning sick;
But with the thought consoled themselves again,
That he had perished in the tempest thick;
God’s righteous retribution, setting free