And got in time to see’—here enter I—

‘Gil Perez fighting with the officers,

Then on a sudden running to the river

Plunge in. And that is all he knows of it.’

How short and sweet!

‘Next and third witness, Juan Baptista,’—ay,

Now for this exemplary Christian—

Juan Baptista sworn, deposeth thus:

‘That, as luck fell, he was behind a tree

When the two gentlemen came out to fight;