Confiscated, yourself condemn’d to die,

Might not you fly the misdirected sword

Of justice, and of those who well could spare

Beg a poor tithe of what she robb’d you wholly,

And be no rascal still?

Leon. Oh clearly, clearly.

Gil. This granted then, look to the inference.

I am Gil Perez; I who struck the Sheriff,

And kill’d his man, and read the Judge’s papers,

And flying hither, shorn of house and home,