That made me careless of it when possess’d.

From day to day I put our marriage off

With false pretence, which she at last suspecting

Falsely continued seeming to believe,

Till she had got a brother to her side,

(A desperate man then out-law’d, like myself,

For homicide,) who, to avenge her shame,

With other two waylaid me on a night

When as before I unsuspectingly

Crept to her house; and set upon me so,