By no feign’d vows of marriage, but compell’d

By me, who would not listen to a suit

Without my leave contracted, put it off

From day to day, until the lady, tired

Of a delay that argued treachery,

Engaged her brother in the quarrel; who

With two companions set upon my son

One night to murder him. The lad, whose metal

Would never brook affront, nor cared for odds,

Drew on all three; slew one—a homicide