All methods of escape seemed lost—that then

Up should a young hot-headed Loys spring,

Talk very long and loud,—in fine, compel

The Knights to break their whole arrangement, have me

Home for pure shame—from this safehold of mine

Where but ten thousand Druses seek my life,

To my wild place of banishment, San Gines

By Murcia, where my three fat manors lying,

Purchased by gains here and the Nuncio's gold,

Are all I have to guard me,—that such fortune