To reach this issue, furnish this pretence

For impudent withdrawal from their bond,—

Theft, indeed murder, since they meant no less

Whose last injunction to her simple self

Had been—what parents'—precept do you think?

That she should follow after with all speed,

Fly from her husband's house clandestinely,

Join them at Rome again, but first of all

Pick up a fresh companion in her flight,

So putting youth and beauty to fit use,—