Defective in behavior to a priest

Who claimed the customary partnership

I' the house and the wife. Lords, any lie will serve!

Look to it,—or allow me freed so far!

Then I proceed a step, come with clean hands

Thus far, re-tell the tale told eight months since.

The wife, you allow so far, I have not wronged,

Has fled my roof, plundered me and decamped

In company with the priest her paramour:

And I gave chase, came up with, caught the two