Hunted forth to go hide head, starve and die,

And leave the pale awe-stricken wife, past hope

Of help i' the world now, mute and motionless,

His slave, his chattel, to first use, then destroy.

All this, he bent mind, how to bring about,

Put plain in act and life, as painted plain,

So have success, reach crown of earthly good,

In this particular enterprise of man,

By marriage—undertaken in God's face

With all these lies so opposite God's truth,