Me—who engaged to play a prize, fight you,

Knowing your arms, and foil you, trick for trick,

At rapier-fence, your match and, maybe, more.

I knew that if I chose sin certain sins,

Solace my lusts out of the regular way

Prescribed me, I should find you in the path,

Have to try skill with a redoubted foe;

You would lunge, I would parry, and make end.

At last, occasion of a murder comes:

We cross Hades, I, for all my brag, break guard,