Nay, I much doubt if they would credit it:
So many proofs concur against myself.——
I bore her off: I paid the money down;
She was brought home to me.—All this, I own,
Is my own fault. For should I not have told
My father, be it as it might, the whole?
I should, I doubt not, have obtain’d his leave
To marry Pamphila.—What indolence,
Ev’n, till this hour! now, Æschinus, awake!
—But first I’ll go and clear myself to them.