My inne on each side compassed about

With armed watchmen, all escapes to let:

Thus had these Neroes caught me in their net,

But to what ende I could not throughly gesse,

Such was my plainnes, such their doublenesse.

72.

My conscience was so clere, I could not doubt

Their deadly drift, which lesse apparaunt lay,

Because they causde their men retourne the rout

That rode toward Stonystratford, as they say,