FIRST OUTLAW.
Whence came you?
VALENTINE.
From Milan.
THIRD OUTLAW.
Have you long sojourned there?
VALENTINE.
Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayed
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.
FIRST OUTLAW.
What, were you banished thence?
VALENTINE.
I was.
SECOND OUTLAW.
For what offence?
VALENTINE.
For that which now torments me to rehearse;
I killed a man, whose death I much repent,
But yet I slew him manfully in fight,
Without false vantage or base treachery.
FIRST OUTLAW.
Why, ne’er repent it, if it were done so.
But were you banished for so small a fault?
VALENTINE.
I was, and held me glad of such a doom.