I followed the former as fast as I could, but
timor addidit alas (fear gave him wings), and made him swiftly fly;
so that, although I was accounted very nimble, yet the farther we
ran the more ground he gained on me; so that I could not overtake
him, which made me think he took shelter under some bush, which he
knew where to find, though I did not. Meanwhile, the coachman, who
had sufficiently the outside of a man, excused himself from
intermeddling under pretence that he durst not leave his horses, and
so left me to shift for myself; and I was gone so far beyond my
knowledge, that I understood not which way I was to go, till by
halloing, and being halloed to again, I was directed where to find
my company.
We had easy means to have found out who these men were (the
principal of them having been in the daytime at the inn, and both
quarrelled with the coachman, and threatened to be even with him
when he went back); but since they came off no better in their
attempt, my father thought it better not to know them, than to
oblige himself to a prosecution of them.
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