continu’d till they hung me up by th’ heels, and beat me wi’ hasle sticks, as if they would have baked me, and have cousen’d some body wi’me for Venison:  After this I rail’d, and eat quietly:  for the whole Kingdom took notice of me for a baffl’d whipt fellow, and what I said was remembred in mirth but never in anger, of which I was glad; I would it were at that pass again.  After this, heaven calls an Aunt of mine, that left two hundred pound in a cousins hand for me, who taking me to be a gallant young spirit, raised a company for me with the money and sent me into Armenia with ’em:  Away I would have run from them, but that I could get no company, and alone I durst not run.  I was never at battail but once, and there I was running, but Mardonius cudgel’d me; yet I got loose at last, but was so fraid, that I saw no more than my shoulders doe, but fled with my whole company amongst my Enemies, and overthrew ’em:  Now the report of my valour is come over before me, and they say I was a raw young fellow, but now I am improv’d, a Plague on their eloquence, ’t will cost me many a beating; And Mardonius might help this too, if he would; for now they think to get honour on me, and all the men I have abus’d call me freshly worthily, as they call it by the way of challenge.

Enter a Gent.

3 Gent.

  Good morrow, Captain Bessus.

Bes.

  Good morrow Sir.

3 Gent.

  I come to speak with you.

Bes.

  You’re very welcome.

3 Gent.

  From one that holds himself wrong’d by you some
  three years since:  your worth he says is fam’d, and he doth
  nothing doubt but you will do him right, as beseems a souldier.

Bes.

  A pox on ’em, so they cry all.

3 Gent.

And a slight note I have about me for you, for the delivery of which you must excuse me; it is an office that friendship calls upon me to do, and no way offensive to you; since I desire but right on both sides.

Bes.

  ’Tis a challenge Sir, is it not?

3 Gent.

  ’Tis an inviting to the field.

Bes.

An inviting?  O Sir your Mercy, what a Complement he delivers it with? he might as agreeable to my nature present me poison with such a speech:  um um um reputation, um um um call you to account, um um um forc’d to this, um um um with my Sword, um um um like a Gentleman, um um um dear to me, um um um satisfaction:  ’Tis very well Sir, I do accept it, but he must await an answer this thirteen weeks.

3 Gent.

  Why Sir, he would be glad to wipe off his stain as soon as he
  could.

Bes.

  Sir upon my credit I am already ingag’d to two hundred, and
  twelve, all which must have their stains wip’d off, if that be
  the word, before him.