was sent back to look after me.

As soon as I had fitted my stirrups and was remounted I gave the
rein to my mare, which being courageous and nimble, and impatient of
delay, made great speed to recover the company; and in a narrow
passage the soldier, who was my barber, that had fetched me from
home, and I met upon so brisk a gallop that we had enough to do on
either side to pull up our horses and avoid a brush.

When we were come to Weston, where Esquire Clark lived, he took the
Marshal and some others with him into the parlour; but I was left in
the hall, to be exposed a second time for the family to gaze on.

At length himself came out to me, leading in his hand a beloved
daughter of his, a young woman of about eighteen years of age, who
wanted nothing to have made her comely but gravity. An airy piece
she was, and very merry she made herself at me. And when they had
made themselves as much sport with me as they would, the Marshal
took his leave of them, and mounting me on a horse of Clark's had me
home to my father's that night.

Next morning, before the Marshal went away, my father and he
consulted together how to entangle me. I felt there were snares
laid, but I did not know in what manner or to what end till the
Marshal was ready to go. And then, coming where I was to take his
leave of me, he desired me to take notice, that although he had
brought me home to my father's house again, yet I was not discharged
from my imprisonment, but was his prisoner still; and that he had
committed me to the care of my father, to see me forthcoming
whenever I should be called for. And therefore he expected I should