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they came to conclusion, that Androgus would give out that he intended to send them to London there to ⟨be⟩ educated by a cousin of his, and the two ruffians Rawbones and Wou'dkill, should have the conducting them in the habit of carriers; and as they passed by the great wood leading to London, they should kill them and cast them into a pit; and the better to blind Androgus’s wife, a ⟨letter⟩ was signed as from a pretended London cousin, which intimated that she was a sister to Eugenia, and was very desirous to entertain her little cousins. This plot of the wicked took not with Timesia, who infinitely loved them, and much opposed it, but the children were up betimes in the morning, put into the hands of those bloody villains who set ⟨them⟩ upon a horse before them, and ⟨pretended⟩ to set forth for London.
CHAP. X.
How the Ruffians fell out about the disposal of the children and how Rawbones killed his partner, and covered him in a pit.
THESE villains having got the children and the promised reward,
