Forsooth Absalom fled. And a child, espyer, raised [up] his eyes, and beheld, and lo! much people came by a way out of the common way, by the side of the hill.
And David sat betwixt two gates; soothly the espyer, that was in the highness of the gate on the wall, raised up his eyes, and he saw a man alone running;
As if a man run from the face of a lion, and a bear run to him; and he enter into the house, and lean with his hand on the wall, and a serpent dwelling in shadow bite him.