For my sake your beloved mother abandoned her people, what remained to her of her fortune after paying the price of my life, and her country, so strong is the love of woman.

All had been made ready, for at Cadiz lay an English ship, the "Mary" of Bristol, in which passage was taken for us.

But the "Mary" was delayed in port by a contrary wind which blew so strongly that notwithstanding his desire to save us, her master dared not take the sea.

Two days and a night we lay in the harbour, fearing all things not without cause, and yet most happy in each other's love.

Now those who had charge of me in the dungeon had given out that I had escaped by the help of my master the Devil, and I was searched for throughout the country side.