“ And said, Noble, Lady, the Factor’s not here,
He’s fall’n over board and drowned I fear,
To hear her sad news, then her eyes they did flow
He said, Noble lady, since now it is so,
There’s none here can help it, do not troubled be,
For you in short space your dear parents shall see.
And when that they came to the desired port,
The Princess came weeping to her father’s court;
Who gladly receiv’d her with joy and great mirth,
Saying, Where is the man that freed you from death? ”

“ The old Prince your father and mother’s both well;
And your royal parents this thing have design’d,
In the bond of wedlock: we both shall be join’d.
Perhaps noble Lady, you would not agree
To marry a poor man, especially me. ”

“ So then by the Factor the money was paid,
And then under earth the dead carcase was laid.
When having gone further, by chance he did spy,
A beautiful creature just going to die,
A young waiting maid who strangled must be,
For nothing but striking a Turkish Lady.
⁠To think of her dying with dread he was fill’d,
Then rivers of tears like waters distill’d,
Like streams of a fountain, from her eyes ran down
Her red rosy cheeks, & from thence to the ground. ”