f. 14v

orders some weights to be moved to the stern
in order to slow the swift course of the ship, just as I to you,
My Deiphira, not to give you any pain, my Deiphira,
which pained me to do, but to restrain your
unbridled love, now instilling in you
one purposeful doubt or another, now showing you
one or another danger, to slow down
your bold rush towards loving me.
You saw that I endured the pain
with no discredit to you, but I would have suffered
too much from your unfortunate fate. And,