Having got my double Treasure aboard, and what lading we desir’d, our Hold shut up, our Anchors weigh’d, and our Canvas spread, away we sail’d over the Bar, with an hundred shot after us, for our Country-men as well as _Hollanders_, concluded there must be some damn’d inexpressible Treachery in this our suddain sailing, neither giving notice some days before, or fairly taking our leaves by fireing of Guns according to Custom; besides they knew we had not taken in our full Lading. Let them fire their hearts out we valued them not, in derision we fir’d a Gun at stern, and so stood to the Southwards. I knew very well this female confident of mine would effectually do the business we had plotted together, and so to divert my self and make sport with the Captain of the discovery of my Rival, I wrote some few Lines and nail’d them on a Toddy-tree on the shore directed to the said Captain, which I knew would be discovered by some or other, and carried to him the verses were as follow. Noble Captain. _’Twas a close plot y’ faith, but ’twould not hide From me your_ wench, _which should have bin my_ Bride; _You chang’d her Garb, but could not change her face; Nor change her heart, where once I had a place Nere thence to be remov’d although she show’d Some love to you, the Debt to me she ow’d._ Love _was a stranger to her till I came. Whom seeing lov’d, and loving lost her fame. Sated with her delights I basely prov’d Th’ ingrate that loath’d what I should still have lov’d. I turn’d her off, well might she then perplex Herself, and curse th’_ inconstance _of our_ Sex. _To be reveng’d, with me she did confer, To do her_ right _on those that_ wronged _her. I was the first, but me she did forgive, Because as one, we must together live. You were the next, whose crimes are manyfold, Yet have sued out your pardon with your_ Gold: _Your subtle Wheedlings cheated her belief, And would have filch’d her heart to play the_ Thief. _You stole into her Secrets, so that she May at_ Loves-bar _charge you with_ Felony. _For thus purloyning, stealing hearts away, And being caught you now shall soundly pay. She vows to me, she’l spare you not a bit, But keep intire the_ Purchase _of her_ Wit. _What_ Protestations, _and what_ Oaths _you made, Were broke by you as soon as they were said. Your great pretences and your bouncing Stories; The idle flashings of your fancy’d glories; All which she minds not, since she hath requir’d A Treasure which so long we both desir’d. Now we are now almost quits (against your will) This is the_ Sum _that must discharge our_ Bill: Imprimis _so much; lying by her side, And breaking promise, made her not your_ Bride.