And when one day he wished me dead, I feared

Lest I should kill myself; and so that night

I made me up a pack of little things

He should not grieve for, and took ship for Greece.

There have I trafficked, lady, a year and more,

And kept myself alive hawking small ware

From place to place, and on occasion found

A market for my jewels, and be come here

Making the round of the isles in any ship

That chances: and this last I came aboard