onfusion, he
fast'ned it to the Planks, and shoving both over-board before him,
plung'd into the Sea after, dragging the Planks that bore the Infant
with one Hand, and swimming with t'other, making the next Land; he had
swam about two hundred Paces from the Barge before his Exploit was
discover'd, but then the Griefs of _Rinaldo's_ Lady were doubly
augmented, seeing her Infant expos'd to the Fury of the merciless Winds
and Waves, which she then judged more rigorous than the _Turks_; for to
a weak Mind, that Danger works still the strongest, that's most in View;
but when the Pirate, who by this time had fetch'd them within Shot,
began to Fire, she seem'd pleas'd that her Infant was out of that
Hazard, tho' exposed to a greater. Upon their Sign of yielding, the
_Turk_ launching out her Boat, brought them all on board her; but she
had no time to examine her Booty, being saluted by a Broadside,
vigorously discharg'd from a _Venetian_ Galley, which bore down upon
them, whilst they were taking aboard their Spoil; this Galley was that
commanded by _Rinaldo's_ Brother, which cruising that Way in quest of
the Barge, happily engag'd the _Turk_, before they had Leisure to offer
any Violence to the Ladies, and plying her warmly the Space of two
Hours, made her a Prize, to the inexpressible Joy of the poor Ladies,
who all this time under Hatches, had sustain'd the Horrors of ten
thousand Deaths by dreading one.

All the greater Dangers over, _Rinaldo's_ Lady began to reflect on the
strange Riddle of her Son's Fortune, who by shunning one Fate, had
(in all Probability) fallen into a worse, for they were above ten
Leagues from any Land, and the Sea still retain'd a Roughness, unsettled
since the preceeding Storm; she therefore begg'd her Brother-in-Law to
Sail with all Speed in Search of her Son and _Gasper_; but all in vain,
for cruising that Day, and the succeeding Night along the Coasts,
without making any Discovery of what they sought, he sent a Boat to be
inform'd by the Peasants, of any such Landing upon their Coast; but they
soon had a dismal Account, finding the Body of _Gasper_ thrown dead on
the Sand, and near to him the Planks, the unhappy Occasion of his
Flight, and the Faithless Sustainers of the Infant. So thinking these
mournful Objects Testimonies enough of the Infant's Loss, they return'd
with the doleful Relation to their Captain and the Lady; her Grief at
the recital of the Tragic Story, had almost transported her t