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Having hired two slaves to swear in court to his wife's infidelity, he procured her banishment to Palermo. By the efforts of the Duke of Milan, this infamous proceeding was finally exposed, and Philippo, overcome by remorse, set out in search of Philomela. At Palermo, he accused himself, in a fit of despair, of a murder which had been committed in that city.
At the first wrench they flew apart, and his left hand was free. A few minutes' more work and the chains lay on the ground. Taking them up, he rattled them together loudly. In a minute he heard the guard outside move and come to the door, then the key was inserted in the lock and the door opened. "What on earth are you doing now?" Philippo asked as he entered.
Thus much may suffice for our dangerous conflict with that unfortunate carak. On the 30th of June, after traversing the seas, we got sight of another huge carak, which some of our company took at first for the great San Philippo, the admiral of Spain; but on coming up with her next day, we certainly perceived her to be a carak.
Philippo swore a terrible oath, that he would abstain from giving the alarm, and would cross the island and make straight for the mainland. Francis at once cut the bonds. "You will lose your share of the plunder, Philippo, and you will have to keep out of the way to avoid the captain's rage. Therefore I advise you, when you get to Tunis, to embark in the first ship that sails.
Several times Francis could feel, by the dragging pace, that she was touching the oozy bottom; but each time she passed over without coming to a standstill. At last Philippo said: "We are in the deep channel now, signor. The boom is right astern of us. The town is only a few hundred yards ahead." "Then we shall be passing the Genoese galleys, directly," Francis said.
Thus having his challenge refused by the marquis, and seeing no more good to be done on the coast of Spain, our general thought it improper to spend any more time there; and therefore with consent of his chief officers , he shaped his course towards the island of St Michael, within 20 or 30 leagues of which he had the good fortune to fall in with a Portuguese carak, called the San Philippo, being the same ship which had carried out to the Indies three Japanese princes who had been in Europe . The carak surrendered without resistance, and being the first that had ever been taken on the homeward voyage from India, the Portuguese took it for a bad omen, especially as she had the kings own name.
"If you make a sound, or utter a cry," he exclaimed, "I will drive this dagger into your throat." Philippo could feel the point of the dagger against his skin, and remained perfectly quiet. "I do not want to kill you, Philippo. You have not been harsh to me, and I would spare your life if I could. Hold your hands back above your head, and put your wrists together that I may fasten them.
As you say, if the alarm were to be given before the vessel sails, they might start at once to cut us off before we reach the mainland, for they would make sure that we should try to escape in that direction." "That will be the best plan, Philippo; and now goodbye." Francis walked down to the shore.
Philippo Medici possessed a wife Philomela, renowned, "not for her beauty, though Italy afforded none so fair not for her dowry, though she were the only daughter of the Duke of Milan but for the admirable honours of her mind, which were so many and matchless, that virtue seemed to have planted there the paradise of her perfection."
Mark's Church, and her fame holden canonized until this day in Venice." The character of Philomela possesses strong traits of feminine virtue and wifely fidelity. Philippo has little distinctiveness except in his extreme susceptibility to jealousy a fault which was exaggerated by the author to set off the opposite qualities of Philomela.
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