He found the daughter of the Principal hiding in the dorter of the fort,
he had to rescue her on
principle if he wished
to court her but he must make
sure they did not get caught, they were quite quiet but soldiers appeared and he fought them off as they made
their way out into the desert,
he knew he could not desert her
now; they could see the sea so they made a dash for a boat, the wind was too strong to wind the sail and
there was a row among their oarsmen on how to row. He had a wound
so she wound a strip of her
red petticoat around it
as he read a sonnet to her, then
he felt there was no time like the present to present her with a present of a sweet posie of thyme,
the whole root of this story is the route that they took to get her
out of this hole.