Storia do Mogor 265.6.7

265.6.7

In Negopatao (Negapatam) there was a man called Joao Soares Cove, married to a beautiful woman. He went on a journey, and left his wife at home. There was another man named Christovao Pexoto, married, rich, and influential. I saw his wife at Madras when she was very old. This man fell in love with the wife of Joao Soares Cove, sending her a message that he wished to be her friend. As an honourable woman she declined to accept, stopped at home, and never came out for fear of this Christovao Pexoto. Paying neither respect nor heed to the citizens, he entered the woman's house in open day and used force. In this way he began to go and come as if it were his own house [180]. He carried off the woman in his palanquin, and traversed the town. He mocked the magistrate and the inhabitants, and showed that he was afraid of no one.