Perretta's Trick - Gothic Cross Stitch Pattern

This pattern is based on an illustration from a 1674 poem, The Devil of Pope-Fig Island. 
Perretta, the hero, tricks the devil into thinking her vulva is actually a wound and gives him a scare...
 Said she, the wretch has used me very ill;
 Of cruelty he has obtained his fill;
 For God's sake try, my lord, to get away:
 Just now I heard the savage fellow say,
 He'd with his claws your lordship tear and slash:
 See, only see, my lord, he made this gash;
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