The Weeping Mother

"My mother grievously bewailed my journey and followed me as far as the sea. Can you picture this weeping mother going right to the dock? But i deceived her, holding me by force, that either she might keep me back or go with me," he writes. "i feigned i had a friend whom i could not leave till he had a fair wind to sail." He adds: 'For this also hast thou mercifully forgiven me'