Didaco a Spaniarde, is in loue with a poore maiden of Valencia, and
secretly marieth her, afterwardes lothinge his first mariage, because
she was of base parentage, he marieth an other of noble birth. His first
wyfe, by secrete messenger prayeth his company, whose request he
accomplisheth. Being a bedde, shee and her maide killeth him. She
throweth him into the streate: shee in desperate wise confesseth the
facte before the Maiestrates, and is put to death.
[_Source._--Boaistuau, 1559, no. 5.
_Origin._--Bandello, Part i., nov. 42.
_Painter._--I. i. 125; II. i. 114; III. i. 204; IV. i. 218.]
_Derivates._--T. Achely put the story into verse, 1576. Beaumont and
Fletcher’s _Triumph of Death_, the second of their _Four Plays in
One_.]