Wantones and pleasaunt life being guides of insolencie, doth bring a
miserable end to a faire ladie of Thurin, whom a noble man aduaunced to
high estate: as appereth by this historie, wherein he executeth great
crueltie vpon his sayde ladie, taken in adulterie.
[_Source._--Boaistuau, 1559, no. 4.
_Origin._--Bandello, Part ii., nov. 12.
_Parallels._--Belleforest, i. 78 _seq._ Q. Margaret, _Heptameron_,
nov. 32 (cf. Painter I. 57, _infra_ and parallels there).
_Painter._--I. i. 135; II. i. 127; III. i. 226; IV. i. 240.]