The Duchesse of Sauoie, being the kinge of England’s sister, was in the
Duke her husbandes absence, vniustlye accused of adulterie, by a noble
man, his Lieutenaunte: and shoulde haue beene put to death, if by the
prowesse and valiaunt combate of Don Iohn di Mendozza, (a gentleman of
Spaine) she had not beene deliuered. With a discourse of maruelous
accidentes, touchinge the same, to the singuler praise and commendation
of chaste and honest Ladies.
[_Source._--Boaistuau, 1559, no. 6.
_Origin._--Bandello, Part ii., nov. 44 (from Val. Baruchius).
_Parallels._--Belleforest, i. 107, _seq._
_Painter._--I. i. 226; II. i. 153; III. i. 271; IV. i. 285.
_Derivates._--De la Peend, _History of John Lord Mandozze_, 1565
(_cf. Brit. Bibliographer_, ii. 523). De la Peend must have had
proof sheets of Painter.]