A punishment more rigorous than death, of a husband towarde his wife
that had committed adulterie.
[_Source._--Q. Margaret, _Heptameron_, nov. 32.
_Origin._--? Bandello, Part ii., nov. 10.
_Parallels._--_Med._: _Gesta_, Gower; _Conf. Amant._ i. _Mod.:_
Bandello, iii., nov. 15; Belleforest, i. 297; Whetstone,
_Heptameron_, 3rd day; Stollberg, _Ballad_.
_Painter._--I. i. 332; II. i. 252; III. i. 445; IV. ii. 97.
_Derivates._--Greene’s _Planetomachio_ and Davenant’s _Alborine_
have similar incidents, but whether derived from Painter it is
difficult to say.]