A Doctor of the Lawes boughte a cup, who by the subtiltie of two false
varlets, lost both his money and the cuppe.
[_Source._--“Out of a little Frenche booke called ‘Comptes du Monde
Avantureux.’”
_Origin._--Massanio, _Novellino_, Part II. nov. 17.
_Parallels._--_Mensa Philosophica_.
_Painter._--I. i. 339; II. i. 278; III. i. 490; IV. ii. 142.
_Derivates._--Marston’s _Dutch Courtesan_, 1605; and Anon.: _The
Cuckqueanes and Cuckolds Errant, a Comedye_, 1601, formerly in
Haslewood’s possession.]