XXIX. DIEGO AND GINEVRA.

Dom Diego a Gentleman of Spayne fell in loue with fayre Gineura, and she

with him: their loue by meanes of one that enuied Dom Diego his happy

choyse, was by default of light credit on his part interrupted. He

constant of mynde, fell into despayre, and abandoninge all his frends

and liuing, repayred to the Pyrene Mountaynes, where he led a sauage

lyfe for certayne moneths, and afterwardes knowne by one of hys

freendes, was (by marueylous circumstaunce) reconciled to hys froward

mistresse, and maryed.

[_Source and Origin._--Bandello, Part i., nov. 27.

_Parallels._--Belleforest, t. i., f. 382; Fenton, _Trag. Disc._,

hist. xiii.; Whetstone, _Garden of Unthriftness_.

_Painter._--I. ii. 309; II. ii. 252; III. ii. 490; IV. iii. 222.]

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