Great cruelties chaunced to the Lords of Nocera, for adultry by one of
them committed with the captayne’s wyfe of the forte of that citty, with
an enterprise moued by the captaine to the cittyzens of the same for
rebellion, and the good and dutyfull aunswere of them: with other
pityfull euents rysing of that notable and outragious vyce of whoredom.
[_Source and Origin._--Bandello, Part i., nov. 55.
_Parallels._--Belleforest, t. ii. f. 162 (ed. 1565, no. 23).
_Painter._--I. ii. 217; II. ii. 324; III. ii. 631; IV. iii. 363.]