Chapter XL: Mahomet and Irene

Mahomet one of the Turkish Emperours, executeth curssed crueltie vpon a Greeke maiden, whome hee tooke prisoner, at the wynning of Constantinople.

[_Source and Origin._--Bandello, Part i., nov. 10 (through French
translation of Boaistuau, 1559, no. 2).

_Parallels._--Belleforest, _ Histories tragiques_, i. _30 seq._;
Knowles, _Turk. Hist._ 350 _seq._; Wanley, _Wonders_, IV. x. 6.

_Painter._--I. i. 107; II. i. 94; III. i. 176; IV. i. 190.

_Derivates._--Peele’s _Famous play of the Turkish Mahomet and Hyren
the Fair Greek_, played in 1594 and 1601 (not extant). Ayres had
also a drama on _Mahomet_. Also, L. Carlell, _Osmond the Great
Turk_, 1657; G. Swinhoe, _Unhappy fair Irene_, 1658; C. Goring,
_Irene_, 1708; Dr. Johnson, _Irene_, 1749.]