Chapter XLII: Didaco and Violenta

Didaco a Spaniarde, is in loue with a poore maiden of Valencia, and secretly marieth her, afterwardes lothinge his first mariage, because she was of base parentage, he marieth an other of noble birth. His first wyfe, by secrete messenger prayeth his company, whose request he accomplisheth. Being a bedde, shee and her maide killeth him. She throweth him into the streate: shee in desperate wise confesseth the facte before the Maiestrates, and is put to death.

[_Source._--Boaistuau, 1559, no. 5.

_Origin._--Bandello, Part i., nov. 42.

_Painter._--I. i. 125; II. i. 114; III. i. 204; IV. i. 218.]

_Derivates._--T. Achely put the story into verse, 1576. Beaumont and
Fletcher’s _Triumph of Death_, the second of their _Four Plays in
One_.]