Chapter XLIII: Lady of Turin

Wantones and pleasaunt life being guides of insolencie, doth bring a miserable end to a faire ladie of Thurin, whom a noble man aduaunced to high estate: as appereth by this historie, wherein he executeth great crueltie vpon his sayde ladie, taken in adulterie.

[_Source._--Boaistuau, 1559, no. 4.

_Origin._--Bandello, Part ii., nov. 12.

_Parallels._--Belleforest, i. 78 _seq._ Q. Margaret, _Heptameron_,
nov. 32 (cf. Painter I. 57, _infra_ and parallels there).

_Painter._--I. i. 135; II. i. 127; III. i. 226; IV. i. 240.]