Chapter 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.]