Chapter XXXIII: Lords of Nocera

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.]