Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... the forty-fifth nouell. The Duchejse of Sauoie, being the hinge of England'sjijler, was in the Duke her huflandes absence, vnh1stlye accused of adulterie, by a noble man, his Lieutenaunte: and jhoulde haue beene put to death, if by the prowejfe and valiaunt combate of Don Iohn di Mendozza, (a gentleman of Spaine)fhe had not beene deliuered. With a discourse ofmaruelous accidentes, touchinge the fame, to the jin guler praise and commendation of chaste and honest Ladies. Loue commonly is counted the greatest passion amongs all the most greuous, that ordinarily do assault the sprites of men, which after it hath once taken hold of anye gentle subiecte, followeth the nature of the corrupt humour, in those that haue a feauer, which taking his beginning at the harte, desperseth it selfe incurablye, through all the other sensible partes of the bodie: whereof this present historie giueth vs amplie to vnderstand, being no lesse maruelous than true. Those that haue read the aunciente histories and chronicles of Spaine, haue sene in diuers places the occasion of the cruell ennimitie which raigned by the space of Xl. yeares, betweene the houses of Mendozza and Tolledo, families not onely righte noble and aunciente, but also most aboundante in riches, subiectes and seignories of all the whole realme. It happened J.t one day that their armies being redie to ioyne in battaile, the sr"' Lord Iohn of Mendozza chief of his armie, a man much commend-1-"' / ed by al histories, had a widow to his sister, a very deuout Lady; '/-, who after she vnderstode the heauie newes of that battaile, falling downe vppon her knees, praied God incessauntly, that it would please him to reconcile the two families together, and to make an ende of so manye mischiefes. And as...
