Origin.—? Terence Hecyra.
Parallels.—Mediæval: Somadeva Katha-sarit-sagara, 29; Von der Hagen, Gesammt. No. 32; Fauche Tetrade, ii. No. 6; Mod.: Gipsy Tale, by F. Miklosich, Denks. K. Akad., Wien, xxiii. p. 14.
Painter.—I. i. 95; II. i. 87; III. i. 157; IV. i. 171.
Derivates.—The main plot of Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well certainly comes from Painter.]
[ XXXIX. Tancred and Gismonda.]
Tancredi Prince of Salerne, caused his doughter’s louer to be slayne, and sente his harte vnto her in a cup of golde: whiche afterwardes she put into poysoned water, and drinking thereof died.
[Origin.—Boccaccio, Decamerone, giorn. iv., nov. i.
Source.—Romance of Raoul de Couçy.
Parallels.—Med.: Aretini, De Amore Guiscardii, F. Beroaldo, Latin verse, Paris, 1599; J. Fleury, L’amour parfaite de Giusgardu, Paris, 1493; A. Guasco in ottava rima, Venice, 1600; W. Walter, Amorous hysterie of Guistard, 1532; Howell, Letters, ed. Jacobs, p. 323; Wanley, Wonders, II. xii. 24.