A Doctor of the Lawes boughte a cup, who by the subtiltie of two false varlets, lost both his money and the cuppe.
[Source.—“Out of a little Frenche booke called ‘Comptes du Monde Avantureux.’”
Origin.—Massanio, Novellino, Part II. nov. 17.
Parallels.—Mensa Philosophica.
Painter.—I. i. 339; II. i. 278; III. i. 490; IV. ii. 142.
Derivates.—Marston’s Dutch Courtesan, 1605; and Anon.: The Cuckqueanes and Cuckolds Errant, a Comedye, 1601, formerly in Haslewood’s possession.]
[ THE SECOND TOME.]
I. The Amazons.
The hardinesse and conquests of diuers stout, and aduenturous women, called Amazones, the beginninge, and continuance of their Reigne, and of the great iourney of one of their Queenes called Thalestris to visit Alexander the great: with the cause of her trauaile.