Timoclia, a gentlewoman of Thebes, vnderstandinge the couetous desire of a Thracian knight, that had abused hir, and promised her mariage, rather for her goods than loue, well acquited hir selfe from his falshoode.
[Source and Origin.—Plutarch, Alexander, (Amyot).
Parallels.—Zonar, Ann. i. f. 32; Wanley, Wonders, III. xxx. 6.
Painter.—I. ii. 9; II. ii. 7; III. ii. 14; IV. ii. 172.
Derivates.—A play entitled Timoclia, doubtless derived from Painter, is mentioned in the Revel’s Account. It was played at Merchant Taylors’ in 1574. Fleay, History, 381.]
IV. Ariobarzanes.
Ariobarzanes great steward to Artaxerxes king of Persia, goeth about to exceede his soueraigne lord and maister in curtesie; where in be conteyned many notable and pleasaunt chaunces, besides the great patience and loyaltie naturally planted in the sayd Ariobarzanes.
[Source and Origin.—i-Bandello, Pt. i., nov. 2.
Parallels.—Belleforest iv. f. 9 seq.