VII. Sophonisba.
The vnhappy end and successe of the loue of King Massinissa, and Queene Sophonisba his wyfe.
[Source.—Bandello, Part i. nov. 41.
Origin.—Petrarch, Trionfi.
Parallels.—Belleforest, I. iii., f. 356; Trissino, Sophonisba (tragedy), 1524; Raleigh, Hist. V. iii. 8; Wanley, Wonders, III. liii. 2.
Painter.—I. ii. 49; II. ii. 39; III. ii. 78; IV. ii. 236.
Derivates.—Marston, Wonder of Women, or Sophonisba, her tragedy, printed 1606; N. Lee, Sophonisba, or Hannibal’s Overthrow, 1676; J. Thomson, Sophonisba, acted 28 Feb. 1730.[68]]
VIII. Theoxena and Poris.
The crueltye of a Kynge of Macedone who forced a gentlewoman called Theoxena, to persuade hir children to kill and poyson themselves: after which fact, she and hir husband Poris ended their lyfe by drowninge.