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THE

PALACE OF PLEASURE

VOL. III.

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*Ballantyne Press* Ballantyne, Hanson and Co. Edinburgh and London

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The

*PALACE OF PLEASURE*

_Elizabethan Versions of Italian and French Novels_ _from Boccaccio, Bandello, Cinthio, Straparola,_ _Queen Margaret of Navarre,_ _and Others_

Done Into English

By WILLIAM PAINTER

_Now Again Edited For The Fourth Time_

By JOSEPH JACOBS

VOL. III.

_London: Published by David Nutt in the Strand_

MDCCCXC

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOLUME III.

TOME II.--_Continued._

Page

Title Page (Edition 1580) 1 Novel XXIII. Duchess of Malfy 3 XXIV. Countess of Celant 44 XXV. Romeo and Juliet 80 XXVI. Ladies of Venice 125 XXVII. Lord of Virle 157 XXVIII. Lady of Bohemia 195 XXIX. Diego and Ginevra 222 XXX. Salimbene and Angelica 288 XXXI. Helena of Florence 329 XXXII. Camiola and Roland 354 XXXIII. Lords of Nocera 363 XXXIV. Sultan Solyman 395 XXXV. King of Morocco 416 Conclusion 431

The [S]econd Tome of the Palace of Plea[s]ure, *conteyning store of goodly Hi[s]tories,* Tragicall matters, and other Mo- *rall argument, very re-* _qui[s]ite for delighte_ *and profit.*

_Cho[s]en and selected out of diuers good and commen- dable Authors:_

and now once agayn corrected and encrea[s]ed

By William Painter, Clerke of the Ordinance and Armarie.

Imprinted at London, in Fleat [S]trete, by Thomas Mar[s]he.

*The Palace of Pleasure.*

THE TWENTY-THIRD NOUELL.

_The infortunate mariage of a Gentleman, called Antonio Bologna, wyth the Duchesse of Malfi, and the pitifull death of them both._