Unparalleld varieties: or, The matchless actions and passions of mankind.: Displayed in near four hundred notable instances and examples. Discovering the transcendent effects; I. Of love, friendship, and gratitude. II. Of magnanimity, courage, and fidelity. III. Of chastity, temperance, and humility. And on the contrary the tremendous consequences, IV. Of hatred, revenge, and ingratitude. V. Of cowardice, barbarity, treachery. VI. Of unchastity, intemperance, and ambition. : Imbellished with proper figures. / By R.B. ...

IV. Gualter Earl of Brenne, had married the eldest Daughter of Tancred King of Sicily, and as Heir of the Kingdom, went out with four hundred Horse, to take possession thereof; by the help of these, and a mar∣vellous felicity, he had recovered a great part of it; but at the last he was overcome, and taken Prisoner by Theo∣baldus Germanus, at the City Sarna; upon the third day after, the Conqueror offered him his liberty, and resto∣ration to his Kingdom, upon condition he would con∣firm to Theobaldus what he was possessed of therein, but he, in an unconceivable hatred to him that had made him his Prisoner, replied, That he should ever scorn to re∣ceive these, or greater offers from so base a hand as his; Theo∣baldus had reason to resent this affront, and therefore told him, He would make him repent his so great insolence; at which Gualter inflamed with a greater fury, tore his Cloths, and broke the swathings and ligatures of his wounds, crying out, That he would live no longer, since he was fallen into the hands of such a man that treated him with Threats; upon which he tore open his wounds, and thrust his own hands into his Bowels; and after that, re∣solvedly refusing all food, and ways of cure, he forci∣bly drove out his furious Soul from his Body, and left only one Daughter behind him, who might have been happier, had she not had a Beast to her Father. Fulgosus. p. 1182.