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. ...

X Deminicus Sylvius, Duke of Venice, Married a Gentlewoman of Constantinople, she was plunged into sensuality with so much prosusion, that she could not endure to lodge, but in Chambers full of delicious persurnes of the Fast, she would not wash her self, but in the dews of Heaven, whell must be preserved for her with much skill; her Garments were so pompous, that nothing remain∣ed but to seek for new S•…•…s in Heaven, for she had exhausted the Treasures of the Earth, her Viands so dainty, that all the mouths of Kings tasted none so exquisite, nor would she touch her meat, but with Golden Forks, and precious Stones; God to punish this cur∣sed pride, and superfluity, cast her on a Bed, and assailed her with a malady so hideous, so stinking and frightful, that all her nearest Kindred were forced to forsake her; none staid about her but a poor old Woman throughly accustomed to stench and death; this delicate Lady was poysoned with her own perfumes in such a man∣ner, that from all her body there began to drop a most stinking hu∣mor, and a kind of matter so filthy to behold, & so noysom to the •…•…ell, that every many ainly perceived that her dissolute, & exces∣sive Pride and daintiness had caused this Infection in her, which brought her to such a miserable, and tragical end. Causins. Hely Court.