Excerpt from Shakespeare's Cymbeline: The Text Revised and Annotated In Shakespeare, the fay/tau: assumes a somewhat different shape from any which the romance-writers have handed down to our day. In the novel, some Italian merchants happen to meet in Paris at supper, and fall to discussing their wives. Three maintain an opinion adverse to the ladies' loyalty, from which one Bernabo Lomellia dissents. A fifth named Ambrogiulo provokes Bernabo to propose a wager, which the former accepts, to be decided by the result of his attempt to corrupt Bernabo's wife, Zinevra. With this object, Ambrogiulo goes to Genoa, where she lives, and bribes a char-woman to convey a chest. Into the lady's bedroom, in which the libertine is to secrete himself. By this stratagem he is able to make a survey of Zinevra's bed-chamber after she has retired to rest, and to note a mole, with a tuft of golden hair, on her left breast; and before returning to the chest he steals her ring and other material tokens. Bernabo, having lost the wager, gives an order that his wife should be put to death; but the servant employed on this mission betrays his master, and Zinevra escaping in boy's clothes becomes page to a Catalonian, and ultimately goes into the service of the Sultan; with much else, which Shakespeare seems to have liberally followed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.