Laodice the sister of Mithridates, poisoned her husband, to give content to a base fellow whom she loved. Alexander to please Thais a concubine of his, set Persipolis on fire. Nereus wife, a widow and Lady of Athens, for the love of a Venetian Gentleman, betrayed the City, and he for her sake, murthered his wife, the daughter of a Noble man in Venice.
Constantine Despota, made away Catharine his wife, turned his son Michael and his other children out of doors, for the love of a base Scriveners daughter in Thessalonica, with whose beauty he was enamored.
Leucophria betrayed the City where she dwelt, for her sweet-hearts sake, that was in the enemies Camp. Pithidice the Governours daughter of Methinia for the love of Achilles, betrayed the whole Iland to him, her fathers enemy. Diognetus did as much in the City where he dwelt, for the love of Policrita, Medea for the love of Jason, she taught him how to tame the fire-breathing brass-feeted Bulls, and kill the mighty dragon that kept the golden fleece, and toar her little brother Absyrtus in pieces, that her father Æthes might have something to detain him, while she ran away with her beloved Jason, &c. Such Acts and Scenes hath this Tragecomœdy of love.