The Duke came upon her in the midst of the dance, and said--
"You took the secret upon your life, and upon your life shall fall the
punishment."
So saying, he seized her by the head-dress and stabbed her with the
dagger in the breast. All the company were astonished, and it was
thought that the Duke was out of his mind; but, having thus worked his
will, he brought all his retainers together in the hall and told them
the virtuous and pitiful story of his niece, and the evil that his wife
had wrought her. And those who were present wept whilst they listened.
Then the Duke ordered that his wife should be buried in an abbey which
he founded partly to atone for the sin that he had committed in killing
her; and he caused a beautiful tomb to be built, in which the bodies of
his niece and the gentleman were laid together, with an epitaph setting
forth their tragic story. And the Duke undertook an expedition against
the Turks, in which God so favoured him, that he brought back both
honour and profit. On his return, he found his eldest son now able to
govern his possessions, and so left all to him, and went and became a
monk in the abbey where his wife and the two lovers were buried.
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