Part 2 was most likely written in 1605 or 1606, and was entered into the Stationers' Register on 29 April 1608. Part 2 was not published, however, till 1630, in a quarto printed by Elizabeth Allde for the bookseller Nathaniel Butter.
In this second part, Hippolito has conceived a violent lust for Bellafront, whose husband has (perhaps not surprisingly) returned to the life of a wastrel. Yet, despite her dire need, Bellafront refuses to surrender her new virtue. All ends well through the parallel machinations of Hippolito's wife and Bellafront's father.
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