Similarly, children of adulterous and incestuous unions are restricted as to whom they can marry. Series of vignettes about the theme of male infidelity and its adulterous variants. Husbands could kill the partners under certain circumstances and were required to divorce adulterous wives. Rumours became rife that Mary was having an adulterous affair with Rizzio. He admitted to having an adulterous sexual encounter with her but insisted it was consensual. Additionally, Augustus enforced the divorce and punishment of adulterous wives. Upper-class men and women indulged in adulterous liaisons. Renato assumes that Amelia and Riccardo have been involved in an adulterous love affair. Lesser punishment is recommended for consensual adulterous sex. Villages also used charivari in cases of adulterous relationships, against wife beaters, and unmarried mothers. A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife. "Semele" has a secular text with a story involving an adulterous sexual relationship. A cuckquean is a wife with an adulterous husband. The book "further embroidered upon Frank Waters's imaginings about Wyatt's adulterous affair" with Josephine. Pettai then lies to Irene that his wife was in an adulterous relationship with Karuppu.