In Tirant lo Blanch the empress confesses that she cannot argue as well as Carmesina, “per yo no hauer studiat les liberals arts com ma filla.”[55]
[55] ... because I have not studied the liberal arts as my daughter has. Tirant lo Blanch, chap. clxxxii, col. 2.
When Guy made his confession of love to Felice, he said:
Bot thou haue mercy on me,
Myself y shall for sorwe slee.[56]
[56] Caius MS., p. 23.
When Tirant made his confession to the princess, he said: “puix lo meu cor ha tant fallit que es stat causador de tant agreujar la vostra singular persona e percaçar tant de mal per a mi, ab la mia ma plena de cruel vengança ans que lo sol haja passat los columnes de Hercules yol partire en dues parts....”[57]
[57] ... since my heart has been so delinquent that it has been the cause of afflicting so grievously your excellent personage and producing so much pain through me, with my hand full of cruel vengeance I shall cut it in two before the sun has passed the columns of Hercules. Tirant lo Blanch, chap. cxxix, col. 3.
In Guy of Warwick, Oisel beholds her betrothed, Tirri, lying before her as if dead, and in her despair she utters these words:
A, leman Tirri,