Thus the game of blowing a burning coal, in the description of [‹l›] which S slightly differs from F, is related in H with nearly the same words as in F. As, besides the small fragment printed by Grœber in the Jahrbuch, xiii, and some few remarks in the Zeitschrift für rom. Phil., nothing is known of the Hanover MS., the following passages printed here may serve to show how little H differs from F. The game of the coal (S 1996–2016, F 2907–2934) is thus described in H, leaf 58:—
“Veillard, dist Lucafer, vous ni savez juer,
Vous ne savez en France le grant charboun soffler.
Certes, ceo dist li dus, mais n’en oie soffler.
Et respont li payen: Mais te feray mostrer.
Ly payen vait le duc au grant fowel mener.
Quant Rollant l’ad veu, a Berard l’ad mostre
Ore porres boue jeu ver et esgarder.
Dahait qui ne laira ly et Naimes juer.
Lucafer se beysa pur un tison combrer,