| H. | A. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| lf. 27. | Ha Glout, dist Karlemaines, | 163. | A glotoun, saide þe Emperer |
| lf. 27. | Que puis vivre que cest jours fu passes | 175. | Ke lyve he noȝt þys day to be evene |
| lf. 25, bk. | Ses chiuals ad reine à un arbre rasmee | 91. | Þarto ys stede þan tyeþe he |
| Et garda les leges tote contreval li pree | |||
Nevertheless, the following passage in which A agrees with F, but differs from H, will at once show the impossibility of regarding H as the original of A. [‹liii›]
| A. | H. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 302. | Þanne þer come bifore Charloun, Gweneloun and Hardree | lf. 28, bk. | Atant se sunt drecie Guinelons et Alores |
In other instances A is found differing from H as well as from F. Thus the name of Enfachoun, A 4652, which is Effraons in F 4900, does not occur at all in H, which in the passage corresponding to F 4900, as well as in that corresponding to F 4913, reads Affricons li Geans.
Again, in the story of Myloun, in which A, l. 2008 et seq., differs from F, we find H disagreeing from F, 2734 et seq., and from A:—
“Volez vous queor de feme essaier et esprover
Del riche duc Milon vous deverez remenbrer,
Qe tant nori Galans qe ly fist adouber,
Puys ly tolly sa feile Gabaen au vis cler,
L’enfes Marsilion en fist desherriter.—