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Aaltje, Ethel, Adeline, Dutch representative of Fair An-
nie, II, 66.

Abortion sought by eating of rose, I, 341, 343 f., 354; savin
tree (abbey tree, deceivin tree), III, 387, 393, 396; IV,
510; sycamore tree, IV, 511; pile o the gravil, I, 350;
an herb, leaf from the tree, flower, I, 349, 352; III, 386;
IV, 456.

Aboulcassem, tale of, I, 282.

Aboulfaouaris, tale of, II, 499.

Aboyne, Earl of, ballad, IV, 311 ff.; V, 270 f., 301.

Acta Sanctorum, I, 239, and n. ; II, 510 a; III, 237 n., 241 f.
Adam Bell maintained to be an historical or mythical per-
sonage, III, 21 f.

Addison on Chevy Chace; his interest in traditional songs
and tales, III, 305, and n., 306.

Adelheid, Dutch and German representative of Fair Annie,
II, 66 f.

Adland, King, father of lady sought in marriage by King
Estmere, II, 52 f.

Adler, II, 50-55; king, 50, and Estmere his messenger;
brother of King Estmere, 51-55, and his nuncio.

Adrian and Ritheus, I, 13 n.

L'Adroite Princesse, imitation of Basile, m, 4, I, 269.
Adultery, noble lady accused of, vindicated by champion or
by ordeal, II, 34–48, 510 b; III, 508 a.

Les Adventures d'Abdalla fils d'Hanif, etc., I, 392.
Adventures of the Cauzee (J. Scotts's Arabian Nights), II,

43 n.

Æsop, Life of, I, 12, 13, and n.; a clever fence of his, 13.
Af biskupi ok puka, Icelandic legend of Saint Andrew, I,
484 b.

Af Fru Olif ok Landres, Karlamagnus Saga, II, 40.

Af klerk ok gyðingum, legend, III, 240.

Afezzell, Histoire du devin, I, 489 a.

Agilulf, Decameron, ш, 2, II, 137 a, 511 b.
Agolafre, V, 244 b.

Aiol et Mirabel, III, 508 a.

Allen a Dale married to his true-love by Robin Hood in
spite of the bishop, III, 173 f.

Alpthier, III, 498 a.

Álsól, transformed by step-mother, I, 306 f.
Alvíssmál, I, 13, 419.

Amadas et Ydoine, romance, III, 508.

Amadis of Gaul, I, 267, 308 (Amadis d'Astra); III, 508 b.
Amasis, tasks given to and by, propounds riddles, I, 13,
and n.

Amis and Amiloun, Amis e Amiloun, II, 127, 511 b; III,
508 b.

Âmîs and the Bishop, in Pfaffe Âmîs, I, 406.

Ancrum Muir, Battle of, = Lilliard's Edge, III, 306.
Andrius, the monk, I, 505 b.

L'Andromède et les démons, Lesbian tale, V, 294 a.
Annals of Burton, II, 236 f. ; of Waverley, II, 235; of Win-
chester, II, 38 n.

Antonius Liberalis (Metamorphoses of Nicander), I, 84.
Anvár-i Suhailé, tale in, V, 14.

Apollodorus, I, 337, 338 n.

Apollonius of Tyana, I, 485 a.

Apollonius of Tyre, I, 1, 416; IV, 402 b; V, 245.

Apologie pour Hérodote, story in V, 122.

Appetite, monstrous and revolting, of bewitched women, I,
290, 298 f., 301.

Apple, gold, thrown into woman's lap controls her will,
I, 364.

Apple-tree, danger from fairies of sleeping under, I, 340,
350; IV, 455 f. See I, 319 b, and Ympe Tree.
Apuleius, Metamorphoses, I, 84 f.

Arabian Nights, Thousand and One Nights, Tausend und
eine Nacht, I, 11 n., 12 f., 269, 323 n., 402; II, 43 n., 127,
511 b; V, 13.

Ardai Viraf, Arḍâ-Vîrâf, II, 236, 506 f., 513 a.
Argyll. See under Family Names.

Arioald, II, 39.

Arm-ring, bribing to secrecy with, II, 51.

Arms, long arms seemingly regarded as a beauty, II, 168;
IV, 415; V, 160 f., 164. (Cf. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales,
v. 9476, Tyrwhitt.)

Armstrong, John (Gilnockie), said to have molested no
Scotsman, but to have levied tribute on the English from
the border to Newcastle, III, 364; makes King James
great offers for his life, 365, 370; appears to have been
apprehended by unfair dealing, 365 f.; hanged, with
all his men, 365; is invited by the king to visit him, and
goes with eight score men gallantly attired, 368 f.; the
king thinks him a king, as well as he, 369 f.; refused
pardon, comes near to killing the king, but is finally
slain, with all his company, 368 f.

Armstrong, William of Kinmouth (Kinmont Willie), made
prisoner by the English in violation of truce, taken by

force from Carlisle castle by Sir Walter Scott, laird of
Buccleuch, III, 469–74; his extraordinary and proverbial
rapacity, 471.

Armstrongs, their strength, III, 363; ravage both the Eng-
lish and the Scottish border, 364 a. See under Family
Names.

Arngosk, Lady of, ballad, IV, 241 ff.

Arrow, bearing, III, 29, 202, 341; broad, III, 29, 160, 176,
199, 202, 341; IV, 505 f.; letter sent on an arrow-head,
III, 223 f., 231; V, 241 a; arrow shot to determine
place for grave, I, 185 (?); III, 106; to show where a
wife is to be sought, II, 499.

Arthour and Merlin, romance of, IV, 479 b.

Arthur, King, I, 257-67, 271-3, 283-91, 289-91, 293-6; his cus-
tom of not dining until he had had or heard of an adven-
ture, I, 257, 263; III, 51, and n. So Robin Hood, III, 51.
Arthur a Bland, tanner of Nottingham, kinsman of Little
John, III, 137; the tune, 133, and n.
Arthur a Bradley, a ballad, III, 215, 217.

Arthur's seat shall be my bed, song, IV, 105.

Artificial curiosities, wand with three singing living lavrocks
sitting thereon, etc., I, 201 f., 205, 503; III, 501 b; IV,
450 b.

Artiga, V, 4 f.

Atamule, story of, V, 13.

Athelbrus, steward of King Ailmar, and tutor of Horn and
his comrades, I, 188 f.

Atherly. See John of Atherly.

Athulf, Horn's faithful friend, I, 188, 190.

Les Aubrays, Lizandré, Breton knight, kills a Moor by re-
ceiving him on the point of his sword as the Moor leaps
in the air, II, 378; III, 276.

Audam and Doorkhaunee, Afghan poem, I, 98.
Augur (wimble) bore, lady first seen, or courted, through
an, I, 202, B, 205, F, 206, H; first and only sight, I, 255.
Auld Man Devil, I, 18, I.

-

Auld Robin Gray, a play, V, 88.
Die Ausgleichung, I, 265.

Austerities vowed by actors in tragic stories, as tributes of
grief, penances, etc., II, 156 f., 159, 162 f., 165 f., 175, 177,
179, 258, 318 f.; IV, 97, 360, 433; V, 223 a.
Austrríki, I, 460 n.

The Avowynge of King Arthur, metrical romance, I, 209.
Ayrer's plays, V, 24 f., 97.

Baba-Yaga, I, 484 a.

Baffling malice with ready answers, I, 20-22, 485; III, 496;
IV, 440.

Bahome, Bee Hom, II, 318 f.

Baillie Lunnain, Gaelic tale, I, 191 n.

Balcanqual, II, 337.

Balewise, bæliwis, I, 67 n.

Balfour, John, called Burly, IV, 106 f.

Bandello, Novelle, I, 269; II, 42; III, 258; V, 23 n.
Banier, Sir (Sir Beduer, Bede were ?), I, 295.

La Barbe Bleue, I, 47.

Barberine, A. de Musset, I, 269.

Y Bardd Glas Keraint, II, 136, 511.

Der Bärenhäuter, tale, I, 198.

Barnard, Bernard, Barnet, Burnett, Burnard, Lord, II,
244-8, 251 f., 256-8, 266-74.

Barnsdale, III, 50 f.

Barrel spiked, punishment of rolling or dragging in, II,
343; IV, 30 n., 32; V, 48.

Barton, Sir Andrew, maintained by the English to be a pi-
rate, III, 335 f., 339, 345, 352; IV, 503; his dangerous
"beams," III, 337, and n., 338, 340 f., 344 f., 349; IV,
504 f.; his ship brass within and steel without, III, 340,
344, 349; IV, 504; and magnificently ornamented, III,
340, 342; boasts that he once salted thirty heads of the
Portuguese, and sent them home to eat with bread, IV,
505; 300 crowns (500 angels) tied about his middle, when
his body is thrown overboard, to secure burial, III, 342;
IV, 506.

Basile, Il Pentamerone, I, 269, 461 n.; II, 127; V, 48.
Bastars de Buillon, Li, romance, V, 6.

Bathing for recovering human shape, I, 308, 338, and n.; II,
505; III, 505; V, 39 f.

The Battle of Harlaw, of Hara Law, a tune; The Battle of
Hardlaw, a pibroch, III, 318. See Harlaw.

Beating of daughters, I, 192; II, 435; V, 237 a.
Beaumont and Fletcher, Knight of the Burning Pestle, I,
105; II, 199, 243, 457 n.; V, 201 f.; The Spanish Cu-
rate, I, 239 n.; Monsieur Thomas, II, 10, 243; III, 294,
331; Bonduca, II, 243; V, 202; The Pilgrim, II, 457;
The Two Noble Kinsmen, II, 506 b; V, 133, 202; Phi-
laster, III, 129.

Beauty and the Beast, La Belle et la Bête, tale, I, 308,
313 f.

Becket, Gilbert, romantic story of, I, 457 f.

Becket, Thomas, stands by his votaries, I, 505 a.
Beeldwit, I, 67.

Beggar (palmer), Hind Horn changes clothes with, I, 189,
191 f., 202–7; Robin Hood, III, 178–82, 184; Little John,
III, 188; Wallace, III, 271, 273; other disguises as beg-
gar or pilgrim, V, 2, 4, 5, 279 f.; beggar who receives
girl's favors turns out to be a person of high degree, V,
109 ff., 116 ff., 305 a.

The Beggar and the Five Muffins, Eastern story, V, 281.
Beggar and Robin Hood, III, 156, 159; beggar (beggars)
and Little John, III, 188 f.

Beggar's dress and equipment, II, 436 f. (61, 78).
Die beiden Fürsten, Turkish tale, I, 10.
Beket. See Becket.

Le Bel Inconnu, Libeaus Desconeus, I, 308; II, 51, 510 b.
Bele Ydoine, romance, IV, 482 a.
Belewitte, I, 67.

La Belle et la Bête, I, 308 n., 313 f.
Bellerophon's sons and Sarpedon, III, 20.

Bells, numerous, on horses, I, 320 n.; V, 290 a; on every
lock of horse's mane, I, 323; II, 189, 191, 344; IV, 410,
413; mane and tail, II, 194; twenty-four on horse's mane,
II, 183, 185; hung at every corner of a ship, IV, 462 a;
bell sewed to every stitch of a cap for a (supposed) dead
girl, III, 364; IV, 483; bells ring of themselves, I, 173,
231; III, 235, 244, 519 f.; bells rung backward as an
alarm, III, 26; girl sold for a new church-bell, I, 91 f.
Belly-blind. See Billie Blind.

Beloe's Oriental Apologues, V, 97.

Benbow, Admiral, V, 147.

Benediction in church, merman's (human) wife must not
stay till, or expose herself to, I, 366; nix flies from, ib., n.
Bengwill, Benwall, Brangwill, Lord, I, 62, 76, 78; II, 253.
Béowulf, I, 50, 54 n.; II, 56.

Der Berghüter und seine kluge Tochter, Transylvanian tale,
I, 8.

Berkeley, Witch of, V, 298 a.

Bernabò Visconti and the Abbot, tale of Sacchetti, I, 406.

Bernard, Lord. See Barnard.

Bernard de Brusban, of the twelve peers, I, 278.

Bernardo del Carpio, III, 367.

Bertha im Wald, children's game, I, 33 n.

Berthold von Neuhaus, I, 198.

Bertrand, Nicolas, I, 237 f.

Bessy Bell, nursery song, IV, 75; Bessy Bell and Mary
Gray, ballad, 75 ff.

Der betrogene Betrüger, tale, I, 47.

Bewick and Graham, ballad, IV, 144 ff.

Bewsey, a poem, III, 329.

Bias extricates himself from tasks, I, 13, and n.

The Bible, I, 51 f., 245, 271, 282 n., 404, and n.; II, 14 n.
Bier half gold, half silver, I, 506; II, 358 f., 362, 366; V,
224; with ae stamp o the melten goud, another o silver
clear, IV, 471.

Bil-eygr, böl-eygr, appellatives of Odin, I, 67.

Billie (Bellie) Blind (Blin), I, 63, 67, 73, 86, 466 f.; II,
458, 464, 470, 472; IV, 494; V, 239.
Bilvís, bilwiz, I, 67; V, 285 b.
Binyan's Bay, I, 24, 61 b.

Birds: bird takes a message or carries a letter, II, 113 n.,
356-60, 362 f., 365 f.; III, 4, 8; IV, 412, 482, 484 f.;
V, 234; bird (parrot, pyet, popinjay) comments on a
murder it has witnessed, murderess tries in vain to en-
trap him, II, 144, 146-52, 154; testifies to the murder,
153, 155; warns maid of danger, I, 31-5, 37; II, 496 f.;
IV, 441; V, 285; warns lover of mishap, II, 206 n.;
warns mother that her son tarries long, III, 10; (nightin-
gale, lark) reveals maid's death (being really the soul of the
dead), I, 180, 181; speaks to encourage Fair Ellen, I, 90,
92, 95; V, 221; bird informs knight of wife's infidelity,
II, 260; bribes or promises to birds for services, 1, 57–60;
II, 144, 146 f., 149-52, 154, 359; IV, 389 f., 416; par-
tridge betrays the hiding-place of the Virgin, II, 8; quail
plays partridge's part, swallow befriends the Virgin, II,
509 f.; birds call out in human voice at seeing a living
woman riding behind a dead man, V, 65; lover in bird-
shape (or coat), V, 39-42.

Birth arrested, I, 82-87, 489; III, 497. See Childbirth.
Bitte mette, Danish tale, I, 489 a.

Björner's Kämpadater, I, 50, 259; II, 57 n.

The Black Bull of Norroway, tale, V, 201.

Blak, the horse, I, 96.

Blind Harry's Wallace, III, 109, 191, 265, 266.

Blind the Bad, Blindr inn bölvísi, I, 67, 95.

Blinde belien, I, 67.

Blindr inn bölvísi, I, 67, 95.

Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of Dammartin (Jehan et
Blonde), romance, I, 191 n.; V, 287 b.

Blood: blood of children or virgins reputed a cure for lep-
rosy, I, 47, 50 n.; IV, 441 b; V, 285; blood of Chris-
tians in Hebrew rites, III, 240-3; IV, 497 a; blood,
drinking to dissolve enchantment, I, 337, and n.; blood,
emission of, from dead body on being touched or ap-
proached by the murderer, II, 143, 146, 148, 153; IV,
468 a.

Blood stanched with a charm, II, 441, 445, 450.
Blood-relations refuse to ransom a captive woman, a woman

about to be hanged; done by husband or lover, II, 346-9,
350-3; III, 516; IV, 481 f.; V, 231-4, 296; the same
story, with parts shifted, of a man ransomed by his mis-
tress, II, 349 f.; III, 516; IV, 481; V, 233 f., 296; Fin-
nish and Esthonian versions, V, 231–3.

Blow thy horne, hunter, fragment of a song, I, 209; IV,

451.

Blue, fortunate in love matters, II, 182, 512 a; symbolic of
good faith, thy coat is blue, thou hast been true, III, 479
(6), 481 (6).

Bluebeard, La Barbe Bleue, I, 47, 49 n., 50 n., 54.

Boar, terrible, in romantic tales, I, 209-14; II, 500 a.
Bocca della verità, I, 270 n.

Boccaccio, Decamerone, I, 197 f., 457 n.; II, 128, 137, 156 n.;
III, 258; V, 23 nn., 29, 30, and n., 31, and n., 32, and n.,
33, 303 a.

Bodman, I, 198.

Boiling to death, in a caldron, molten lead, in oil, or throw-
ing into boiling oil, II, 321 n., 327; IV, 480 a; V, 53,
56, 230, 281.
Böl-eygr, I, 67.

Bölverkr (Odin), I, 67.

Bölvís, I, 67. See Blindr.

Bone Florence of Rome, Le, romance, III, 235.
Bonny Lass o Livingston, song, IV, 232 n.

Books in church read without man's tongue, III, 244.
Boon of being allowed to fight at odds rather than be judi-
cially executed (cf. No 141) in South Slavic songs, IV,
497 a.

Boots pulled off half-way, to embarrass a gallant, II, 482;
IV, 495 a.

Borde, Andrew, I, 237 n., 238.

Bore, Sir (Sir Bors ?), I, 293, 295.
Bosworth Field, a history in ballad verse, III, 307, 331 f.,
354 n.

Bothwell, Earl, ballad, III, 399 ff.

Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, ballad on, IV, 108 ff.
Bow, bent before swimming, II, 114, 116 f., 119, 121 f., 129,
177, 212, 257, 272, 313, 379, 395; IV, 229, 398; slacked
to swim, II, 250; slacked to run, II, 116 f.; IV, 229;
bent to leap wall, II, 115-17, 129, 177, 272, 313; IV,
229.

Bow shots: six score paces, to cleave apple on boy's head,
III, 17, 29; twenty score paces to split a rod, III, 29;
three score rood (330 yards), III, 93; a hundred rod, III,
176; fifteen score (300 yards), III, 201, 203; (not to be
taken seriously) a mile, or half a mile and more, and
through an armed man at the end, III, 54; two north-
country miles and an inch, III, 215.

Bower, Scotichronicon, III, 41, 43, 96, 266, 282, and n., 292,
and n., 305, 316, 476 nn.

The Boy and the Mantle, ballad, I, 257 ff., etc.; story in
Welsh, I, 265 nn.

Boy baffles carlin by ready answers, I, 21.

Brackleys, several, murdered, IV, 80-83, 522; Baron of
Brackley, ballad, 79 ff.

Brags, gabs, vows, I, 277 f., 281-3, 285; II, 502.

Brand and ring, choice given to maid, signifying the death
of violator or marriage with him, II, 469; IV, 493; V,
28, 238.

Brand, Right-hitting, III, 43 n.; V, 297 a.
Brandimarte, in Orlando Innamorato, I, 308.
Brangwain, Isold's maid, I, 67.
Bread. See Communion bread.

Bredbeddle, one of Arthur's knights, I, 280.
Bremor, king of Spain, demands the hand of King Adland's
daughter, II, 52-4.

Bride accidentally but fatally wounded by bridegroom's
sword while he is bringing her home (Graf Friedrich), I,

142 f.; bride assigned by dying man to his brother, I,
376, 378, and n.; she will not give her troth to two bro-
thers, I, 376, 378, and n.; bride, wife, whose bridegroom,
husband, has died is put off with false explanations, I,
376-9, 381, 383-87; bride carried off by lover on the day
she was to wed a rival, IV, 218, 230; V, 260 f.
Bridegroom caressing bride while taking her home killed
by her brother, I, 142; bridegroom killed on his way to
fetch the bride, I, 386; bridegroom drowned on the way
to his wedding, IV, 179-183, 189 f.; V, 257; lover
drowned on his way to visit his mistress, IV, 185.
Brome, brome on hill, song, I, 390.

The broom blooms bonny and says it is fair, I, 450.
The Broom of Cowden Knowes, O the broome, the bonny
bonny broome, tune, IV, 192, 208.

Brother's consent to a sister's marriage, importance of ob-
taining, I, 142; brother whose consent has not been asked
kills his sister as she is riding to or from the wedding, I,
145-50; brother flogs to death unmarried sister who has
had a child, II, 102.

Brown, Andrew, his services to James VI, III, 442–6.
Brown bride despised for her complexion, II, 182-97;
brown girl rejected for this reason, V, 167 f. See also
I, 120, 133 (M 10), 135 (1).

Brown Robin, II, 305 f., 368, 371, 418.
Bruce, David. See David Bruce.

Die Bruck zu Karidol, I, 267, and n.

Buccleuch, Sir Walter Scott of, rescue of Kinmont Willie,
III, 469 ff. See under Family Names.
Bulat and Ivan, tsar's son, Russian tale, V, 46.
Bunion Bay, I, 24, 57.

Burden, burden-stem, I, 7 n., 484 a; II, 204 n.
Burial, gold bound round bodies thrown into the water, to
secure, II, 14; III, 342; IV, 502 b, 506 a; V, 245.
Buridan and the Queen of France, tale, IV, 502.
Burlow-beanie, a variety of Billy Blin (here a loathly fiend,
with seven heads), I, 286 f.

Burnet, Burnett. See under Family Names.

Burning, penalty for incontinence (in Danish ballads, for
incest), II, 41, 43 f., 46-8, 113-125; III, 508 b; V, 292 b.
Burns, Robert, author of Kellyburnbraes, V, 107; his Hal-
lowe'en, V, 286 a.

Butler, Sir John, his murder and the ballad thereon, III,
327 ff.

Buttons bursting, as a consequence of violent emotion, II,
186; IV, 101, 302; waistcoat bursted, IV, 185; stays,
gown and all, IV, 320.

By Lands-dale, hey ho, song, III, 54.

Byliny, Russian popular epics, I, 200 (II, 499 f.); II, 15,
and n., 502; III, 122, 501 b; IV, 463, 497 a, 499 a; V,
2; Bulgarian, IV, 463.

Byron, Child Harold's Pilgrimage, III, 91; IV, 36.

Caberstaing, Guillems de, story of, V, 33.
Cæsarian operation, three and five wives die successively
thereof, II, 309 f.; six sisters (and the seventh doomed),
311-16, V, 227-9; in the case of Queen Jane, III, 373–6;
V, 245 f.; in Danish ballad, I, 83.

Cæsarius Heisterbacensis, Dialogus Miraculorum, I, 197, 237.
Calaf, Prince, Persian story, I, 417.
Calender, tale of the Second, I, 402.
Campbell. See under Family Names.
Campbell, Bonny James, ballad, IV, 142.

La caña del riu de arenas, Catalan story, I, 125.

Cane (walking rod), ridiculously introduced. See the com-
monplace of mantle and cane (under Commonplaces);
also, IV, 190, 421; V, 16 f.

Car, Ker, Captain, III, 424-7, 430-2.

Caradawc, I, 265; V, 289 a. See Carados.

Carados (Briebras, Brisié Bras), I, 258, 261 n., 263-5; Ca-
radawc Vreichvras, 265; variations of the name Carados,
I, 264 n.; V, 289 a.

Carduino (Le Bel Inconnu), Italian romance, I, 308.
Carevič i ego Sluga, The Prince and his Servant, Russian
tale, V, 281.

Carl Blind, surnamed Bavís, I, 67, 95.

Carl Hood, old, 1, 67, 92, 95, and n., 489; IV, 443 f.
Carl of Carlile, rhymed tale, I, 290 n., 301 n., 316; V,
289 a.

Caskets, riddle of the three, I, 13.
Cassilis. See under Family Names.
Catharine I., Empress of Russia, III, 383.
Cawfield, Archie of, ballad, III, 484 ff.
Ce qui plaît aux Dames, Voltaire's tale, I, 292.
The Ceabharnach, West Highland tale, III, 507.
Le Centi Novelle Antiche, V, 34.

Chains of gold, servants in waiting wear, I, 410.
Chambers, Robert, his contention that Lady Wardlaw was
the author of Sir Patrick Spens and other ballads, II,
20 n.

Champion, diminutive, successful against huge and danger-
ous antagonist in judicial combat, II, 35-37, 37 n., 38,
39?, 43 n., 45 f. See Child-champion.
Change of clothes with beggar, palmer, I, 189, 191, 192,
202-207; III, 157, 179, 181 f., 184, 188, 271, 273 f.
Change of parts of man and woman in different versions of
the same or a similar tale, I, 142, 187, 455, Nos 17, 53;
298; II, 236, 349, 426; IV, 186; V, 34, 296.
Charcoal-burners, III, 109; V, 6, 70 f,, 75, and n.
Charlemagne's Journey to Jerusalem, I, 274-9; III, 503 b.
Charles the Fifth (emperor) and a broom-maker; and a
peasant; Belgian stories, V, 74.

Charles the Great and the charcoal-burner, rhymed tale, V,
70 f.

Charm: knight obliges lady to go off with him by sticking
a charm in her sleeve, I, 57; charm or rune employed to
induce sleep, I, 28, 48, 55, 391.

Charrois de Nymes, Li, chanson de geste, V, 298 a.
Charter of peace sought by outlaws, III, 27.
Chastity, or fidelity in love, tests of, I, 258-71, 507 a; II,
502; III, 503; IV, 454 a; V, 212 f., 289 a.

Arch, sword and garland in Amadis which test the fact
and the measure of faithful love, I, 267.
(Talking) bed, blankets, pillows, rug, sheets, I, 64 f.,
68, 70.

Bridge in the younger Titurel which cannot be passed
by knight or lady faulty in matter of love, I, 267.
Brook which tests virginity, I, 269.

Chair, golden, in which none but a maid will sit till
bidden, I, 72 f.; can sit, 75.

Crown that exposes the infidelity of husbands, I, 266 f.
Cup from which no man or woman can drink who has
been false to love, I, 264.

Cup of tears in Palmerin of England which tests the
best knight and most faithful lover, I, 267.

Flowers (lotus, rose) or evergreen which keep fresh as

long as wife or man and wife are faithful, I, 268.
Glove as test of virtue of man or woman, I, 266.