P. 391. Josyan, in Sir Bevis of Hamptoun, preserves her chastity by the use of a rune.
'I shall go make me a writ, Thorough a clerk wise of wit, That there shall no man have grace, While that letter is in place, Against my will to lie me by, Nor do me shame nor villany.' She did that letter soon be wrought On the manner as she had thought; About her neck she hanged it.
Ellis's English Metrical Romances, London, 1848, p. 256.
391 b, note †. The text of Harleian Manuscript, 2270, compared with another copy in Harleian Manuscript, No 5259, is given in Wright's Latin Stories, o. 114, No 126, Percy Society, vol. viii. R. Köhler.
In the Lai de Doon, ed. G. Paris, Romania, VIII, 61 ff, those who sleep in the bed are found dead in the morning, and Doon simply sits up all night. R. Köhler.
393 b. Last line but one. Uhland, No 104, in Niederdeutsche Volkslieder, herausgegeben vom Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung, p. 40, Np 63.
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