received from the abbess, and had hitherto preserved with the utmost
solicitude. She had scarcely left the room when the bride entered it
accompanied by her mother, who casting her eyes on this splendid mantle,
surveyed it with feelings of the most poignant remorse, and immediately
recognized the testimony of her crime. She questioned the chamberlains,
who were unable to explain the appearance of an ornament they had never
before beheld; she then interrogated Le Frain, and, at the end of a
short examination, fell into a swoon, exclaiming, "Fair child, thou art
my daughter!" Her husband was then summoned, and she confessed to him
with tears, and every expression of penitence, the sinful act she had
committed, and the providential discovery of her daughter by means of
the mantle and the ring, both of which were presents from himself. The
knight embraced his child with the utmost tenderness, and prevailed on
the bishop to dissolve the just solemnized marriage, and unite their
son-in-law to the original object of his affections. The other sister
was shortly after bestowed on a neighbouring lord, and the adventures
of Le Frain and Le Codre were formed into a Lay, which received its name
from the former.

FOOTNOTES:

[33] Jests.

[34] Perhaps a mistake in the MS. for ge, i.e. go.

[35] Gossip, godfather.

[36] Health, safety.

[37] Yesterday.

[38] Full of frowardness, each mis-saying or reviling.

[39] Each an end, i.e. in every quarter.

[40] A rich mantle, lined with fur.

[41] Constantinople.

[42] Plaited, twisted.

[43] With.

[44] Goeth.

[45] Longer.

[46] Prayers.

[47] Receive.

[48] Fur.

[49] Folded.

[50] Place.

[51] She had milk, and was able to suckle it.

[52] Certainly, I plight; I promise you.

[53] Lap.

[54] Hour.

[55] In haste.

[56] In the MS. it is "freyns," which maybe a mistake of the
transcriber.

[57] Therefore.

[58] Protect, defend.

[59] Manhood, here used for the relation of consanguinity.

[60] Teach and advise her.

[61] Complexion.

[62] Suspect.

[63] Void, carry away.

[64] Excuse.

[65] Beloved.

[66] Of the same religious fraternity.

[67] Better.

[68] Lodging, abode.

[69] Agreed.

[70] Promise.

[71] It should be _thy aunt._

[72] Away.

[73] Bemoaned.

[74] Contract.

[75] Together.

[76] They, Sax.

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No. IV.--BISCLAVERET.

This is the Breton name for an ani