280 SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. [Oct. 7, 



clothes the unfortunate hero and directs him to enter the city (thus 

 in Godfrey of Viterbo, Pericles and the Italian and elder Greek 

 versions of the ApoUonius). 



Jourdain spends the night with the fisher, apparently that the 

 contest in which he is to engage may take place after matins, and 

 perhaps also for the sake of the picture of the minster and the royal 

 party issuing from it. Thus the evening meal of the Latin and all 

 other versions becomes a morning meal. 



While in ApoUonius the hero displays great skill in ball playing, 

 m. Jourdain the sport is fencing. The king exclaims : '' Who will 

 fight with me?" (''qui vueult iestre mes pers a' I'esquermie"). 

 Jourdain undertakes to resist him, and astonishes the king with his 

 skill. After the sport Jourdain is left alone, but the king sends a mes- 

 senger to him, who finds him weeping and at first inclmed to think 

 the king's invitation a mockery because of his squalid appearance. 



The king's daughter, Oriabel, is attracted by the handsome youth, 

 and believes him, because of his beauty and manly bearing, to be 

 of gentle blood (see verses 1408-1414). She begs permission of 

 her father to give clothes to the unknown. He replies, '' Ma belle 

 fille gel voil et si I'otroi .... Quant la pucelle entendit de 

 I'anfant. Que li porroit donner le garnement." She sends him a 

 splendid robe and waits upon him at the ablutions before the meal; 

 and he, by reason of his modesty, becomes the favorite of the king 

 and the beloved of Oriabel ('' et la pucelle Ten ama plus trois 

 tans"). In ApoUonius the princess is not present at the ball play, 

 but appears at the meal which follows it, and the dejected ApoUo- 

 nius is drawn to the banquet by the king and consoled. The prin- 

 cess asks her father who the stranger is, and goes herself to him and 

 inquires his history. 



One day Jourdain gives way in the orchard to his grief. He is 

 overheard by the princess, who discovers his secret. ApoUonius is 

 overheard by the king playing upon his harp and bemoaning his 

 fate (so in Copland and Wilkins). It has been remarked (Singer, 

 p. 21), that there is here a trace of the influence of a group of 

 marchen in which a hero enters the service of a king, and is sur- 

 prised in his secret meditations in the garden by the king's daughter. 



A number of parallel tales are to be found in J. G. von Hahn's 

 Griechische und albanesische Marchen. Similarly in Karlmeinet and 

 Gran Conquista (Bartsch, p. 17)^ Karl reveals his high lineage 

 alone and lamenting. 



^ Singer, p. 21. 



