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ently dead is not accomplished by a physician skilled in the healing 

 art, and by no commonplace application of cotton and heated oil. 

 Oriabel is washed ashore at Palermo (Palerne, as the poem has it)^ 

 and is discovered by the bishop of that city, who, as he observes 

 the comatose body, remembers a precious ointment which had been 

 sent to him from the Orient, whence come all rare and costly 

 things. It is the same ointment with which Christ was anointed 

 (dex en ot oingt les flaus et les costez). Oriabel revives at the 

 touch of this sacred salve, relates her history, and becomes a recluse 

 in a little house by the minster. 



The story has here made a long journey from its pagan Greek 

 prototype. Bishops, nuns, priests and minsters have taken the 

 place of the temple of Diana and the physician Cerimon. A like 

 transformation we have seen to occur in the Spanish and modern 

 Greek versions. 



The fate of Tharsia takes a somewhat different appearance in the 

 French poem. Jourdain, after the storm in which his wife was 

 thrown overboard, comes to King Cemaire, who reigned in Ori- 

 monde (Tliarsus) (and who corresponds to Stranguillio). Here 

 his daughter is baptized and named Gaudisce. Jourdain commits 

 her to the care of one Josselme (the counterpart of Theophilus), 

 and departs to seek his queen. He sails by Tunis and the Nile, 

 and at last reaches Palermo, where he finds his wife. He relates 

 to her his adventures in a much briefer way than does ApoUonius 

 in the elder story. After he has found Oriabel and Renier, the story 

 returns to Gaudisce. The king of Orimonde had a daughter who 

 was far outshone in beauty and in grace by Jourdain' s daughter. 

 The queen's envy was violently aroused, and Josselme is ordered 

 secretly to remove Gaudisce. Under the pretense of conducting 

 her to her father he brings her to Constantinople, when, saying, 

 ''I commend thee to God," he abruptly leaves her : 



" Gentiz pucelle, a Jesu tx conmant, 

 Qui d'encombrier gart ton cors avenant " ^ (3161). 



Gaudisce, left alone with her nurse, Floriant (Lycorides), realizes 

 her desertion and becomes desperate. 



The treachery and brutality of the scene in the bordello are also 

 made less revolting in the French poem. The son of the king of 



^ In the Latin version Tharsia is to be murdered on the shore ; only in Pericles 

 and the (}reek marchen does she accompany the traitor. 



