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



any harm ! " The fisher takes Orendel into his boat (cf. Pericles, 

 '' Canst thou catch any fishes then? "), who prays God to help him 

 for he cannot fish.^ He casts out his net, just as in the Danish bal- 

 lad Apollonius must fish, and even carry the fish-basket. Among 

 the fish that are caught is one in whose stomach they find a gray 

 coat. Blood stains are observed on it, which makes the fisher say 

 that a slain prince wore it. The coat has the appearance of armour. 

 Orendel entreats the fisher to give him the coat, but he refuses, and 

 instead gives Orendel a pair of shoes and a mantle. The coat is 

 sold to him later at a low price, and the fisher pretends that he has 

 given it to him, and begs him if he shall have good fortune in the 

 world not to forget the fisher who succoured him. He is also given 

 a pair of stockings, but there is no word of a partition of the 

 fisher's mantle.'' In Wilkins' novel Apollonius even gets a blanket 

 for his horse. 



Orendel remains six weeks with the fisher and then goes to the city, 

 where he is imprisoned, and released by an angel. He comes to 

 Jerusalem and, asking after the meaning of a noise that fills the air, 

 is told that the Knights Templar are tourneying. In the Latin 

 text Apollonius learns from a herald. In Pericles the fishermen 

 have instructed him in advance of a tournament which the suitors 

 have instituted. 



Orendel meets two pagans who are rivals for the possession of the 

 queen. They are Merzian and Sudan. Merzian lends his horse to 

 Orendel, who overthrows and kills Sudan, whereupon Merzian 

 takes flight. In Jourdain the hero first tries his valor with King 

 Marques, the father of the princess, and then conquers an enemy 

 of the king (Sortin) in serious combat. Marques and Sortin, Mer- 

 zian and Sudan, are evidently identical names, or names of common 

 origin. Singer conjectures that Marques arose from regem Arches- 

 tratem / In the Latin Apollonius, it will be remembered, there 

 is ball play, and gifts by the king, and then the dismissal of 

 three suitors. In Copland there are only two suitors (as in Stein- 

 howel, Bohemian and French). In the French story the suitors go 

 to war, and are conquered by Apollonius. Only one of the suitors 

 has a name — Ardalio^ Pericles buys a horse with a jewel, conquers 



' In the French and Spanish he declines smilingly the invitation to fish. 

 '^ The Bohemian and the Danish know nothing of the division of the cloak 

 which the Latin speaks of. The Italian calls it *< vestimento di Grigio." 

 ^ In Twine only have the other suitors names — Munditius and Camillas. 



