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five suitors, and in a later scene, Act ii, Sc. v, three more appear 

 who are dismissed. In Wilkins, the king gives the hero, after his 

 successful tourney, a horse and a pair of golden spurs. 



The queen sends a messenger to Orendel to summon him to her 

 presence. The messenger at first hesitates to go, awed by the terrible 

 appearance of Orendel. When at last he obeys the queen's com- 

 mand and delivers her message, Orendel, like ApoUonius, believes 

 that he is mocked and made sport of because of his shabby clothes. 



His path is beset with perils. The Knights Templar attempt tO' 

 kill him ; at the court of the king he finds an envious old man who 

 calumniates him. 



Battles with giants follow. He fights with Mentwin and Mer- 

 zian. The queen asks him if he is not King Orendel. He replies 

 that he is only a poor pilgrim. She calls him Mr. Graycoat, for 

 she cannot learn his real name. In battle with the giant Pelian he 

 utters his own name aloud (like Rustum), and the Knights Templar,, 

 realizing that he is indeed a king, worship him, and the queen 

 exclaims, " Now I am indeed happy that I have always been faith- 

 ful." 



After the scene in which the fisher is rewarded, which is com- 

 mented upon elsewhere, the combat for Westphal follows, at 

 which siege Orendel by means of a grappling hook is pulled 

 over the wall and captured. A somewhat similar scene is in 

 Jourdain, and in Heinrich von Neustadt there is a naval battle 

 between ApoUonius and Absalon, in which the latter is drawn by a 

 grappling hook into the hostile vessel. 



Orendel is called home by an angel to protect his kingdom 

 against the pagans. In the French the kingdom in question is the 

 hereditary kingdom of ApoUonius : Antiochus is merely a satrap 

 who wrongfully kept it from him. In Timoneda and Pericles the 

 kingdom is Tyre, which in Timoneda has been usurped by Taliarca, 

 while in Pericles an insurrection is threatened. 



Orendel at first thinks to return alone, but Bride (his queen) is 

 resolved to journey with him. She proposes to make the fisher a 

 ruler in their absence, but the fisher refuses and all three depart to. 

 gether. In Timoneda the fisher is master of the galleys to Apol- 

 lonius, and is finally made Viceroy of Tyre. Upon the voyage 

 the queen falls into a trance and is thrown into the sea in a chest. 

 She is found by Daniel and Wolfhart and brought to the pagan 

 King Minolt. With the help of the fisher Orendel rescues her., 



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