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A1 you away.” The bishop went away, because he expected
nothing for himself except evil from Partalopi. Partalopi 63
was there alone seven nights without food and drink, be-
cause no one was so bold that he dared to go to him, be-
cause he promised that, that at once he would kill him, and 66
he would die there himself.
7. Thus it is told, that on the eighth day a mounted man
came into the city and asked where Partalopi was. He was
told that he would kill any person who came to him. He 3
I have had them from your advice A3. 59-62 have2—away]
have received, and go away at once, or else you will be hung
higher than any thief in France A2. 62-63 because—Partalopi]
and expected that P. would carry [it] out, since he threatened
evil A3. 64 seven nights] -e A:i. 66-67 at once—himself]
he should die at that place and ( + likewise A2) those who came
to him A2'3.
I mounted] young A3. 2-5 was told—visit him] was told
that and still that too, that he would kill him if he came to him.
The young man spoke: “Has he killed no one yet?” “No one,”
they said. “Are you so very afraid of the dark, when none of you
dares to visit P. ?” A3. 3 came—him] + The young man answered:
“Has he killed anyone yet?” They answered: “He promises
death to anyone who comes to him” A2. 4 afraid—that] afraid
B1 gallows and in addition buried alive. The bishop, his uncle.
was now glad to get away from there safe. Partalopi lay
there now for eight days both without food and drink, so
that no one dared then to come to him.
CHAPTER IX.
The Lot and Distress of Marmoria, the daughter
of the King of Constantinople.
One day there came riding there to the hall in Paris in
France a young knight, and he got off his horse at that hall
in which the king’s son, Partalopi, was lying. Then he called
at the door there, and he now got such an answer as all
the other people who had come there before into the hall
or to the doors of the hall—which was, that he would suffer