gives him "grant aveyr." When Renaud, Alard, Guichard, and Richard come to Dordon to meet their mother, an exactly similar thing happens.
"L'afaire li contèrent comment il ont ouvré,"
and she tells them,
"Portez de mon avoir a mult grande plenté."
Again, Charlemagne's anger and his imprecations against the Fils Aymon, his manner of calling to mind the fact that he has vanquished thirty kings, all striving with each other who could best serve him, and that none of all the lords whom he had subdued dared fight against him—
"Fors rois Yus de Gascoigne ki tos est asotis,
Qui contre moi recete mes mortés enemis
Les .iiii. fix Aymon que tout jor ai hïts,"
reminds us at once of the fine passage in Fulk Fitz-Warine, where John Lackland exclaims, "Hay, Seinte Marie, je su roy, Engleterre guye, duc su d'Angoye, et de Normaundye et tote Yrlande est en ma segnorie; e je ne pus trover ne aver en tot moun poer, pur quange je pus doner, nul se me velt venger de la damage e hontage que Fouke m'ad fet. Més je ne lerroy ge je ne me venjeroy de le prince."
These passages certainly prove that the author of Fulk Fitz-Warine must have often heard, or read
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