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 never uses this word, but, on the other hand, he frequently employs "lançar" with the very same meaning.

After a careful comparison of the above passages, we are satisfied that the book under consideration is not a translation from an English original, nor was it first written in Portuguese. However, if the reader is still doubtful in regard to these questions, let us examine other parallel passages, of which the originals are found in another Catalan production, which bears the title Lo Somni d'En Bernat Metge.

Lo Somni d'En Bernat Metge        Tirant lo Blanch

1a Tamaris reyna de Scithia,         1b  Tamarits Reyna de Sicilia no fo de menor coratge; la qual      la qual no fo de menor en venjança de la mort de son fill   animo. Car en veniança de la y consolacio sua mata batallant      mort de son fill per consolacio aquell famos y molt temut Cirus,     sua mata en batalla aquell famos rey d'Assia, ab dos cents milia      e molt temut Cirius Rey d'dasia Persians. ab. CC. milia persians.

2a y apres que la hague           2b  Lo dit Cornelio obtengue dompdada, se'n glorieja tant         della victoria. E sen com si hagues vençut lo major        glorieja tant com si hagues y pus victorios princep del          vençut lo major princep del mon. mon.

1a Tomyris, Queen of Scythia,        1b  Tomyris, Queen of was not of less courage: who          Sicily, who was not of less in avenging the death of her         courage. For in avenging the son and her consolation killed       death of her son, for her consolation battling that famous and much        she killed in battle that feared Cyrus, King of Asia, with     famous and much feared Cyrus, two hundred thousand Persians. King of Asia, with two hundred thousand Persians.

2a and after he had defeated      2b The aforesaid Cornelius her, he boasted about it             won a victory over her. And as if he had vanquished the          he boasted about it as if he had greatest and most victorious         vanquished the greatest prince prince in the world. in the world.