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 3a E aquella [amor] que            3b  E aquella Porcia filla Porcia filla de Catho, hague a        d'l Rey Tracio sabent que lo Brut, marit seu, la qual encontinent   marit seu mort era. que sabe la mort d'aquell, per tal com no habia        E com no pogues prest ferre ab que's matas, desitjant hauer ferro prest ab ques matas seguir l'espirit del dit              cobejant seguir lesperit de Brut begue carbons foguejants          aquell begue carbons foguejants y mort. e mort.

4a Be fo cordial e memorable          4b Mes fon cordial e memorable amor que Artemisia, reyna,            lamor que Artemisa reyna hague a Mauseolo, marit seu;          hague a Menaculo, marit seu, la la qual apres que ell fo mort y        qual apres que ell fon mort e li li hague celebrades solempnes          hague celebrades solemnes exequies exequies, lo feu polvoritzar, y'l     lo feu poluorizar e begues begue, mostrant que ella volia        la polvora mostrant que ella esser sepulcre d'ell. volia esser sepultura dell.

3a and that [love] which           3b  and that Portia, Portia daughter of Cato had for       daughter of the King Tracio, Brutus her husband, she, who,         knowing that her husband was as soon as she knew of his death,     dead. And since she could not for the reason that she had no        get an iron instrument immediately, iron instrument immediately at        being eager to follow his hand with which to slay herself,      spirit, ate burning coals and desiring to follow his spirit, ate    died. burning coals and died.

4a Very cordial and memorable         4b More cordial and memorable was the love which Queen              was the love which Queen Artemisia had for Mausolus her        Artemisa had for Menaculo husband; she, who, after he was       her husband, she, who, after dead and she had solemn exequies      he was dead and she had solemn celebrated for him, caused            exequies celebrated for him, his body to be converted into         caused his body to be converted dust, and she swallowed it,           into dust, and she swallowed the showing that she wished to be         dust, showing that she wished to his sepulcher. be his sepulture.

All that we have said in support of our contention that the excerpts from Tirant lo Blanch in the first series of parallel passages have been taken directly from Lull's work, and not from a translation, is borne out by a comparison of the passages just given. We feel that