The _grafe_ is elaborately described in vv. 788-98: _Li roi li done un palefroi,_ _Qui d’une part estoit tous blans,_ _De l’autre rouges comme sans._ vv. 964-6. _Þe king let sadel a palfray_ _Þe oon half white, so mylke_ _And þat oþer reed, so sylk._ vv. 382-4. _Fius, fait ele, gardez le bien;_ _Tant com l’aurez, mar _cremez_ rien;_ _Car vous ja rien ne requer(r)iez_ _Que tost ou tard vous ne l’aiez_ vv. 1003-6. _Mi sone, he rede, have þis ring;_ _While he is þin, ne dute noþing._ . . . . . . . . . _And be hit erli and be hit late_ _To þi wil þu schalt habbe whate._ vv. 393-8. _La le troevent ou siet, sous l’arbre,_ _Sor un perron qui fu de marbre._ vv. 1355-6. _Þe briggere he fond ate frome,_ _Sittinde on a marble ston._ vv. 558-9. _Le millor conseil que jou sai_ v. 1858. _Þe beste red þat ihc þe can_ v. 742. _Si maudient qui s i foula_ v. 2060. _Hi beden God ȝive him wel fin_ _Þat so manie flures dide þerin_ vv. 855-6. _Des flors sali un paveillon_ _Des eles feri mon menton;_ _Del paveillon tel paor oi,_ _Que m’escriai plus tost que poi_ vv. 2093-6. _Þer fliste ut a buterfliȝe,_ _Are ihc wiste, on mine iȝe._ _So sore ihc uas offerd of þan,_ _Þat ihc loude crie bigan_ vv. 889-92. _Bele compaigne, Blanceflor,_ _Volez vous veoir bele flor?_ vv. 2117-18. _And sede, “Swete Blauncheflur,_ _Wiltu se a wel fair flur?”_ vv. 897-8. _Damoisele qui a amor_ _Et joie en soi, doit avoir flor._ vv. 2124-30. _Ho þat loveþ par amur,_ _An haþ þerof joie, mai love flur._ vv. 903-4. In spite of this number of tolerably exact correspondences, in word and phrase, with the French original, the English poem is a condensed adaptation rather than a slavish translation. As in the French II. version, the tender and sentimental element is much condensed; but the English writer, unlike the writer of French II., does not introduce the heroic and warlike element in the form of duels and battles. He does not amplify by adding new details, as Fleck did, nor does he confuse the order of incidents as does the adapter of the Low Rhenish version. He makes rather a faithful condensation quite after the manner of English adapters from the French, which is no doubt to be explained as due not so much to difference between the writers, English and French, as to a difference between the hearing publics, French and English, for whom the production was intended.[I-20]