=Romaic.= =A.= Νεοελληνικὰ’ Ανάλεκτα, I, 80, No 16, 75 vv., Melos. =B.= ‘Τὸ στοίχημα τοῦ βασιλιᾶ καὶ τοῦ Μαυριανοῦ,’ Jeannaraki, p. 231, No 294, 76 vv., Crete. =C.= ‘Ὁ Μαυριανὸς καὶ ὁ βασιλεύς,’ Zampelios, p. 719, No 6, 61 vv., Corcyra (?); repeated in Passow, p. 355, No 474, Kind’s Anthologie, p. 56. =D.= ‘Τοῦ Μαυριανοπούλου,’ Manousos, II, 56, 51 vv., Corcyra (?). =E.= ‘Ὁ Μαυριανὸς κ’ ὁ βασιλεᾶς,’ Pappadopoulos in Πανδώρα, XV, 417, 23 vv., Cargese, Corsica; repeated in Legrand, p. 302, No 136. =F.= Δελτίον τῆς ἱστορικῆς καὶ ἐθνολογικῆς ἑταιρίας τής Ἑλλάδος, I, 551, No 5, 35 vv., Peloponnesus. =G.= ‘Ὁ Σταυριανὸς καὶ ὁ βασιλιᾶς,’ Melandrakes, in the same, III, 345, 54 vv., Patmos. =H.= ‘Τὸ Στοίχημα,’ Kanellakes, Χιακά ἀλάεκτα, p. 8, No 5, 50 vv., Chios. =I a.= Bartholdy, Bruchstücke zur nähern Kenntniss des heutigen Griechenlands, 1805, p. 434, 78 vv., translation without text. =b.= ‘Maurogène,’ Lemercier, I, 167, translation without text, neighborhood of Arta. =J.= ‘Στοίχημα Διονῦ καὶ Χαντσαρλῆ,’ Chasiotes, p. 142, No 14, 26 vv., Epirus. The personages are Μαυριανός, =B-E=, Μαυγιανός, =A=, Mavrogeni, =I=, Σταυριανός, =G=, Γιάννος, =F=, Κωσταντῆς, =H=; his sister, =A-I=, Αρετή;, =D=, Μάρω, =F=, Λιερή, =G=, and in =I b= (unless the name is supplied by the editor), Cymodore; a king, anonymous except in =J=, Διονύς, in which also the other two parties are husband (ὁ χαντσιαρλῆς, the chancellor) and wife. At the king’s table there is talk of women fair or foul. Maurianos extols his sister (the chancellor his wife, =I=), whom gifts cannot seduce. What shall be your forfeit, asks the king, if I seduce her? Maurianos stakes his head, =A-I=, and the girl is to be the king’s slave, =H=; the king, his kingdom and crown, =A=, =B=, his property, =C=, =F=. There is a mutual wager of nine towers of silver, =J=. The young man is to be a prisoner till the morning, =I=. The king begins, in =A=, =B=, by engaging the services of witches eighteen, witches fifteen, or bawds eighteen, witches fifteen. They ply their magic early and late: forty days to get up her stair, other four-and-forty to get sight of the girl, =A=. They address her with flatteries, but are rebuffed, =A=, =B=. The king sends rich presents, =A=, =C-I=; beasts laden with silver and money, nine, twelve, twenty and again ten. The girl receives them with professions of pleasure; her brother will return the compliment to the giver. It is explained that no return is looked for; the presents are from the king, who desires to pass the night with her. (In =J= the king goes straight to the wife, and says that he has her husband’s permission.) The lady affects to put herself at the king’s disposition. She appeals to her maid-servants, =A=, =B=; first her “nurses,” then her maids, =C=; one servant, and then another, =H=. Which of them will enable her to keep her word, change clothes with her, and pass the night with the king? Only Maria, the youngest of