Similarly we find «S» 2604 differing from «H», leaf 62, where we read «Basyns» (= «Basin», «F» 3313) instead of «Bryer». Again «H», l. 40, agreeing exactly with «F», l. 1329 «et seq.», differs from «S» 1279–82 (cf. p. xxix). Instead of Floripas, «S» 1515, it is Brulans, «H», l. 49, and «F» 1949, who advises the Soudan not to slay the prisoners. The names of the twelve peers are the same in «H» as in «F» (cf. p. xxvii); and the whole scene of the peers being sent one after the other on a mission to Laban (cf. note to l. 1665 of the «Sowdan») is described exactly alike in «F» 2263–2282 and in «H», leaf 51, back, with the only difference that the names of the peers are given in a different order in both versions, Richard of Normandy, who is sent off as the sixth in «F», being the second in «H». These variations of «S» from «H» clearly exemplify the impossibility of regarding the Hanover MS. as the original of the «Sowdan». But as on the whole these differences are not of a very significant nature, and as, moreover, part of these variations may perhaps be attributed to the favourite habit of the author of going his own way in the arrangement of the subject-matter and in some minor points, whereas in the essential course of the events he strictly adhered to his source (see above p. xxxviii, and cf. note to l. 2535); and as besides there are several names, the spelling of which differs in «F», agreeing in «S» and «H», I think there can be no doubt that the original of the second part of the «Sowdan» was a version similar to the Hanover MS. If now we compare the Hanover version with the Ashmole «Ferumbras» more closely than has been possible on page xx, there are some instances where «A», whilst differing from «F», agrees with «H». H. A. lf. 27. Ha «Glout», dist 163. A «glotoun», saide þe Emperer Karlemaines, lf. 27. Que puis «vivre» que cest 175. Ke «lyve» he noȝt þys day to jours fu passes be evene lf. 25, bk. Ses chiuals ad reine 91. Þarto ys stede þan tyeþe he à un arbre rasmee Et garda les leges tote contreval li pree Nevertheless, the following passage in which «A» agrees with «F», but differs from «H», will at once show the impossibility of regarding «H» as the original of «A». [p-liii] A. H. 302. Þanne þer come bifore lf. 28, bk. Atant se sunt drecie Charloun, Gweneloun and Guinelons et «Alores» «Hardree» In other instances «A» is found differing from «H» as well as from «F». Thus the name of «Enfachoun», «A» 4652, which is «Effraons» in «F» 4900, does not occur at all in «H», which in the passage corresponding to «F» 4900, as well as in that corresponding to «F» 4913, reads «Affricons li Geans».