4^{a} Very cordial and memorable 4^{b} 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. [27] _Lo Somni d’En Bernat Metge_, edited by R. Miquel y Planas, Barcelona, 1907; Libre quart, pp. 93-95. [28] Chap. cccix, cols. 3 and 4. 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 the evidence is conclusive and that comment would be superfluous. And with all this array of evidence we feel justified in concluding that _Tirant lo Blanch_ was written originally in Catalan. Martorell was a learned Catalan; he was well versed in the history of his country and its literature; he was a master of his native language; and he composed his voluminous work in the tongue that he knew so well. If _Tirant lo Blanch_ was translated into Portuguese, it was not from an English but from a Catalan original that the translation was made. CHAPTER II IN WHAT WAY WAS DE GALBA CONNECTED WITH THE PRODUCTION OF TIRANT LO BLANCH? We are told in the note at the end of the book that Martorell, because of his death, was unable to translate more than three parts of it, and that “la quarta part que es la fi del libre es stada traduida ... per lo magnifich caualler Mossen Marti Johan de Galba.” Now the question arises: What did de Galba have to do with the production of _Tirant lo Blanch_? It is difficult to answer the question definitely.