ABSTRACT
…And B(emart) called her “Lark” because of her love of a knight who loved her, and she called him “Ray”. 1 And one day the knight came to the duchess and entered the bedroom. The lady, who saw him, lifted up the side of her coat and put it around his neck and let herself fall onto the bed. And B(emart) saw all this, for one of the lady’s young servant girls had secretly shown it to him; and it is for this reason 2 that he composed the song which says:
