Note 34 — From the Low German ‘Reinke de Vos,’ Book 2: Reinke under the Pope’s ban; Martin the Ape offers to assist him.
Reading edition
Erk and Böhme, I, 374. Imagine the story thus: A faithless wife instigates her husband’s squire to kill him. When the murder is reported to her she is at first pleased, then touched with remorse. She rides forth to find the body of her husband, and the lilies—symbols of purity—bow in shame as she passes. At sight of her dead husband’s face, she resolves to enter a convent.