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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · mercy after repentance · marriage and betrothal · family reunification · diplomatic dinner at an imperial court · conversion to christianity · conversion and faith · christian moral resolution
Usually: narrative (1) · exile and homecoming (1) · reunion (1) · exhortation (1) · reverence (1)
Constance reveals herself to her father, asks not to send her daughter again to heathen lands, and Alla and Constance are finally reunited with joy, while their lives continue in Christian practice.
gan their woe increase. I pray you all my labour to release, I may not tell all their woe till to-morrow, I am so weary for to speak of sorrow. But finally, when that the *sooth is wist,* *truth is known* That Alla guiltless was of all her woe, I trow an hundred times have they kiss’d, And such a bliss is there betwixt them two, That, save the joy that lasteth evermo’, There is none like, that any creatu…