text: Little is known of his life, but he seems to have been from Troyes, or at least intimately connected with it, and between and he served at the court of his patroness Marie of France, Brand: MobileReference. Lines Érec and Énide are wed. NOW when his wife to Érec came, He needs call her by her true name: For a woman is not truly wed, If her true name is left unsaid.
  As yet her name was a mystery; Now it was first known openly; Her baptismal name was ENIDE, The Archbishop of Canterbury. Erec and Enide translated by W. Comfort In parentheses Publications Old French Series Cambridge, Ontario Vv.
  1—(1)Ñ The rusticÕs proverb says that many a thing is despised that is worth much more than is supposed. Therefore he does well who.