Add to ORKGSoldier returns from war and tests his lover. Tells her that her man was killed in France. Her lamentation and pale face proves her love and he identifies himself with the broken token, a ring.Mercer: Laws ABBB, N32; Leach, 304-305; Peacock, 1014-1015; Greenleaf p. 172
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