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But neither the Queen nor these new towers took the least notice, and gradually the boat came out of that dim cave and entered Fairyland, while the river became so narrow that you could hear the song of the towers quite easily; those on the right bank sang the first verse, and those on the left bank answered:— Drop, drop from the leaves of lign aloes, O honey-dew! drop from the tree.

Roland, mortally wounded, lay himself down under a pine-tree, with his face turned towards Spain and the enemy— 'De plusurs choses � remembrer li prist, De tantes teres cume li bers cunquist, De dulce France, des humes de sun lign, De Carlemagne sun seignor ki l'nurrit.'

The tents of Jacob As valleys spread, As goodly cedars, Or fair lign aloes, white and red, Shall share thy wilderness.

“Wax.” 311-1 The Spanish here is linaloe, but the reference seems to be to the medicinal aloes and not to lign aloes.

On lign aloes, see Columbus’s Journal, November 12, and note. 311-2 The myrobolan is an East Indian fruit with a stone, of the prune genus.