¹⁴ For variations on this theme see Sister Mary Immaculate, ‘The Four Daughters of God in the Gesta Romanorum and the Court of Sapience,’ PMLA 57 (1942), 951–65.

¹⁵ Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum, 133.

¹⁶ The Castle of Perseverance in Medieval Drama, ed. David Bevington (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975), lines 3565; 3572–3573. In the Gesta, the Emperor turns to his Son for counsel in the matter; ultimately the Son brings the sinner back to the Emperor after the Son and Mercy visit him in prison; Peace returns when she hears the news and the family is reunited.