The story told by the man of law describes a tell of merchants from Syria coming to Rome and seeing the beautiful daughter of the Emperor. They tell their sultan in Syria of her beauty and then he agrees to convert to Christinsanity to avoid the legal problems of marriage between himself and a christain women. The sultan's mother turns the bride away when she arrives, but the daughter of the emperor maintains her dignity and eventually converts the sultan and finds reward in her faith. Textual evidence of the daughter finding rewards from her faith's persistence is best found in, " In vertu and in hooly almus-dede They lyven alle, and never asonder wende Til deeth departed hem; this lyf they lede;-And fareth now weel, my tale is at an ende. Now Jesu Crist, that of his myght may sende Joye after wo, governe us in his grace,
And kepe us alle that been in this place. Amen"
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