The narrator declares that Marcas is "semblable à Pitt, qui s'était donné l'Angleterre pour femme" ("like William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Rue du Chat-qui-Pêche | Qui tam | Qui Nhon | Qui-Gon Jinn | Qui de nous deux | Payré | L'Homme qui marche I | Le feu qui m'attise | La vache qui pleure | Lac qui Parle Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota | Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona | Baxter Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota |
It was first brought to light by Jaime Villanueva in 1821, when he redacted it for publication from a manuscript in the archives of the church of Àger.
From the mid-thirteenth century survives an early Catalan Marian lament, Augats, seyós qui credets Déu lo Payre, and around 1300 the Lamentations of Mary were composed in Old Hungarian.