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I know not why we should withhold the name of epic poem from the piece which I am about to analyse. My copy is divided into nine ...

to challenge the faulcon. The knights exchange their gloves: they agree to just in the market place: the lady and maid Ellen are ...

He goes up to the surviving sorcerer, who is carried away from him by inchantment: at length he finds him, and cuts off his head ...

In the Edinburgh MS. (mentioned above) are two ancient poems on the subject of Guy of Warwick: viz. No. xviii. containing 26 lea ...

all the editions of Chaucer he had then seen) might have some reference to this. But Pleindamour, the name restored by Mr. Tyrrw ...

The Romance ofMerline, in nine parts, (preserved in the same folio MS. p. 145) gives a curious account of the birth, parentage, ...

20.Eglamour of Artas(orArtoys) is preserved in the same volume with the foregoing, both in the Cotton Library, and public Librar ...

The four following are all preserved in the MS. so often referred to in the public Library at Cambridge (690. Appendix to Bp. M ...

A mutilated tale or romance (No. xi, in 13 leaves). The two first lines that occur are "That riche Dooke his fest gan hold Wit ...

Germani celebrant carminibus antiquis (quod unum apud illos memoriæ et annalium genus est) Tuistonem, &c.-- Tacit. Germ. c. ...

inhabitants of the north and south of Asia as having all the same manners, traditions, and fables; and because the secluded peop ...

See a translation of this poem among "Five Pieces of Runic Poetry," printed for Dodsley, 1764, 8vo. Vid. Mallet Northern Antiqu ...

The first romances of chivalry among the Germans were in metre; they have some very ancient narrative songs (which they call Li ...

Appendix to Bp. Moore's MSS. no. 690, 33, since given to the University of Cambridge. No. 690, § 31. Vid. Catalog. MSS. p. 394 ...

I. The Boy and the Mantle. ........................................................................................ This is prin ...

and brought unto another king named Marke, who is not a whit more fortunate than the British hero, for he makes "his queene drin ...

The ladye shee was newfangle, But yett shee was affrayd. When shee had taken the mantle; She stoode as shee had beene madd: It w ...

Fast, with a redd rudd, To her chamber can shee flee. Forth came an old knight Pattering ore a creede, And he proferred to this ...

The mantle stoode about her Right as shee wold: Seemelye of coulour Glittering like gold: Then every knight in Arthurs court Did ...

King Arthur, and the child Stood looking upon them; All their knives edges Turned backe againe. Craddocke had a little knive Of ...