20.Eglamour of Artas(orArtoys) is preserved in the same volume with the foregoing,
both in the Cotton Library, and public Library at Cambridge. It is also in the Editor's
folio MS. p. 295, where it is divided into six parts.-- A printed copy is in the Bodleian
Library, C. 39. Art. Seld. and also among Mr. Garrick's old plays, K. vol. x. It is in
distichs, and begins thus:
"Ihesu Crist of heven kyng."21.Syr Triamore(in stanzas of six lines) is preserved in MS. in the Editor's volume
(p. 210), and in the public Library at Cambridge, (690, § 29. Vid. Cat. MSS. p. 394.)--
Two printed copies are extant in the Bodleian Library, and among Mr. Garrick's
plays, in the same volumes with the last article. Both the Editor's MS. and the printed
copies begin:
"Nowe Jesu Chryste our heven kynge."
The Cambridge copy thus:
"Heven blys that all shall wynne."22.Sir Degree(Degare, orDegore, which last seems the true title), in five parts, in
distichs, is preserved in the Editor's folio MS. p. 371, and in the public Library at
Cambridge (ubi supra. )-- A printed copy is in the Bod. Library, C. 39. Art. Seld. and
among Mr. Garrick's plays, K. vol. ix.-- The Editor's MS. and the printed copies begin
"Lordinge, and you wyl holde you styl."
The Cambridge MS. has it:
"Lystenyth, lordyngis, gente and free."23.Ipomydon(orChylde Ipomydon) is preserved among the Harl. MSS. 2252, (44). It
is in distichs, and begins:
"Mekely, lordyngis, gentylle and fre."
In the Library of Lincoln Cathedral, K. k 3. 10. is an old imperfect printed
copy, wanting the whole first sheet A.
24.The Squyr of Lowe Degre, is one of those burlesqued by Chaucer in his Rhyme of
Thopas.[60]-- Mr. Garrick has a printed copy of this among his old plays, K. vol. ix. It
begins:
"It was a squyer of lowe degre,
That loved the kings daughter of Hungre."- Historye ofK. Richard Cure [Cœur] de Lyon(Impr. W. de Worde, 1528, 4to.) is
preserved in the Bodleian Library, c. 39. Art. Selden. A fragment of it is also
remaining in the Edinburgh MS. of old English poems, No. xxxvii. in two leaves. A
large extract from this romance has been given already above. Richard was the
peculiar patron of chivalry, and favourite of the old minstrels, and Troubadours.-- See
Warton's Observ. vol. ii. p. 29.; vol. ii. p. 40. - Of the following I have only seen No. xxvii, but I believe they may all be referred
to the class of romances.
The Knight of Courtesy and the Lady of Faguel(Bodl. Lib. C. 39., art. Seld. a
printed copy). This Mr. Warton thinks is the story of Coucy's Heart, related in
Fauchet, and in Howel's letters (V. i. s. 6. l. 20.-- See Wart. Obs. v. ii. p. 40). The
Editor has seen a very beautiful old ballad on this subject in French.