"It was a squyer of lowe degre, That loved the kings daughter of Hungre."
25. _Historye of K. Richard Cure [C[oe]ur] 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. xxxvi. in two leaves. A large extract from this romance has been given already above, p. 356. Richard was the peculiar patron of Chivalry, and favourite of the old minstrels and troubadours. See Warton's _Observ._ vol. i. p. 29, vol. ii. p. 40.
26. Of the following I have only seen No. 27, but I believe they may all be referred to the class of romances.
The _Knight of Courtesy and the Lady of Faguel_ (Bod. Lib. C. 39. Art. Sheld. 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.
27. The four following are all preserved in the MS. so often referred to in the Public Library at Cambridge, (690. Appendix to Bp. More's MSS. in Cat. MSS. tom. ii. p. 394), viz., _The Lay of Erle of Tholouse_ (No. 27), of which the Editor hath also a copy from "Cod. MSS. Mus. Ashmol. Oxon." The first line of both is,
28. _Roberd Kynge of Cysyll_ (or Sicily) shewing the fall of pride. Of this there is also a copy among the Harl. MSS. 1703 (3). The Cambridge MS. begins,
29. _Le bone Florence of Rome_, beginning thus:
30. _Dioclesian the Emperour_, beginning,
31. The two knightly brothers _Amys and Amelion_ (among the Harl MSS. 2386, §. 42) is an old romance of chivalry, as is also, I believe, the fragment of the _Lady Belesant, the Duke of Lombardy's fair_ _daughter_, mentioned in the same article. See the catalog. vol. ii.
32. In the Edinburgh MS. so often referred to (preserved in the Advocates Library, W. 4. i.) might probably be found some other articles to add to this list, as well as other copies of some of the pieces mentioned in it, for the whole volume contains not fewer than thirty-seven poems or romances, some of them very long. But as many of them have lost the beginnings, which have been cut out for the sake of the illuminations, and as I have not had an opportunity of examining the MS. myself, I shall be content to mention only the articles that follow[525]: viz.