to
_interest_ the French, &c.

The second authority is M. le Comte de Tressan, a writer, perhaps, of no
deep research, but whose good taste is conclusive on points of internal
evidence. In his preface to the prose romance of "La Fleur des
Batailles," (one of those relating to Charlemagne) he says--The style
and character of these romances lead us to think that they were composed
at the court of the English kings, descended from William the Conqueror.
We find in those of the Round Table, a marked affectation of dwelling on
every thing which can contribute to the glory of the throne and court of
England, whose princes and knights always play the chief and most
brilliant part in the piece.

Thirdly, the Abbe de la Rue may be considered as having proved the fact,
by pointing out, in English history, the persons to whom the original
romances were addressed. His three dissertations on the Anglo-Norman
poets, in the twelfth and thirteenth volume of the Archaelogia, will
convince the reader that no man has studied, with more attention, the
early history and poetry of France; and he has given it as his decided
opinion, that "_it was from England and Normandy that the French
received the first works which deserve to be cited in their
language."--Ellis's Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances_.

[9] Prolog. des Lais de Marie.

[10] Oeuvres de Fauchet, 579. Recherches de la France, l.8. s. i.

[11] Pyramus loco citate.

[12] Oeuvres de Fauchet, p. 579.

[13] Conclusion of Mary's Fables.

[14] Dictionaire Raisonnee de Diplomatique Verbo _Comte_.

[15] Martineus Dict. Geographique, v. Dampierre.

[16] Sandford's Genealogical History of the Kings of England,
p. 114.

[17] Ibid, p. 116, and M. Paris, p. 817

[18] Sandford, ibid.

[19] Fabliaux, vol. iv. p.330.

[20] Conclusion of Mary's Fables.

[21] Phaedr. Prolog. lib. i.

[22] Preface to Mary's Fables.

[23] Fabric. Bibl. Latin, lib. ii. c. 3.

[24] Preface to the Fables of Mary

[25] Vincent Bellovac, lib. iv. c. 2.

[26] Fabric. loco citato.

[27] Menage Diction. Etymol. V. Romans. Duchesne, Oeuvres de
Maistre Alain Chartris, p. 861.

[28] Pasquier Recherches, liv. viii. c. 1.

[29] Asser, Vita Alfredi, Malsmb.

[30] Madox's Hist. of the Exchequer, c. 4.

[31] Ordoric. Vitalis Hist. apud Duchesne, pp. 488, 681, &
1084.

[32] See his Works amongst the Harleian MSS. No. 4333.

APPENDIX II.

MARIE'S LAYS.

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