y have come down to us; on which see Gaston Paris's Introduction
to his "Extraits de la Chanson de Roland," 1893, 4th ed.

[169]

Croist li aciers, ne fraint ne s'esgruignet;
Et dist li cuens: "Sainte Marie, aiude!...
E! Durendal, com ies et clere et blanche!
Contre soleil si reluis et reflambes!...
E! Durendal, com ies bele et saintisme!"

[170]

Cil Sarrazins me semblet mult herites.

[171]

Ne a muillier n'a dame qu'as veuet
N'en vanteras el' regne dunt tu fus.

[172] "Car le Royaume de France ne fut oncques si desconfis que on n'y
trouvast bien tousjours a qui combattre." Prologue of the Chronicles,
Luce's edition, vol. i. p. 212.

[173]

Car bien scavons sanz nul espoir
Q'il ne fu pius de c ans nee
Q'il grans ost fu assemblee.

MS. fr. 60 in the National Library, Paris, fol. 42; contains: "Li
Roumans de Tiebes qui fu racine de Troie la grant.--Item toute
l'histoire de Troie la grant."

[174] "Alexandre le Grand, dans la litterature francaise du moyen age,"
by P. Meyer, Paris, 1886, 2 vols. 8vo (vol. i. texts, vol. ii. history
of the legend); vol. ii. p. 182.

[175] MS. fr. 782 at the National Library, Paris, containing poems by
Benoit de Sainte-More, fol. 151, 155, 158.

[176] Benoit de Sainte-More, a poet of the court of Henry II., wrote his
"Roman de Troie" about 1160 (G. Paris); it was edited by Joly, Paris,
1870, 2 vols. 4to.--"Le Roman de Thebes," ed. L. Constans, Paris, 1890,
2 vols. 8vo, wrongly attributed to Benoit de Sainte-More, indirectly
imitated from the "Thebaid" of Statius.--"Eneas," a critical text, ed.
J. Salvedra de Grave, Halle, Bibliotheca Normannica, 1891, 8vo, also
attributed, but wrongly it seems, to Benoit; the work of a Norman,
twelfth century; imitated from the "AEneid."--The immense poem of
Eustache or Thomas de Kent is still unpublished; the author imitates the
romance in "alexandrines" of Lambert le Tort and Alexandre de Paris,
twelfth century, ed. Michelant, Stuttgart, 1846.--The romances of Hue de
Rotelande (Rhuddlan in Flintshire?) are also in French verse, and were
composed between 1176-7 and 1190-1; see Ward, "Catalogue of Romances,"
1883, vol. i. pp. 728 ff.; his "Ipomedon" has been edited by Koelbing and
Koschwitz, Breslau, 1889, 8vo; his "Prothesilaus" is still unpublished.

[177] Lib. IX. cap. ii.

[178] "Hic est Arthur de quo Britonum nugae hodieque delirant, dignus
plane quod non fallaces somniarent fabulae, s