Political, religious, and love poems. Some by Lydgate, Sir Richard Ros, Henry Baradoun, Wm. Huchen, etc. from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Ms. no. 306, and other sources, with a fragment of The Romance of Peare of Provence and the fair Magnelone, and a sketch, with the prolog and epilog, of The Romance of the knight Amoryus and the Lady Cleopes,

Part of a Meditation of St. Augustine.

IN the 1866 issue of the stereotyped edition of Mr. Craik's Compendious History of the English Language, v. 1, p. 193, is the following passage quoted from Sir Frederic Madden's Preface to Havelok: "Between the years 1244 and 1258, we know, was written the versification of part of a meditation of St. Augustine, as proved by the age of the prior who gave the MS. to the Durham Library, MS. Eccl. Dun. A. iii. 12, and Bodl. 42." On my applying to the Librarian at Durham for further information about this piece of verse, the Rev. W. Greenwell answered, "It is upon a small piece of vellum, inserted, and forms no part of the original volume. I send you a correct copy." The Rev. H. O. Coxe, Bodleian Librarian, has also kindly sent me a copy of the Bodleian version, which I print side by side with the Durham one. Mr. Coxe dates the Oxford copy at from 1300 to 1320 A.D.

MS. Eccl. Dun. A. III. 12.

Wyth was his halude brest and red of blod his syde Bleye was his fair handled his wund dop ant wide

And his arms ystreith hey up-hon þe rode On fif studes on his body þe stremes ran o blode.

MS. Bodl. 42, fol. 250.

Wit was his nakede brest and red of blod his side Blod was his faire neb his wnden depe an uide

Starke waren his armes Hi-spred opon þe rode In fif steden in his bodi Stremes hurne of blode.

Notes

• (P.S.—See Sir F. Madden's print of the Oxford copy, with the original Latin, in Warton, v. 1, p. 24, note, ed. 1840.)
• (P.S.—See Sir F. Madden's print of the Oxford copy, with the original Latin, in Warton, v. 1, p. 24, note, ed. 1840.)