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VI. An Epistolary Dissertation upon the Life and Writings of Robert Wace, an Anglo-Norman Poet of the 12th Century. In a Letter to the Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries
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It was under the reign of Henry the Second of England that there flourished a celebrated Anglo-Norman poet named Wace, whose works, at that time the delight of the monarch and his court, are at present to be esteemed as one of the most ancient monuments of French literature; but inasmuch as France owes these precious relics to a king of Great Britain, and as their author was born in a country which has continually remained since the Conquest under the power of the English, you will, doubtless, my Lord, peruse with some degree of satisfaction a memoir upon the life and writings of this Poet. The discussion will probably be seemed interesting, both upon account of its novelty, and from the circumstance of this writer being altogether unknown to the English Biographers; besides, most of those learned men who have written upon his works have been entirely mistaken, either in the series of them which they have given, or in the opinions which they have adopted relating to them.
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page 51 note [b] T. III. p. 369.
page 52 note [c] Treis reis Henriz vi et connui,
Et clerc lisant en lur tens fui.
Rei d'Engleterre la garnie,
Et due furent de Normendie.
page 52 note [d] Mem. de I'Acad. des Inscript. t. XV. p. 582.
page 52 note [e] Ncustria Pia, p. 655. Henry's History of England, vol. III. b. iii.
page 53 note [f] See this history in Martene's Thesaurus Anecdotorum, and in Muratori's Collection of Italian Historians.
page 53 ntoe [g] En lisle de Geisui sui nez,
A Chaem sui peliz portez,
Illoques sui a letres mis,
Puis sui longues en France apris.
page 54 note [h] Quant jo de France repairai,
A Chaem longues conversai,
De romanz faire m' entremis,
Mult en ecris et mult en fis.
page 55 note [i] Bib!. Cotton. Calig. A. IX.
page 56 note [k] Bibl.Reg. 13 CXI.
page 58 note [l] Nasmith's Catal. p. 32.
page 59 note [m] Recueil de l'origine de la langue et de la poësie Franç. liv, II. p, 82.
page 59 note [n] Mem. de l'Acad. des Inscrip. t. II. p. 728.
page 60 note [o] Révolutions de la Iangue Franç, a Li tête des poësies du Roi de Navarre. t. I. p. 145.
page 61 note [p] History of English Poetry, vol. I. p. 62.
page 61 note [q] Bibl. Cotton Calig. A. IX. Otho C. XIII. Robert de Brunne,. in appendice. ad Chronic. Pet. de Langtost, 1.1. p. xcviii.
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page 62 note [s] Poësies du Roi de Navarre, t. II. p.….
page 63 note [t] Hist gener. de la Musiqne Franc, t. II. p, 138.
page 64 note [u] Bibl. Reg. 4. C. XL.
page 64 note [w] Nicolson's Engl. Hist, Library.
page 65 note [x] Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, voi. IV. p. 57.
page 65 note [y] Burney's History of Music, vol. II. p. 230.
page 66 note [z] Hist. de la Musique Franc. t. II. p. 138.
page 66 note [a] Poësies du koi de Navarre, t.1. p. 154.
page 66 note [b] Dictionn. du vieux langage, Pref. t. II. p. xviii.
page 66 note [c] Poësies du Roi de Navane, t.l.p. 151.
page 66 note [d] Loco citato.
page 66 note [e] Loco citato.
page 67 note [f] Nouvclle Collect. des Historicns de la France, loc, cit.
page 68 note [g] Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, vol. IV p. 78.
page 68 note [h] Poesies du Roi de Navarre, t. I. p. 153.
page 68 note [i] Pour l'onur al secunt Henri,
Ki del lignage Roul nasqui,
Ai jeo de Roul lunges cunte,
Et de sun riche parente.
De Gulleaume hunge espee,
Avura lestoire avant menee.
Tant que Flameng cume selun,
Le tuerent par traisun;
De Richard sun fiz avum dit,
Ki sun pere leissat petit.
page 69 note [k] Loco citato.
page 70 note [l] History of English Poetry, vol. I. p. 62.
page 71 note [m] Roger Hoveden, Annales, ad ann. 1170.
page 73 note [n] Montsaucon, Catal. MSS. Regis Anglisæ.
page 73 note [o] Bibl. Reg. MSS, Catal. 4 C. XI.
page 74 note [p] Catal. de la Biblioth. de Monsieur le Due de la Valliere, No 2738.
page 74 note [q] suppl. de ce Catal. No eodem.
page 74 note [i] Hickefii Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica, pp. 145, 149, &c.
page 75 note [s] Locis sam citatis.
page 75 note [t] Mem. de l'Acad. des Inscript. t. XVII. p. 729.
page 76 note [u] Gallia Christiana, t. XL P.363.
page 76 note [w] Ibid.
page 77 note [x] Mem. de l'Acad. des Inscript. t. VIII. p. 603.
page 77 note [y] Neustria pia, p. 318.
page 77 note [z] Origines de Caen, par Mons. Huet, p. 223. edit, of 1706.