* This poem, which appears to have been extremely popular, is a remarkable specimen of the gross satirical attacks upon the female sex which were common in the middle ages. An early French translation of it, and a later English one, will be given at the end of the present volume. I have only collated the three MSS. in the British Museum. The title in the Harleian is De trihus angelis qui retraxerunt a nuptiis. The title I have retained is given by MS. Cotton. Vespas. E. XII. The other Cotton. MS. has no title, but at the end the rubric, Explicit dissuasio nitbendi Goliæ, etc. The Rawlinson MS. at Oxford has the rubrics, Incipit Naufragium Nubentium secundum Goliam, and Explicit Apocalypsis Golyæ de Naufragio Nubendi. The variations in the name of the person who is hindered from being married are noticed and explained in the Introduction. By the kindness of my friend Mr. Halliwell, I am enabled to add on this point the variations of the four Oxford MSS.: the Bodl. 496, has Gillertus; the Rawlinson MS. Golias; and the Ashmolean MS. Galwinus; the Bodleian 851, Gauterus.