An old romance about _Rouland_ (not I believe the famous Paladine, but a champion named _Rouland Louth_; query) being in the volume, No. xxvii. in five leaves, and wants the beginning.
33. Another romance that seems to be a kind of continuation of this last, intitled, _Otuel a Knight_, (No. xxviii. in eleven leaves and a half). The two first lines are,
"Herkneth both yinge and old, That willen heren of battailes bold."
34. _The King of Tars_ (No. iv. in five leaves and a half; it is also in the Bodleyan Library, MS. Vernon, f. 304) beginning thus:
"Herkneth to me bothe eld and ying For Maries love that swete thing."
35. A tale or romance (No. i. two leaves), that wants both beginning and end. The first lines now remaining are,
"Th Erl him graunted his will y-wis. that the knicht him haden y told. The Baronnis that were of mikle pris. befor him thay weren y-cald."
36. Another mutilated tale or romance (No. iii. four leaves). The first lines at present are,
"To Mr. Steward wil y gon. and tellen him the sothe of the Reseyved bestow sone anon. gif you will serve and with hir be."
37. A mutilated tale or romance (No. xi. in thirteen leaves). The two first lines that occur are,
"That riche Dooke his fest gan hold With Erls and with Baronns bold."
I cannot conclude my account of this curious manuscript, without acknowledging that I was indebted to the friendship of the Rev. Dr. Blair, the ingenious professor of Belles Lettres, in the University of Edinburgh, for whatever I learned of its contents, and for the important additions it enabled me to make to the foregoing list.
To the preceding articles two ancient metrical romances in the Scottish dialect may now be added, which are published in Pinkerton's _Scottish Poems_, reprinted "from scarce editions," Lond. 1792, in 3 vols. 8vo. viz.
38. _Gawan and Gologras_, a metrical romance; from an edition printed at Edinburgh, 1508, 8vo. beginning:--
"In the tyme of Arthur, as trew men me tald."
39. _Sir Gawan and Sir Galaron of Galloway_, a metrical romance, in the same stanzas as No. 38, from an ancient MS. beginning thus:
"In the tyme of Arthur an aunter[526] betydde By the Turnwathelan, as the boke tells; Whan he to Carlele was comen, and conqueror kyd," &c.