[8] The Passage Runs Thus As Quoted (From The Preamble Of The Meliadus - I Suspect In One Of The Old Printed Editions):

- "Aussi Luces du Gau (Gas) translata en langue Francoise une partie de l'Hystoire de Monseigneur Tristan, et moins assez qu'il ne deust. Moult commenca bien son livre et si ny mist tout les faicts de Tristan, ains la greigneur partie.

Apres s'en entremist Messire Gasse le Blond, qui estoit parent au Roy Henry, et divisa l'Hystoire de Lancelot du Lac, et d'autre chose ne parla il mye grandement en son livre. Messire Robert de Borron s'en entremist et Helye de Borron, par la priere du dit Robert de Borron, et pource que compaignons feusmes d'armes longuement, je commencay mon livre," etc. (Liebrecht's Dunlop, p. 80.) If this passage be authentic it would set beyond doubt the age of the de Borrons and the other writers of Anglo-French Round Table Romances, who are placed by the Hist. Litteraire de la France, and apparently by Fr. Michel, under Henry II. I have no means of pursuing the matter, and have preferred to follow Paulin Paris, who places them under Henry III. I notice, moreover, that the Hist. Litt. (xv. p. 498) puts not only the de Borrons but Rustician himself under Henry II.; and, as the last view is certainly an error, the first is probably so too.

[9] Transc. from MS. 6975 (now Fr. 355) of Paris Library.

[10] MSS. Francois, iii. 60-61.

[11] Ibid. 56-59.

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