18.Worcester Cathedral. 80.
19.Hereford Cathedral. 74.
20.MSS. Rob. Burscough, 82, in Catal. MSS. Angliæ.
21.MSS. Symonds D'Ewes, 150. Catal. MSS. Angliæ.
22.Trin. Coll. Dublin, G. 326.
23.In the author's possession. 101 stories.
24.Ibid. 50 stories.
25.Ibid. 34 stories.

Printed Editions.—It has been already stated that the Latin copy of this work has never been printed. The following are all translations into English, No. 1 may be that ascribed to Leland; the rest are by Robinson.

  1. No date, printed by Wynkyn de Worde....
  2. 1577. T. East. From Robinson's Eupolemia, as above.
  3. 1595. T. East. 12mo. In the author's possession. Contains 43 stories.
  4. No date. R. Bishop. 12mo.
  5. No date. Stansby. 12mo.
  6. 1648. R. Bishop. 12mo. 44 stories.
  7. 1663. J. B. for A. Crook. 12mo.
  8. 1668. A. J. for A. Crook. 12mo. 44 stories.
  9. 1672. E. Crowch, for A. Crook. 12mo.
  10. 1689. for T. Bassett, &c. 12mo. 44 stories.
  11. 1703. for R. Chiswell. 12mo. The same as that of 1668.

FOOTNOTES:

[96] p. j. For the benefit of those who may have an opportunity of consulting the original, a mistake in Mr. Warton's reference to the Speculum historiale is corrected, which should be lib. IV. c. viii.

[97] A fine collection of them, in verse, was in the library of the Duke de la Valliere. One volume is in MS., Harl. 4401, two others in the author's possession, as well as a third in prose, beautifully painted in camaieu gris. Some of those in prose have been printed. See a memoir by Racine in the Acad. des inscript. tom. xviii. p. 360. Specimens of them may be seen in the fifth volume of that very entertaining work, the Fabliaux et contes of M. Le Grand.

[98] There is a great deal of confusion respecting this man, some making him an English Jacobin of the fourteenth century. He has been mistaken for other persons of the same name, and his works are by no means well ascertained, being often confounded with those of Nicolas Trivet and others. In his Ovid he has been indebted to a preceding work by Alexander Neckam. Another allegorical work on Ovid's metamorphoses was written about 1370, by Giovanni Buonsignore di Castello, and a tropological explanation of them was published by Pierre Lavigne, about 1500. There is also a manuscript in the Royal library at Paris, entitled Ovidii metamorphosis moralisata, per Johannem Bourgauldum. See Labbe nova bibl. MSS., p. 321.

[99] It was printed at Paris, 1494, in 12mo, by Geringard Rembolt.

[100] MS. Harl. 5396. This manuscript contains another similar collection; and these are the more worthy of being noticed, as we have very few of the kind printed in England.

[101] These were printed by Wynkyn de Worde, and at Paris, without date.