[516] In each full page of this volume are forty-four lines, when the poem is in long metre: and eighty-eight when the metre is short, and the page in two columns.
[517] Sign. K. 2. b.
[518] For this and most of the following, which are mentioned as preserved in the Public Library, I refer the reader to the Oxon Catalogue of MSS., 1697, vol. ii p. 394; in Appendix to Bp. More's MSS. No. 690, 33, since given to the University of Cambridge.
[519] No. 690, § 31. Vid. Catalog. MSS. p. 394.
[520] In the former editions, after the above, followed mention of a fragment in the same MS., intitled, Sir Lionel, in distichs (p. [32]) [pr. ed. vol. i. p. 75]; but this being only a short ballad, and not relating to K. Arthur, is here omitted.
[521] The French original is preserved among the Harl. MSS. No. 978, § 112, Lanval.
[522] See Laneham's Letter concern. Q. Eliz. entertainment at Killingworth, 1575, 12mo. p. 34.
[523] No. 690. (30.) Vid. Oxon Catalog. MSS. p. 394.
[524] This is alluded to by Shakespeare in his Hen. V. (Act v.), where Fluellyn tells Pistol, he will make him a squire of low degree, when he means, to knock him down.
[525] Some of these I give, though mutilated and divested of their titles, because they may enable a curious inquirer to complete or improve other copies.