P. 56. I have omitted to refer to the close resemblance to Sir Eglamour, Thornton Romances, p. 121, Percy Manuscript, Hales and Furnivall, II, 341. See 'Sir Lionel,' I, 209.
56 b, line 19 f. Compare the sword given by Cristabelle to Sir Eglamour, v. 265 f:
Saint Poule fonde hyt in the Grekes sea.
57 a. In the Lai de l'Espine, erroneously ascribed by Roquefort to Marie de France, the hero, holding watch for the sake of adventure at the Gué de l'Espine, en la nuit de la Saint Jéhan, tilts with eldritch knights and wins a horse from one of them. The horse disappears, much as in the story in Gervase of Tilbury. G.L.K.
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