there being, perhaps, something dropped between the second C and the X. Peter Abbat, however, has been less fortunate than Turoldus, in that no one, it seems, has asserted his authorship, though he may have been the copyist-malefactor of theory. And it may perhaps be added that if MCCXLV. is the correct date, this would correspond to 1207 of our chronology, the Spanish mediaeval era starting thirty-eight years too early. [Footnote 198: I have not thought it necessary to give an abstract of the contents of the poem, because Southey's _Chronicle of the Cid_ is accessible to everybody, and because no wise man will ever attempt to do over again what Southey has once done.] [Sidenote: _Other poems._] The remaining literature before the end of the thirteenth century (immediately after that date there is a good deal, but most of it is imitated from France) may be dismissed more briefly. It is not very bulky, but it is noteworthy that it is collected in a manner by no means usual at the time, under two known names, those of Gonzalo Berceo, priest of St Elianus at Callahorra, and of King Alfonso X. For the Spanish _Alexander_ of Juan Lorenzo Segura, though written before 1300, is clearly but one of the numerous family of the French and French-Latin _Alexandreids_ and _Romans d'Alixandre_. And certain poems on Apollonius of Tyre, St Mary of Egypt, and the Three Kings, while their date is rather uncertain, are also evidently "school poems" of the same kind. [Sidenote: _Apollonius and Mary of Egypt._]