p. 23, l. 780. «stroyeth» = “destroyeth.” “Compounds of Romance origin, the first part of which is a preposition, or words derived from such, often mutilate, or even entirely drop the preposition” (Zupitza’s note to «Guy», l. 576). Thus we have «sail», l. 385, = “assail;” «longeth», l. 3254, = “belongeth;” «skomfited», l. 1320, = “diskomfited,” ll. 336, 1464; «quite», l. 520, = “requite;” «perceived», l. 2659, = “aperceived;” «saut», ll. 619, 2200, = “assaut,” l. 615; «ginne», l. 2326, = “enginne,” l. 333; «playne», l. 177, = “complayn;” «skaped», l. 2049, = “askaped,” l. 2218. p. 23, l. 787. French: “iiiC mile François.” p. 24, l. 812. «ychoon» : «Mahounde». See «Introduction», p. xlii. p. 24, l. 820. «stroke» : «stoupe». See «Introduction», p. xliii. p. 24, l. 820. «stenyed», “stunned,” not from O.Fr. «estaindre», as the editor of the Roxb. Club ed. suggests, but from O.E. «stunian», “percellere, stupefacere.” See «Stratmann», p. 540. p. 24, l. 835. Observe the subject expressed twice; cf. ll. 723, 1031, 1682, 1814, 2331. p. 25, l. 836. «Neymes.» This celebrated hero has been especially famous by the advices and counsels of which even in matters of greatest difficulty he was never at a loss. “Tel conseiller n’orent onques li Franc,” «i. e.» the French had never such a counsellor. This passage of the romance of «Aspremont» may be looked upon as containing the portrait of Neymes as we find him described in all poems. The story of his birth and youth is in the romance of «Aubri le Bourgoing». He was the son of Gasselin, king of Bavaria. Cassile, an usurper, is about to seize the throne and to kill the young Neymes, when Charlemagne comes to his help and re-establishes the legitimate inheritor.