“Romanys off worthi Ferambrace, That worthily our-commyn was Throw the rycht douchty Olywer; And how the duz Peris wer Assegyt intill Egrymor, Quhar King Lawyne lay thaim befor With may thowsandis then I can say, And bot elewyn within war thai, And a woman; and wa sa stad, That thai na mete thar within had, Bot as thai fra thair fayis wan. Y heyte, sua contenyt thai thaim than; That thai the tour held manlily, Till that Rychard off Normandy, Magre his fayis, warnyt the king, That wes joyfull off this tithing: For he wend, thai had all bene slayne, Tharfor he turnyt in hy agayne, And wan Mantrybill and passit Flagot; And syne Lawyne and all his flot Dispitusly discumfyt he: And deliueryt his men all fre, And wan the «naylis», and the «sper», And the croune that Ihesu couth ber; [p-ix] And off the «croice» a gret party He wan throw his chewalry.”[13] In his poem of «Ware the Hawk», Skelton (ed. Dyce, I. 162) cites «Syr Pherumbras» as a great tyrant. He also refers to him in one of his poems against Garnesche, whom he addresses with the following apostrophe:— “Ye fowle, fers and felle, as Syr Ferumbras the ffreke.” The story of the combat between Oliver and Ferumbras is alluded to by Lyndsay, in his «Historie of ane Nobil and Wailȝeand Squyer, William Meldrum», ed. Hall, ll. 1313–16:— “Roland with Brandwell, his bricht brand, Faucht never better, hand for hand, Nor Gawin aganis Golibras, Nor «Olyver» with «Pharambras».” The tale of the fortified bridge of Mauntrible seems also to have been very well known in England and Scotland. In the «Complaint of Scotland», ed. Murray, p. 63, we find the «Tail of the Brig of the Mantrible» mentioned among other famous romances. In his lampoon on Garnesche, Skelton describes his adversary as being more deformed and uglier than “Of Mantryble the bryge Malchus[14] the murryon.” As has already been mentioned, amongst all the Charlemagne romances the (originally French) romance of «Fierabras» is remarkable as being one of the first that was rescued from the dust of libraries; and it is worthy of note, in connection with it, that the first printed version was not a French, but a Provençal one, which was published not in France, the birth-place of the romance, but in Germany. The manuscript of this Provençal version having been discovered by Lachmann in the Library of Prince Ludwig von Oettingen-Wallerstein,[15] [p-x] somewhere about the year 1820, the poem was published in 1829 by Immanuel Bekker.[16] Raynouard, who drew attention to this edition of the poem in the «Journal des Savants», March 1831, supposed this Provençal version to be the original. Soon after Fauriel discovered at Paris two MSS. of the romance in French, and a third French MS. was found in London,[17] by Fr. Michel, in 1838.