I have treated Golias as the eponymous hero of this tribe, the chief of this confraternity. But it ought to be said that the name Golias occurs principally in English MSS., where the Goliardic poems are ascribed to _Golias Episcopus._ Elsewhere the same personage is spoken of as _Primas_, which is a title of dignity applying to a prelate with jurisdiction superior even to that of an archbishop. Grimm[40] quotes this phrase from a German chronicle: _Primas vagus multos versus edidit magistrates_. In the _Sequentia falsi evangelii_[41] we find twice repeated _Primas autem qui dicitur vilissimus_. The Venetian codex from which Grimm drew some of his texts[42] attributes the _Dispute of Thetis and Lyaeus_ and the _Advice against Matrimony_, both of which passed in England under the name of Golias and afterwards of Walter Map, to _Primas Presbyter_. With regard to this Primas, it is important to mention that Fra Salimbene in his Chronicle[43] gives a succinct account of him under the date 1233. It runs as follows: _Fuit his temporibus Primas canonicus eoloniensis, magnus trutannus et magnus trufator, et maximus versificator et velox, qui, si dedisset cor suum ad diligendum Deum, magnus in litteratura divina fuisset, et utilis valde_ _Ecclesiae Dei. Cujus Apocalypsim, quam fecerat, vidi, et alia scripta plura_. After this passage follow some anecdotes, with quotations of verses extemporised by Primas, and lastly the whole of the Confession, translated by me at p. 55 above. Thus Salimbene, who was almost a contemporary author, attributes to Primas two of the most important poems which passed in England under the name of Golias, while the Venetian MS. ascribes two others of the same class to Primas Presbyter. It is also very noteworthy that Salimbene expressly calls this Primas a Canon of Cologne. That this poet, whoever he was, had attained to celebrity in Italy (as well as in Germany) under the title of Primas, appears also from the following passage of a treatise by Thomas of Capua[44] on the Art of Writing: _Dictaminum vero tria sunt genera auctoribus diffinita, prosaicum scilicet, metricum et rithmicum; prosaicum ut Cassiodori, metricum ut Virgilii, rithmicum ut Primatis_. Boccaccio was in all probability referring to the same Primas in the tale he told about _Primasso_,[45] who is described as a man of European reputation, and a great and rapid versifier. It is curious that just as Giraldus seems to have accepted _Golias_ as the real name of this poet,[46] so Fra Salimbene, Thomas of Capua, and Boccaccio appear to use _Primas_ as a Christian name. The matter becomes still more complicated when we find, as we do, some of the same poems attributed in France to Walter of Lille, in England to Walter Map, and further current under yet another title of dignity, that of _Archipoeta_.[47]