Note 6 — Chapter III · : “Amadis de Gaul”
Reading edition
Scott girds fiercely against Southey’s interpolation of Anthony Munday’s translation of these verses in his Amadis, and with justice. The above translation is only slightly more tolerable, but it is at least sense. Poor Tony was bitten by the absurdities of euphuism, and his lines are mere nonsense. But there is even less excuse for a modern translation to backslide into the style of the eighteenth century.