Note 503 — APPENDIX II. ON THE ANCIENT METRICAL ROMANCES, &c.
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It is most credible that these stories were originally of English invention, even if the only pieces now extant should be found to be translations from the French. What now pass for the French originals were probably only amplifications, or enlargements of the old English story. That the French romances borrowed some things from the English, appears from the word termagant.