Note 72 — 273
Reading edition
Printed in The British Bibliographer, IV, 81, thence in Hartshorne’s Metrical Tales, p. 293, and, with some improvements from the MS., in Hazlitt’s Early Popular Poetry, I, 11. ‘The King and the Hermit’ is told as ‘the romans says,’ v. 15. It is, as Scott has explained, the source of a charming chapter (the sixteenth of the first volume) of ‘Ivanhoe.’ There are many agreements with ‘The King and the Shepherd.’