M. l'Abbe de la Rue, in his valuable work on
Norman and Anglo-Norman Poetry, thus writes:--
[footnote] *"Poesies de Marie de France", par B. De Roquefort.
Paris, 1820. t.i., p.1.
"Quoique la celebre Marie eut, au XIIIe siecle, donne une assez ample
histoire du Purgatoire de St.-Patrice, puisqu'elle est de plus de
trois mille vers, deux autres Trouveres anglo-normands qui
probablement ne connaissaient pas son poeme, volurent dans le siecle
suivant traiter le meme sujet."**
[footnote} **"Essais Historiques sur les Trouveres", etc., par M.
L'Abbe de la Rue. Caen, 1834. t. iii., p. 245.
These poems, still unedited, are to be found in the Cottonian and
Harleian MSS. The reader is also referred to the very interesting
and exceedingly rare volume, 'Owain Miles' (Edinburgh, 1837), and
'The Visions of Tundale' (Edinburgh, 1843), in the Prefaces to both
of which, by the late lamented W.B.D.D. Turnbull, much curious
information on the subject will be found.
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THE AUTHORITIES FOR THE LEGEND,
AS GIVEN BY CALDERON.
ACT III., SCENE X. (the concluding lines.)
The list of authorities at the end of the third act has been, and not
without reason, a source of great perplexity. Calderon is blamed
even by so thoughtful a critic as Mr. Ticknor for putting into the
mouth of Enius himself the names of a number of writers who have in
some way alluded to the Purgatory of St.
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