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Stuart Glennie, Esq. 12s. 37. Sir David Lyndesay's Works, Part IV., containing Ane Satyre of the Three Estaits. Edited by F. Hall, Esq. 48. 38. William's Vision of Piers the Plowman, Part II. Text B. Edited from the MSS. by the Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 10s. 6d. 39. The Alliterative Romance of the Destruction of Troy, translated from Guido de Colonna. Edited from the unique MS. in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, by D. Donaldson, Esq., and the Rev. G. A. Panton. Part I. 10s. 6d. They go backwards and forwards, but can hear no news of Nasciens (p. 2). One night they come to a city and lodge with an old vavasour, who tells them of their danger in coming as Christians to a heathen city (p. 3). Its name is Tosquean (Fr. roquehan), and it is the birthplace of the parents of St Mary the Egyptian (p. 4). One of the messengers has a vision,- that Joseph of Arimathea appears to him, and tells him that. Nasciens is not there (p. 4), and so takes him to a high mountain, shows him a ship in the Grecian sea, and tells him that Nasciens is in it (p. 5). Next morning he tells his companions, and they agree to go to the sea, get a ship and seek Nasciens (p. 5, 6). They travel shoreward through a hot land (p. 6). One of them dies of thirst, and is buried at Alexandria (p. 7). The others come to the shore, and find a ship with two hundred dead men in it, and a maiden under a plank (p. 7). She tells them that the corpses were the men of her father King Label, who were attacked by the knights of the King of Sarre (p. 8), and all killed; but she, as a maiden, was let go, and has lived in the ship with the corpses ever since (p. 9). The messengers consult what to do, and one advises that they have the corpses buried, and then get a mariner to sail the ship for them (p. 9). So they get people, and bury the corpses by the seaside, and cut an inscription on a rock near (p. 10). They then ask the damsel what she is going to do. She doesn't know, and cries (p. 10). They agree to take her with them, and she consents to go (p. 11). They cannot get a Master for the ship, but provision it, and go on board and to bed (p. 12). A great storm rises, and drives |