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"I wonder there are not more romances extant on the lives of the Roman Emperors in Germany; many of whom, to say no more, were famous in the crusades. There is a romance in old German rhyme, called, on Maximilian the first, written by Melchior Pfinzing, his chaplain. Printed at Nuremberg in 1517."—.

"Caxton has the history of Albrone, a king of the Lombards, who having conquered another king, 'lade awaye wyth hym Rosomounde his wyf in captyvyte, but after he took hyr to hys wyfe, and he dyde make a cuppe of the skulle of that kynge, and closed in fyne golde and syluer, and dranke out of it ." Gold Leg. f. ccclxxxvii. a edit. 1493. "This, by the way, is the old Italian tragedy of Messer Giovanni Rucellai, planned on the model of the antients, and acted in the Rucellai Gardens, at Florence, before Leo the Tenth, and his Court in the