F.H.
Stratmann, of Krefeld, 1868.

(8) A curious poem of nearly 400 long lines, usually known as _A Moral Ode_, which seems to have been originally written at Christchurch, Hampshire, and frequently printed; one version is in Morris's _Old English Homilies_, and another in the Second Series of the same.

(9) _The Romance of King Horn_; before 1300, here printed in full.
Just at the very end of the century we meet with two Southern poems of vast length.

_The Metrical Chronicle_ of Robert of Gloucester, comprising the History of Britain from the Siege of Troy to the year 1272, the date of the accession of Edward I, and written in the dialect of Gloucester, was completed in 1298.

It must seem strange to many to find that our history is thus connected with the Siege of Troy; but it must be remembered that our old histories, including Layamon's poem of _The Brut_ mentioned above, usually included the fabulous history of very early Britain as narrated by Geoffrey of Monmouth; and it is useful to remember that we owe to this circumstance such important works as Shakespeare's _King Lear_ and _Cymbeline_, as well as the old play of _Locrine_, once attributed to Shakespeare.