His chief works were _Amadis de Gaules_ (1779); _Roland furieux_ (translated from the Italian, 1780); _Corps d'extraits romans de chevalerie_ (1782).

His translations were partly adaptations, and were far from being rendered with precision.] [Footnote 78: See particularly his article on Ellis's and Ritson's _Metrical Romances_ (_Edinburgh Review_, January, 1806), the essay on _Romance_, and _Remarks on Popular Poetry_ in the _Minstrelsy_.] [Footnote 79: _Edinburgh Review_, July, 1804.

Ellis and Scott had had much correspondence on _Sir Tristrem_, and it was Ellis's queries that first led Scott into the detailed investigation which resulted in the separate publication of the work.

He had intended to print it in the _Minstrelsy_ (_Lockhart_, Vol.

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