Enchanted Cup, c. 42, &c.-See Mr. Warton's Observations on the Faerie Queene, &c.

The story of the horn in Morte Arthur varies a good deal from this of our poet, as the reader will judge from the following extract :—" -"By the way they met with a knight that was sent from Morgan la Faye to King Arthur, and this knight had a fair horne all garnished with gold, and the horne had such a virtue, that there might no ladye or gentlewoman drinke of that horne, but if she were true to her husband: and if shee were false she should spill all the drinke, and if shee were true unto her lorde, shee might drink peaceably and because of queene Guenever and in despite of Sir Launcelot du Lake, this horne was sent unto King Arthur." This horn is intercepted and brought unto another king named Marke, who is not a whit more fortunate than the British hero; for he makes "his queene drinke thereof, and an hundred ladies moe, and there were but foure ladies of all those that drank cleane," of which number the said queen proves not to be one.-Book ii. chap. 22, ed. 1632.

In other respects the two stories are so different, that we have just reason to suppose this ballad was written before that romance was translated into English.

As for Queen Guenever, she is here represented no otherwise than in the old histories and romances. Holinshed observes, that "she was evil reported of, as noted of incontinence and breach of faith to hir husband."-Vol. i. p. 93.

**Such readers as have no relish for pure antiquity, will find a more modern copy of this ballad at the end of this volume.