Lollius

In answer to "J.M.B." (No. 19. p. 303.) as to who was the Lollius spoken of by Chaucer, I send you the following. *Lollius* was the real or fictitious name of the author or translator of many of our Gothic prose romances. D'Israeli, in his admirable *Amenities of Literature*, vol. i. p. 141., says:— "In some colophons of the prose romances the names of real persons are assigned as the writers; but the same romance is equally ascribed to different persons, and works are given as translations which in fact are originals. Amid this prevailing confusion, and these contradictory statements, we must…