John Joseph Merlin he wheeled about himself, with great facility to any part of the room." At an event held by Teresa Cornelys in Carlisle House, Soho Square, Merlin appeared somewhat disastrously on roller skates of his own invention. By April 1783 Merlin was putting his musical instruments and his automatons on display at his own museum. Advertisements invited readers to visit his Museum of Musical Instruments and Mechanical Inventions at No. 2, Princes Street, Hanover Square, London. Well-off Londoners could meet their friends at Merlin's Mechanical Museum in the afternoon or evening, pay to see the exhibits, and drink tea or coffee
Merlin (poem) (also known as just "Arthour and Merlin"), and the poem Stanzaic "Morte Arthur". The following is the mid-15th-century English translation, with modern conventions for punctuation and capitalization, of the poem's prose version (sans the sequels): Merlin (poem) Merlin is a partially lost epic poem of the Arthurian legend in which the French knight-poet Robert de Boron reworked Geoffrey of Monmouth's material about the legendary figure of Merlin, writing in Old French sometime in either the late 12th or early 13th century. Together with Robert's other works, "Joseph" and "Perceval", "Merlin" forms a trilogy centered around the Holy Grail. "Merlin" tells