QUID PRO QUO.

“Give you a Rowland for an Oliver.” This is reckoned a proverb of late

standing, being commonly referred to Oliver Cromwell, as if he were the

Oliver here intended: but it is of greater antiquity than the protector;

for it is met with in Hall’s Chronicle, in the reign of Edward IV. In

short, Rolland and Oliver were two of Charlemagne’s peers. (See Ames’s

Hist. of Printing, p. 47, and Ariosto.) Rolando and Orlando are the same

name; Turpin calling him Roland, and Ariosto Rolando.