[Footnote 1: One of Scott's (on vi. 47) has suffered badly in Lockhart's
edition. In a quotation from Lord Berners's Froissart (which I omit) a
whole page seems to have dropped out, and the last sentence, as it now
stands, is made up of pans of the one preceding and the one following
the lost matter. It reads thus (I mark the gap): "There all the
companyons made them[... ] breke no poynt of that ye have ordayned and
commanded.,' This is palpable nonsense, but it has been repeated without
correction in every reprint of Lockhart's edition for the last fifty
years.]
[Footnote 2: Lockhart says: "The lady with whom Sir Walter Scott held this
conversation was, no doubt, his aunt, Miss Christian Rutherford; there
was no other female relation DEAD when this Introduction was written,
whom I can suppose him to have consulted on literary questions. Lady
Capulet, on seeing the corpse of Tybalt, exclaims,--
'Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother's child!'"]
[Footnote 3: Lockhart quotes Byron, Don Juan, xi. 55:
"In twice five years the 'greatest living poet,'
Like to the champion in the fisty ring,
Is called on to support his claim, or show it,
Although 't is an imaginary thing," etc.]
[Footnote 4: "Sir Walter reigned before me," etc. (Don Juan, xi. 57).]
[Footnote 5: The Spenserian stanza, first used by Spenser in his Faerie
Queene, consists of eight lines of ten syllables, followed by a line
of twelve syllables, the accents throughout being on the even syllables
(the so-called iambic measure). There are three sets of rhymes: one for
the first and third lines; another for the second, fourth, fifth, and
seventh; and a third for the sixth, eighth, and ninth.]
[Footnote 6: Vide Certayne Matters concerning the Realme of Scotland, etc., as
they were Anno Domini 1597. London, 1603.]
[Footnote 7: See on ii. 319 above.]
[Footnote 8: Hallowe'en.]
[Footnote 9: To the raven that sat on the forked tree he gave his gifts.]
[Footnote 10: "This story is still current in the moors of Staffordshire, and
adapted by the peasantry to their own meridian. I have repeatedly
heard it told, exactly as here, by rustics who could not read. My last
authority was a nailer near Cheadle" (R. Jamieson).]
[Footnote 11: See Scottish Historical and Romantic Ballads, Glasgow, 1808,
vol. ii. p. 117.]
[Footnote 12: A champion of popular romance; see Ellis's Romances, vol. iii.]
[Footnote 13: "That at the eastern extremity of Loch Katrine, so often
mentioned in the text."]
[Footnote 14: "Beallach an duine."]
[Footnote 15: "The reader will find this story told at greater length, and
with the addition in particular of the King being recognized, like the
Fitz-James of the Lady of the Lake, by being the only person covered, in
the First Series of Tales of a Grandfather, vol. iii, p. 37. The heir of
Braehead discharged his duty at the banquet given to King George IV. in
the Parliament House at Edinburgh, in 1822" (Lockhart).]