Part 42 (1/2)

_Earl of Glenallan_, in ”The Antiquary.”

_Black Dwarf_ to _Grace Armstrong_, in the ”Black Dwarf.”

_Children of the Mist_, in ”Legend of Montrose.”

_Amy_ (Robsart) and _Varney_, in ”Kenilworth.”

_George of Douglas_, in ”The Abbot.”

P. 229, n. _the finest scene_. ”Guy Mannering,” chap. 51.

P. 231. _a consummation_. ”Hamlet,” iii, 1, 63.

_by referring to the authentic history_. At this point Hazlitt reproduces in a footnote one of Scott's historical quotations in ”Ivanhoe.”

_flints and dungs_. See ”Ivanhoe,” chap. 43.

P. 232. _calls backing_. 1 ”Henry IV,” ii, 4, 165.

_Mr. MacAdam_, John Loudon (1756-1836).

_Sixty years since_. The sub-t.i.tle of ”Waverley” was ”'Tis Sixty Years Since.”

_Wickliff_, John (c. 1320-1384), an important English forerunner of the Protestant Reformation, the first translator of the Bible into English.

_Luther_, Martin (1483-1546), led the first successful revolt against the authority of the Catholic Church.

_Hampden_, John (c. 1595-1643), an English patriot who by his refusal to pay s.h.i.+p-money precipitated the rebellion against Charles I which ended in the beheading of that monarch.

_Sidney_, Algernon (1622-1683), an English patriot who fought on the side of Parliament against Charles I, and who, in the reign of Charles II, was tried for treason by Jeffreys, the hanging judge, and condemned to execution without proof. Sidney is the author of ”Discourses Concerning Government” in which he vindicates the right of resistance to the misrule of kings.

_Somers_, John (1651-1716), took an important part in bringing about the bloodless Revolution which drove James II from England in 1688.

P. 233. _Red Reiver_, in ”The Black Dwarf.”

_Claverhouse_, in ”Old Mortality.”

_Tristan the Hermit_ and _Pet.i.t Andre_, in ”Quentin Durward.”

_but himself_. Though Scott composed many of his own mottoes, he never quoted his own previous verse but pretended to be using an Old Play or an Old Poem.

P. 234. _born for the universe_. Goldsmith's ”Retaliation,” 31.

_winked and shut_. Marston's ”Antonio's Revenge,” Prologue.

P. 235. _Who would not grieve_. Cf. Pope's ”Prologue to the Satires,” 213:

”Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?

Who would not weep if Atticus were he?”