[FN#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!'"

[FN#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.

[FN#4]  "Sir Walter reigned before me," etc. (Don Juan, xi. 57).

[FN#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.

[FN#6]  Vide Certayne Matters concerning the Realme of Scotland,
etc., as they were Anno Domini 1597.  London, 1603.

[FN#7]  See on ii. 319 above.

[FN#8]  Hallowe'en.

[FN#9]  To the raven that sat on the forked tree he gave his
gifts.

[FN#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).

[FN#11]  See Scottish Historical and Romantic Ballads, Glasgow,
1808, vol. ii. p. 117.


[FN#12]  A champion of popular romance; see Ellis's Romances,
vol. iii.

[FN#13]  "That at the eastern extremity of Loch Katrine, so often
mentioned in the text."


[FN#14]  "Beallach an duine."


[FN#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).