[Footnote 79:  Edinburgh Review, July, 1804.  Ellis and Scott had had much correspondence on Sir Tristrem, and it was Ellis’s queries that first led Scott into the detailed investigation which resulted in the separate publication of the work.  He had intended to print it in the Minstrelsy (Lockhart, Vol.  I. p. 289).  The letters are given in Lockhart, Vol.  I.]

  [Footnote 80:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, p. 381.]

[Footnote 81:  Die nordische und die englische Version der Tristan-sage—­II. Sir Tristrem.  Heilbronn, 1882.  Mr. George P. McNeill’s edition of Sir Tristrem was printed for the Scottish Text Society, Edinburgh, 1886.]

[Footnote 82:  Koelbing thinks Scott probably hired a transcriber who knew nothing of Middle English—­a usual method of procedure in the beginning of the nineteenth century.  In later editions more errors were introduced by the carelessness of printers, until, after 1830, when the book was included in the complete editions of Scott’s poems, the text was collated with the manuscript.  But it was still far from correct.  Koelbing enumerates about a hundred and thirty mistakes (see his Introduction, p. xvii).  Of these I took twenty-one at random, and found that eight of them did not occur in the 1806 edition—­in other words, the person who collated the text nearly thirty years after Scott or his hired transcriber had done it was far from infallible.  A few illustrations may be given of mistakes that occur in both the 1806 and the 1833 editions:  l. 117, send is given for sent; l. 846, telle for tel; l. 863, How for Hou; l. 912, mak for make; l. 1212, leuedi for leuedy; l. 1580, wende sche weren for whende sche were; l. 1334. have for han; l. 1514, as for als.]

  [Footnote 83:  Review of Johnes’s Translation of Froissart, Edinburgh
  Review, January, 1805.]

  [Footnote 84:  Waverley, and Claverhouse in Old Mortality.]

  [Footnote 85:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, pp. 480 and 482. Familiar Letters,
  Vol.  I, p. 147.]

  [Footnote 86:  Essay on Romance.]

  [Footnote 87:  See Gaston Paris, La Litterature Francaise au Moyen
  Age, 1ere partie, ch.  IV.]

  [Footnote 88:  Review of Metrical Romances, Edinburgh Review,
  January, 1806.]

  [Footnote 89:  Journal, Vol.  II, pp. 258-259.]

  [Footnote 90:  Essay on Romance.]

  [Footnote 91:  Familiar Letters, Vol.  I, p. 46.]

  [Footnote 92:  Memoir in the Globe edition of Scott’s poems.]