have the oversight but Lockhart was to do most of the work.  It was not designed that the critical apparatus should to any great degree represent original ideas furnished by Lockhart or Scott, but the book was to be “a sensible Shakespeare, in which the useful and readable notes should be condensed and separated from the trash.” (See the discussion of the matter in letters between Scott and his publisher given in the third volume of Constables Correspondence.  See also Lang’s Life of Lockhart, Vol.  I, p. 409, and Vol.  II, p. 13, and Mackenzie’s Life of Scott, pp. 475-6.) The Boston Public Library contains three volumes which are thought to be a unique copy of so much of the Scott-Lockhart Shakspere as was printed. (See below, the Bibliography of books edited by Scott.)

Scott’s notes on Beaumont and Fletcher, which he had wished in 1804 to offer to Gifford, were actually used by Weber in his Beaumont and Fletcher, published about 1810, an edition which was characterized by Scott as “too carelessly done to be reputable.” (Lockhart, Vol.  IV, p. 472.)]

[Footnote 137:  He seems to have connected heroic plays too closely with “the romances of Calprenede and Scuderi.”  See his introduction to The Indian Emperor, Dryden, Vol.  II, pp. 317-20; also Vol.  I, p. 56, and Vol.  VI, p. 125.  On his opinion in regard to the relation between novels and plays see below, pp. 75-6.]

  [Footnote 138:  See his comment on Corneille’s Oedipe, Dryden, Vol. 
  VI, p. 125 and Mr. Saintsbury’s note.]

  [Footnote 139:  Lockhart, Vol.  III, p. 446.]

  [Footnote 140:  Hutchinson’s Letters of Scott, p. 224.]

[Footnote 141:  That Scott admired Sackville greatly is evident from more than one comment.  Of Ferrex and Porrex he says, “In Sackville’s part of the play, which comprehends the two last acts, there is some poetry worthy of the author of the sublime Induction to the Mirror of Magistrates.” (Dryden, Vol.  II, p. 135.) Elsewhere Scott calls Sackville “a beautiful poet.” (Fragmenta Regalia, p. 277. Secret History of the Court of James I., Vol.  I, p. 278, note.)]

  [Footnote 142:  Dryden, Vol.  II, p. 136.]

  [Footnote 143:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, p. 229.  See also Vol.  III, p. 223.]

  [Footnote 144:  Ibid., Vol.  V, p. 322.]

  [Footnote 145:  See, for example, Hawthornden, in Provincial
  Antiquities.]

  [Footnote 146:  Dryden, Vol.  XV, p. 337.]

  [Footnote 147:  Ibid., Vol.  I, p. 10.]

  [Footnote 148:  Note on Sir Tristrem, Fytte II., stanza 56.]

  [Footnote 149:  See Middleton’s Plays in the Mermaid edition: 
  Introduction, Vol.  I, pp. viii-ix.]

  [Footnote 150:  Ticknor, in Allibone’s Dictionary, Vol.  II, p. 1968.]