[Footnote 151:  Journal, Vol.  I, p. 234; Lockhart, Vol.  V, p. 23.]

  [Footnote 152:  See Scott’s article on Moliere, Foreign Quarterly
  Review, February, 1828.]

  [Footnote 153:  Essay on Drama; Dryden, Vol.  I, p. 101 ff., Vol. 
  II, pp. 317-20, Vol.  IV, p. 4.]

  [Footnote 154:  Dryden, Vol.  IV, p. 4.]

  [Footnote 155:  Article on Moliere, Foreign Quarterly Review,
  February, 1828.]

  [Footnote 156:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, p. 431.]

  [Footnote 157:  Review of Kelly’s Reminiscences and the Life of
  Kemble, Quarterly Review, June, 1826.]

  [Footnote 158:  Ibid.]

  [Footnote 159:  Dryden, Vol.  VI, p. 128.]

[Footnote 160:  In Provincial Antiquities (Borthwick Castle).  Scott cites parallels from Sir John Oldcastle, The Pinner of Wakefield, and one of Nash’s pamphlets, for a curious incident in Scottish history.]

[Footnote 161:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, p. 431.  This search among seventeenth century pamphlets may have suggested to Scott the need of a new edition of Somers’ Tracts.  Apparently he arranged with the publishers in 1807 to undertake this task, but the first volume did not appear till 1809. (Lockhart, Vol.  II, p. 10, and see below, pp. 89-90, for an account of Scott’s edition of the Tracts.) Some of his materials for the Dryden were taken from this collection, but more from the Luttrell collection, to which he refers in the Advertisement.]

[Footnote 162:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, p. 433.  Scott’s Dryden appeared in 1808, and with some slight changes in 1821; as reedited by Mr. Saintsbury it was published in 1882-1893.  It was the first complete and uniform edition of Dryden’s works, and it remains the only one.  The dramatic works had appeared in folio in 1701.  They were edited by Congreve in 1717, and Scott used Congreve’s text.  The non-dramatic poems were also published in 1701 in folio.  They appeared in more convenient forms in 1741, 1743, and 1760, but of these editions only the last was reasonably complete.  In 1800 the Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works were edited by Malone, who added a Life of Dryden which has furnished a large part of the material used by biographers since his time.  This biography was badly written, but with Johnson’s brilliant essay it was the only Life of Dryden before Scott’s that was worth considering.  An edition of Dryden’s poems, with notes by Joseph Warton and others, appeared in 1811, but seems to have been prepared before Scott’s edition was published.  The text of this is very incorrect.  Since then the non-dramatic poems have been published several times.  Mr. Christie said in his preface to the Globe edition:  “Sir Walter Scott’s is the last important edition of Dryden, as it is indeed still the only general collection of his works; and it is to be regretted that that distinguished man did not give as much pains to the purification of Dryden’s text as he did to his excellent biography and to the notes which enrich the edition.”]

  [Footnote 163:  Editor’s Preface.]