[Footnote 397:  Ibid., Vol.  II, p. 508.]

  [Footnote 398:  Lockhart, Vol.  IV, p. 229.]

[Footnote 399:  When Constable was proposing to publish the poetry of the novels separately, Scott wrote to him that it was beyond his own power to distinguish what was original from what was borrowed, and suggested the following Advertisement for the book: 

“We believe by far the greater part of the poetry interspersed through these novels to be original compositions by the author.  At the same time the reader will find passages which are quoted from other authors, and may probably debit more of these than our more limited reading has enabled us to ascertain.  Indeed, it is our opinion that some of the following poetry is neither entirely original nor altogether borrowed, but consists in some instances of passages from other authors, which the author has not hesitated to alter considerably, either to supply defects of his own memory, or to adapt the quotation more explicitly and aptly to the matter in hand.” (Constable’s Correspondence, Vol.  III, pp. 222-3.)]

  [Footnote 400:  “I have taught nearly a hundred gentlemen to fence very
  nearly, if not altogether, as well as myself,” he said. (Journal,
  Vol.  I, p. 167.  See also pp. 273-5.)]

  [Footnote 401:  Journal, Vol.  I, pp. 275-6; Lockhart, Vol.  V, p.
  45.]

  [Footnote 402:  Lockhart, Vol.  IV, pp. 322 and 492; Vol.  V, p. 186.]

  [Footnote 403:  Ibid., Vol.  IV, p. 110.]

  [Footnote 404:  Journal, Vol.  II, p. 106, and Lockhart, Vol.  V, p.
  162.]

  [Footnote 405:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, pp. 33-4.]

  [Footnote 406:  Ibid., Vol.  III, p. 259.]

  [Footnote 407:  Waverley, Vol.  I, pp. 112-3.  See also Mackenzie’s
  Life of Scott, p. 364.]

  [Footnote 408:  Lockhart, Vol.  I, p. 29.]

  [Footnote 409:  Journal, Vol.  I, pp. 274-5; Lockhart, Vol.  V, p.
  44.  See also his review of Godwin’s Life of Chaucer.]

  [Footnote 410:  Lockhart, Vol.  IV, p. 103.]

  [Footnote 411:  Ibid., Vol.  IV, p. 260.]

  [Footnote 412:  Journal, Vol.  II, p. 96.]

  [Footnote 413:  Review of Tytler’s History of Scotland, Quarterly,
  November, 1829.]

  [Footnote 414:  Southey’s Letters, Vol.  IV, p. 62.]

  [Footnote 415:  Herford’s Age of Wordsworth, pp. 39-40.]

  [Footnote 416:  Lockhart, Vol.  II, p. 60.]

  [Footnote 417:  Paul’s Letters, Letter XVI.]

  [Footnote 418:  Lockhart, Vol.  II, p. 320.]

  [Footnote 419:  On Goethe’s favorable opinion of the Napoleon, see a
  letter given in the appendix to Scott’s Journal (Vol.  II, pp. 485-6
  and note).]