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l. 163. Cp. Pope, 'Essay on Man,' IV. 380, and Boileau, 'L'Art Poetique, 'Chant I:—

l. 172. 'Tirante el Blanco,' a Spanish romance by Johann Martorell (1480), praised in 'Don Quixote.'

l. 174. 'Camp was a favourite dog of the Poet's, a bull terrier of extraordinary sagacity. He is introduced in Raeburn's portrait of Sir Walter Scott, now at Dalkeith Palace.'—Lockhart.

l. 181. Cp. Tempest, v. i. 93.

l. 191. 'Colin Mackenzie, Esq., of Portmore. See "Border Minstrelsy," iv. 351.'—Lockhart. Mackenzie had been Scott's friend from boyhood, and he received his copy of 'Marmion' at Lympstone, where he was, owing to feeble health, as mentioned in the text. He was a son-in-law of Sir William Forbes, and in acknowledging receipt of the poem he said, 'I must thank you for the elegant and delicate allusion in which you express your friendship for myself—Forbes—and, above all, that sweet memorial of his late excellent father.'—'Life of Scott,' ii. 152.

l. 194. 'Sir William Rae of St. Catherine's, Bart., subsequently Lord Advocate of Scotland, was a distinguished member of the volunteer corps to which Sir Walter Scott belonged; and he, the Poet, Mr. Skene, Mr. Mackenzie, and a few other friends, had formed themselves into a little semi-military club, the meetings of which were held at their family supper tables in rotation.'—Lockhart.

l. 195. 'The late Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, Bart., son of the author of the "Life of Beattie."'—Lockhart.

l. 196. The Mimosa pudica, or sensitive plant. See Shelley's poem on the subject:—

l. 200. Cp. 'L'Allegro,' 31, 'Sport that wrinkled Care derides.'

l. 206. See King Lear, iii. 4. 138, where Edgar, as Poor Tom, says that he has had 'three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, horse to ride, and weapon to wear.'