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PAGE [5]. Dunlop’s History of Fiction. John Colin Dunlop’s (d. 1842) The History of Fiction: being a Critical Account of the most celebrated Prose Fictions, from the earliest Greek Romances to the novels of the Present Age, was published in 3 vols., 1814. [7]. Νείατον ἐς κενεῶνα. Iliad, V. 857. ‘Romulus,’ etc. Horace, Epistles, II. i. 5–6. [8]. Bossu. René Le Bossu (1631–1680), author of a Traité du poème épique (1675), referred to in Tristram Shandy, III. 12. Dryden calls him ‘the best of modern critics’ (Preface to Troilus and Cressida). [9]. Bandello. Matteo Bandello (1480–1562), whose Tales appeared in four volumes, 1554–1573. Ariosto. Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), whose Orlando Furioso (from which the ‘contrivance’ referred to by Hazlitt was borrowed) was published in 1516–1532. [11]. Middleton. Conyers Middleton (1683–1750). See his Letter from Rome, 1729. Bayes. See the Duke of Buckingham’s The Rehearsal, Act I. Sc. 1. [13]. Quidlibet audendi, etc. Horace, Ars Poetica, 10. [15]. Bell of Antermony. John Bell (1691–1780), whose Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia to various parts of Asia was published in 1763. [16]. Mr. Cumberland’s novels. Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), author of The West Indian (1771), published two novels, Arundel (1789) and Henry (1795). Marianne. By Claude Prosper Jolyot de Marivaux (1688–1763), published between 1731 and 1741. [18]. Warburton. Warburton’s argument is summarised by Dunlop (chap. ii.) from The Divine Legation of Moses. [19]. Bayes’s most expeditious recipe, etc. The Rehearsal, Act I. Sc. 1. [20]. Mr. Southey’s translation. Southey’s translation of Amadis of Gaul was published in four vols. 1803. M. de St. Palaye. Jean-Baptiste de la Curne de Sainte-Palaye (1697–1781), author of Mémoires sur l’Ancienne Chevalerie, 1759–1781. [24]. Mr. Ellis. Scott’s friend, George Ellis (1753–1815) published his Specimens of early English Metrical Romances in three vols. in 1805. D’Urfé. Thomas D’Urfey (1653–1723), the dramatist and song-writer. Betsy Thoughtless. Eliza Haywood’s (1693?–1756) The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, published in 1751. See Dunlop’s History of Fiction, chap. xiv.