[46] Alice of Salisbury, Alice Lee, Alice Bridgnorth.
[47] Scott's father was habitually ascetic. "I have heard his son tell that it was common with him, if any one observed that the soup was good, to taste it again, and say, 'Yes—it is too good, bairns,' and dash a tumbler of cold water into his plate."—Lockhart's "Life" (Black, Edinburgh, 1869), vol. i. p. 312. In other places I refer to this book in the simple form of "L."
[48] A young lady sang to me, just before I copied out this page for press, a Miss Somebody's "great song," "Live, and Love, and Die." Had it been written for nothing better than silkworms, it should at least have added—Spin.
[49] See passage of introduction to "Ivanhoe," wisely quoted in L. vi. 106.
[50] See below, note, p. 199, on the conclusion of "Woodstock."
[51] The reference is to a series of "Waverley Tableaux" given in London shortly before the publication of this paper.—Ed.
[52] L. iv. 177.
[53] L. vi. 67.
[54] "One other such novel, and there's an end; but who can last forever? who ever lasted so long?"—Sydney Smith (of the Pirate) to Jeffrey, December 30, 1821. (Letters, vol. ii. p. 223.)
[55] L. vi. p. 188. Compare the description of Fairy Dean, vii. 192.