[XLI]
From the Introduction to the first canto of Marmion (1808).
[XLII]–[XLIII]
The Snug Little Island, or The March of Invasion was first sung by ‘Jew’ Davis in The British Raft at Sadler’s Wells on Easter Monday, 1797. Tune—‘The Rogue’s March.’ The author’s title for the next number (Last Lays, 1833) is A Soldier’s Life.
[XLIV]
Poetical Works, vol. iii. (Longmans, 1838). This is number xxxiii. of the ‘Inscriptions.’
[XLV]–[XLVII]
The first two were published with Gertrude of Wyoming (1809). The first (written at Altona during the winter of 1800–1) is based on a seventeenth-century song which Campbell used to sing. As to the second (written in 1805), I omit stanzas 5, 6, and 8, an improvement suggested by Mr. Henley. The third appeared in Theodoric and Other Poems (Longmans, 1824).
[XLVIII]
Songs and Poems (edited by Peter Cunningham, 1847).