[132]. Launce’s account of his dog Crabbe. Two Gentlemen of Verona, IV. 4.
[135]. Tam o’ Shanter. [For ‘light cotillon,’ read ‘cotillon, brent.’]
[137]. The bosom of its Father. Gray’s Elegy.
The Cotter’s Saturday Night. [For ‘carking cares,’ read ‘kiaugh and care.’]
[139]. The true pathos and sublime of human life. Burns, ‘Epistle to Dr. Blacklock.’
[140]. O gin my love. [‘O my luv’s like a red, red rose.’]
[140]. Thoughts that often lie. Wordsworth’s Intimations of Immortality.
Singing the ancient ballad of Roncesvalles. Part II., Chap. IX.
[141]. Archbishop Herring. Thomas Herring (1693–1757), Archbishop of Canterbury. Letters to William Duncombe, Esq., 1728–1757 (1777), Letter XII., Sept. 11, 1739.
Auld Robin Gray ... Lady Ann Bothwell’s lament. Lady Anne Barnard (1750–1825) did not acknowledge her authorship of ‘Auld Robin Gray’ (to Sir Walter Scott) until 1823.