ch correspondence on _Sir Tristrem_, and it was Ellis's queries that
first led Scott into the detailed investigation which resulted in the
separate publication of the work. He had intended to print it in the
_Minstrelsy_ (_Lockhart_, Vol. I. p. 289). The letters are given in
_Lockhart_, Vol. I.]

[Footnote 80: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 381.]

[Footnote 81: _Die nordische und die englische Version der
Tristan-sage_--II. _Sir Tristrem_. Heilbronn, 1882. Mr. George P.
McNeill's edition of _Sir Tristrem_ was printed for the Scottish Text
Society, Edinburgh, 1886.]

[Footnote 82: Koelbing thinks Scott probably hired a transcriber who
knew nothing of Middle English--a usual method of procedure in the
beginning of the nineteenth century. In later editions more errors
were introduced by the carelessness of printers, until, after 1830,
when the book was included in the complete editions of Scott's poems,
the text was collated with the manuscript. But it was still far from
correct. Koelbing enumerates about a hundred and thirty mistakes (see
his Introduction, p. xvii). Of these I took twenty-one at random, and
found that eight of them did not occur in the 1806 edition--in other
words, the person who collated the text nearly thirty years after
Scott or his hired transcriber had done it was far from infallible. A
few illustrations may be given of mistakes that occur in both the 1806
and the 1833 editions: l. 117, _send_ is given for _sent_; l. 846,
_telle_ for _tel_; l. 863, _How_ for _Hou_; l. 912, _mak_ for _make_;
l. 1212, _leuedi_ for _leuedy_; l. 1580, _wende sche weren_ for
_whende sche were_; l. 1334. _have_ for _han_; l. 1514, _as_ for
_als_.]

[Footnote 83: Review of Johnes's Translation of Froissart, _Edinburgh
Review_, January, 1805.]

[Footnote 84: Waverley, and Claverhouse in _Old Mortality_.]

[Footnote 85: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, pp. 480 and 482. _Familiar Letters_,
Vol. I, p. 147.]

[Footnote 86: _Essay on Romance_.]

[Footnote 87: See Gaston Paris, _La Litterature Francaise au Moyen
Age_, 1ere partie, ch. IV.]

[Footnote 88: Review of _Metrical Romances_, _Edinburgh Review_,
January, 1806.]

[Footnote 89: _Journal_, Vol. II, pp. 258-259.]

[Footnote 90: _Essay on Romance_.]

[Footnote 91: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 46.]

[Footnote 92: Memoir in the Globe edition of Scott's poems.]

[Footnote 93: Scott adopted the conclu