ted, was suspected as the author."]

[Footnote 130: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 380.]

[Footnote 131: _Life of Dryden_, ch. I. In _Guy Mannering_ and _The
Antiquary_, the first two novels in which Scott habitually used
mottoes to head his chapters, most of the selections are from plays.
Eighteen plays of Shakspere are represented by twenty-nine quotations.
Other mottoes are from _The Merry Devil of Edmonton_, from Jonson,
from Fletcher (_The Little French Lawyer_, _Women Pleased_, _The Fair
Maid of the Inn_, _The Beggar's Bush_), from Brome, Dekker, Middleton
and Rowley, Cartwright, Otway, Southerne, _The Beggar's Opera_,
Walpole's _Mysterious Mother_, _The Critic_, _Chrononhotonthologos_,
Joanna Baillie. For the latter part of _The Antiquary_ many of the
mottoes were composed by Scott himself. _Kenilworth_ presents a
similar list, with some variations: Jonson's _Masque of Owls_ was
used, more than one play by Beaumont and Fletcher, Waldron's _Virgin
Queen_, _Wallenstein_, and _Douglas_. In _St. Ronan's Well_ there is a
larger proportion of non-dramatic mottoes, as in most of the later
novels, but we find represented nine of Shakspere's plays and one of
Beaumont and Fletcher's. _The Legend of Montrose_ (chapter XIV) has a
motto from Suckling's _Brennoralt_. In _Anne of Geierstein_ ten of
Shakspere's plays were drawn upon, and _Manfred_ was twice used. Scott
made his chapters much longer in these later novels, and used fewer
mottoes, but the evidence of the selections would seem to indicate
that he had lost something of his early familiarity with dramatic
literature.]

[Footnote 132: Hazlitt's _Characters of Shakespeare's Plays_ appeared
in 1817; his _Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Queen
Elizabeth_ in 1821.]

[Footnote 133: Scott first began to fabricate occasional mottoes for
his chapters during the composition of _The Antiquary_ in 1816.]

[Footnote 134: Saintsbury in _Macmillan's Magazine_, lxx: 323. Scott's
style in many sages is strongly colored by the influence of
Shakspere.]

[Footnote 135: Introduction by Lang to _The Fortunes of Nigel_.]

[Footnote 136: It is possible that among the various jobs of editing
undertaken by Scott with a view to keeping the Ballantyne types busy,
were certain collections of dramas. _Ancient British Drama_, in three
volumes, and _Modern British Drama_, in five volumes, published in
1810 a