n Beaumont and Fletcher, which he had wished in 1804 to
offer to Gifford, were actually used by Weber in his _Beaumont and
Fletcher_, published about 1810, an edition which was characterized by
Scott as "too carelessly done to be reputable." (_Lockhart_, Vol. IV,
p. 472.)]

[Footnote 137: He seems to have connected heroic plays too closely
with "the romances of Calprenede and Scuderi." See his introduction to
_The Indian Emperor_, Dryden, Vol. II, pp. 317-20; also Vol. I, p. 56,
and Vol. VI, p. 125. On his opinion in regard to the relation between
novels and plays see below, pp. 75-6.]

[Footnote 138: See his comment on Corneille's _Oedipe_, _Dryden_, Vol.
VI, p. 125 and Mr. Saintsbury's note.]

[Footnote 139: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 446.]

[Footnote 140: Hutchinson's _Letters of Scott_, p. 224.]

[Footnote 141: That Scott admired Sackville greatly is evident from
more than one comment. Of _Ferrex and Porrex_ he says, "In Sackville's
part of the play, which comprehends the two last acts, there is some
poetry worthy of the author of the sublime Induction to the Mirror of
Magistrates." (_Dryden_, Vol. II, p. 135.) Elsewhere Scott calls
Sackville "a beautiful poet." (_Fragmenta Regalia_, p. 277. _Secret
History of the Court of James I._, Vol. I, p. 278, note.)]

[Footnote 142: _Dryden_, Vol. II, p. 136.]

[Footnote 143: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 229. See also Vol. III, p. 223.]

[Footnote 144: _Ibid._, Vol. V, p. 322.]

[Footnote 145: See, for example, _Hawthornden_, in _Provincial
Antiquities_.]

[Footnote 146: _Dryden_, Vol. XV, p. 337.]

[Footnote 147: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 10.]

[Footnote 148: Note on _Sir Tristrem_, Fytte II., stanza 56.]

[Footnote 149: See Middleton's Plays in the Mermaid edition:
Introduction, Vol. I, pp. viii-ix.]

[Footnote 150: Ticknor, in Allibone's _Dictionary_, Vol. II, p. 1968.]

[Footnote 151: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 234; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 23.]

[Footnote 152: See Scott's article on Moliere, _Foreign Quarterly
Review_, February, 1828.]

[Footnote 153: _Essay on Drama_; _Dryden_, Vol. I, p. 101 ff., Vol.
II, pp. 317-20, Vol. IV, p. 4.]

[Footnote 154: _Dryden_, Vol. IV, p. 4.]

[Footnote 155: Article on Moliere, _Foreign Quarterly Review_,
February, 1828.]

[Footnote 156: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 431.]

[Footnote 157: Review of _Kelly's Reminiscences and the Life of
Kemble_, _Quarterly