Review_, June, 1826.]

[Footnote 158: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 159: _Dryden_, Vol. VI, p. 128.]

[Footnote 160: _In Provincial Antiquities_ (Borthwick Castle). Scott
cites parallels from _Sir John Oldcastle, The Pinner of Wakefield_,
and one of Nash's pamphlets, for a curious incident in Scottish
history.]

[Footnote 161: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 431. This search among
seventeenth century pamphlets may have suggested to Scott the need of
a new edition of _Somers' Tracts_. Apparently he arranged with the
publishers in 1807 to undertake this task, but the first volume did
not appear till 1809. (_Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 10, and see below, pp.
89-90, for an account of Scott's edition of the _Tracts_.) Some of his
materials for the _Dryden_ were taken from this collection, but more
from the Luttrell collection, to which he refers in the
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[Footnote 162: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 433. Scott's _Dryden_ appeared
in 1808, and with some slight changes in 1821; as reedited by Mr.
Saintsbury it was published in 1882-1893. It was the first complete
and uniform edition of Dryden's works, and it remains the only one.
The dramatic works had appeared in folio in 1701. They were edited by
Congreve in 1717, and Scott used Congreve's text. The non-dramatic
poems were also published in 1701 in folio. They appeared in more
convenient forms in 1741, 1743, and 1760, but of these editions only
the last was reasonably complete. In 1800 the Critical and
Miscellaneous Prose Works were edited by Malone, who added a Life of
Dryden which has furnished a large part of the material used by
biographers since his time. This biography was badly written, but with
Johnson's brilliant essay it was the only Life of Dryden before
Scott's that was worth considering. An edition of Dryden's poems, with
notes by Joseph Warton and others, appeared in 1811, but seems to have
been prepared before Scott's edition was published. The text of this
is very incorrect. Since then the non-dramatic poems have been
published several times. Mr. Christie said in his preface to the Globe
edition: "Sir Walter Scott's is the last important edition of Dryden,
as it is indeed still the only general collection of his works; and it
is to be regretted that that distinguished man did not give as much
pains to the purification of Dryden's text as he did to his excellent
biography and to the notes which e