n't admire, after all
that has come and gone, being applied to through the medium of friend
Crokey. I hope you will approve of my resolution."

[288] Peel, in writing to Scott, says, "The mention of your name [in
Parliament] as attached to the Edinburgh petition was received with loud
cheers."

[289] Richard Cleasby, afterwards the well-known scholar who spent many
years in gathering materials for an Icelandic Dictionary. Mr. Cleasby
died in 1847, but the work he had planned was not published until 1874,
when it appeared under the editorship of Mr. Vigfusson,[A] assisted by
Sir George Dasent.

[290] Bickerstaff's _Padlock_, Act I. Sc. 6.

[A] An Icelandic-English Dictionary based on the MS. collections of the
late Richard Cleasby, enlarged and completed by G. Vigfusson. 4to,
Oxford, 1874.

[291] _Don Quixote_, Pt. I. Bk. II. Cap. 2.

[292] Friends of Joanna Baillie's and John Richardson's.

[293] This must have been an unusual experience for the head of a family
that considered itself to be the oldest in Christendom. Their chateau
contained, it was said, two pictures: one of the Deluge, in which Noah
is represented going into the Ark, carrying under his arm a small trunk,
on which was written "_Papiers de la maison de Levis_;" the other a
portrait of the founder of the house bowing reverently to the Virgin,
who is made to say, "_Couvrez-vous, mon cousin_."--See Walpole's
_Letters_. The book referred to by Sir Walter is _The Carbonaro: a
Piedmontese Tale_, by the Duke de Levis. 2 vols. London, 1829.

[294] No. 152--May, 1829.

[295] Burns's Lines to a Mouse: "a daimen-icker in a thrave," that is,
an ear of corn out of two dozen sheaves.

[296] John, Duke of Argyll and Greenwich.

[297] These biographies, intended for _The Family Library_, were never
written.

[298] _Romeo and Juliet_, Act v. Sc. 1.

[299]

"When I think on the world's pelf May the shame fa' and the blethrie o
't." Burden of old Scottish Song.

[300] That these afternoon rambles with the dogs were not always so
tranquil may be gathered from an incident described by Mr. Adolphus, in
which an unsuspecting cat at a cottage door was demolished by Nimrod in
one of his gambols.--_Life_, vol. ix. p. 362. This deer-hound was an old
offender. Sir Walter tells his friend Richardson, _a propos_ of a story
he had just heard of Joanna Baillie's cat having worried a dog: "It is
just like her mistress, who beats the male race of authors out of th