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 called forth on Scotland the encomium of Molinet, a contemporary poet. The English people, he says,—

"Ung nouveau roy créerent, Par despiteux vouloir, Le vieil en deboutérent, Et son legitime hoir, Qui fuytyf alla prendre D'Ecossé le garand, De tous siecles le mendre, Et le plus tollerant."

1. 120. 'In January, 1796, the exiled Count d'Artois, afterwards Charles X of France, took up his residence in Holyrood, where he remained until August, 1799. When again driven from his country, by the revolution of July, 1830, the same unfortunate Prince, with all the immediate members of his family, sought refuge once more in the ancient palace of the Stuarts, and remained there until 18th September, 1832.'—

1. 140. Mr. Ellis, in his valuable Introduction to the "Specimens of Romance," has proved, by the concurring testimony of La Ravaillere, Tressan, but especially the Abbé de la Rue, that the courts of our Anglo-Norman Kings, rather than those of the French monarch, produced the birth of Romance literature. Marie, soon after mentioned, compiled from Armorican originals, and translated into Norman-French, or Romance language, the twelve curious Lays of which Mr. Ellis has given us a précis in the Appendix to his Introduction. The story of Blondel, the famous and faithful minstrel of Richard I, needs no commentary.'—.

1. 141. for that 'because,' a common Elizabethan connective.

1. 165. ' "Come then, my friend, my genius, come along, Oh master of the poet and the song!

Pope to Bolingbroke.'—.

Cp. also the famous' guide, philosopher, and friend,' in Essay on Man, 'IV. 390.

11. 166–175. For a curious and characteristic ballad by Leyden on Ellis, see 'Life of Scott' i. 368; and for references to his state of health see 'Life,' ii. 17, in one of Scott's letters.

1. 181. 'At Sunning-hill, Mr. Ellis's seat, near Windsor, part of the first two cantos of Marmion were written.'—. Ascot Heath is about six miles off.