• I had nearly finished the transcription of the following pages when I saw on a friend’s table the number containing the piece from which this sentence is extracted, and, struck with a similarity of title, took it home with me and read it with indescribable satisfaction. I do not know whether I more envy M. Theuriet the pleasure of having written this delightful article, or the reader the pleasure, which I hope he has still before him, of reading it once and again, and lingering over the passages that please him most. ↩
• William Abercrombie. See Fasti Ecclesia Scoticanae , under “Maybole” (Part III ). ↩
• “ Deux poures varlez qui n’ont nulz gages et qui gissoient la nuit avec les chiens. ” See Champollion-Figeac’s Louis et Charles d’Orléans , I , 63, and for my lord’s English horn, ibid. 96. ↩
• Compare Blake, in the Marriage of Heaven and Hell : “Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads, without improvement, are roads of Genius.” ↩