[44] Lockhart's Life, 8vo. Edinburgh: Cadell, 1837. Vol. i. p. 65. In my following foot-notes I shall only give volume and page--the book being understood. [45] i. 67. What sort of tender mercies were to be expected? [46] His name unknown, according to Leyden, is perhaps discoverable; but what songs? Though composed by an Englishman, have they the special character of Scottish music? [47] Dinlay;--where? [48] Pensil, a flag hanging down--'pensile.' Pennon, a stiff flag sustained by a cross arm, like the broad part of a weathercock. Properly, it is the stiff-set feather of an arrow. "Ny autres riens qui d'or ne fust Fors que les pennons, et le fust." 'Romance of the Rose,' of Love's arrows: Chaucer translates, "For all was gold, men might see, Out-take the feathers and the tree." [49] People would not have me speak any more harm of Mr. Mill, because he's dead, I suppose? Dead or alive, all's one to me, with mischievous persons; but alas! how very grievously all's two to me, when they are helpful and noble ones. [50] Out of the first of Scott's notes to the Lay, but the note is so long that careless readers are sure to miss the points; also I give modern spelling for greater ease. [51] A walled group of houses: tynen, Saxon, to shut in (Johnson). [52] i. 68. "The indignant laird was on the point of desiring his prisoner to say a last prayer, when his more considerate dame interposed milder counsels, suggesting that the culprit was born to a good estate, and that they had three unmarried daughters. Young Harden, it is said, not without hesitation, agreed to save his life by taking the plainest of the three off their hands." [53] Eldest son, or grandson, of Sir William Scott of Harden, the second in our genealogy. [54] Came, by invitation from his landlord, Scott of Harden. [55] Here, you see, our subject begins to purpose! [56] I give the round numbers for better remembering. Wat of Harden married the Flower of Yarrow in 1567; Robert of Sandy-Knowe married Barbara Haliburton in 1728. [57] Vol. vi., p. 164. [58] Portion omitted short, and of no moment just now. I shall refer to it afterwards. [59] The actual toil gone through by him is far greater during the last years than before--in fact it is unceasing and mortal; but I count only as the true labour-time that which is healthy and fruitful. [60] If my own life is spared a little longer, I can at least rescue Pope from the hands of his present scavenger biographer; but alas, for Scott's loving hand and noble thought, lost to him! [61] To the speech of Mr. Baillie of Jerviswoode; vol. vii., p. 221. [62] Vol. vii., p. 213. [63] Not to break away from my text too long, I add one or two farther points worth notice, here:-- "Boerhaave lost none of his hours, but when he had attained one science attempted another. He added physick to divinity, chemistry to the mathematicks, and anatomy to botany.