{ 3} In Mr. Hogarth's Caricatura.

{ 5} "Poor Pope was always a hand-to-mouth liar."--Pope, by Leslie Stephen, 139.

{ 6} The Greek [Greek text which cannot be reproduced], mentioned by Lucian and Theocritus, was the magical weapon of the Australians-- the turndun.

{ 7} Lord Napier and Ettrick points out to me that, unluckily, the tradition is erroneous. Piers was not executed at all. William Cockburn suffered in Edinburgh. But the Border Minstrelsy overrides history.

Criminal Trials in Scotland, by Robert Pitcairn, Esq. Vol. i. part i. p. 144, A.D. 1530. 17 Jac. V.

May 16. William Cokburne of Henderland, convicted (in presence of the King) of high treason committed by him in bringing Alexander Forestare and his son, Englishmen, to the plundering of Archibald Somervile; and for treasonably bringing certain Englishmen to the lands of Glenquhome; and for common theft, common reset of theft, out-putting and in-putting thereof. Sentence. For which causes and crimes he has forfeited his life, lands, and goods, movable and immovable; which shall be escheated to the King. Beheaded.

{ 8} "The Lesson of Jupiter."--Nineteenth Century, October 1885.

{ 9} Mr. Swinburne's and Mr. Arnold's diverse views of Byron will be found in the Selections by Mr. Arnold and in the Nineteenth Century.