{2} 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.
{3} William Abercrombie. See Fasti Ecclesia Scoticanae, under 'Maybole' (Part iii.).
{4} 'Duex poures varlez qui n'ont nulz gages et qui gissoient la nuit avec les chiens.' See Champollion--Figeac's Louis et Charles d'Orleans, i. 63, and for my lord's English horn, ibid.
