"23.--Delrius....

"24--'I, John Bell of Brackenbrig, lies under this stane;
Four {p.244} of my sons laid it on my wame.
I was man of my meat, and master of my wife,
And lived in mine ain house without meikle strife.
Gif thou be'st a "better man in thy time than I was in mine,
Tak this stane off my wame, and lay it upon thine.'

"25.--Meric Casaubon on Spirits....

"26.--'There saw we learned Maroe's golden tombe;
The way he cut an English mile in length
Thorow a rock of stone in one night's space.'

"Christopher Marlowe's Tragicall History of Dr. Faustus--a very
remarkable thing. Grand subject--end grand.... Copied Prophecy of
Merlin from Mr. Clerk's MS.

"27.--Read Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business, by Andrew
Moreton. This was one of Defoe's many _aliases_--like his pen, in
parts....

'To Cuthbert, Car, and Collingwood, to Shafto and to Hall;
To every gallant generous heart that for King James did fall.'

"28.--... Anthony-a-Wood.... Plain Proof of the True Father and
Mother of the Pretended Prince of Wales, by W. Fuller. This
fellow was pilloried for a forgery some years later.... Began
_Nathan der Weise_.

"_June 29._--Read Introduction to a Compendium on Brief
Examination, by W. S.--viz., William Stafford--though it was for
a time given to no less a W. S. than William Shakespeare. A
curious treatise--the Political Economy of the Elizabethan
Day--worth reprinting....

"_July 1._--Read Discourse of Military Discipline, by Captain
Barry--a very curious account of the famous Low Countries
armies--full of military hints worth note.... _Anthony Wood_
again.

"3.--_Nathan der Weise._ ... _Delrius_....

"5.--Geutenberg's _Braut_ begun.

"6.--The Bride again. _Delrius._"

[Footnote 134: See particulars of Stanfield's case in Lord
Fountainhall's _Chronological Notes of Scottish Affairs_,
1680-1701, edited by Sir Walter Scott. 4to, Edinburgh, 1822.
Pp. 233-236.]

[Footnote 135: Some of Scott's most intimate friends at the
Bar, partly, no doubt, from entertaining political opinions
of another caste, were by no means disposed to sympathize
with the demonstrations of his military enthusiasm at this