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Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature

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In the sixth stanza Scott changes the lines, "O ir ye come to drink the wine As we hae done before, O ?" to "O come ye here to part your land, The bonnie forest thorough ?" In the seventeenth stanza he changes, "A better rose will never spring Than him I've lost on Yarrow ?" to "A fairer rose did never bloom Than now lies cropp'd on Yarrow." In _Jellon Grame_ (Vol.

III, p.

203), Mr.Henderson notes changes in 15 different lines, and points out 2 whole stanzas, out of the 21, that are interpolated.

In the _Gay Goss-hawk_ (Vol.

III, p.


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