191/377 408.] [Footnote 76: Sometime before 1821 (probably a good while before, but the date cannot be fixed), Scott began a translation of _Don Quixote_, and afterwards gave the work over to Lockhart, who completed it. See _Constable's Correspondence_, Vol. 161.] [Footnote 77: Louis-Elizabeth de la Vergne, Comte de Tressan, was born in 1705 and died in 1783. In early life he was sent to Rome on diplomatic business, and it is said that in the Vatican library he acquired his taste for the literature of chivalry. |