He was much liked by the Scott family.

Scott rated his learning very highly, and gave him valuable assistance in various literary projects.

Weber's chief publications were: _Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries_, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary (1810); _Dramatic Works of John Ford_, with Introduction and Explanatory Notes (1811); _Works of Beaumont and Fletcher_, with Introduction and Explanatory Notes (1812): to this Scott's notes were the most valuable contribution; _Illustrations of Northern Antiquities_ (1814), with Jamieson and Scott.] [Footnote 97: See his essay on _Imitations of the Ancient Ballad_.] [Footnote 98: _Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, translated by the Vicar of Batheaston_.

Conybeare had died two years before the publication of the book.] [Footnote 99: Review of Ellis's _Specimens_, _Edinburgh Review_, April, 1804.] [Footnote 100: Bletson and Richard Ganlesse.] [Footnote 101: But see the dictum quoted by Scott in a somewhat over-emphatic way from Ellis's _Specimens of the Early English Poets_, to the effect that Chaucer's "peculiar ornaments of style, consisting in an affectation of splendour, and especially of latinity," were perhaps his special contribution to the improvement of English poetry.
(_Edinburgh Review_, April, 1804.) Scott said of Dunbar, "This darling of the Scottish muses has been justly raised to a level with Chaucer by every judge of poetry to whom his obsolete language has not rendered him unintelligible." (_Memoir of Bannatyne_, p.

14.) After naming the various qualities in which Dunbar was Chaucer's rival, he pronounces the Scottish poet inferior in the use of pathos.