_Kenilworth_ presents a similar list, with some variations: Jonson's _Masque of Owls_ was used, more than one play by Beaumont and Fletcher, Waldron's _Virgin Queen_, _Wallenstein_, and _Douglas_.

In _St.Ronan's Well_ there is a larger proportion of non-dramatic mottoes, as in most of the later novels, but we find represented nine of Shakspere's plays and one of Beaumont and Fletcher's.

_The Legend of Montrose_ (chapter XIV) has a motto from Suckling's _Brennoralt_.

In _Anne of Geierstein_ ten of Shakspere's plays were drawn upon, and _Manfred_ was twice used.

Scott made his chapters much longer in these later novels, and used fewer mottoes, but the evidence of the selections would seem to indicate that he had lost something of his early familiarity with dramatic literature.] [Footnote 132: Hazlitt's _Characters of Shakespeare's Plays_ appeared in 1817; his _Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Queen Elizabeth_ in 1821.] [Footnote 133: Scott first began to fabricate occasional mottoes for his chapters during the composition of _The Antiquary_ in 1816.] [Footnote 134: Saintsbury in _Macmillan's Magazine_, lxx: 323.