IV, p.280.Two more of Scott's comments may be given, further to illustrate his method.

"This piece [William Crowe's Address to her Majesty, _Swift_, Vol.

XII, p.

265] and those which follow, were first extracted by the learned Dr.Barrett, of Trinity College, Dublin, from the Lanesborough and other manuscripts.
I have retained them from internal evidence, as I have discarded some articles upon the same score." "The following poems [poems given as "ascribed to Swift," Vol.

X, p.