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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 8 Scott's lyre rings but in a mimic tone, like the mocking-bird, as he says, -in a mimicry of himself as he supposes that a friend might have mimicked him. A composition so far from serious need not be very seriously treated. The Cumbrian scenes, as Lockhart observes, were familiar to Scott in the days when he met and wooed Miss Charpentier at Gilsland. Among supposed authors of the poem was Mr. R. P. Gillies, a rather futile hanger - on of letters, whose Recollections of Sir Walter Scott (published before Lockhart's Life) are still worth reading. Taking, or pretending to take, Gillies for the author, Scott's friend, Lady Louisa Stuart, censured the Introduction to the Second Canto. Probably she disliked the point. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.