[6] Malone began his edition of Shakespeare in 1782; he brought it out in 1790.  Prior’s Malone, pp. 98, 166.

[7] Boswell in the ‘Advertisement’ to the second edition, dated Dec. 20, 1785, says that ’the whole of the first impression has been sold in a few weeks.’  Three editions were published within a year, but the fourth was not issued till 1807.  A German translation was published in Luebeck in 1787.  I believe that in no language has a translation been published of the Life of Johnson.  Johnson was indeed, as Boswell often calls him, ’a trueborn Englishman’—­so English that foreigners could neither understand him nor relish his Life.

[8] The man thus described is James I.

[9] See ante, i. 450 and ii. 291.

[10] A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.  Johnson’s Works ix. 1.

[11] See ante, i. 450.  On a copy of Martin in the Advocates’ Library [Edinburgh] I found the following note in the handwriting of Mr. Boswell:—­’This very book accompanied Mr. Samuel Johnson and me in our Tour to the Hebrides.’  UPCOTT.  Croker’s Boswell, p. 267.

[12] Macbeth, act i. sc. 3.

[13] See ante, iii. 24, and post, Nov. 10.

[14] Our friend Edmund Burke, who by this time had received some pretty severe strokes from Dr. Johnson, on account of the unhappy difference in their politicks, upon my repeating this passage to him, exclaimed ’Oil of vitriol !’ BOSWELL.

[15] Psalms, cxli. 5.

[16] ‘We all love Beattie,’ he had said. Ante, ii. 148.

[17] This, I find, is a Scotticism.  I should have said, ’It will not be long before we shall be at Marischal College.’  BOSWELL.  In spite of this warning Sir Walter Scott fell into the same error.  ’The light foot of Mordaunt was not long of bearing him to Jarlok [Jarlshof].’ Pirate, ch. viii.  CROKER.  Beattie was Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in Marischal College.

[18] ‘Nil mihi rescribas; attamen ipse veni.’  Ovid, Heroides, i. 2.  Boswell liked to display such classical learning as he had.  When he visited Eton in 1789 he writes, ’I was asked by the Head-master to dine at the Fellows’ table, and made a creditable figure.  I certainly have the art of making the most of what I have.  How should one who has had only a Scotch education be quite at home at Eton?  I had my classical quotations very ready.’ Letters of Boswell, p. 308.

[19] Gray, Johnson writes (Works, viii. 479), visited Scotland in 1765.  ’He naturally contracted a friendship with Dr. Beattie, whom he found a poet,’ &c.

[20] Post, Sept. 12.

[21] See ante, i. 274.

[22] Afterwards Lord Stowell.  He, his brother Lord Eldon, and Chambers were all Newcastle men.  See ante, i. 462, for an anecdote of the journey and for a note on ‘the Commons.’