With the lines from "Chevy Chase" (_ante_, p. 295). To be sure the
ballad was widely current before the publication of the "Reliques."

[7] See _ante_, p. 237.

[8] Walter Scott quotes this passage in his review of Southey and Cottle's
edition of Chatterton in the Edinburgh _Review_ for April, 1804, and
comments as follows: "While Chatterton wrote plain narrative, he imitated
with considerable success the dry, concise style of an antique annalist;
but when anything required a more dignified or sentimental style, he
mounted the fatal and easily recognized car of the son of Fingal."

[9] Publication begun 1761: 2d edition 1768. Chatterton's letter was
dated March 25 [1769].

[10] See _ante_, p. 346.

[11] "Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley and
others in the fifteenth century. The greatest part now first published
from the most authentic copies, with engraved specimens of one of the
MSS. To which are added a preface, an introductory account of the
several pieces, and a glossary. London: Printed for T. Payne & Son at
the Mews Gate. MDCCLXXVII."

[12] "Observations upon the Poems of Thomas Rowley," 2 vols. 1781.

[13] Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol in the fifteenth
century by Thomas Rowley, Priest, etc. With a commentary in which the
antiquity of them is considered and defended.