Tytler, iv. 324, 1864.
418
Diurnal, p. 127.
419
Laing, ii. 293, 294.
420
Bain, ii. 322.
421
Laing, ii. 314-318.
422
Tytler, iv. 323, 1864.
423
Labanoff, ii. 213.
424
Bain, ii. 576.
425
Laing’s efforts to detect French idioms lead him to take ‘all contrary’ – as in
‘Mary, Mary,
All contrary,
How does your garden grow?’ —
and ‘all goeth ill’ for French too literally translated.
426
Casket Letters, pp. 82, 83.
427
Cambridge MS. ‘l’acointance.’
428
Cambridge MS, ‘je’ omitted.
429
Cambridge MS. ‘Dont de grief doil me vint ceste dolleur.’
430
Cambridge MS. ‘Per.’
431
Cambridge MS. ‘honneur.’