THE

MISCELLANEOUS PROSE WORKS

OF

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

IN TWENTY-EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOLUME VI.

CHIVALRY, ROMANCE, AND THE DRAMA.

ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH:

HOULSTON & STONEMAN, LONDON.

MDCCCXL.

AN

ESSAY

ON

CHIVALRY.

FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA.

[1818.]

VOL. VL