Show sir walter scotts sir walters friend mr rose had a valet named hinves a areat character and a great favorite with the literati was himself a poet one day saya a writer in rushed in an and like manner into the presence of his master with a copy ol 01 new poem of scotts in his hand oh air he cried sir walter has taken two of my best lines in hadidon halidon Ha lidon and there was no denying the fact sir walter had of courte unconsciously been plagiarizing from bis friends valet how he soothed and pacified hinves we know not but each are the results of having a good but capricious memory I 1 forget what poet said if be ever made a good line it at once deemed to him to be a thing immeasurably old and alses all poetry exists in the world of ideas boele remember and do not create it and sir walter and to remember the couplet |