ESSAYS

ON

CHIVALRY, ROMANCE,

AND

THE DRAMA.

BY

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH;

WHITTAKER AND CO., LONDON.

1834.

AN

ESSAY

ON

CHIVALRY.

FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA.

[1818.]

VOL. VI.