"And its tender rain shall lave it."—Page [52].
It is by no means uncommon for an editor to interrupt some of these revolutionary letters by a "Here there are traces of tears."
"By 'Bysshe,' his epithet."—Page [81].
i.e. The Art of English Poetry, by Edward Bysshe, 1702.
The Book-plate's Petition.—Page [87].
These lines were reprinted from Notes and Queries in Mr. Andrew Lang's instructive volume The Library, 1881, where the curious will find full information as to the enormities of the book-mutilators.
"Have I not writ thy Laws?"—Page [93].
The lines in italic type which follow, are freely paraphrased from the ancient Code d' Amour of the XIIth Century, as given by André le Chapelain himself.
A Dialogue, etc.—Page [107].
This dialogue, first printed in Scribner's Magazine for May, 1888, was afterwards read by Professor Henry Morley at the opening of the Pope Loan Museum at Twickenham (July 31st), to the Catalogue of which exhibition it was prefixed.