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^X1* PREFATORY NOTICE.

Greek printed in this volume. Nor does an
obliging letter which I have received from Mr
R. A, Neil, Fellow and Librarian of Pembroke,
encourage me to hope that more of Gray's is
to be discovered there.

Though. I honestly believe that the imper-
fections of this edition are not due to want of
pains, I am well aware that even, scanty oppor-
tunities are a poor excuse for faulty work, and
therefore I would gladly have made my account
of Mitford's MSS. more exact, and my references
and annotations more complete, if I had had
more time and more knowledge at my command.
I cannot complain of want of assistance, and
in addition to the obligations acknowledged
already, or in the notes, I must here thank
Mr R. F. Sketchley, the Librarian of the Dyce
and Foster Libraries at South Kensington, and
Mr J. W. Clark of Cambridge, for most useful
communications; the Provosts of Eton and
King's College, Cambridge, for the information
which confirms my note on p. 80 infra; my
friends Mr F. W. Cornish of Eton, Dr Henry
Jackson and Mr E. S. Shuckburgh of Cambridge,
for their encouragement and assistance; and
Dr Porter, the Master of Peterhouse, for his
kindly interest in this edition.



	^X1* PREFATORY NOTICE. Greek printed in this volume. Nor does an obliging letter which I have received from Mr R. A, Neil, Fellow and Librarian of Pembroke, encourage me to hope that more of Gray's is to be discovered there. Though. I honestly believe that the imper- fections of this edition are not due to want of pains, I am well aware that even, scanty oppor- tunities are a poor excuse for faulty work, and therefore I would gladly have made my account of Mitford's MSS. more exact, and my references and annotations more complete, if I had had more time and more knowledge at my command. I cannot complain of want of assistance, and in addition to the obligations acknowledged already, or in the notes, I must here thank Mr R. F. Sketchley, the Librarian of the Dyce and Foster Libraries at South Kensington, and Mr J. W. Clark of Cambridge, for most useful communications; the Provosts of Eton and King's College, Cambridge, for the information which confirms my note on p. 80 infra; my friends Mr F. W. Cornish of Eton, Dr Henry Jackson and Mr E. S. Shuckburgh of Cambridge, for their encouragement and assistance; and Dr Porter, the Master of Peterhouse, for his kindly interest in this edition.