SIR, Το THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W、 EWART GLADSTONE, M.P., &c., &C. I had the honour to place in your hands the complete Poems of SIR JOHN DAVIES in the Fuller Worthies' Library. In now publishing these Poems for a wider circle of readers and students, I re-dedicate ERRATA. A very few 'slips' have met my eyes on a final reading. They are-as says an ancient Divine-" as easily corrected as espied." Nevertheless they are here recorded that the Reader of his charity may put them right, and any others that may have escaped Editor and Printer. In Nosce Teipsum, the heading and head-line (Vol. I., pp. 25, 26 onward) has 'Immortalitie' misprinted 'Immortalite'—a common contemporary spelling—but it is 'tie' in the title-page (p. 5): ib. p. 80, 1. 15, read be best.' In Hymnes to Astræa, ib. p. 147, 1. 3, remove period (.) after 'rayes.' In Orchestra, ib. p. 181, st. 53, l. 7, read' perfect-cunning': p. 185, foot-note 7, put G. at end : p. 192, st. 81, l. 7, 'Ply' =entwine (omitted): p. 194, foot-note 7, it is 'coach,' not 'couch': p. 202, 1. 10, 'shoe' was the contemporary spelling: p. 204, st. 113, 1. 6, insert 'it' before 'shine.'-G. I I am, Sir, With high regard and gratitude, Yours faithfully and truly, ALEXANDER B. GROSART. a SIR, Το THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. EWART GLADSTONE, M.P., &c., &c. I had the honour to place in your hands the complete Poems of SIR JOHN DAVIES in the Fuller Worthies' Library. In now publishing these Poems for a wider circle of readers and students, I re-dedicate them to you. That I should have wished (and wish) to inscribe the Works of a man famous as a prescient and practical Statesman, as a philosophic Thinker, as an Orator, as a Lawyer, and as a Poet, to you, is extremely natural; for in you, Sir,-in common with all Great Britain and Europe, and America,—I recognize his equal, and England's foremost living name, in nearly every department wherein the elder distinguished himself; while transfiguring and ennobling all, is your conscience-ruled and stainless Christian life. That you gave me permission so to do, with appreciative and kindly words, adds to my pleasure. Trusting that my fresh 'labour of love' (for which 'love of labour' has been necessary) on this Worthy may meet your continued approval, I I am, Sir, With high regard and gratitude, Yours faithfully and truly, ALEXANDER B. GROSART. a |