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turned over the splendid engravings therein. Strawberry Hill was 

 generally full of visitors. In 1760 the Duke of York unceremo- 

 niously appeared at the door. " I showed him all my castle," Horace 

 "Walpole says to Gr. Montague, ''and he would have the sanctum 

 sanctorum of the library opened." Facing the title and occupying 

 much of the page is a huge shield of arms of some former possessor, 

 apparently a Netherlandish Count. The crest is a black duck minus 

 its bill and feet. On the first and fourth quartering the same object 

 is seen. The motto seems to allude to this creature — Enatent aut 

 evolent. Below, in small letters, is engraved — " R. Collin, Chalcogr. 

 E.eg. fecit. Bruxellpe, 1680." Some friend of Horace Walpole's has, 

 as I presume, interpreted for him the spirit of the sentence, Enatent 

 aut evolent, and has written down for him over the great shield, in a 

 fair hand, the following passage, it may be, of Cicero or Seneca : 

 " Hujusmodi comparandte sunt opes quae simul cum naufrago EISTA- 

 TEISTT " — suggesting that the aspii-ation of the motto is after mental 

 riches. Such be mine, or none ! it says. The handwriting is not 

 Walpole's, neither is it Gray's ; but Gray may have furnished the 

 illustration, which is ingenious and apt. On the same page with the 

 great foreign shield appears Horace Walpole's own - bookplate, the 

 evidence of his former ownership. It shows the Walpole arms with 

 the proper heraldic mai-k of cadency — a star — Horace being the third 

 son of the first Earl of Orford, who was the famous Sir Robert 

 Walpole, Prime Minister temp. George I. and George II. The 

 motto, Fari quae, sentiat, is on a riband over the crest, and under- 

 neath the shield is engraved, in italic script, Mr. Horatio Walpole. 

 The Fari quce sentiat is an excerpt from Horace's Epistle to Alb. 

 Tibullus and his companions {Ep. Lib. i. Ep. 4) — a piece which, 

 from the character of its contents, may have been a favoui'ite with 

 Sir Robert — and his son likewise. Its spirit certainly was in har- 

 mony with their tastes. I give a few lines. It will be seen that the 

 Fari qucB sentiat has reference to ease of expression and eloquence, 

 and not to what we call freedom of speech : 



Di tibi formam, 

 Di tibi divitias dederunt, artemque fruendi. 

 Quid voveat dulci nutricula majus alumno 

 Qui sapere et fari possit quce seiitiai, et cui 

 Gratia, fama, valetudo contingat abunde 

 Et mundus victus, non deficiente crumena ? 



