LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 609 



type like that used by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, with the 

 same motley mixture on each page of the Roman and Italic letter ; 

 all emphatic words beginning in the German fashion with a capital ; 

 the same uncouth and not always constant orthography ; the sigjis of 

 elision omitted; the proper names in small capitals, the U's and 

 double IJ's seeming to cause especial trouble, the former being usually 

 given as Vs, and the latter as two Y's disconnected, (whence our 

 present form of W has come) ; frequently in the midst of a proper 

 name, a letter larger or smaller than the rest, showing that the supply 

 of small caps in the oifice was limited. — As to the translation itself, 

 it may be said that Fanshaw's Camoens, read from the time-darkened 

 pages of this first edition of 1655 might readily be taken for an 

 original poem of the period, so easy and idiomatic is the style, so 

 bold and powerful the language. In some complimentary verses pre- 

 fixed, Sir John Denham, condemning servile translators, contrasts 

 their style with that of Fanshaw, apostrophising him thus :— 



A new and nobler way thou dost pursue. 



To make translations and translators too. 



They but^'preserve the ashes, thou the flame, 



True to his sense, but truer to his fame. 



The book-plate of the library of Trinity College has been removed to 

 the back of the title-page in my folio Fanshaw. It has on it the motto 

 Virtus vera nohilitas, and below is a medallion of Heniy VIII. 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, adores in some sort the shade of a Henry; 

 but it is not, as at Eton, Henry YI. Gray, we shall remember, 

 speaks in his ode xi of — " Either Henry, 



The murder'd saint and the majestic lord 

 That broke the bonds of Rome." 



It is the latter that Trinity is constrained to honour, as beinw its 

 founder ; his statue is to be seen over the gateway, with the royal 

 arms below. The other Henry, however, " the murder'd saint," is 

 honoured at Cambridge as a benefactor to King's, a college closely 

 associated with Eton, where, as many of us have seen, a statue of 

 Henry VI stands in the quadrangle. 



The leaves of the copy of Fanshaw's Camoens before us have 

 probably been turned over by many a right hand cunning in the 

 building up of verse that has not perhaps in some instances even 

 yet wholly perished. Andrew Marvell was at Trinity College sub- 

 sequently to 1655, and Dryden and Cowley, to say nothing of later 



