610 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



names. In studying the translation, some one has here and there- 

 given proof, by manuscript annotations, that he had read the poem ia 

 Portuguese also. To certain curious lines and expressions he has 

 annexed the MS. note " Not in the original." In one place he has 

 detected, as he thinks, the source of some phraseology used by the 

 poet Gx'ay in the 1st stanza of The Fatal Sisters, from the Norse. 

 Fanshaw renders the 31st stanza of the fouith canto of the Lusiad 



thus : — 



Now through the darkned Ayre barbd Arrows fleet, — ■ 

 Javelins, with other shott, fly whizzing round, 

 Vnder the fiery Coursers^ yron Feet, 

 The Earth doth tremble, and the Vales resound ; 

 Lances are crackt, and (dropping thick as sleet) 

 The Horsemen armd come thundring to the ground. 

 Upon feirce Nunio's Few, fresh Foes are pact ; 

 Theh- Art to multiply ; hin, to abstract. 



Opposite to this, with a dash under " darkned Ayre barbd Anfows 

 fleet," and " thick as sleet," the annotator has -^Ti-itten : — 



Iron sleet of arrowy shower 

 Hurtles in the dark'ned air. — Gray. 



I show another volume from the library of Trinity College. This, 

 is an Amsterdam edition of Phsedrus, of the year 1667, with the" 

 copious notes of Johannes Laurentius, Jurisconsult. It contains a 

 book-plate bearing the college arms with the inscription below : — 

 "Collegium SS. et Individuse Trinitatis in Academic. Cantabrigiensi," 

 and on the last page "Duplicate, Trin : Coll: Cam: 1859" is 

 stamped. The book has numerous beautifully executed iilustrationa 

 on copper let into the text, all of them quaint and curious. The 

 large engraved title-page shows the Emperor Augustus, seated, pre- 

 senting a cap of Liberty to Phsedrus, who is in the act of writing 

 from the dictation of ^sop, the latter dwarfed in stature and slightly 

 deformed ; the expression of the countenance shrewd and humorous. 

 At the end of the volume are very full indexes. The hands of 

 innumerable great scholars^ have probably handled this copy of- 

 Phsedrus ; but notably perhaps the hands of Richard Bentley, Master 

 of the College, who himself edited a Phsedrus at Cambridge in 1726. 

 He would naturally consult such editions of Phsedrus as were to be 

 found in the library of his own college. 



One more former occupant of a place on the shelves of Trinity 

 College Library is my copy of Mackenzie on Solitude ; a small duo- 



