LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 633 



Within these towers, beneath this ancient shade. 



From infancy to age her virtues grew. 

 Parent, revered ! near You her Tomb is laid, 



To Truth and Faith her soul was trained by you. 

 Come to her Tomb ye gay and fair High-born ! 



Learn the great lesson how to live and did! 

 How lowly virtues lofty rank adorn ! 

 ' What strenth in Death Religion can supply ! 



TRANSLATED. W. 

 Pandite ! Regificse requies Vos ultima Proles ! 



Pandite tranquillum sancta sepulchra sinum ! 

 Spe Isetum £eterna et divina pace beatum 



Accipite in placida cor sine labe domo ! 

 Has inter turres, veterique hac edita sylva 



Crevit, ad extremos intemerata dies ; 

 O Pater ! O Matris venerabilis umbra ! propinqua 



Reliquiis vestris Virginis ossa jacent; 

 Vos etenim primis animam banc formastis ab annis, 



Et docilem Coeli "Vos docuistis iter. 

 Hue ades ! o genere et forma Qusecunque refulges ! 



Disce ex Augusta vivere ! disce mori ! 

 Sperne leves fastus, et inanem stirpis honorem ! 



Mors tibi constanti sit superanda Fide ! 



These lines, in the handwriting of the Marquis of Wellesley, are at 

 the end of my copy of the Marquis's Primitice et Eeliquice, privately 

 printed for him by W. Nicol, London, 1840. The volume has the 

 following written memorandum by the well-known London anti- 

 quarian, John Gough Nichols : " The lines at the end of this Yolume 

 in manuscript are in the autograph of the Marquess Wellesley him- 

 self. They were given me by Mr. Smith (Author of the History of 

 Mary-le-bone) who was formerly overseer at Mr. JSTicol's printing 

 office, whilst this volume was proceeding through the press. John 

 Gough Nichols." 



I have now completed a review of the three divisions of my col- 

 lection of historical autographs and other Kterary relics — ^the Cana- 

 dian and United States division ; the British and European ; and 

 finally, the division made up of those which were reserved as having 

 come from, or been in their day possessed or turned over by, eminent 

 Oxford and Cambridge men. The commentary with which I have 

 ventured to accompany the objects spoken of, will perhaps hereafter 

 be of some use in giving interest to the whole when I deposit them, 

 as I hope some time to do, in the library of the University, or other 



