N parting with “Loves Garland” I would 
here offer my sincere thanks to our dis- 
tinguished typographer, who has spared no 
pains to place before the reader as nearly as 
possible a fac-simile of the copy in the 
British Museum. The quaintness of the 
little work will I hope commend it to every 
‘Odd Volume”; it is, moreover, now very 
scarce, which you will readily believe when 
I tell you that I have not been able to pro- 
cure a copy—for “love” or “money ”—even 
with our far-famed Librarian’s assistance. 
Lowndes mentions Utterson’s copy as 
fetching £2. 14s. as far back as 1852; 
now, it is simply not to be had at all. 
I have been at some trouble to gather 
together from various sources, public and 
private, the following collection of Posie 
Mottoes ; I trust that 
“De Garland of Pe Sette of Oxy Columes ” 
may be deemed a fitting and not altogether 
uninteresting “finale” to my first Opusculum, 
now offered to the members of the Sette. 
i ROB, 
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