Among the manuscripts proper of this collection, the place of honour belongs to one which Mason had labelled 'Original Copy of the Elegy in a Country Church Yard.' In addition to other variations from the printed text, erased words in this MS. showed that Cato stood originally for Hampden, and Tully and Cæsar for Milton and Cromwell:= ``'Some mute inglorious Tully here may rest, ```Some Cæsar guiltless of his country's blood.'= Here, too, were found those well-known but rejected 'additional' stanzas:= ```'The thoughtless World to Majesty may bow, ````Exalt the brave, and idolize Success; ```But more to Innocence their Safety owe ````Than Pow'r and Genius e'er conspir'd to bless.= ```'And thou, who mindful of th' unhonour'd Dead, ````Dost in these Notes their artless Tale relate, ```By Night and lonely Contemplation led ````To linger in the gloomy Walks of Fate:= ```'Hark! how the sacred Calm that broods around, ````Bids ev'ry fierce tumultuous Passion cease; ```In still small Accents whisp'ring from the Ground, ````A grateful Earnest of eternal Peace.= ```'No more, with Reason and thyself at Strife, ````Give anxious Cares and endless Wishes room; ```But thro' the cool sequester'd Vale of Life ````Pursue the silent Tenour of thy Doom.' *= * Another additional stanza, perhaps better known than the above, does not occur in the 'Original Copy' of the Elegy, but in a later MS. at Pembroke College:--= ```'There scatter'd oft, the earliest of the Year, ```By Hands unseen, are Show'rs of Violets found: ```The Red-breast loves to build, & warble there, ```And little Footsteps lightly print the Ground.'= ```His bushy beard, and shoe-strings green, ````His high-crown'd hat, and sattin-doublet, ```Mov'd the stout heart of England's Queen, ````Tho' Pope and Spaniard could not trouble it.'= Or again:= ```'Who prowl'd the country far and near, ````Bewitch'd the children of the peasants, ```Dried up the cows, and lam'd the deer, ````And suck'd the eggs, and kill'd the pheasants.'= Another group of autographs in this volume had a special interest. The first was the notelet, or 'spell,' which Lady Schaub and Miss Speed left for Gray upon that first call when the nervous poet was 'not at home' to his unexpected visitors. Next to this came the poem which the note elicited--that charming 'Long Story,' with its echo of Matthew Prior, which has set their tune to so many later verse-spinners: Does not one seem to catch in this the coming cadences of another haunter of the 'Poets' Walk' at Eton--of Winthrop Mackworth Praed; nay, an it be not _lèse majesté_, even of the lighter strains of Lord Tennyson himself! To the 'Long Story' followed Miss Speed's polite little acknowledgment with its invitation to dinner, and a few pages further on the verses beginning--= ```* Midst Beauty and Pleasure's gay Triumphs to languish,'=