: Gryll Grange by Peacock Thomas Love Saintsbury George Commentator Townsend F H Frederick Henry Illustrator - English fiction 19th century

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INTRODUCTION

GRYLL GRANGE

In the following pages the New Forest is always mentioned as if it were still unenclosed. This is the only state in which the Author has been acquainted with it. Since its enclosure, he has never seen it, and purposes never to do so.

MISNOMERS

Ego sic semper et ubique vixi, ut ultimam quamque lucem, taraquam non redituram, consumerem.--Petronius Arbiter.

Always and everywhere I have so lived, that I might consume the passing light as if it were not to return.

Before we proceed further, we will give some account of our interlocutors.

THE SQUIRE AND HIS NIECE

FORTUNA . SPONDET . MULTA . MULTIS . PRESTAT . NEMINI . VIVE . IN . DIES . ET . HORAS . NAM . PROPRIUM . EST . NIHIL. Marmor vetus apud Feam, ad Hor. Epist. i. ii, 23.

Fortune makes many promises to many, Keeps them to none. Live to the days and hours, For nothing is your own.

Spondet Fortuna multa multis, praestat nemini. Vive in dies et horas: nam proprium est nihil.

Streightway he with his virtuous staff them strooke, And streight of beasts they comely men became: Yet being men they did unmanly looke, And stared ghastly, some for inward shame, And some for wrath to see their captive dame: But one above the rest in speciall, That had an hog been late, hight Grylle by name, Repyned greatly, and did him miscall, That had from hoggish forme him brought to naturall.

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