out, each page being headed with the title of the
particular Poem occupying it--save for pp. 23-27, which are headed
_Epigrams_. Upon the reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint:
"_London_: / _Printed for Thomas J. Wise_, _Hampstead_, _N.W._ / _Edition
limited to Thirty Copies_." The signatures are A (six leaves), and B (a
full sheet of eight leaves), the one inset within the other.

Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges, and with the
title-page reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 8.5 x 6.875
inches.

Thirty Copies only were printed.

_Contents_.

PAGE

Little Engel. [_It was the little Engel_, _he_] 5

An Elegy. [_Where shall I rest my hapless head_] 21

Epigrams. From the Persian:

1. [_Hear what once the pigmy clever_] 23

2. [_The man who of his words is sparing_] 23

3. [_If thou would'st ruin_ '_scape_, _and blackest 24
woe_]

4. [_Sit down with your friends in delightful repose_] 24

5. [_The hungry hound upon the bone will pounce_] 24

6. [_Great Aaroun is dead_, _and is nothing_, _the man_] 25

7. [_Though God provides our daily bread_] 25

8. The King and his Followers. [_If in the boor's 25
garden the King eats a pear_]

9. The Devout Man and the Tyrant. [_If the half of a 26
loaf the devout man receives_]

10. The Cat and the Beggar. [_If a cat could the power 26
of flying enjoy_]

11. The King and Taylor. [_The taylor who travels in 26
far foreign lands_]

12. Gold Coin and Stamped Leather. [_Of the children of 27
wisdom how like is the face_]

13. [_So much like a friend with your foe ever deal_] 27

The Manuscript of these _Epigrams_ bears instructive
evidence of the immense amount of care and labour
expended by Borrow upon his metrical compositions.
Reduced facsimiles of two of the pages of this Manuscript
are given herewith. It will be observed that a full page
and a half are occupied by the thirteenth _Epigram_, at
which Borrow made no fewer than seven attempts before he
succeeded in producing a version which satisfied him