of all other things) would have left me nothing more to add, unless he who was sometimes wont to employ his pen for Your Majestie being absent, should now be silent that you are present, and inflame me with a kind of new Enthusiasme:  I find myself then compell’d out of a grateful sense of my dutie for the publick benefit, and if your Majestie forbid not, or withdraw your influence, who shall hinder, that even my slender voice should not strive to be heard, in such an universall{12} consort, wherein everybody has a part, every one a share?

Permit me therefore (O best of Kings) to present, and lay these my vowes at your sacred feet, to exsult, and to Rejoyce with the Rest of your Loyal Subjects; not as I desire, but as I am able, and as I would do it to God, and as he best loves it,

    Sentiendo copiosius, quam loquendo.

DIXI.

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library:  University of California

THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

General Editors

H. RICHARD ARCHER
  William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

R. C. BOYS
  University of Michigan

E. N. HOOKER
  University of California, Los Angeles

JOHN LOFTIS
  University of California, Los Angeles

The society exists to make available inexpensive reprints (usually facsimile reproductions) of rare seventeenth and eighteenth century works.

The editorial policy of the Society continues unchanged.  As in the past, the editors welcome suggestions concerning publications.

All correspondence concerning subscriptions in the United States and Canada should be addressed to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2205 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles 18, California.  Correspondence concerning editorial matters may be addressed to any of the general editors.  Membership fee continues $2.50 per year.  British and European subscribers should address B. H. Blackwell, Broad Street, Oxford, England.

Publications for the fifth year [1950-1951]

(At least six items, most of them from the following list, will be reprinted.)

FRANCES REYNOLDS (?):  An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, &c. (1785).  Introduction by James L. Clifford.

THOMAS BAKER:  The Fine Lady’s Airs (1709).  Introduction by John Harrington Smith.

DANIEL DEFOE:  Vindication of the Press (1718).  Introduction by Otho Clinton Williams.

JOHN EVELYN:  An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); A
Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661).  Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes.

CHARLES MACKLIN:  Man of the World (1781).  Introduction by
Dougald MacMillan.

Prefaces to Fiction.  Selected and with an Introduction by Benjamin Boyce.