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 A few corrections of later date have been added.—Henceforward the author must be occupied by studies of a very different kind.

Ite hinc, ! Vos quoque ite, suaves, Dulces ! Nam (fatebimur verum) Dulces fuistis!—Et tamen meas chartas Revisitote: sed pudenter et raro! Virgil. Catalect. vii.

At the request of the friends of my youth, who still remain my friends, and who were pleased with the wildness of the compositions, I have added two school-boy poems—with a song modernized with some additions from one of our elder poets. Surely, malice itself will scarcely attribute their insertion to any other motive, than the wish to keep alive the recollections from early life.—I scarcely knew what title I should prefix to the first. By imaginary Time, I meant the state of a school boy's mind when on his return to school he projects his being in his day dreams, and lives in his next holidays, six months hence: and this I contrasted with real Time.