"Waken lords and ladies gay."

HUNTING SONG, by Walter Scott: the remaining stanzas will be
found in the _Edinb. Annual Register_, vol. i., pt. ii.,
xxviii.]

[Footnote 202: "_Whearin part of the Entertainment untoo the
Queenz Majesty of Killingworth Castl in Warwick Sheer, &c.,
1576, is signified._" edit. 1784, p. 14.]

[Footnote 203: _Autumn_, v. 519, 701, &c.]

LIS. Your account of so extraordinary a bibliomaniac is quite amusing:
but I suspect you exaggerate a little.

"Nay, Lisardo, I speak nothing but the truth. In book-reputation,
Atticus unites all the activity of De Witt and Lomanie, with the
retentiveness of Magliabechi and the learning of Le Long.[204] And
yet--he has his peccant part."

[Footnote 204: The reader will be pleased to turn for one
minute to pages 49, 85, 86, ante.]

LIS. Speak, I am anxious to know.

"Yes, Lisardo; although what Leichius hath said of the library
attached to the senate-house of Leipsic be justly applicable to his
own extraordinary collection[205]--yet ATTICUS doth sometimes sadly
err. He has now and then an ungovernable passion to possess more
copies of a book than there were ever parties to a deed, or stamina to
a plant: and therefore I cannot call him a duplicate or triplicate
collector. His best friends scold--his most respectable rivals
censure--and a whole 'mob of gentlemen' who think to collect 'with
ease,' threaten vengeance against--him, for this despotic spirit which
he evinces; and which I fear nothing can stay or modify but an act of
parliament that no gentleman shall purchase more than two copies of a
work; one for his town, the other for his country, residence."

[Footnote 205: Singularis eius ac propensi, in iuvandam
eruditionem studii insigne imprimis monumentum exstat,
Bibliotheca instructissima, sacrarium bonae menti dicatum, in
quo omne, quod transmitti ad posteritatem meretur, copiose
reconditum est. _e [Transcriber's Note: De] Orig. et
Increment. Typog. Lipsiens. Lips. An. Typog._ sec. iii.,
sign. 3.]

PHIL. But does he atone for his sad error by being liberal in the loan
of his volumes?

"Most completely so, Philemon. This is the 'pars melior' of every book
collector, and it is indeed the better part with Atticus. The learned
and curious, whether rich or poor, have always free access to his
library--

His volumes, open as his heart,
Delight, amusemen