• Archive Work ID: poems.oxst
• Uniform Title: "On L[or]d H[olland']s Seat near M[argat]e, K[en]t" [e-text]
• First Line: Old and abandoned by each venal friend,
• Language: English
• First Published: 1769
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), p. 53; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), pp. 259-264
• Summary: Written while on a visit to William Robinson in Denton, Kent, in June 1768. First published, anonymously without Gray's consent, as "Inscription for the Villa of a decay'd Satesman [sic] on the Sea-Coast", in The New Foundling Hospital for Wit (London, 1769) iii. 34-35.

1 Manuscript:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0237
  • Title: "Inscription for a villa of a decayed statesman on the sea coast"
  • Date: [after 1805]
  • Physical Description: 2 pages; transcript in an unidentified hand on a "leaf watermarked 1805"
  • Language: English
  • Location: MS Lt q 49, f. 39, Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse, Special Collections, Leeds University Library, Leeds, UK <http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/>
  • References: Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=3707>
  • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand, beginning "Old and abandon'd by each venal friend", on a "leaf watermarked 1805 inserted in a scrapbook of miscellaneous original and transcribed poems written out from c.1750 to the twentieth century".