Transcript of ll. 1-4 and 82-4 in the hand of
John
Mitford
, here beginning "From his dire food the greisly
father raisd", annotated "Mason says, Gray translated this
when learning Italian" and "N.B. The MS is not in Gray's
writing", in John Mitford,
Note-Books,
vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books",
ff. 182-183.