TO THE

REV. JOHN PRICE, B. D.

KEEPER OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY,

OXFORD,

THIS

FOURTH VOLUME

O F

ANECDOTES

(IN GRATITUDE)

IS INSCRIBED

BY HIS MOST OBLIGED

AND OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE COMPILER.

ADVERTISEMENT.

HE figure of DISCRETION which

THE

decorates this Volume, was furnished by the fame kind Pencil that fupplied the former FRONTISPIECES; by that Pencil which, in the opinion of one long converfant in the contemplation of the beauties both of forms and of ideas, "unites the playfulness of CORREGIO with "the chastity of the ANTIQUE."

BROTIER'S "PAROLES MEMORABLES" have been confulted and made ufe of for this Volume. More ufe would have been made of Mr. AUBREY'S BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, had not the ingenious Mr. MALONE announced for speedy publication a complete edition of that very interesting

Work.