grayt.ead.0001-mss.0176 Thomas Gray Manuscripts: An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive. Alexander Huber Thomas Gray Archive 2006 Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber, Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005- English grayt.ead.0001-mss.0176#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.lt24 [Translation of Ode 'Away; let nought to love displeasing'] Vah, tenero quodcunque potest obsistere amori, 1890 Latin Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 115-117, 250-251 (with English prose translation and the original English version) Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 287-290 (with English prose translation and the original English version)

Written probably as a school exercise at Eton between 1725 and 1734 . First published, untitled, in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 298-300 .

mss.0176 poems.lt24 [untitled] [between 1845 and 1856] 2 transcript in the hand of John Mitford 180 mm x 115 mm Latin Add. MS 32561, ff. 86-87 Manuscripts Collection BLUK

MS catalogued by Alexander Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 07/10/2006.

 Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 147, 93 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 250

Transcript in the hand of John Mitford , untitled, but identified "N.B. The above is a free Translation of Gilb. Coopers Ode / Away let Nought to Love displeasing / ..." and annotated "The following Poem is written with Ink by Mason over Gray's Pencil, which was very faint, in order apparently to preserve it." and "N.B. Grays writing perceptible below the Ink-letters", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", ff. 86-87.

MS 0176 apparently transcribed from MS 0175.