GRAY.—DRYDEN.—PLAYING CARDS

Although my question regarding Gray and Dodsley's *Collection of Poems* has only been half answered, and my two Queries respecting Dryden's *Absolom and Achitophel* and *Essay on Satire* not answered at all, I am not discouraged from putting interrogatories on other matters, in the hope that I may be more fortunate hereafter. On each of my former inquiries I have still a word or two to say, and I do not know why I should not say them now. First, as to Gray and Dodsley:—Is the epithet *droning*, or *drony*, in the first edition of the *Elegy*? and, as my copy of Dodsley's *Collection* is dated…