The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

In this Tibullus I found pencilled on the last page: "Perlegi, Oct. 4, 1792." Who was that possessor of the book, nearly a hundred years ago? There was no other inscription. I like to imagine some poor scholar, poor and eager as I myself, who bought the volume with drops of his blood, and enjoyed the reading of it even as I did. How much that was I could not easily say. Gentle-hearted Tibullus!--of whom there remains to us a poet's portrait more delightful, I think, than anything of the kind in Roman literature. An tacitum silvas inter reptare salubres, Curantem quidquid dignum sapiente bonoque est?