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 that the object of Love, and that of Pity might be join'd together; Pity and Love are confederate passions. Had the first version stood, it would have been necessary to substitute for.

This unmeaning line possesses a languor well adapted to the trifling reflection it contains; it moreover spoils the elegant simplicity of the gradation which describes the increasing distress of Leander.

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I would read instead of  at the close of the verse, which immediately precedes the above, to avoid a heavy repetition.