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 ning "So Lilia sang," were added in the third edition (1850), in which, besides a hundred more or less important additions, alterations, and omissions in the body of the poem, the Prologue and Conclusion were entirely rewritten. All the passages relating to the Prince's "weird seizures" were added in the fourth edition (1851), and the fifteen lines which now stand in the Prologue (p. 3) from

to

were added in 1853, in the fifth edition.

The following passage, in which the Prince describes his flight from his father's court, has been very curiously altered and re-altered. We give the readings of three different editions.