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Here is another instance, from the description of Gama, the father of the Princess, in which the edition of 1850 has a reading peculiar to itself:

The first and second editions contained many very beautiful and forcible lines, which for various reasons the Poet has since omitted. The italicized lines in the following passage, as it originally stood, afford an instance of this: