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136 784, 5. Perhaps:

[ is my conjecture, or say, stop-gap, for the impossible .]

793. Read, and herewith end the third strophe.

795, For, which cannot here be right, perhaps , gain respite.

799. For, metre and sense suggest. (To change in the strophe for the convenience of this  cannot be approved.)

801. For, I require , giving right metre and sense.

802. For read.

803. For, Schütz well writes. is a superfluous word. I think should close the 3rd antistrophe.

805. The 4th and 5th are variously corrupt. I believe in

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[Song, opposed to twanging of the lyre.] I try further:

808.

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nomin. will mean "Songs and Music." No smaller changes can succeed; but the words are necessarily very uncertain. Vulg. .

815. For excellently Blomf. has.

820. is a possible text. In next line can hardly be right. The sense wanted is "from thy inmost heart venting rage." or is possible. Paley's correction of into  (sanguinary rancour) quite commends itself.