XLIV.

Juan was taught from out the best edition,

Expurgated by learned men, who place,

Judiciously, from out the schoolboy's vision,

The grosser parts; but, fearful to deface

Too much their modest bard by this omission,[K]And pitying sore his mutilated case,

They only add them all in an appendix,[43]Which saves, in fact, the trouble of an index;

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