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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 defaceToo much their modest bal'd by. this omission,And pitying sore his mutilated case,

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

XLV.

For there we have them all at one fell swoop,Instead of being scatter’d through the pages jThey stand forth marshall’d in a handsome troop,To meet the ingenuous youth of future ages,Till some less rigid editor shall stoop

To call them back into their separate cages,Instead of standing staring altogether,

Like garden gods — and not so decent eithei 4 .