Fairfax's Tasso

In my copy of the second edition, 1624, the first stanza of the first book is given precisely as in Mr. Knight's reprint. But in the very beautiful edition published by Bensley, 1817, and edited by Mr. Singer, that stanza which T. N. terms an "elegant variation," introduces the canto. The editor's preface states that the *first* edition, 1600, had been followed in that re-impression, "admitting some few corrections of errors, and emendations of orthography, from the *second*, I printed in 1624." Of this second edition it is remarked that "it appears to have been revised by some careful correct…