TASSO TRANSLATED BY FAIRFAX

The variation in the first stanza of Fairfax's *Godfrey of Bulloigne* has been long known to bibliographers, and was pointed out in *The Critical Review* more than thirty years ago. I cannot fix on the particular number, but it contained a long notice of the version of Tasso by Fairfax, and the very stanzas extracted by T. N. The translator could not please himself with the outset of his undertaking, and hence the recorded substitution; but it is not known that he carried his fastidiousness so far as to furnish a *third* version of the first stanza, as well as of the "Argument" of the introduc…