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PREFACE
illustration, and, as noticed in the Preface to the first edition, the copy then consulted comprehended no fewer than six commentaries.
This Manuscript, the property of Mr. Colebrooke, is now in the
Library at the India House, and has been made use of by Professor
Johnson in the present edition. The text of the poem has been also
printed at Bonn, from Manuscripts in the Royal Libraries of Paris
and Copenhagen, by Mr. Gildemeister, with Notes of various readings,
and a useful Glossary.
