...common, common be the pain, f ' f * i * V. 100. f It was difficult tofpeak of this cataftrophe that be/el Abelard with any dignity and grace : our poet however...done it. I know not where caftration is the chief caufc of dj&refs, in any other poem, except in a very extraordinary one of Catullus, where Atys, ftruck...

...her lover. He had originally decided that: 'It was difficult to speak of this catastrophe that befcl Abelard with any dignity and grace: our poet however, has done it' (1756, 1, p. 3 12). This conviction, however, appears to have evaporated. By the fourth edition of...