deliberately marked omission indicates a purposeful marking in the source document signalling that content has been omitted, and may also supply or describe the omitted content. What projects men make—what queer turns they take, Since steam has improved our condition; They never are still, but must cure or must kill With steam physic or steam ammunition. But a short time ago, to a quack you would go, To steam a fat man to a thinner; Now changed from all that, if you wish to get fat, Come to Barton’s and eat a steam dinner! Oh dear! think of a scheme, odd though it seem— I’m sure ’twill succeed if you make it by steam. You may sleep, you may dream, you may travel by steam, For the outcry is still to go faster; And what does it reck, should you e’en break your neck, If ’tis steam that brings on the disaster? * * * * The printer omits four lines here, skipping the second half of the second octave, before the refrain. Oh dear! think of a scheme, odd though it seem— I’m sure ’twill succeed if you make it by steam. You think you’ve lost your love Well, I saw her yesterday It’s you she's thinking of And she told me what to say She says she loves you And you know that can’t be bad Yes, she loves you And you know you should be glad She said you hurt her so She almost lost her mind But now she said she knows You’re not the hurting kind ******

Unlike gap, which indicates content that the encoder cannot or chooses not to represent, ellipsis indicates a passage explicitly signalled in the source document as absent. The ellipsis element is not appropriate for every use of ellipsis points, such as when they indicate that a speaker is pausing.