Your grateful and affectionate friend,
S. T. Coleridge.
Bristol, December 26, 1796.
FOOTNOTES:
[1113:1] Published 4to, 1796: reprinted in P. and D. W., 1877, i. 165-8.
[1113:2] The quotation is from an apology addressed 'Meliori suo', prefixed to the Second Book of the Silvae:—'nec nunc eam (sc. celeritatem) apud te jacto qui nosti: sed et caeteris indico, ne quis asperiore limâ carmen examinet et a confuso scriptum, et dolenti datum cum paene sint supervacua sint tarda solatia.' Coleridge has 'adapted' the words of Statius to point his own moral.
[1113:3] Multâ cruciata limâ [S. T. C.] [Silv. lib. iv. 7, 26.]
[1114:1] From Dr. Johnson's Preface to the Dictionary of the English Language. Works, 1806, ii. 59.
[1114:2] Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination (Second Version), Bk. I.