These lines are quoted by Coleridge in The Friend, 1818, i. 192; 1850, i. 147. The first two lines run thus:
The recluse Hermit oft' times more doth know
Of the world's inmost wheels, than worldlings can, &c.
The alteration was first pointed out in an edition of The Friend issued by H. N. Coleridge in 1837.
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Letter To Sir Henry Goodyere
Stanzas II, III, IV, and a few words from Stanza V, are prefixed as the motto to Essay XV of The Friend, 1818, i. 179; 1850, i. 136.
For Stanza II, line 3—
But he which dwells there is not so; for he
With him who dwells there 'tis not so; for he
For Stanza III—