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Coleridge on Shakespeare and Jonson

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“The Mad Lover”

Act iv. Masque of beasts:—

                    ... “This goodly tree,
An usher that still grew before his lady,
Wither’d at root: this, for he could not woo,
A grumbling lawyer:” &c.

Here must have been omitted a line rhyming to “tree;” and the words of the next line have been transposed:—

                    ... “This goodly tree,
Which leafless, and obscur’d with moss you see,
An usher this, that ’fore his lady grew,
Wither’d at root: this, for he could not woo,” &c.

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