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Show Iamb's Protmt to Colerldee. No man with a keen perception of the ludicrous can take him seriously. So when Coleridge addressed to Lamb those maudlin verses entitled, "This Lime-tree Bower My Prison," during a visit to him at Nether Stowey of the brother and stater, sta-ter, in which ho gushes orsr the "gentle hearted Charles," this latter revolted. "For God's sake, don't make mo ridiculous ridicu-lous any more by terming me gentle hearted in print, or do it in better verse! Substitute drunken dog, ragged bead seld shaven, odd eyed, stuttering and any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to thegentleinaAMn question." Benjamin Ellis Martin i Scribner, |