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Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 by Various
page 50 of 69 (72%)
intoxicating purposes, from a very early period, has been the cause of
much of the misconception which prevails with regard to the supposed
ante-European employment of "tobacco, divine, rare, super-excellent
tobacco," in the climes of the East.

J.M.B.

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"JOB'S LUCK," BY COLERIDGE.

These lines (see Vol. ii., p. 102.) are printed in the collected
editions of the poems of Coleridge. In an edition now before me, 3 vols.
12mo., Pickering, 1836, they occur at vol. ii. p. 147. As printed in
that place, there is one very pointed deviation from the copy derived by
Mr. Singer from the Crypt. The last line of the first stanza runs thus:

"_And_ the sly devil did not take his spouse."

In the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for February, 1848, there is a poem by
Coleridge, entitled "The Volunteer Stripling," which I do not find in
the collected edition above mentioned. It was contributed to the _Bath
Herald_, probably in 1803; and stands there with "S.T. Coleridge"
appended in full. The first stanza runs thus:

"Yes, noble old warrior! this heart has beat high,
When you told of the deeds which our countrymen wrought;
O, lend me the sabre that hung by thy thigh,
And I too will fight as my forefathers fought."

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