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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

including Poems and Versions of Poems now Published for the First Time: Edited with Textual and Bibliographical Notes by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)

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VOL. I: POEMS
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VOL. II: DRAMATIC WORKS AND APPENDICES
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DRAMATIC WORKS
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EPIGRAMS
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METRICAL EXPERIMENTS
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APPENDIX V

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27 [A LIAR BY PROFESSION]

As Dick and I at Charing Cross were walking,
Whom should we see on t'other side pass by
But Informator with a stranger talking,
So I exclaim'd, ‘Lord, what a lie!’
Quoth Dick—‘What, can you hear him?’
‘Hear him! stuff!
I saw him open his mouth—an't that enough?’
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