A Dialogue Between An Author And His Friend

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Title:     A Dialogue Between An Author And His Friend
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

_Author._ Come; your opinion of my manuscript!

_Friend._ Dear Joe! I would almost as soon be whipt.

_Author._ But I _will_ have it!

_Friend._ If it must be had--(_hesitating_)
You write so ill, I scarce could read the hand--

_Author._ A mere evasion!

_Friend._ And you spell so bad,
That what I read I could not understand.

First published in _Morning Post_, Oct. 11, 1802.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Dialogue Between An Author And His Friend

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