Chapter LVI: Appendix: V

ADAPTATIONS

For a critical study of Coleridge's alterations in the text of the quotations from seventeenth-century poets, which were inserted in the _Biographia Literaria_ (2 vols., 1817), or were prefixed as mottoes to Chapters in the rifacimento of _The Friend_ (3 vols., 1818), see an article by J. D Campbell entitled 'Coleridge's Quotations,' which was published in the _Athenæum_, August 20, 1892, and 'Adaptations', _P. W._, 1893, pp. 471-4. Most of these textual alterations or garblings were noted by H. N. Coleridge in an edition of _The Friend_ published in 1837; Mr. Campbell was the first to collect and include the mottoes and quotations in a sub-section of Coleridge's Poetical Works. Three poems, (1) 'An Elegy Imitated from Akenside', (2) 'Farewell to Love ', (3) 'Mutual Passion altered and modernized from an Old Poet', may be reckoned as 'Adaptations'. The first and third of these composite productions lay no claim to originality, whilst the second, 'Farewell to Love', which he published anonymously in _The Courier_, September 27, 1806, was not included by Coleridge in _Sibylline Leaves_, or in 1828, 1829, 1834. For (1) vide _ante_, p. 69, and _post_, _Read_:--p. 1123; for (2) _ante_, p. 402; and for (3) vide _post_, p. 1118.

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FULKE GREVILLE. LORD BROOKE

God and the World they worship still together,
Draw not their lawes to him, but his to theirs,
Untrue to both, so prosperous in neither,
Amid their owne desires still raising feares;
'Unwise, as all distracted powers be; 5
Strangers to God, fooles in humanitie.'

Too good for great things, and too great for good;
Their Princes serve their Priest, &c.
_A Treatie of Warres_, st. lxvi-vii.

MOTTO TO 'A LAY SERMON', 1817

God and the World _we_ worship still together,
Draw not _our_ Laws to Him, but _His_ to ours;
Untrue to both, so prosperous in neither,
_The imperfect Will brings forth but barren Flowers_!
Unwise as all distracted _Interests_ be, 5
Strangers to God, fools in Humanity:
Too good for great things and too great for good,
_While still_ 'I dare not' waits upon 'I wou'd'!
S. T. C.

The same quotation from Lord Brooke is used to illustrate Aphorism xvii, 'Inconsistency,' _Aids to Reflection_, 1825, p. 93 (with the word 'both', substituted for 'still' in line 1). Line 8 is from _Macbeth_,