Word: barclaii
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...same case may be seen Samuel Taylor Coleridge's copy of 'Barclaii Argenis", with notes in the owner's hand. This volume is the gift of Mrs. Norton Perkins in memory of Norton Perkins '98. Apparently the author of "The Ancient Mariner" shared in some degree the modern schoolboy's dislike for the Latin language, for we find inscribed on the fly leaf: "Heaven forbid! This work should not exist in its present form and language! Yet I cannot avoid the wish that it had been, during the reign of James the first, moulded into an heroic poem in English...
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