H.W. Cleland,
M.D. 4to. Glasgow, 1840, to which I am indebted for the information
embodied in this reply to Z.A.Z., and to which I would beg to refer him
for much curious matter on the subject of tobacco.)

My own impression is, that the common use of _hemp_ in the East, for
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."

I remember to have read the following version of the epigram descriptive
of the character of the world some twenty or thirty years ago; but
where, I have forgotten. It seems to me to be a better _text_ than
either of those given by your correspondents:

"Oh, what a glorious world we live in,
To lend, to spend, or e'en to give in;
But to borrow, to beg, or to come at one's own,
'Tis the very worst world that ever was known."

J. Bruce.

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ECCIUS DEDOLATUS.

Mr. S.W. Singer, for an agreeable introduction to whom I am indebted to
"Notes and Queries," having expressed a wish (Vol. ii., {157} p. 122.)
"to see and peruse" the rare and amusing satire, entitled _Eccius
dedolatus, authore Joanne-francisco Cottalembergio, Poeta Laureato_, I
shall willingly forward to him a quarto volume which contains two copies
of it, at any time that an opportunity may