The "Wallenstein" went to the waste.

The "Remorse," though acted twenty times, rests quietly on the shelves in the second edition, with copies enough for seven years' consumption, or seven times seven.

I lost L200 by the non-payment, from forgetfulness, and under various pretences, by "The Friend"; [Footnote: Twenty-seven numbers of _The Friend_ were published by Coleridge at Penrith in Cumberland in 1809-10, but the periodical proved a failure, principally from the irregularity of its appearance.

It was about this time that he was addicted to opium-eating.] and for my poems I _did_ get from L10 to L15.

And yet, forsooth, the _Quarterly Review_ attacks me for neglecting and misusing my powers! I do not quarrel with the Public--all is as it must be--but surely the Public (if there be such a Person) has no right to quarrel with _me_ for not getting into jail by publishing what they will not read! The "Faust," you perhaps know, is only a _Fragment_.