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TO

H. MARTIN, ESQ.

OF

JESUS COLLEGE

CAMBRIDGE

DEAR SIR,

Accept, as a small testimony of my grateful attachment, the following

Dramatic Poem, in which I have endeavoured to detail, in an interesting

form, the fall of a man, whose great bad actions have cast a disastrous

lustre on his name. In the execution of the work, as intricacy of plot

could not have been attempted without a gross violation of recent facts,

it has been my sole aim to imitate the empassioned and highly figurative

language of the French orators, and to develope the characters of the

chief actors on a vast stage of horrors.

Yours fraternally,

S. T. COLERIDGE.

JESUS COLLEGE, September 22, 1794.