Social Commentaries
A Liar by Profession
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
As Dick and I at Charing Cross were walking,
Whom should we see on t'other side pass by
But Informator with a stranger talking,
So I exclaim'd, 'Lord, what a lie!'
Quoth Dick--'What, can you hear him?'
'Hear him! stuff!
I saw him open his mouth--an't that enough?'
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Codex Note
Adapted by Coleridge from Lessing's Sinngedicht
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