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On Tuesday I was uncommonly well all the morning, and ate an excellent dinner; but playing too long and, too rompingly with Hartley and Derwent, I was very unwell that evening.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph

On Tuesday I was uncommonly well all the morning, and ate an excellent dinner; but playing too long and too rompingly with Hartley and Derwent, I was very unwell that evening.

From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.