Note 1113:2 — E
Reading edition
The quotation is from an apology addressed 'Meliori suo', prefixed to the Second Book of the Silvae:—'nec nunc eam (sc. celeritatem) apud te jacto qui nosti: sed et caeteris indico, ne quis asperiore limâ carmen examinet et a confuso scriptum, et dolenti datum cum paene sint supervacua sint tarda solatia.' Coleridge has 'adapted' the words of Statius to point his own moral.