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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2

Note 634:1 — Scene XII

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The original is not translatable into English:

——Und sein Sold Muss dem Soldaten werden, darnach heisst er.

It might perhaps have been thus rendered:

'And that for which he sold his services, The soldier must receive.'

But a false or doubtful etymology is no more than a dull pun.

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