Note 215:2 — CHRISTABEL[213:1]
Reading edition
The 'Latin hexameters', 'in the lame and limping metre of a barbarous Latin poet', ran thus:
'Est meum et est tuum, amice! at si amborum nequit esse, Sit meum, amice, precor: quia certe sum magi' pauper.'
It is interesting to note that Coleridge translated these lines in November, 1801, long before the 'celebrated poets' in question had made, or seemed to make, it desirable to 'preclude a charge of plagiarism'.