77-8) we find described an occasion on which the two men once met in London, when they were asked, with other poets who were present, to recite from their unpublished writings.

Coleridge complied with the request, but Scott said he had nothing of his own and would repeat some stanzas he had seen in a newspaper.

The poem was criticised adversely in spite of Scott's protests, till Coleridge lost patience and exclaimed, "Let Mr.Scott alone; I wrote the poem." Coleridge's lines: "The Knight's bones are dust And his good sword rust, His soul is with the saints, I trust," are probably much better known as they appear in _Ivanhoe_, incorrectly quoted, than in their proper form.

Scott also added a note on Coleridge in this connection.

(_Ivanhoe_, Chapter VIII.)] [Footnote 258: But apparently not in any earlier than _The Black Dwarf_, which was written in 1816, the year in which the poem was published.