[210] ["He [Cromwell] was very notorious for robbing orchards, a puerile crime ... but grown so scandalous and injurious by the frequent spoyls and damages of Trees, breaking of Hedges, and Inclosures, committed by this _Apple-Dragon_, that many solemn complaints were made both to his Father and Mother for redresse thereof; which missed not their satisfaction and expiation out of his hide," etc.--_Flagellum_, by James Heath, 1663, p. 5. See, too, for his "name of a Royster" at Cambridge, _A Short View of the Late Troubles in England_, by Sir William Dugdale, 1681, p. 459.] {175}[211] [In _The Friend_, 1818, ii. 38, Coleridge refers to "a plan ... of trying the experiment of human perfectibility on the banks of the Susquehanna;" and Southey, in his _Letter to William Smith, Esq._ (1817), (_Essays Moral and Political_, by Robert Southey, 1832, ii. 17), speaks of his "purpose to retire with a few friends into the wilds of America, and there lay the foundations of a community," etc.; but the word "_Pantisocracy_" is not mentioned. It occurs, perhaps, for the first time in print, in George Dyer's biographical sketch of Southey, which he contributed to _Public Characters of 1799-1800_, p. 225, "Coleridge, no less than Southey, possessed a strong passion for poetry. They commenced, like two young poets, an enthusiastic friendship, and in connection with others, struck out a plan for settling in America, and for having all things in common. This scheme they called Pantisocracy." Hence, the phrase must have "caught on," for, in a footnote to his review of Coleridge's _Literary Life_ (_Edin. Rev._, August, 1817, vol. xxviii. p. 501), Jeffrey speaks of "the Pantisocratic or Lake School."] [212] [Wordsworth _was_ "hired," but not, like Burns, "excised." Hazlitt (_Lectures on the English Poets_, 1870, p. 174) is responsible for the epithet: "Mr. Wordsworth might have shown the incompatibility between the Muse and the Excise," etc.] [dc] _Confined his pedlar poems to democracy._--[MS.] [213] [Coleridge began his poetical contributions to the _Morning Post_ in January, 1798; his poetical articles in 1800.] [dd] _Flourished its sophistry for aristocracy._--[MS.]