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Colley – our hero. His surname is never disclosed.

Chaite – our heroine, pronounced to rhyme with ‘mighty’ (not with ‘eight’). She came into being when I was browsing in a Greek lexicon in bed one night: XIATH long flowing hair (see page 116)

‘No more will I endure love’s pleasing pain,

Nor round my heart’s leg tie his galling chain’

A Young Tradesman Poet, quoted by Coleridge in Biographia Literaria; according to The Stuffed Owl – an anthology of bad verse selected and arranged by D B Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee, London 1930.

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– wording of a printer’s keepsake (presented to a visitor to a printing works) quoted by John R Briggs in An Approach to Type, London 1949.