True Blue

Last one today, I promise.

"I should so like to read Coleridge," said John, earnestly, having dipped into the volume; "though I must say that he looks a little too philosophical for me;" (I smiled;) "but, as he's a true Blue, I should like to say I had read him."

"Take his 'Friend' John," said I, "and any friend of mine—there are ten of them at your service—and keep it and them till you have done with them, and thoroughly understand them; for I do not." [Cornelius Webbe, Glances at Life in City and Suburbs: Second Series (London 1845), 41-2]