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The lovely lady christabel, whom her father loves so well - what makes she in the woods so late, a furlong from the castle gate? She had dreams all yesternight of her own betrothed knight, and she in the midnight wood will pray for the wael of her lover that's far away...

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was acutely sensitive to phonetics in general and believed that his name was the ugliest possible combination of sounds. The other characters in Christabel (that I've encountered) are Leoline the father and Geraldine the freaky ass villain. The most beautiful combination of sounds was "Susquehanna."