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The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton

with an essay on the Rowley poems by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat and a memoir by Edward Bell

Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

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II.

BRISTOWE TRAGEDIE;

ENGLISH METAMORPHOSIS.

AN EXCELENTE BALADE OF CHARITIE

TO JOHNE LADGATE.

SONGE TO ÆLLA,

THE UNDERWRITTEN LINES WERE COMPOSED BY JOHN LADGATE, A PRIEST IN LONDON,

THE TOURNAMENT.

I.

BATTLE OF HASTINGS. (No. I.)

II.

BATTLE OF HASTINGS. (No. II.)

THE ROMAUNTE OF THE CNYGHTE.

ELINOURE AND JUGA.

THE STORIE OF WILLIAM CANYNGE.

ON OUR LADY'S CHURCH.

ON THE DEDICATION OF OUR LADY'S CHURCH.

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THE PARLIAMENT OF SPRITES.

Introduction by Queen Mab.

To John Carpenter, Bishop of Worcester.

Sprites of Elle, Bythrycke, Fitz-hardynge, Frampton, Gaunte, Segowen, Lamyngeton, a Knight Templar, and Byrtonne. (By Rowlie.)

ON THE MYNSTER.

ONE CANTO OF AN ANCIENT POEM, CALLED THE UKNOWN KNIGHT OR THE TOURNAMENT.

THE FREERE OF ORDERYS WHYTE.

THE MERRIE TRICKES OF LAMYNGETOWNE.

SONGE OF SEYNCTE BALDYWYNNE.

SONGE OF SEYNCTE WARBURGHE.

A CHRONYCALLE OF BRYSTOWE.

ON HAPPIENESSE.

THE GOULER'S REQUIEM.

ONN JOHN A DALBENIE.

EPITAPH ON ROBERT CANYNGE.

THE ACCOUNTE OF W. CANYNGES FEAST.

FRAGMENT OF A POEM BY ROWLEY.

FRAGMENT OF A POEM BY ROWLEY:

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IV.

Æl.
Not when the holy priest did make me knight,
Blessing the weapon, telling future deed,
How by my hand the hardy Dane should bleed,
How I should often be, and often win, in fight;