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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

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XLIII.

Æl.
I like eke this; go in unto the feast,
We will permit you antecedent be;
There sweetly sing each carol, and jap'd jest,
And there is money, that you merry be.
Come, gentle love, we will to spouse-feast go,
And there in ale and wine shall drown'd be every wo.