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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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CXIII.

Water-witches, crowned with reytes,
Bear me to your lethal tide.
I die! I come! my true love waits;—
Thus the damsel spake and died.
Ber.
This singing hath whate'er can make it please,
But my unhappy fate bereaves me of all ease.

[Exeunt.