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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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CXXI.

Scene, a Wood. Enter Hurra and Danes.
Hur.
Here in this forest let us watch for prey,
Awreaking on our foemen our will war;
Whatever shall be English we will slay,
Spreading our terrible renown afar.

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Ye Dacian men, if Dacian men ye are,
Let naught but blood sufficient for you be;
On every breast in gory letters scar,
What sprites ye have, and how those sprites may dree.
And if ye get away to Denmark's shore,
Eftsoons we will return, and vanquished be no more.