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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CXXVIII.
Ber.Thy love is foul; I would be deaf for aye,
Rather than hear such deslavatie said;
Fly quickly from me, and no further say,
Rather than hear thy love, I would be dead.
Ye saints! and shall I wrong my Ælla's bed?
And would thou, Celmond, tempt me to this thing?
Let me be gone—all curses on thy head!
Was it for this thou didst a message bring?
Let me begone, thou man of sable heart,
Or heaven and her stars will take a maiden's part.
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