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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CXLIII.
Ser.Ælla is slain; the flower of England's marred!
Æl.
Be still; loud let the churches ring my knell.
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Of this my Bristol castle, will do well.
Knell rings. Enter Coernyke.
Æl.
(to Coer.)
Thee I ordain the ward; so all may tell.
I have but little time to drag this life;
My deadly tale, e'en like a deadly bell,
Sound in the ears of her I wish'd my wife.
But ah! she may be fair.
Egw.
That she must be.
Æl.
Ah! say not so; that word would Ælla doubly sle.
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