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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VIII.
God.Harold, what wouldest do?
Har.
Bethink thee what.
Here lieth England, all her rights unfree,
Here lie the Normans cutting her by lot,
Restraining every native plant to gre,
What would I do? I furious would them sle,
Tear out their sable heart by rightful breme.
Their death a means unto my life should be,
My sprite should revel in their heart-blood's stream.
Eftsoons I will reveal my rageful ire,
And Goddès anlace wield in fury dire.
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