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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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XII.

God.
But first we'll call the nobles of the West,
The earls of Mercia, Coventry, and all.
The more we gain, the cause will prosper best,
With such a number we can never fall.