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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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XVI.

King.
I ask no rede of you. I ken my friends.
Holy are they, full ready me to hele.
Their volundès are dead to selfish ends,
No denwere in my breast I of them feel.
I must to prayers; go in, and you do well;
I must not lose the duty of the day;
Go in, go in, and view the azure rele,
Full well I wot you have no mind to pray.


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Qu.
I leave you to do homage heaven-were;
To serve your liege-folk too, is doing homage there.

[Exit Queen.