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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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XX.

King.
Thou art a holy man, I do thee prize.
Come, come, and hear, and help me in thy prayers,
Full twenty mancas I will thee alise,
And twain of hamlets to thee and thy heirs.
So shall all Normans from my land be fed,
They only have such love as to acquire their bread.

[Exeunt.