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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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Her.
Methinks I hear their slogan's din from far.

Bour.
Ah! soon my shield and tilting-lance are bound;
Eftsoons command my Squyër to the war.

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I fly before to claim a challenge-ground.

[Exit.
Her.
Thy valorous acts would many men astound,
Hard is their fate encountering thee in fight;
Against all men, thou bearest to the ground,
Like the hard hail doth the tall rushes pight.
As when the morning-sun doth drink the dew,
So do thy valorous acts drink each knight's hue.