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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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VI.

Minst.
William, the Norman's flower, but England's thorn,
The man whose might activity had knit,
Snatched up his long strung bow and shield aborne,
Commanding all his hommageres to fight.
Go, rouse the lion from his secret den,
Let thy floes drink the blood of anything but men.