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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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VII.

[Minst.]
In the treed forest do the knights appear,
William with might his bow en-iron'd plies;
Loud dins the arrow in the wolfin's ear;
He riseth battent, roars, he pants, he dies;
Forslagen at thy feet let wolfins be,
Let thy floes drink their blood, but do not brethren sle.