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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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IX.

[Minst.]
The lioncel, from sultry countries brought,
Couching beneath the shelter of the briar,
At coming din doth raise himself distraught,
He looketh with an eye of flames of fire.
Go, stick the lion to his secret den,
Let thy floes drink the blood of anything but men.