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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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XII.

[Minst.]
With murder tired, he slings his bow alyne.
The stag is ouch'd with crowns of lily flowers.
Around their helms they green vert do entwine,
Joying and revelous in the greenwood bowers.
Forslagen with thy flo let wild beasts be,
Feast thee upon their flesh, do not thy brethren sle.