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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
Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)

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Vol. I.
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I. Poems written before 1769.
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II. Poems written in 1769.
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III. Poems written in 1770.
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IV. Miscellaneous Poems, &c.
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VOL. II.

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XIII.

King.
Now to the tourney; who will first affray?

Her.
Nevylle, a baron, be that honour thine.

Bour.
I claim the passage.

Nev.
I contest thy way.

Bour.
Then there's my gauntlet on my gaberdine.

Her.
A lawful challenge, knights and champions digne,
A lawful challenge! Let the slogan sound. [Sir Simon and Nevylle tilt.

Nevylle is going, man and horse, to ground. [Nevylle falls.

My lords, how doughtily the tilters join!
Ye champions, here Symonne de Bourtonne fights,
One hath he quash'd; assail him, O ye knights.

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