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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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XVIII.

Bour.
Now, by Saint Mary, if on all the field
Y-crased spears and helmets were besprent,
If every knight did hold a piercèd shield,
If all the field with champions' blood were stent,
Yet to encounter him I am content.
Another lance, Marshal, another lance.
Albeit he with flames of fire y-brent,
Yet Bourtonne would against his val advance.
Five now have fallen down beneath his spear,
But he shall be the next that falleth here.