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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.

Sprite of Bythrycke
speaks.
Ellè, thy Bristol is thy only care,
Thou art like dragon vig'lant of its good;

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No loving dames (too kind) more love can bear,
Nor Lombards over gold more vig'lant brood.