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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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XXXI.

Sprite of Framptone
speaks.
Bristol shall speak my name, and Redcliff too,
For here my deeds were godly every one,
As Auden's minster by the gate will shew,
And John's at Bristol what my works have done,
Besides another house I had begun.
But mine, compared to this one, is a groffe,
Not to be mentioned or be looked upon,
A very laughing-stock or very scoff.
Canynge, thy name shall living be for aye,
Thy name not with the church shall waste away.