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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)

Vol. I.

I. Poems written before 1769.

II.

II. Poems written in 1769.

III.

III. Poems written in 1770.

IV.

IV. Miscellaneous Poems, &c.

II.

VOL. II.

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Air.

“Now the devil take ye all,
Saints or no saints, all in a lump;

Here must I labour and bawl,
And thump, and thump, and thump;
And never a souse to be got.
Unless—I swear by jingo,
A greater profit's made,
I'll forswear my trade,
My gown and market-lingo,
And leave ye all to pot.”