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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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I. Poems written before 1769.

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II. Poems written in 1769.

ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MR. JOHN TANDEY, SEN.

ON MR. ALCOCK, OF BRISTOL,

TO MR. HOLLAND.

TO MRS. HAYWOOD, THE NOVELIST.

TO HORACE WALPOLE.

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[Tis mystery all, in every sect]

[Say, Baker, if experience hoar]

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Air.

ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MR. PHILLIPS, OF FAIRFORD.

ON THOMAS PHILLIPS' DEATH.

ELEGY. [AFTER GRAY.]

ELEGY, WRITTEN AT STANTON-DREW.

EPISTLE TO THE REVEREND MR. CATCOTT.

THE COPERNICAN SYSTEM.

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III. Poems written in 1770.

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IV. Miscellaneous Poems, &c.

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

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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.”