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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To fight, and not to flee, my sabatansI'll don, and gird my sword unto my side;
I'll go to ship, but not to foreign lands,
But act the pirate, rob in every tide;
With cockneys' blood shall Thamesis be dyed.
Their goods in Bristol market shall be sold,
My bark the laverd of the waters ride,
Her sails of scarlet and her stere of gold;
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And in my ship combine the force of all their three.
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