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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ON HAPPIENESSE. |
The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton | ||
ON HAPPIENESSE.
By William Canynge.
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Maie Selynesse on erthès boundes bee hadde?Maie yt adyghte yn human shape bee founde?
Wote yee, ytt was wyth Edin's bower bestadde,
Or quite eraced from the scaunce-layd grounde,
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Does yt agrosed shun the bodyed waulke,
Lyve to ytself and to yttes ecchoe taulke?
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All hayle, Contente, thou mayde of turtle-eyne,As thie behoulders thynke thou arte iwreene,
To ope the dore to Selynesse ys thyne,
And Chrystis glorie doth upponne thee sheene.
Doer of the foule thynge ne hath thee seene;
In caves, ynn wodes, ynn woe, and dole distresse,
Whoere hath thee, hath gotten Selynesse.
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