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Extracts from a supposed unpublished Chatterton manuscript included in a LETTER OF MR. RICHARD SMITH TO THE BRISTOL MIRROR. First printed in 1838, and reprinted in Willcox's edition, 1842; p. 313.
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[Quæ requirit misericordiam mala causa est.]
Walworth—Quæ requirit misericordiam mala causa est.
Alack! alack! a sad dome mine in fay.
But oft with cityzens it is the case.
Honesta turpitudo pro bonâ
Causâ mori, as auntient pensmen sayse.
[OMITTED]
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Home news welle let alone and latyn too,
For mee a memorie doth 'gin to fayle;
Saie, Master Walworth, what gode newes have you,
Praie have you herdeen of the stouns of hayle?
Walw.—
I have, and that ytte with reddour did sayle,
Some heutstones were lyke cheryes rege and grete,
And to the grownde there did the trees preveyle;
But goodmanne Philpotte, what dye you ahete
Bowte goods of Laymingtone, nowe holde by you
For certaine monies store to you for chattels due?
Phille.—
Ah, I have nymd him specyal, for his wine
Have ta'en attons twelve pounds, for dayntye cheer,
Though the same time mie wyfe wyth hym dyd dyne,
Been payd a mark—non-extra of the beer;
But when hys synkynge purse did 'gin to wear
I lent hym full syx markes upon hys faie,
And hee, poore Custrole, havynge note to spere
Favor'd a cleere and now doth runne awaie,
Hys goodes I downe at Brystowe towne wyll selle,
For which I will get forty shenynge marks full well.
Wal.—
Tyde lyfe, tyde death, I wyll withe thee go downe,
And selle some goods too yn brave Brystowe towne.
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