IN IMITATION OF OUR OLD POETS. ON OURE LADYES CHIRCH. 1769. Thomas Chatterton Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T48948 K045459.000 Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770. A Supplement to the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton London printed for T. Becket, in Pall-Mall; Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and Their Royal Highnesses the Princes. MDCCLXXXIV. 1784 pp. 50-52. [6],ii,88p.; 8⁰.

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IN IMITATION OF OUR OLD POETS . ON OURE LADYES CHIRCH . 1769. IN auntient dayes , when Kenewalchyn King Of all the borders of the sea did reigne , Whos cutting CELES , CELES , most probably from the antient word Ceolis ; which , in the Saxon , is ships . From whence Ceolae , we find in Brompton , are used for large ships . as the Bardyes synge , Cut strakyng furrowes in the foamie mayne , Sancte Warbur cast aside his Earles estate , As great as good , and eke as good as great . Tho blest with what us men accounts as store , Saw something further , and saw something more . Where smokyng Wasker scours the claiey bank , And gilded fishes wanton in the sunne , Emyttynge to the feelds a dewie dank , As in the twyning path-waye he doth runne ; Here stoode a house , that in the ryver smyle Since valorous Ursa first wonne Bryttayn Isle ; The stones in one as firm as rock unite , And it defyde the greatest Warriours myghte ; Around about the lofty elemens hie Proud as their Planter reerde their greenie crest , Bent out their heads , when e'er the wynds came bie . In amorous dalliaunce the flete cloudes kest Attendynge Squires dreste in trickynge brighte , To each tenth Squier an attendynge Knyghte , The hallie hung with pendaunts to the flore , A coat of nobil armes upon the doore ; Horses and dogges to hunt the fallowe deere , Of pastures many , wide extent of wode , Faulkonnes in Mewes , and little birds to teir , The Sparrow Hawke , and many Hawkies gode . Just in the prime of life , whan others court Some swottie Nymph , to gain their tender hand , Greet with the Kynge and trerdie greet with the Court And as aforesed mickle much of land . FINIS .