SONG. FANNY[|BETSY] OF THE HILL. 1770. 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. 77-78. [6],ii,88p.; 8⁰.

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SONG . FANNY [| BETSY ] OF THE HILL . Miss F. B— , on Radclif-Hill , Bristol . 1770. IF gentle Love's immortal fire Could animate the quill , Soon should the rapture-speaking Lyre Sing Betsy of the Hill . My panting heart incessant moves , No interval 'tis still ; And all my ravish'd nature loves Sweet Betsy of the Hill . Her dying soft expressive eye , Her elegance must kill , Ye Gods ! how many thousands die For Betsy of the Hill . A love-taught tongue angelic air A sentiment , a skill In all the graces of the Fair , Mark Betsy of the Hill . Thou mighty Power , eternal Fate , My happiness to fill , O ! bless a wretched Lover's state With Betsy of the Hill .

The name of Fanny , which was first written , was afterwards cancelled , and that of Betsy substituted in its stead ; but for what reason was best known to the Author .