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Aella; a Tragycal Enterlude An Excelente Balade of Charitie quoted in John Cranstoun Nevill, Thomas Chatterton (1948)The Complete Works of Thomas Chatterton (1971)

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Liste! now the thunder's rattling clymmynge sound
Cheves slowlie on, and then embollen clangs,
Shakes the hie spyre, and losst, dispended, drown'd,
Still on the gallard eare of terroure hanges;
The windes are up; the lofty elmen swanges;
Again the levynne and the thunder poures,
And the full cloudes are braste attenes in stonen showers.

Thomas Chatterton

Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770), British poet. An Excelente Balade of Charitie (l. 36–42). . .

The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry. Vol. I: Spenser to Crabbe. John Wain, ed. (1990) Oxford University Press.

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