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SONG TO MR. G. CATCOTT.
1769.
1.
1 AH blame me not, Catcott, if from the right way
2 My notions and actions run far.
3 How can my ideas do other but stray,
4 Depriv'd of the ruling North Star?
2.
[Page 40]5 Ah blame me not, Broderip, if mounted aloft,
6 I chatter and spoil the dull air;
7 How can I imagine thy foppery soft,
8 When discord's the voice of my fair?
3.
9 If Turner remitted my bluster and rhymes,
10 If Harding was girlish and cold,
11 If never an ogle was met from Miss Grimes,
12 If Flavia was blasted and old;
4.
13 I chose without liking, and left without pain,
14 Nor welcom'd the frown with a sigh;
15 I scorn'd, like a monkey, to dangle my chain,
16 And paint them new charms with a lie.
5.
[Page 41]17 Once Cotton was handsome; I flam'd, and I burn'd,
18 I died to obtain the bright Queen;
19 But when I beheld my Epistle return'd,
20 By Jesu it alter'd the scene.
6.
21 She's damnable ugly, my Vanity cried,
22 You lie, says my Conscience, you lie;
23 Resolving to follow the dictates of Pride,
24 I'd view her a hag to my eye.
7.
25 But should she regain her bright lustre again,
26 And shine in her natural charms,
27 'Tis but to accept of the works of my pen,
28 And permit me to use my own arms.
Source edition
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. 39-41. [6],ii,88p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T48948; OTA K045459.000)
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- THE ADVICE. ADDRESSED TO MISS M—— R——, OF BRISTOL. ()
- A BURLESQUE CANTATA. 1770. ()
- BURLETTA. THE WOMAN OF SPIRIT. 1770. ()
- CERDICK, TRANSLATED FROM THE SAXON. ()
- CHATTERTON'S WILL. 1770. ()
- COLIN INSTRUCTED. 1770. ()
- THE CONSULIAD, AN HEROIC POEM. ()
- THE COPERNICAN SYSTEM. ()
- THE DEATH OF NICOU, AN AFRICAN ECLOGUE. ()
- THE DEFENCE, ()
- ELEGY, ON W. BECKFORD ESQ. ()
- ELEGY, To the Memory of Mr. THOMAS PHILLIPS of Fairford. ()
- ELEGY. ()
- ELEGY. ()
- EPISTLE TO THE REVEREND MR. CATCOTT. ()
- ETHELGAR, A SAXON POEM. ()
- FEBRUARY, AN ELEGY. ()
- GODRED CROVAN, A POEM. ()
- GORTHMUND, TRANSLATED FROM THE SAXON. ()
- HECCAR AND GAIRA AN AFRICAN ECLOGUE. ()
- THE HIRLAS, Translated from the ancient British of OWEN CYFELIOG, Prince of Powys. ()
- IN IMITATION OF OUR OLD POETS. ON OURE LADYES CHIRCH. 1769. ()
- KENRICK. TRANSLATED FROM THE SAXON. ()
- THE METHODIST. MAY 1770. ()
- NARVA AND MORED, AN AFRICAN ECLOGUE. ()
- ODE TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
- ON MR. ALCOCK, OF BRISTOL, AN EXCELLENT MINIATURE PAINTER. ()
- One CANTO of an ANCIENT POEM, CALLED The UNKNOWN KNIGHT or the TOURNAMENT. ()
- THE PROPHECY. ()
- SENTIMENT. 1769. ()
- A SONG. ADDRESSED TO MISS C—AM OF BRISTOL. ()
- SONG. FANNY[|BETSY] OF THE HILL. 1770. ()
- TO A FRIEND. ()
- TO MISS B—SH, OF BRISTOL. ()
- TO MISS C—KE. 1768. ()
- TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
- TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
- TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
- TO MISS H—L—D. 1768. ()
- TO MISS H—L—D. WITH A PRESENT. 1768. ()
- TO MR. HOLLAND. ()
- TO THE BEAUTEOUS MISS H—L—D. ()