Poetical Works⠀⠀⠀M OF

OF

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Itinerant Poet,

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

From lowest place, when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer's deed.

For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich,

And, as the Sun breaks through the darkest clonds
So honor peereth in the meanest habit.

What, is the jay more precious than the lark,
Because his feathers are more beautiful?

Or is the adder better than the eel

Because his painted skin contents the eye.

No.-

SHAKSPEARE.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

IPSWICH:

PRINTED FOR AND SOLD BY THE EDITOR, C. RAGAN,

SOLD ALSO BY COWELL, BUTTER-MARKET, AND ALL OTHER

BOOKSELLERS.

1820.

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Life, &c.

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CONTENTS.

Page

iii

Acrostic on the Author's Name, the first he ever

composed.

Acrostic on a Dismal Thunder Storm, (Dear

Sirs, the Author of this Poem took refuge in a

House on Evans Heath, during that dismal

Thunder Storm.) ....

Verses on a Barn being burnt down in the above

Thunder Storm.

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