"The wedding guest here beat his breast
For he heard the loud bassoon:"

one catches a far-away reverberation from certain stanzas of "The
Bristowe Tragedie:" this, _e.g._,

"Before him went the council-men
In scarlet robes and gold,
And tassels spangling in the sun,
Much glorious to behold;"

and this:

"In different parts a godly psalm
Most sweetly they did chant:
Behind their backs six minstrels came,
Who tuned the strung bataunt."[27]

Among all the young poets of the generation that succeeded Chatterton,
there was a tender feeling of comradeship with the proud and passionate
boy, and a longing to admit him of their crew. Byron, indeed, said that
he was insane; but Shelley, in "Adonais," classes him with Keats among
"the inheritors of unfulfilled renown." Lord Houghton testifies that
Keats had a prescient sympathy with Chatterton in his early death. He
dedicated "Endymion" to his memory. In his epistle "To George Felton
Mathew," he asks him to help him find a place

"Where we may soft humanity put on,
And sit, and rhyme, and think on Chatterton."[28]