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A Metrical History of England

Or, Recollections, in Rhyme, Of some of the most prominent Features in our National Chronology, from the Landing of Julius Caesar to the Commencement of the Regency, in 1812. In Two Volumes ... By Thomas Dibdin

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The sov'reign's sister gives her royal hand
To Brunswick's Duke:—to his paternal land
He bears the fair, and from this union springs
The hope, perspective, of a race of Kings.