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The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams

... From the Originals in the Possession of His Grandson The Right Hon. The Earl of Essex and Others: With Notes by Horace Walpole ... In Three Volumes, with Portraits

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ON THE PRINCES GOING TO ST. JAMES'S

IN FEBRUARY 1741-2.

WHEN to each other's fond embrace,
The son and father came;
Both parties lik'd the thing so much,
That they too did the same.

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Strange miracle! sure future times
Will scarce believe these stories;
Lions may couple now with lambs,
When Whigs embrace with Tories.
But disappointments very soon
Will lessen this affection;
And tho' now party names are dead,
They'll have a resurrection.
And when the day of judgment comes,
To loosen these embraces;
Then some shall go and gnash their teeth,
And some to happy places.