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The works of Lord Byron

A new, revised and enlarged edition, with illustrations. Edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge and R. E. Prothero

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Besides there were the Spaniard, Dutch, and Dane;
In short, an universal shoal of shades

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From Otaheite's isle to Salisbury Plain,
Of all climes and professions, years and trades,
Ready to swear against the good king's reign,
Bitter as clubs in cards are against spades:
All summoned by this grand “subpœna,” to
Try if kings mayn't be damned like me or you.