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The Royal Hermitage or Temple of Honour

A Poem to Her Majesty the Queen-Regent. To which is prefix'd, An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole. By Mr. Mitchell
 

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Hic Manus, ob Patriam pugnando vulnera passi,
Quique Sacerdotes casti, dum Vita manebat,
Quique pii Vates, & Phœbo digna locuti,
Inventas aut qui Vitam excoluere per Artes,
Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo:
Omnibus his niveâ cinguntur Tempora Vittâ.
Virg.