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English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Earl of Rochester

259. Epitaph on Charles II

HERE lies our Sovereign Lord the King,

Whose word no man relies on,

Who never said a foolish thing,

Nor ever did a wise one.