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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

An Epigram

John Byrom (1692–1763)

GOD bless the King! I mean the Faith’s Defender;

God bless (no harm in blessing) the Pretender;

But who Pretender is, or who is King—

God bless us all!—that’s quite another thing.