God Bless The King,--I Mean The Faith's Defender! God Bless--no Harm In Blessing--the Pretender!

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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.
-- John Byrom (1691-1763)
-- To an Officer of the Army, extempore

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