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power or effects of love is to set a candle in the sun."]

_Lines Written with the Diamond Pencil of Lord Chesterfield_.

Accept a miracle, instead of wit, See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.

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HENRY CAREY. 1663-1743.

_God save the King_.[16]

God save our gracious king, Long live our noble king, God save the king.

[Note 16: The authorship both of the words and music of "God save the King" has long been a matter of dispute, and is still unsettled, though the weight of the evidence is in favor of Carey's claim.]

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_Chrononhotonthologos_. Act i. Sc. 3.

To thee, and gentle Rigdum Funnidos, Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded.