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Now let us sing, long live the king.

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being Queen of this country.

And kind as kings upon their coronation day.

A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work Of many thousand men.

Every citizen is king under a citizen king.

There was a king of Thule, Was faithful till the grave, To whom his mistress dying, A golden goblet gave.

As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave.

She governs but she does not reign.

The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach.

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.

Though good faith should be banished from the rest of the world, it should be found in the mouths of kings.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a Prince as soon as his groom.

Over all good things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed.