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'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy old crown on 'er 'ead? She 'as ships on the foam--she 'as millions at 'ome, An' she pays us poor beggars in red.

The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people.

Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings.

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

I am the State.

He who knows how to dissimulate knows how to reign.

His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering but not beneath his shoulders broad.

'Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To bear the miseries of a people! And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."

In good King Charles's golden days When royalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment.

Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.

The King is dead! Long live the King!

But all's to no end, for the time will not mend Till the King enjoys his own again.

What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear The public burthen of the nation's care.

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings.

Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands, We two--ach! Don't you understand? Myself--und Gott.

When kings are building, draymen have something to do.

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.