“To send the injur'd unredress'd away,
How great soe'er th' offender, or the wrong'd
Howe'er obscure, is wicked—weak and vile:
Degrades, denies, and should dethrone a king!”

— Tobias Smollett

Act IV, scene ix.
The Regicide (1749)

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18th-century poet and author from Scotland 1721–1771

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