“Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.”

England's Trust, part iii, line 227, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Context: No: by the names inscribed in History's page,
Names that are England's noblest heritage,
Names that shall live for yet unnumbered years
Shrined in our hearts with Cressy and Poictiers;
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.

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