“God bless the King! (I mean our faith's defender!)
God bless! (No harm in blessing) the Pretender.
But who Pretender is, and who is King,
God bless us all! That's quite another thing!”

— John Byrom

Verse "Intended to allay the Violence of Party-Spirit"
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)

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Poet, inventor of a shorthand system 1692–1763

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