“In such green palaces the first kings reign'd,
Slept in their shades, and angels entertain'd;
With such old counsellors they did advise,
And by frequenting sacred groves grew wise.”
On St. James's Park; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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