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Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 1 (of 3)

Note 116 — Chapter IX

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In the first number of his Magazine, Struensee had published an epigram, pointed at this state of matters in Copenhagen:—

"An die Fürsten. Ihr heisst mit Recht die Fürsten dieser Erde, Denn Ihr erschafft: o schöne That! Ihr sprechet ein allmächtig: Werde! Schnell wird aus dem Lakai ein—Rath."

(To the Princes.—You are justly called the princes of the earth, for you create; ah! glorious deed: you utter an almighty be! and quickly a lackey becomes a—Councillor.)

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