THE ROYAL WONDERS
Reading edition
(1830)
Two miracles at once! Compell'd by fate, His tarnish'd throne the Bourbon doth vacate; While English William,—a diviner thing,— Of his free pleasure hath put off the king. The forms of distant old respect lets pass, And melts his crown into the common mass. Health to fair France, and fine regeneration! But England's is the nobler abdication.