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PG-P.757.026
21 Apr 1757:21 (1478)
London. . . February 1. . . Likewise, that he [the King of
France] had a warning some weeks since to take care of
himself, by a paper laid under his plate on a table in the
room where he was to dine; and it may be remembered, that in
the year 1751, the following lines were fixed up at the
Louvre, one of his palaces:
By our brave ancestors two Henries fell,
A victim one to Freedom, one to God.
Lewis! by servile flattery taught to swell,
Thou tread'st their steps, and shak'st the tyrant's rod.
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