Chapter KEEP to KING of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Burns.—Tam o’ Shanter.

God bless the King! God bless the faith’s defender!
God bless—No harm in blessing the Pretender,
Who that Pretender is, and who that King—
God bless us all!—Is quite another thing.

Scott.—Redgauntlet, Chap. VIII. (Quoting Dr. Byrom.)

A king
Of shreds and patches.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (His rebuke to his Mother at the moment the Ghost enters.)