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Excerpt from The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook, Vol. 2 of 2 In Imitation of Bunbury's Little Grey Man. Preserved among the "Tales of Wonder," and, without permission inscribed to a Major-General of the British Army, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Agent for the Ionian Islands, and a Pensioner of the present Administration, &c. Oh! deep was the sorrow, and sad was the day, When death took our gracious old Monarch away, And gave us a Queen, lost to honour and fame, Whose manners are folly, whose conduct is shame; Who with aliens and vagabonds long having stroll'd, Soon caught up their habits, loose, brazen, and bold. Oh! what will the rancour of party not do! Ye Howards and Russells this sigh is for you! To an union so base can ye bend your proud will? Yes, great though the peril, unmeasur'd the ill, Through the country delusion and clamour must ring, And, your rivals to strike, you must menace your King. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.