A Sequel to Don Juan — page 168: what you’re looking at

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DON JUAN. 159 ix. Your Gracious Majesty too condescends Most graciously to give us every year A gracious pledge that when your own life ends, Your dynasty will still most gracious cheer The land which on its gracious will depends For every gracious boon it hopes for here :— Thus does your Gracious Majesty so graciously Give us each gracious pledge unostentatiously. X. Good heavens! what would become of us indeed, If your Most Gracious Majesty had not By a kind Providence been thus decreed To be prolific ¢_ Happy is our lot To have so many babes, in case of need, To choose a sovereign from ;—and I, God wot, Should prove myself a wanton reprobate, full Of treasonable thoughts, were I not grateful. XI. But I am grateful ! When I put my hana Into my purse the income-tax to pay, I cannot help exclaiming, “‘ Happy land, Which a young lady condescends to sway For only half a million sterling ;—and Is that not cheap—now, answer me, I pray ? Considering all the duties which belong : Unto the place, the income’s a mere song !”’ COMmiclhoooks. con