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PROEM	A
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Where Kings have been by mob elections	B
Raised to the throne 'tis strange to see	C
What different and what odd perfections	C
Men have required in Royalty	C
Some liking monarchs large and plumpy	D
Have chosen their Sovereigns by the weight	E
Some wisht them tall some thought your Dumpy	D
Dutch built the true Legitimate	F
The Easterns in a Prince 'tis said	G
Prefer what's called a jolterhead	G
The Egyptians weren't at all partic'lar	H
So that their Kings had not red hair	H
This fault not even the greatest stickler	H
For the blood royal well could bear	H
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A thousand more such illustrations	C
Might be adduced from various nations	C
But 'mong the many tales they tell us	C
Touching the acquired or natural right	G
Which some men have to rule their fellows	C
There's one which I shall here recite	G
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FABLE	I
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There was a land to name the place	C
Is neither now my wish nor duty	G
Where reigned a certain Royal race	C
By right of their superior beauty	G
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What was the cut legitimate	G
Of these great persons' chins and noses	C
By right of which they ruled the state	G
No history I have seen discloses	C
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But so it was a settled case	C
Some Act of Parliament past snugly	G
Had voted them a beauteous race	C
And all their faithful subjects ugly	G
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As rank indeed stood high or low	J
Some change it made in visual organs	C
Your Peers were decent Knights so so	J
But all your common people gorgons	C
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Of course if any knave but hinted	G
That the King's nose was turned awry	H
Or that the Queen God bless her squinted	G
The judges doomed that knave to die	G
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But rarely things like this occurred	G
The people to their King were duteous	C
And took it on his Royal word	G
That they were frights and He was beauteous	C
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The cause whereof among all classes	C
Was simply this these island elves	C
Had never yet seen looking glasses	C
And therefore did not know themselves	C
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Sometimes indeed their neighbors' faces	C
Might strike them as more full of reason	K
More fresh than those in certain places	C
But Lord the very thought was treason	K
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Besides howe'er we love our neighbor	H
And take his face's part 'tis known	L
We ne'er so much in earnest labor	H
As when the face attackt's our own	L
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So on they went the crowd believing	M
As crowds well governed always do	G
Their rulers too themselves deceiving	M
So old the joke they thought 'twas true	G
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But jokes we know if they too far go	J
Must have an end and so one day	G
Upon that coast there was a cargo	J
Of looking glasses cast away	G
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'Twas said some Radicals somewhere	H
Had laid their wicked heads together	H
And forced that ship to founder there	H
While some believe it was the weather	H
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However this might be the freight	G
Was landed without fees or duties	C
And from that hour historians date	G
The downfall of the Race of Beauties	C
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The looking glasses got about	G
And grew so common thro' the land	G
That scarce a tinker could walk out	G
Without a mirror in his hand	G
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Comparing faces morning noon	N
And night their constant occupation	K
By dint of looking glasses soon	N
They grew a most reflecting nation	K
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In vain the Court aware of errors	C
In all the old establisht mazards	C
Prohibited the use of mirrors	C
And tried to break them at all hazards	C
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In vain their laws might just as well	O
Have been waste paper on the shelves	C
That fatal freight had broke the spell	O
People had lookt and knew themselves	C
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If chance a Duke of birth sublime	A
Presumed upon his ancient face	C
Some calf head ugly from all time	A
They popt a mirror to his Grace	C
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Just hinting by that gentle sign	P
How little Nature holds it true	G
That what is called an ancient line	P
Must be the line of Beauty too	G
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From Dukes' they past to regal phizzes	C
Compared them proudly with their own	L
And cried How could such monstrous quizzes	C
In Beauty's name usurp the throne	L
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They then wrote essays pamphlets books	C
Upon Cosmetical Oeconomy	A
Which made the King try various looks	C
But none improved his physiognomy	A
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And satires at the Court were levelled	G
And small lampoons so full of slynesses	C
That soon in short they quite bedeviled	G
Their Majesties and Royal Highnesses	C
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At length but here I drop the veil	Q
To spare some royal folks' sensations	C
Besides what followed is the tale	Q
Of all such late enlightened nations	C
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Of all to whom old Time discloses	C
A truth they should have sooner known	L
That kings have neither rights nor noses	C
A whit diviner than their own	L

Thomas Moore

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