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Here's A Health To King Charles

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Bring the bowl which you boast,     Fill it up to the brim;     'Tis to him we love most,     And to all who love him.     Brave gallants, stand up,     And avaunt ye, base carles!     Were there death in the cup,     Here's a health to King Charles.     Though he wanders through dangers,     Unaided, unknown,     Dependent on strangers,     Estranged from his own;     Though 'tis under our breath,     Amidst forfeits and perils,     Here's to honor and faith,     And a health to King Charles!     Let such honors abound     As the time can afford,     The knee on the ground,     And the hand on the sword;     But the time shall come round     When, 'mid Lords, Dukes, and Earls,     The loud trumpet shall sound,     Here's a health to King Charles!

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