- And must for ever; still indulgent share [675]
- Her fostering smile: and other isles be given,
- From vanquish’d foes.—And, see, another race!
- A golden aera dazzles my fond sight!
- That other race, that long’d-for aera, hail!
- THE BRITISH GEORGE NOW REIGNS, THE PATRIOT KING!1 [680]
- BRITAIN SHALL EVER TRIUMPH O’ER THE MAIN.
The END of BOOK IV.
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Perhaps a reference to Henry St. Bolingbroke’s The Idea of a Patriot King (1749), a treatise written for Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-1751), on monarchy. It describes in idealized terms the policies and virtuous conduct of a patriot king waiting in the wings. The patriot king’s accession was supposed to end political conflicts. ↩︎