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“The right divine of kings to govern wrong.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Dunciad. Book iv. Line 188.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1e317844f627480b57651bc43d8875f0a2287839f8e9cb0ec2e6d4ea17088c87
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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