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George the First was always reckoned / Vile, but viler George the Second; / And what mortal ever heard / Any good of George the Third? / When from earth the Fourth descended/ God be praised, the Georges ended!
Walter Savage Landor
First
George
Good
Heard
Mortal
Reckoned
Second
Vile
Viler
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