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The Consolidator - or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon by Daniel Defoe
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Dilirious and Whymsical, that fancy'd Crowns and Kingdoms were to
come and go, just as the great Divan at their Court should direct.
This confusion of Circumstances has occasion'd a certain Copy of
Verses to appear about the Moon, which in our Characters may be read
as follows.

Wondelis Idulasin na Perixola Metartos,
Strigunia Crolias Xerin Hytale fylos;
Farnicos Galvare Orpto sonamel Egonsberch,
Sih lona Sipos Gullia Ropta Tylos.

'Which may be English'd thus.

Casar you Trifle with the World in vain,
Think rather now of Germany than Spain;
He's hardly fit to fill th' Eagle's Throne,
Who gives new Crowns, and can't protect his own.

'But after all to come closer to the Point, if I can now make it out
that whatever it was before, this very Practice of declaring a second
Son to be King of Ebronia, has publickly own'd the Proceedings of the
King of Gallunaria to be Just, and the Title of his Grandson to be
much better than the Title of the now declar'd King, what shall we
call it then?

'In order to this, 'tis first necessary to examine the Title of the
present King, and to enter into the history of his coming to the
Crown, in which I shall be very Brief.

'The last King of Ebronia dying without Issue, and a former
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