The richest monarch in the Christian world;
The sun in my dominions never sets.
Schiller: Don Karlos, act. i. sc. 6.
Altera figlia
Di quel monarca, a cui
Nè anco, quando annotta il sol tramonta
(The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows dark [elsewhere] the sun never sets).—Guarini: Pastor Fido (1590). On the marriage of the Duke of Savoy with Catherine of Austria.
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