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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JAMES MONTGOMERY.  1771-1854.