...finding out. Amazing grace, indeed, to save a wretch like George, but, as Byron observed, "if [God] will / Be saving, all the better; for not one am I / Of those who think damnation better still" (98-100). And to have denied salvation to the old king would have been playing by Southey's rules....

...Except that household virtue, most uncommon, Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman. 'God save the king !' It is a large economy In God to save the like; but...restriction, The eternity of hell's hot jurisdiction. I know this is unpopular ; I know 'Tis blasphemous; I know one may be damn'd For hoping no one else...