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FAMOUS SONGS
is no other evidence for this claim (unless the inferiority of the first-published version be taken as such) and the probability is thati God Save the King/ is the composition of Henry Purcell, and the words were perhaps translated into English by Henry Carey," Here are the words in Latin:
" O Deus Optime ; Salvuni nunc facito Regem nostrum; Sit laeta victoria Comes et gloria Salvum jam facito Tu Dominum.
" Exurgat Dominus Rebelles dissipet
Et reprimat;
Dolos confundito
Fraudes1 depellito
In Te sit sita spes
O Salvanos."
But these words are not found to exist prior to the English song which was published in the eighteenth century, as previously stated, and no record exists as to the music the poem was really sung to. In one work as " God Save our Lord the King/'" A Loyal Song for two voices set by Mr. Crome/' the song with four verses was pub-lished and then republished in the four editions
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