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KING is sought to guide the growing State, One able to support the Publick Weight, And fill the Throne where Romulus had sate. Renown, which oft bespeaks the Publick Voice, Had recommended Numa to their Choice: A peaceful, pious Prince; who not content To know the Sabine Rites, his Study bent To