We your Majesty’s dutiful subjects and Leiges,
To exhibit our skill in political Seiges,
Our Remonstrance present—May it please or displease you,
For our aim is to worry, and bully, and teize you,
And by impotent threats of a new Revolution,
Of your own, and your Family’s utter confusion,
To frighten you into a Mad Dissolution.
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We your Majesty’s dutiful subjects and Leiges
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “The City Remonstrance.” This hymn appears in the ca. 1785 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous Poems.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/559, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), page 153.
Publishing: Public Domain