"If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases."
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Algernon Sydney, on being told that part of his sentence had been remitted β that he would merely be executed, but his estate would remain intact, quoted in Joe Miller's Jests (1739), p. 6
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Charles II of England
Charles II of England (29 May 1630 β 6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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