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King of dulness. Colley Cibber, poet laureate after Eusden.
“‘God save king Cibber!’ mounts in every note… .
So when Jove’s block descended from on high… .
Loud thunder to the bottom shook the bog,
And the hoarse nation croaked, ‘God save king Log!’”
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Pope: Dunciad, book i.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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