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 1     1| monarch's aid,~Who swayed the sceptre of that fair domain;~And
 2     3|    XXXIV~"He, with his better sceptre well contented,~Shall rule
 3    21|     then the Grecian empire's sceptre swayed.~ ~ XIV~"Brother
 4    28|     Astolpho that the Lombard sceptre swayed,~Who was King Monacho,
 5    33|   realm Senapus reigns,~Whose sceptre is the cross; of cities
 6    40|     since Branzardo there the sceptre bore;~Few masons at command,
 7    40|    vain,~Whoe'er foregoes the sceptre which he swayed,~And to
 8    40|   more, controlled~By my good sceptre, in such mighty force,~Will
 9    43|     the reign,~Whose honoured sceptre thou wast now to take?~With
10    44|       more high~Than these by sceptre, mitre, or by crown,~Nor
11    44|     said, but will not lay~On sceptre or on leading-staff his
12    46|       thither he that Sarza's sceptre swayed~To infect such bliss
13    46|     him in Adrianople are~The sceptre and the crown, his royal
14    46|   swayed~The Grecian empire's sceptre, at mid-day~This with its