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Your Petitioners shall ever Pray

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etc. The part omitted is, if a petition to the Crown, “for your Majesty’s most prosperous reign”; but if to Parliament, the suppressed words are, “for the prosperous success of this high and honourable court of Parliament.”

 

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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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Yoke
Yorick
York
York Stairs (London)
Yorks (a Stock-Exchange term)
Yorkshire
Young Chevalier
Young England
Young Germany
Young Italy
Your Petitioners shall ever Pray
Youth Restored
Ysolde, Ysonde
Ysolt of the White Hand
Yue-Laou
Yuga
Yule
Yule Log
Yule Swain (The)
Yuletide
Yumboes