Queen Caroline

Queen Caroline, the wife of King George IV, was put on trial (in effect) before Parliament in 1820, on charges of adultery. One of her lawyers cited the Bible passage that ends with Jesus saying, "Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more." This may have been inapt, since the defense was arguing that Caroline was factually innocent, whereas Jesus's was that we should forgive even the guilty (since none of us is without sin). But in any event, this led an unknown wag to write,

Most Gracious Queen, we thee implore
To go away and sin no more
Or if that effort be too great
To go away at any rate.

For some reason this passage has been going through my mind.

Comments

[Commenter_XY]

LOL...touche, Professor Volokh. 🙂

[DWB]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNCM8IjtQ-o

[JohnW in Md]

I'd like to help you out...
Which way did you come in?

[Hugo S. Cunningham]

Dr Seuss once wrote a children's nonsense poem, "Marvin K Mooney, will you please go now!" As Watergate approached its climax in 1974, he authorized Art Buchwald to copy it as "Richard M. Nixon, will you please go now!"

[Dan Schiavetta]

As if George IV were a faithful husband!

[Bored Lawyer]

But he sure had an impact on men's fashion in the Western world. Since then, other than the military, men are stuck wearing dark, conservative suits, in black, grey or blue. (I remember when it was a minor scandal that Reagan wore a brown suit.)

[Ridgeway]

In the immortal words of Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx, "Don't go away mad ... just go away."

[Sidney r finkel]

THANKS!!

And from Cromwell who recognized this problem centuries ago

"In 1653, after learning that Parliament was attempting to stay in session despite an agreement to dissolve, and having failed to come up with a working constitution, Cromwell's patience ran out. On 20 April he attended a sitting of Parliament and listened to one or two speeches. Then he stood up and harangued the members of the Rump. This speech does not survive, but has often been paraphrased, for instance in the Book of Days:

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately ... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"

- Wikipedia

[MatthewSlyfield]

I don’t care who you are, that there is funny.

[David Friedman]

Thanks. I wasn't aware of the whole dramatic story of Caroline and George, and your note got me to read it. Clearly the plot of a particularly implausible soap opera.

Has anyone done a historical novel on it?

[M L]

Don't go away mad.

Just go away.

[Snorkle]

A good showman leaves them wanting more.