Brewer's: Your Petitioners shall ever Pray

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.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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