Possible Clues:

• Was everywhere
• Maintained high position, though fell, say
• As a rule, sounded as if it was never dry
• Was predominant and ruled
• As a rule it was not so fine, by the sound of it
• Not, by the sound of it, so fine on the throne
• Was in power and stoical when son left
• That sounded as if it was wet for His Majesty
• How monarch spent his time
• Ruled that it dropped from heaven, we hear