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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48420	The Life of that incomparable princess, Mary, our late sovereign lady, of ever blessed memory who departed this life, at her royal pallace at Kensington, the 28th of December, 1694.	Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1695 (1695)	Wing L2036; ESTC R12336	30,960	122

that finish'd it I can only say if Excess be a Fault there wanted even a General Pardon for the Joys of that Day And here in Relation to her Majesty's share of Glory I must now remark as an everlasting Trophy to her never-dying Honour a Record that shall keep her Memory fragrant to the end of the World That not only our Altars the whole Church of England owes its Supporters and Bulwarks to Her his now Majesty's double Alliance through her Marriage to the Crown of Great Britain being the greatest Invitation and Encouragement to the People of England to call him over for their Deliverer But likewise 't was this Royal Conjunction in our Ascendant that has taken up the Ballance of Christendom which the Un-British Effeminacy Coldness and Negligence of the foregoing Reigns had so weakly so poorly and so unkindly let fall The before so long Titular and only Titular Blazon in the Royal Scutcheon of Arbiter of Europe is now become and that a Work I may say so far of her own fair Creation a true and massy Jewel in the English Crown whilst her propitious Marriage alone has lent this happy Kingdom that Hand and that Heart that dare put in Execution what his Predecessors made only a Feint and Shadow has crown'd us that Sovereign Prince who in the Head of an Army dares speak true English again true Royal English A Prince whose publick Benefits and Obligations to Mankind have reconciled those almost incompatible Names the Protestant Deliverer and yet at the same time the Romish Darling whilst his indefatigable and active Services in Relief of the common Distresses of Christendom have made even the most rigid Royal Sons of the Vatican Mother both love embrace and honour him The next Year after their Majesties Coronation his Majesty's Personal Appearance being required in Ireland for the Reduction of that Kingdom to his Obedience a Work that appeared too difficult for any other Conduct but his own the Parliament by a Statute made for that purpose settled the Royal Administration in the Queen to hold for such time during his Majesty's Absence By virtue of this Act whenever his Majesty's leading Sword in the common Cause of Christendom has been called abroad and thereby the Regency devolved into the Queen's Hand as all those times of his Majesty's Absence were ever at that active Season of the Year as required the most vigorous and most vigilant Councils of England so the Royal Helm tho steered by a Female Hand was never better guided or more firmly by the most Manly Royal Pilot. I may truly say that as she was a second Elizabeth in the Church so she was no less in the Council-Chamber But as highly qualified as she was for Exercise of Sovereign Power how she affected it I shall refer my Reader to the Reverend Dean of St. Paul's his more eminent Authority where in the Enumeration of her several other Vertues he is pleased to leave us this Record of her She was the Glory of her Sex and an Ornament to the Crown she wore made truly Great by Nature Birth and Education She had a large and capacious Mind a quick and lively Apprehension and a piercing and solid Iudgment she had a Strength and Firmness of Mind beyond her Sex and such a Dexterity in managing the greatest Affairs as would have become the greatest and most experienced Ministers Never was there greater Skill in Government with less Fondness for it which she could take up and lay down with the same Equality of Mind Tho I doubt I must unsay that for she was always grieved at the occasion of taking the Government and as glad to resign it Never was Majesty better temper'd with Easiness and Sweetness She knew how to be familiar without making her self cheap and to condescend without Meanness She had all the Greatness of Majesty with all the Vertues of Conversation and knew very well what became her Table and what became her Council-Board c. In short her greatest and most implacable Enemies for Vertue it self will meet with Enemies in the World had no other fault to charge her with but her Throne which is the only thing for which most Princes are valuable She ascended the Throne indeed before she desired it but was thrust into it not by an hasty Ambition but to save a sinking Church and Kingdom And I hope England will always have Reason to say That an empty Throne could never have been filled with a nobler Pair As the heighth of her Birth and the depth of her Conduct and Capacity so every ways suted to her Place and Character her little Ambition of Power only excepted had so signally enrich'd her for a Sovereign Head And to all this the bountiful Riches of Nature in so many Personal Accomplishments had mark'd her out as well for the leading Court-Star too yet either of these Claims and Prerogatives were so little her Concern that the only Study of her Life was that Exemplary Piety as should render her the leading Vertue that shin'd there For so free was she from the least Pride and Vanity those too common Taints both of Greatness and Beauty that if it were possible for her to glory in any of her illustrious Perfections or Acquisitions it was not in the Beauties of her fair Eyes or the Glories of her exalted Station but those of her more exalted Mind so far was she from being transported or delighted with what her Crown or her Glass reflected her that on the contrary she only looked upward for the Lustre to adorn her and inward for the Mirror to please her And altho three Diadems were a very alluring Birth-right a fair Portion of Worldly Felicity yet she had still a higher Ambition The Crown she aspired to was enrich'd with far brighter Lustre than that of Pearls and Diamonds and so little was she elevated with her first that she waited only for her later and dearer Coronation But not only to survey her in this higher Sphere of Piety and Religion but descend from her Communication with Heaven to her Converse with Man and describe her Morals as well as Divinity She was the kindest and most constant Patroness to her Friends And to keep up no less to the great Christian Maxim of returning Good for Evil so she was a Protectress even to her Enemies whilst many a just Blow from too many deserving Heads has been shielded off by her interposing Mercy Then for another of her shining Vertues she was Charitable if that Doctrine might hold in our Church even to Merit And as so many hundred poor Widows are now provided for mourning Attendants at her Funeral so in her Life-time she has made many more hundreds of them smile at her Gate than those are now order'd to mourn at her Hearse when so many Mouths have been fed and Backs clothed by her Majesty's Royal Bounty And whilst so many living Monuments of her Honour shall ever sing her Praises so the