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A33874	A collection of the funeral-orations, pronounc'd by publick authority in Holland upon the death of ... Mary II Queen of Great Britain, &c. by Dr. James Perizonius ..., Dr. George Grevius ..., F. Francius ..., Mr. Ortwinius ..., and, the learned author of the Collection of new and curious pieces ; to which is added, the invitation of the chancellor of the electoral University of Wittenberg, in Saxony, to George Wilbain Kirchmais, to pronounce a funeral oration upon the Queen's death, &c. ; done into English from the Latin originals.	Kirchmaier, Georg Wilhelm, 1673-1759.; Francius, Petrus, 1645-1704. Oratio in funere Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Reginae Mariae. English.; Graevius, Joannes Georgius, 1632-1703. Mariae Stuartae ... Britanniae, Galliae, et Hiberniae Reginae ... justa persoluta. English.; Ortwinius, Joannes. Laudatio funebris recitata post excessum Serenissimae ... Mariae Stuartae. English.; Spanheim, Friedrich, 1632-1701. Laudatio funebris ... Mariae II Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Reginae. English.	1695 (1695)	Wing C5203; ESTC R10177	94,331	161

enlarge I shall say nothing of Great Brittain the most Fortunate of all the Islands upon which the Sun shines the Parent of Emperors the Foster-Mother of so many Potent Kings and famous for their Noble Atchievments in all Climates of the Earth the Nurse of so many Couragious Leaders the Domicel of the Reformed Religigion and all laudable Arts the Seat of Liberty wherein MARY first drew her Vital Breath Let them admire and boast the Felicity of their Country to whom their Country is an Ornament not they who adorn their Country MARY in whatever Land she had been born had been adjudg'd worthy of that high Degree to which the State of her Birth had exalted her as being form'd by the Hands of more Benign Nature to Royal Dignity She had Shon with her own Beams even in Darkness it self such a disposition to Vertue appear'd in her from her tender Years The Glory of an Illustrious Family won by the Vertue of the Founders is admir'd among all People For as Gems more splendidly glitter when set in Gold so Vertue shines forth more dazlingly in true Nobility However they who are puft up with Titles and grow big with the Images of their Ancestors supported by no Vertue of their own are not vvorthy of those Ornaments They fall from their Nobility who fully the Dignity of it with Pride Sloath and other Vices MARY was sufficiently Ennobl'd by her Descent But so great and so incredible vvas the multitude of the admirable Vertues of this Princess that she rather Illustrated her Ancestors than vvas illustrated by them and contributed more Ornaments to the Enlargement of their Glory than she receiv'd from their Antiquity What men have admir'd as the principal Ornaments of an Illustrious Family in particular Persons all those crowded together so far as her Sex was capable in MARY the most accomplish'd vvith all Endowments and Perfections of Body and Mind vvhich God the giver of all good things had largely confer'd upon her But vvhy do I insist upon those things vvhich are common to her with her Ancestors when she abounds with so many particular Graces and Ornaments peculiarly her own Among which that her Piety to God and her Love of Religion held the chiefest place there 's none of you that ever doubted What the Sun is in Heaven among the Stars that Piety is among the Vertues All Light is derived from the Sun From Piety also and Religion as from the only and most Limpid Fountain flow the rest of the Vertues which she foster'd in her Bosom and her Embraces What Prudence what Fortitude what Fidelity what Moderation what Benignity can be found in any other person where there is not care taken to suppress the Turbulent Motions of the Mind to restrain the Impetuosities of Desire and be mindful of their Dignity and Duty But this is the Work of Religion only Now with what a Love of Religion the August MARY was inflam'd with what a fervency of Mind she was incens'd to the Improvement of her Piety I should not adventure to commemorate were it not a thing well known to all people not only to such as attended about her Person but to the Embassadors of forreign Princes and Commonwealths who frequented the Queens Court They will hardly gain credit perhaps among those who understand the Manners and Customs of Courts and of those that are bred up in 'em or among such who are perswaded that Religion Piety and Modesty are only Names made use of to impose upon the People or at least the Properties of private persons They who would be accounted Pious among Men think it sufficient to say their Prayers Morning and Evening to read a Chapter in the Bible and go duely to hear the Sermons at Church upon a Sunday If they acquit themselves of these Duties they think they do enough and considering the Contempt and Neglect of sacred things now a-days their Piety is to be commended But MARY'S Religion was not circumscrib'd within these Narrow Limits In the Morning so soon as she rose she spent Two hours alone in her Bed-Chamber in Prayers in Reading and Contemplation of Heavenly Things If Affairs of Moment call'd her sooner to the Publick Management she rather chose to spare something of her accustomed Hours allowed for Sleep and Rest than to lose a Moment of the time which she had consecrated to God About Nine a clock she went to the Chappel and there with the Royal Houshold and such others as mov'd by her Example resorted thither she offered up her most Innocent Supplications to God The same thing she did every day about five a Clock Nor would she suffer her self to be called away from this settled performance of sacred Duties by any Sports and Allurements of Lawful Pleasures any Audiences of Princes or Royal Embassadors This was the Law which she had Ordain'd to her self of daily attoning God O singular and unwonted lover of Religion in that so high station of Fortune in that healthy condition of Youthful Age in that abundance of Delights and Pleasures wherein Devotion is but little minded And this is that which I am sure you all admire Attend I beseech ye and ye shall hear those things which will redound to the greater Admiration of the QUEEN When WILLIAM Prince of Orange was Sollicited and Importun'd by the Unanimous and loud Voice of England to vindicate her Sacred Rites that were Polluted to assert her Laws that were trampled underfoot to ward off the Destruction and Bondage that hung over the Necks of all the People of England and Europe that was wounded through her sides by a certain Instinct of Heaven and with the good will of all Kings and Princes those excepted who design'd and Plotted all these Mischiefs he undertook the English Expedition Then it was that the most Pious MARY spent not only three or four Hours as she was wont to do in Prayers in Supplications and as well in publick as Domestick Performances of Divine Duties When she had performed 'em all in the English she went to the French Church and after that to the Dutch Congregations in all which Prayers were put up for several hours for the Preservation of the Greatest Prince and for the prosperous Success of that Expedition undertaken for the Preservation of the Christian Name and the Defence of its Dignity No wonder then that Heaven whose Cause was then the Subject of the Contention bow'd down a ready Ear to the Suppliant and most Pious MARY and the Prayers of so many good People But I return to MARY's daily Meditations of Piety The rest of the day which required not her Care of the Kingdom in the King's absence she did not wast in vain Discourses in hearing stories of the Amours of Princes and Illustrious Ladies nor in reading those Trifles commonly called Novels but she read over her self or caused to be recited by others either the Divine Monuments of Sacred Story or such other Books as explain'd

and the Earth The day is come is come the fatal dismal day has spread a gloomy light o're all the World that has vvithdravvn from our sight the Noble Domicil of her Soul the Habitation of all Vertues that svveet and amiable Queen the love of the British Nation the delight of ours and novv she sleeps among her Ancestors All London follows the Funeral Pomp and Enters the Royal Spoiles Sorrow makes her way through all the Cities of Britain nor will she be confin'd within the Limits of one Kingdom It crosses the Sea and ranges through all the Cities of Confederate Belgium All places are fill'd with the Sounds of Mournful Knells with weeping lamentation and mourning and every one displays the Convictions of his Grief What a number of mournful Elegies How many Sermons in Churches how many Orations in Academies and what variety in their complaints 'T is a common Lamentation and a Publick Sorrow Franeker Vtrecht Leyden and this City the most spacious of all the Rest this City also is a witness of the Universal Sorrow Prudently therefore and no less deeply concern'd as the Illustrious Governours of those Academies so the most Honourable Presidents of this Gymnasium and the most Honourable Consuls of this City in this City also under their own Jurisdiction and most Flourishing Emporium of the whole World thought requisite to Command a Funeral Oration in Honour of the most Serene and Potent Queen of England and made choice of this Day and Place to Solemnise this Ceremony with so much the more numerous Concourse of People And indeed what Day more Conspicuous or more Pompous than the same which is set apart and chosen by the King's Council for Publick Lamentation and the Funeral Osequies of the Queen What place more fit than this most Sacred and Religious than this the most spacious Church within these Walls Where could a Princess so Pious and Religious so devoted to God during the whole course of her Life be more worthily Applauded than in this Place consecrated to God and his Sacred Worship Where did she deserve more properly to be Extoll'd than in the Church which she Erected in her most Pious Breast and the most pure recesses of her Heart a Structure most acceptable to God and a most Beautiful Temple What more agreeable and Consentaneous to Reason than that the Encomiums of this Princess should be sounded forth from this Pulpit from whence the word of God is continually Preached to the People and the Oracles and Decrees of Heaven are daily Promulgated She who so willingly and so assiduously frequented sacred Sermons and fram'd the whole course of her Life according to those Divine Admonitions and Precepts and according to that Rule and Method And I could wish that the most Noble Fathers could behold a Person no less fit to speak than the Time and Place is fit for Audience who when they laid this task upon me impos'd a Greater Burthen upon me than my shoulders are able to bear For it is a Burthen both difficult and Ponderous and almost surpassing Human Strength to set forth the Praises of a Princess so transcendently Excelling so Absolute in all Perfections so Adorn'd with all sorts of Vertue that is to Extol Vertue it self But it behov'd us to Obey for neither this Obedience to our Governours nor this Duty to the Queen was to be denied For if that once Victorious and wide Commanding People paid this last Honour to Illustrious Persons and such as well deserv'd of the Republick if to their Parents and those Related to 'em by any Tye of Blood or Consanguinity and propos'd their Vertues and Endowments as Patterns and Examples to be followed by themselves whom shall we deem more worthy of this Honour or more deservedly Extol than the best of Princess not recommended to us by any single Vertue For what Person more Illustrious than the Queen Who better deserv'd at our Hands then she Who ever Cherish'd and foster'd us with a more Material Affection than the Publick Parent and Common Mother of us all What VVoman e're set us an Example of more or greater Vertues who was her self a Living Examplar of all Vertue Seeing then no Woman ever left behind her a more plentiful Subject for true Panegyrick nor a juster cause to bewail her Loss unanimously join with me most noble Auditors and let us pay that last and only Duty to a Queen so well and highly always deserving at our Hands which our Gratitude and her deserts demand I behold your Aspects I view your Countenances and your Eyes and Sorrow painted forth in every one I behold your sable Garments the Pulpit hung with Mourning and methinks I see the Representation of that time when the renowned and valiant Michael Adrian Ruytir that Thunderbolt of War that terrour of the Ocean was the Theam of my Funeral Encomiums and the Hero whose Obsequies I had the Honour to solemnize And if that Grief were just and lawful if his Fall were dismall to the Republick how much more just is our Sorrow now how much deeper is the Wound which the Commonwealth has received by the Death of this Princess This Dart has pierc'd so much more inwardly and deeply to the Marrow and our Sorrow is so much the more grievous by how much the more Illustrious the Person was whom we deplore Certainly we have sustain'd a most unspeakable loss not to be expiated by many Victories nor has the loss been more detrimental to England then to those our Provinces Both Nations at the same time now pay their last Duties and their last Honours to her Memory Let us accompany the Royal Funeral and as far as it is in our povver follovv her to the Grave it self And since vve cannot pretend to behold that Solemnity vvith our Corporeal Eyes let us set before the Eyes of our Minds those Vertues and Endowments with which she was so richly stor'd and let us view with the Eyes of Contemplation what was illustrious and Memorable what was Amiable Splendid Transcendent and truly Royal from the Beginning to the Exit of her Life Which while I endeavour to perform Think not noble Auditors that I intend to implore your favourable Attention This numerous Concourse promises me that already The Theam of my Oration assures me of it more For who but had a Love for a Princess so Amiable and who but will honour with his Love a Woman that so highly honour'd all us with her Affection Think not that I shall ascribe false Praises to her or that I shall make use of any Adulteration or Caresses of gaudy Words in extolling her who contemn'd all Adulation and Counterfeit Ornament I will give her her own true proper due Praises and only crop the chiefest Heads of her most signal Vertues it being impossible for me to make a full display of all Come on then fellow Citizens and Countrymen come on if any present Forreigners and Strangers attend these great Obsequies you never

our Republick and the People and Nations committed to her care who with so much prudence and wisdom govern'd her Kingdom who with so much Justice and Equity temper'd her Power who in that high Station of her Fortune never did harm to any Man when she had so much Power to injure whose Humility contended with her majesty whose Clemency with her Severity and whose Goodness with her supream Authority who thought herself so much Greater by how much she was better than others as Agesilaus said of Artaxerxes who splendidly and wisely govern'd Cities and People then which Knowledge how to Reign well Dioclesian from his own Experience was wont to affirm that there was not any Art or Science more difficult to be learnt And if Fabius Maximus were stil'd of old the Buckler of the Empire Marcellus the Sword do we not behold the true and genuine Effigies of our King and Queen in these two illustrious Captains of which he like Marcellus defends us with his Sword she like Fabius protected us with her Buckler and holding in the one hand her Spear her Shield in the other now represented to our Eyes the Armed Pallas then again the gentle and Pacifick Minerva as well the Goddess of Prudence as of War Lastly if man were made after the Image of God if Kings are ordain'd of God if the most conspicuous vertues of the supream Deity are his Immense Goodness and Power how evidently did our August Queen represent the Image of God both in her words and deeds How piously did she perform her Vicegerency How nearly imitate his Vertues VVho greatest in power best in Goodness justly deserv'd to be call'd the Best and Greatest of Princesses by a holy Appellation and common to her with God himself For he is Optimus Maximus the Greatest Best but first he is call'd the Best and then the Greatest By which what other did Antiquity signifie to us but that this was the chief Character proper to God and that he had no Attribute more excellent than his Goodness This chief and primary Vertue of the supream Deity who among Mortals more truly ever imitated than our Queen Who as she had receiv'd supremacy of Power from God so likewise a Will propensely inclin'd to deserve well of all Men who distributed the Gifts conferr'd upon her from Heaven for the common Good and Benefit of All who shew'd herself not only a munificent Queen but a certain Divinity visible upon Earth and conspicuous to our Eyes so that the People committed to her Care might know and be sensible that they liv'd under MARY the most Pious and upright that is to say the Best and surpassing all the best in her Kind Such a Princess therefore so excellent and so far as Vertue can be understood so admirable and Transcending we have lost who by sweetness of Manners and by her singular Clemency and Beneficence had won the Love of all people The English lov'd her the Hollanders lov'd her and as she so lov'd both Nations that it was hard to discover which the best so the people of both Nations reverenc'd her with an equal Affection only the strife between 'em was who lov'd her most Fervently Nor had she only engag'd the English the Hollanders and other Nations subjected to her Empire but among Foreigners and Strangers she had also won the favour and good-will of all People all Men extoll'd that Woman whom no man ever spoke ill of unless he were at the same time the profess'd Enemy of all Vertue But as she was then the Love of all Nations the delight of both People so is she now the Subject of their Lamentation She is now become the publick and common grief of all Men. However there is that Consolation still remaining among us which if it cannot absolutly asswage yet well may serve to alleviate and mitigate our Sorrow We have a King still living strong and healthy who being safe we may believe that God has not altogether cast us from our Protection We have Peers and the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom who with all the King's Forces all his warlike preparations both at home and abroad both by Land and Sea will carry on the War We have our own Republick strong flourishing potent and equally sustaining the burthens of the VVar. VVe have our powerful Allies and Friends Caesar the Spaniards the Germans join'd together with us in the same League and Confederacy of War But above all things we have the Supream God of Heaven and Earth propitious and favourable to the Religious Cause of his People through whose assistance we promise better things for the future and a prosperous Issue of this War But onr Mourning exceeds all Consolation nor will our grief for the death of our best Princess endure that any Restraint should be put upon it a Princess whom Nations at length begin to value now that they have lost her She is now translated to a better place and freed from the fetters of this mortal and perishing Body has exchanged for an immortal this frail Life a Terrestrial for a Celestial Kingdom and all her Royal Splendor upon Earth for a far brighter Glory where with Holy Quire of the Blessed and her Illustrious Ancestors she possesses the Fruition of never ceasing Gladness and sempiternal Joy leaving only to us Tears and Lamentation a long lasting Sorrow and as a grateful so a sad and mournful Remembrance of her The King bewails the best of Wives the English the best of Queens the Hollanders the best of Princesses the Republick a protectress the Church a Defendress Widows and Orphans a Foster-Mother the miserable the needy and the sick a true support and all a Mother and a Parent Most certainly we have lost a Mother and a Parent our Mother and Parent who as she had by many Merits and Benefits engag'd the Kingdom of England and our Republick with the true Worship of God the Reform'd Religion purg'd from Roman Contamination all honest and laudable Arts and Sciences so would she have heap'd upon 'em greater Obligations greater Benefits had the supream Arbiter of all things vouchsafed her ease Peace and a longer Life Now we have lost the Harvest of the present time and the hopes of the future Novv vve are sensible of a double loss now we bewail deplore lament the Best and most Excellent of Princesses snatch'd from us by a Death untimely and fatal to us all And though it become us not to disturb her Celestial Joys with our importunate and troublesome means since our Tears can never recal her however who will not be so indulgent to our Humane Weakness as to pardon us the Mourners at so Calamitous a Funeral Who in the midst of general Sorrow and Lamentation can refrain from publick Tears These are the last Offices which are due to her and this day appointed for Universal Mourning But the rest must be reserv'd till another time as being dedicated to the Muses who must then be

She despond was She terrifi'd with the hideousness of the Danger Did She shake for fear when Et Tellus atque Horrida contremuerunt Aequora Was she afraid of suborn'd Ruffians Did she slink away from the Royal Palace Did she dubious what Course to take commit her self to Fortune expecting the Event Or rather did she not with a Manly Courage an Example unheard of for many Ages backward appear a HEROESS the more Undaunted in the distress of Affairs Shine more great in the midst of so many Adversities and with a Presence of Mind Wise in Council Swift in Execution stop the Threatning Navy dissipate the Machinations without raise the drooping Spirits of the Consternated inspire Fortitude into the Cowardly suppress the Rebellious terrifie the Perfidious break the Cataline's Conspiracy revive the destituted and forsaken Belgians and disperse and dispel the terrible Storms and Tempests that threatned on every side Every where Ubiquitary in the Palace in the Council Chamber in the Camp in the Temple Supplying all the Offices of a Queen of a Senator of a Captain by Sea and Land and of a Flamen raising towards Heaven all Pious and Christian Devotion Haec nos Foeminea vidimus acta manu These things we saw by Female hand perform'd These Acts of Taming a Haughty Enemy and preserving her Country were her first Essays These were Auspicious Commencements of that Deborah who disappointed and brought down more then one Sisera curb'd with a then seasonable Fear Soon after all things being compos'd and the last Night as it were of British Liberty being chang'd into serene Day-light and her Royal Spouse being restor'd to her self and to his Kingdoms she return'd to her former Quiet and Tranquillity of Mind The rest who can be ignorant of most Noble Hearers how MARY while WILLIAM march'd with his Victorious Arms beyond the Seas quelling the Haughty Fierceness of the French and disappointing by provident Delay their crafty Stratagems how our HEROESS quite extinguish'd the Remainders of the Irish War by the Courage and Conduct conspicuous in War of our Athlone Then how still she duly Day and Night watch'd over the Safety of her Kingdoms her Subjects and the Common Cause how Assiduous she was in Court and Council whole Days together to advise with all People for the Common Welfare how she order'd Heaven to be Violenc'd by Prayers of the People through the whole Kingdom rather imitating her Example then in Obedience to the Publick Proclamations for the Preservation of WILLIAM and which I look upon to be more then all the rest how by severe Edicts she Triumph'd not onely over Treachery and Envy but over Impiety and Prophaneness This AUGUST Queen being such and so Great a Person so endow'd with a Genius so capacious to manage the Affairs of Peace and War both in Council and the Field and so true a Keeper of Secrets no wonder the Magnanimous Hero rested secure in the Bosom of His MARY If he trusted her Prudence with his most Important and Toward Secrets which her Curiofity never affected If sometimes press'd though never oppress'd by the Weight of Affairs and Burthen of his Cares he call'd her to his Assistance and equally divided with his Royal Consort even in most important and difficult Affairs One Mind and One Will his Leisure and his Business his Profperity and his Misfortunes and that always the same Union of Hearts the same Conjugal Fidelity the same AUGUST CONCORD never disturb'd with Discontents or Clamours have always been the Glory of their Nuptial Chamber since their first Consecrated Tye of Individual Society So that their Two Souls seem'd to be Vnited in One not so much by the Mixture of one Common Blood or the Law of Conjugal Necessity as by the Resemblance of Manners and an Emulation to reach Heaven Far unlike to what the Historian writes of Placidia the Daughter of Theodosius the Great Marry'd to the Haughty Visigoth Athaulphus That there was then a Brittle Disposition of Clay joyn'd to a Disposition of Iron Livia is also Recorded to have been Easie to Augustus feigning her self wholly at the Beck of her Husband not for her Husband's sake but for her own and her Children's for whose Advancement she became a Mother pernicious to the Republick and suspected of her Husband's Death And whatever Sempronius Gracchus and Caius Caesar boast of their Cornelia's M. Antonius of his Octavia Drusus of his Antonia Germanicus of Agrippina or Trajan of his Plotina Whatever the British History vaunts of Marcia Proba the Wife of Guitheline of Maud the Good Wife of Henry the First of Joan Beaufort Marry'd to James the First King of Scotland of Eleanore of Castile the Wife of Edward the First Philippa of Hainault Marry'd to Edward the Third for their Manly Deeds for the Preservation of their Husbands or their Kingdoms or for their Conjugal Fidelity certainly WILLIAM might justly exalt his Single MARY above all the Wives of Former Times Than whom no Woman Greater for her Courage more Religious in her Affection more Amiable in her Countenance more Modest in her Habit more Affable in her Discourse or who with a more obedient Readiness to serve her Royal Consort whether present or absent was more his Counsellor his Hands his Ears his Eyes and every way more Assistant to him Certainly this was the true Rose of YORK born indeed among Thorns yet free from Prickles her self whose Heart was without Gall her Forehead without a Frown her Words without any Sting her Modesty without any Focus her Piety without any Pretence or Vail unless you mean the Vail of Modesty Chastity and Humility in which sence Piety is represented Vail'd in the Ancient Coins and as now lately the August WILLIAM told his Mournful Bishops and Grandees That MARY'S outside was known to Them but that her Intrinsick and Just Value was only known to himself But as in this Mortal life no Man can hope for perfect Happiness and for that Human Affairs are many times the Sport of Human Wisdom so this one thing was wanting to our Incomparable QUEEN I mean the Appellation of Mother Mother of the World Mother of the Gods Mother of Kingdoms God so providing because he never perpetuates his choicest Blessings to the World Then left if WILLIAM and MARY two Miracles of Nature and Grace had had Issue between 'em either the Off-spring might have degenerated from so great Parents and have ecclips'd their Glory Or had they fill'd up the Measure of so great Names they would have exceeded the Lot of Mortals and by the Dazle of so much Light and Majesty giv'n Man a Pretence by too much Veneration to have injur'd Religion and the Worship of the Immortal God Nor did MARY brook her BARRENNESS with Impatience She did not cry out Give me Children or else I dye She did not Contend with Heaven nor Violence it with querulous Complaints but so put up her Prayers to the Almighty that though unanswer'd they might rather

her Forehead lessening the Ghastliness of her Countenance the Fortunate MARY was to be Eternally withdrawn from the most unfortunate Age Almost at the same Years and with the same fury of the Disease as Alexander was ravish'd from the World or Germanicus Caesar bewail'd by those who knew him not tho their immortality were not the same For with what a Countenance think ye Noble Auditors did she receive the Dismal News of her approaching and certain Fate the terror of Demi-Gods and Hero's before the last Combats and Struglings of Expiring Nature When the renowned THOMAS TENISON a Person in whose Learning Eloquence Integrity and Fortitude of Mind St. Ambrose and Chrysostom may more truly seem to be reviv'd than in his Cope and purple like another Isaiah was sent to comfort up the Queen and thus deliver'd himself to her at the last minute of her Life Madam Settle your Affairs your Family and your Mind you have liv'd and finish'd the Course which the Parent of Nature hath allotted you She receiv'd it with the same chearfulness of Countenance and Mind as she was wont to do every thing else not complaining and murmuring at her last Gasps with Germanicus that she had just cause of Complaint against God who took her away by an untimely end in the Flower of her Youth from her Husband from her Country from her Servants her People and Friends Nay nothing terrified with the Image of Death she made this Reply Father how good a Messenger are you to me who as it were commanded from Heaven bring the Tidings of my last necessity of dying Here I am ready to submit to what-ever pleases God the Disposer of my Life and Death I am not now to learn that difficult Art of Well-dying I have made up my Account with God by the assistance of my Surety Christ I have discharged my Conscience long since I have consider'd the condition of my Mortality I have setled all my Affairs and surrendred into the Bosom of my Dearest Husband all those cares that concern the World And therefore he that calls me finds me ready to lay down the Burthen of this Life being no more than a Load of Infirmities Sin and Labour The turning to her Royal Husband standing by her Bed-side she is said to have brake forth into words to this Effect Farewell my WILLIAM and live mindful of our undefiled Matrimony till Thy Lot shall restore Thee to Me or Me to Thee I shall not altogether dye while Thou singly possessest the Sole Image of Vs both Thou wilt be My Living Tomb more Sacred and more Honourable than any Mausoleum or Funeral Monument I was bound to My Spouse Jesus before I was ty'd to Thee nor dost Thou envy him the Prerogative of My Love who first joyn'd Me to himself Farewel the last time and once more live the greatest Part of me Thus it behov'd Me to go first and that Thou should close My Eyes and not I Thine I was not born to accomplish those Things which being begun by Thee and by Thee strenuously carried on remain to be brought by Thee to perfection 'T is Thy business to wage Wars the Supream Emperor has girded Thy Loyns with a Sword And if there be any Sense of Human Affairs in Heaven while Thou a Second Joshua art fighting in the Field Thy MARY shall pour forth Her Prayers for Thee and Thy Israel in the Mountain of Eternity Lay aside the Vehemence of Thy Grief Dear Prince give way to Destiny rely upon God and forbear to recall Me again by thy Tears from the Port of Tranquillity and the End of my Labours to New Conflicts which I have so often sustained as I have thought upon thy Dangers nor hasten to follow this Soul of Mine but live out those Years that Nature has deny'd to Me and Thy own too And if Thou hast any Love for My People for the Church for Holland for all Europe be more careful than hitherto of Thy own Preservation Soon after notwithstanding the Flame that prey'd upon her Marrow a stronger Fire from Heaven so inflamed her Coelestial Soul so that her fervent Heart that now no longer thought of any thing Mortal soar'd up to God her sparkling Eyes were fix'd upon Heaven and her deep fetch'd sighs ascended up to Jesus those Precious Oblations breathing forth most Sweet Perfumes to Heaven like Costly Odours laid on Burning Coals Till at length the most August and Pious MARY STVART in the midst of the Wailing Throbs of all the Standers by and mournful WILLIAM sipping her last Gasps made a full end of Living and deserving well of Human Kind only in the Lasting Example and Emulation of her Vertues the first day of the Kalends of January in the Year MDCXCV toward the Sixth Year of her Reign in Thirty Third of her Age and Seventeenth of her Conjugal Conjunction with the Renowed WILLIAM and some Months over Thus dyed the AUGUST QUEEN MARY PIOUS COMPASSIONATE BENEFICENT VICTORIOUS BLESSED who magnificently triumphed over Envy Ambition Pride Vngodly Affections the Vices of the Age during the whole Course of her Life and lastly over the Great Enemy of Mankind with whom we are all to struggle Thus she surrendred Scepters Purple thus all Pomp and Glory not till she had first enjoy'd and tasted the Vanity of every one she then whom Ancient and Modern Ages never knew any thing more Majectic or more Venerable nothing more Elated above all the Bounds of Envy or Human Custom and like to whom it will never be possible for the Imagination to form any other Princess while Kingdoms and Empires Endure Thus now must be enterr'd in a Royal indeed but small obscure Six Foot Domicil that Noble but Embowell'd Body of MARY from which they now must turn their mourful Eyes and Hearts who so lately were Chear'd and Exhilerated by the Brightness of her Royal Structure by the Majesty of her Serene and Awful Aspect by the Coelestial Splendor of her Eyes and the Charming Sweetness of her Words Thus e're she had measur'd the one half of ELIZABETH'S Reign by several years MARY ceas'd to live But still this Name seems much more Happy and Auspicious than was the most Praise-worthy Name of Elizabeth For Elizabeth was the Astonishment this the Love and Delight of the World She reigned in the Hearts of a Great Nation This in the Hearts of all People Elizabeth was Famous for the Splendor Magnificence and outward Pomp of her Court and Church but MARY won more Renown by her Humility her Bounty and her Alms. Elizabeth exalted the Grandeur and Honour of the English Name This studied those Things which tended to the Consolation and Succour of the Miserable and to the Eternal Concord Peace and Felicity of her People Oh Sempeternal Ornament of QVEENS and WIVES Didst thou here therefore only come permit me the Repetition of the Words that were said to Cato suddenly withdrawing himself out of the Senate Didst thou come hither only to be

gone again To deceive the Wishes of so many Mortals who thought there could nothing more corroborate their Felicity in this moveable Scene of Wordly Affairs then if MARY should long live and Govern Dost thou thus Great QVEEN withdraw they self from thy WILLIAM from thy People from thy Hollanders Of whom we may more truly say then fawning Rome of her Augustus or Severius that they ought either never to have been Born or never to have Died. Whose First Birth when thou wert born to the Earth might be look'd upon as the Palilia or Foundation-Festivals of Britain and the Universal Church but thy Last Birth by which thou wert born to Heaven might be thought the utmost Line of Both didst thou not still live in WILLIAM Behold how the Reformed Church and of all Hands the most Fortunate that was Illustrated by such a Sun is now wrapt up in Darkness by the departure of so Bright a Luminary portending great and unspeakable Calamities unless the most benign Deity avert them bow'd by the loud Prayers of His Elect. However we envy thy Immaculate Happiness in this our single Love of thee exceeding whatever Charity we have for our selves that we strive not to recall thee back to those Frail Glories which thou seest below us and tramplest 'em all under thy Feet rais'd above all the Rage of Treachery the Snares of Envy the Violences of Enemies the Injuries of Age or the Fleet Image of Worldly Things We bewail our own and the Losses of the whole World but with bruised Breasts we accuse our Transgressions against Heaven as the Causes of our Calamities And may it then be lawful for us also in these our last Funeral Offices to give thee a long and Eternal Farewel Farewel AUGUST MARY lately the Most Sacred Pledge of Heaven the Felicity of the World the Ornament of the Age the Admiration of the People the Palladium of Britain the Delight of Holland the Consolation of the Church the Support of Truth the Curb of Vice the Foster-Mother of the Poor the Hope and Defence of the Miserable Suffer us tho taken from our Eyes that we may always fix thee in our Minds that we may always behold with a joyful and perpetual Remembrance that Countenance that Aspect which formerly we approached with Veneration that Royal Right-Hand which we have often so submissively Kiss'd but more especially that Coelestial Mind and in That the Concurrence of all Praises and all manner of Vertue Lastly HAPPY SOUL accept not the vain Noises of profuse Applause which they pour often from their Breasts that are prodigal in praising others not Female Lamentations not Fruitless Wishes not Windy Expressions and Vollies of Idle Words Accept not Sacrilegious Altars nor Temples nor Masses nor Circension Pomp nor Funeral Chariots but accept this Publick and Grateful Testimony of Minds most devoted to thy Vertues to thy Benefits to what thou hast merited of us CONSECRATED TO THY ETERNAL HONOUR AND MEMORY And now we turn our selves to Thee the MOST INVINCIBLE yet the MOST SORROWFVL of Things in whose Royal Palace among Triumphant Lawrels the unfortunate Cypress supplies the room of the most Auspicious Rose You with more right implore from the Immortal God what Augustus Caesar is reported to have begg'd at the Funeral of Drusus Germanicus that his False Deities would grant him an Exit equally Glorious you with more right I say this day that MARY is carried to her Tomb with publick Funeral Splendor implore of God an Exit like that of your QVEEN and the Glory of a Death like Hers. But we above all things stretch forth our Hands and Hearts to Him under whose disposal we live that none of us may see that Black Day Rise wherein the Hasty Death of WILLIAM would prove the Common and the Fatal Funeral Pile of all Europe and the Vniversal Church Strengthen your self with Vertue and Courage MOST VALIANT of HERO'S You that are accustomed to vanquish others even anger'd Fortune it self You that appear'd more wonderful in Adversity then in Prosperity You whom the World 's Sovereign Emperor has hardned from the Cradle by Misfortunes and whose Vertue had been less conspicuous had it been less subdued and exercised so frame your Mind to Constancy of Resolution that it may be manifest not only to Britain but to all the World that you could overcome your Self whom no man else could ever vanquish even when Invincible Nature was to be expugn'd which is the Chiefest Victory of all We do not desire Your Breast should be inaccessible to Grief or Joy which Marcus Aurelius is reported to have affected far from any commotion of Mind We only desire this that after Your Tears have prov'd You to be a Man You would remember that You are a Prince and such a Prince upon whose single Fortitude so many Nations so many People so many Panting Souls believe their Safety their Liberty their Hopes and Fortunes depend You have all along been mindful which we look upon and esteem to be the Greatest Thing of all that you are a Christian bred up in the more Sacred School then the most Eloquent of the Romans while you are fully convinc'd that nothing happens preternatural or unusual to the Laws of Providence not so much as the fall of a Sparrow much less of a Man still much less of all those who are the express Image of that Immortal Deity whom they represent Your Mind GREAT KING that horrid Thought ne're troubl'd which disturb'd the Famous Pompey after the slaughter of Pharsalia whether the Gods took care of things on Earth You that have learnt to wage War with Kings not to contend with the King of Kings suffer not your self to be incens'd against Heaven for redemanding the Pledge which it had given You but for no certain Time So that it may seem doubtful to many whether You have more Reason to lament for what You have lost or to be gratefully thankful for what You once enjoy'd You dive not into the Secrets of the Eternal Mind or that all Provident Wisdom who in a moment seems to us to have destroy'd his own Workmanship and to have disturb'd and disappointed all both Yours and our Hopes This is not the First Day Your Experience how many times God frustrates the Desires of Mortals frequently curtailing long-grounded Hopes by speedy disappointment and no less often converting into unexpected preservation the despair arising from sad and sudden Accidents Even YOU YOUR SELF Great Sovereign have prov'd by Trials of Your own who and how Powerful is that Upholder of Princes that Preserver of Your Person even before You were born that Protecting and Avenging God who wrested you from so many Ambushments when You were hardly come into the World who dash'd in pieces so many Conspiracies against Your Life held back the Hands of so many Hir'd Assassinates scatter'd the force of growing Distempers stifl'd the Hatred and Animosities of Your Enemies averted the Effects of attempted Poysons and