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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

Congratulations 'T was the 5th of November before the News of His Majesty's Intentions of the Marriage arrived at Dublin And the First of December before the Consummation was published there which filled the Place with that extraordinary Joy that on Monday the Third of December His Grace the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom and all the Nobility and Gentry in Town met in great Splendour at the Play where there pass'd a general Invitation of all the Company to spend that Evening at the Castle And whilst the Streets were every where filled with Bone-fires the Bells ringing and all the Great Guns of the City firing round at the Castle was a very splendid Ball and in the Long Gallery a magnificent Banquet prepared for the whole Company who parted not till Two a Clock in the Morning The Prince and Princess were now preparing for their Departure for Holland during their whole Stay in England having been highly caressed by the whole Court and Kingdom The Prince had the particular Honour to stand Partner with His Majesty as Godfathers together with the Lady Isabella represented by her Governess the Lady Villers to a young Brother Her Royal Highness on the 7th of November being brought to Bed of a young Prince Christned by the Bishop of Durham by the Name of Charles On the 19th of November about Nine in the Morning Their Highnesses parted from White-Hall in order to their Embarking on the Yatchts appointed to transport them for Holland His Majesty and His Royal Highness being pleased to accompany them as far as Erith where Their Highnesses went on Board but being several Days detained by contrary Winds they arrived not in Holland till the 29th I shall here beg my Reader 's Pardon for this short Digression from our History by reciting an ingenious Poem by Nat. Lee on this memorable Occasion To the Prince and Princess of Orange upon their Marriage HAil happy Warrior hail whose Arms have won The fairest Iewel in the English Crown Happy in famous Dangers in the Field Happy in Courts which brightest Beauties yield Oh Prince whose Soul is known so justly great As if that Heav'n took Leisure to create First the rich Oar refin'd then did allay Stampt thee his own not shufft'd thee away With wonder thus we all thy temper prize Not but th' art bold and brave as thou ar●t wise Like the cool English who approach their Fate With 〈◊〉 and gravely first with Death debate They kindle slowly but when once on fire Burn on and in the blaze of Fame expire Hail Princess hail thou fairest of thy Kind Thou shape of Angels with an Angel's Mind Whose Vertues shine but so as to be born Clear as the Sun and gentle as the Morn Whose brighter Eyes like lambent Glories move And ev'ry Glance moves like a Dart of Love How well O Prince how nobly hast thou fought Since to thy Arms the Fates such Beauty brought Methinks I hear thee in thy Nuptial Bed When o're the Royal Maid thy Arms were spread Enough kind Heaven well was my Sword employd Since all the Bliss Earth holds shall be enjoy'd Pains I remember now with vast delight Well have I brav'd the thund'ring French in fight My Hazards now are Gains and if my Blood In Battel mix and raise the vulgar Flood Her Tears for sure she 'll be so good to mourn Like Balm shall heal the Wounds when I return But hark 't is rumour'd that this happy Pair Must go the Prince for Holland does declare Call'd to the Business of Important War Go then if thy Departure be agreed Your Friends must weep your Enemies shall bleed And if in Poets Minds those vaster Souls Where all at once the vast Creation rouls To whom the Warrior is as much oblig'd As to Relievers Towns that are besieg'd For Death would to their Acts an end afford Did not Immortal Verse out-do the Sword If ought of Prophesie their Souls inspire And if their fury gives a solid Fire Soft shall the Waftage be the Seas and Wind Calm as the Prince and as the Princess kind The World why should not Dreams of Poets take As well as Prophets who but Dream awake I saw them launch the Prince the Princess bore While the sad Court stood crowding on the Shoar The Prince still bowing on the Deck did stand And held his weeping Princess by the hand Which waving oft she bid them all farewell And wept as if she wou'd the Ocean swell Farewel thou best of Fathers best of Friends While the mov'd Duke with a heav'd Sigh commends To Heav'n the Care in Tears his Eyes wou'd swim But Manly Vertue binds them to the brim Farewel she cry'd my Sister thou dear part Thou sweetest half of my divided Heart To whom I all my Secrets did unfold Dear Casket who did all my Treasures hold My little Love her Sighs she did renew Once more oh Heavens a long and last adieu Part must I ever lose those pretty Charms Then ●woons and sinks into the Prince's Arms. The Court beheld and wept Streight from their Griefs the pompo●● Navy fled So fast as if our Sighs increas'd their speed When of a sudden from the Reedy Court The Tritons all with their griev'd God resort In Troops upon the wandring Waves they glide And round their lifted Lord in Triumph ride At their first Call the singing Mermaids come While the crown'd Dolphins lash the silver Foam Thus waited the glad Prince beheld from far The Belgick Shoar and heard the sound of War Some Hand unseen Heav'ns Azure Curtains dr●w To make a mighty Triumph Great and New A thousand golden Heads peep'd forth to ●iew Cries Shouts and clapping Hands all Extasie An hundred Cannons thundred to the Skie The Thunder answering did my Dream destroy And wak'd me from the Visionary Ioy. It was with great Satisfaction that having with so much impatience expected the Arrival of their Highnesses that the News was received at the Hague that their Highnesses who sailed before in his Majesty's Yatchts from Margate attended by several English as well as Dutch Men of War were safely landed at a Village called Terihyde the Ice hindring their Entrance into the Maese and from thence went directly to Honslaerdyke whither the States General immediately sent their Hoff Meester the Sieur Dinter to Complement their Highnesses and to know of them when it would be seasonable to repeat the same in a formal Manner by a solemn Deputation out of their Body as well from the Council of State as the other supreme Colleges On Monday the 14th of December their Highnesses made their Publick Entry into the Hague with more than ordinary Magnificence For besides that the Twelve Companies of Burghers were in Arms drawn up under their distinct Ensigns the Bridge of the Hague was adorned with green Garlands under which were written these Words UXORI ET BATAVIS VIVAT NASSOVIUS HECTOR AURIACO ET PATRIAE VIVAT BRITANNICA PRINCEPS Thus rendred in English Live

Occasions but if I may so say to be his own Ambassador on this Subject and make his own personal Addresses to the Princess And accordingly having smooth'd his Way by some Letters to beg Leave to visit England upon their favourable Answer received he prepared to set forth accordingly Upon the Prince's intended Voyage for England eighteen Deputies with the Pensionary Fagel at the head of them in the Name of the Nobles and the respective Towns of Holland Complemented his Highness with their Wishes of his good Voyage as all the Members of the States of Holland did the like and the next Morning when his Highness took Leave of the States General he received the Complements of the several Colleges by formal Deputations and of all the foreign Ministers there and then Embarkt on the Yatches and Men of War that attended him in the Maese accompanied by many Persons of Quality and Gentlemen of Note to the number of above Forty On the Morrow being Tuesday the 9th of October 1677. His Highness with all this honourable Attendance the King and Duke at that time being at New-Market whither his Highness and his Retinue in his Majesty's Coaches arrived about Seven in the Evening was received by his Majesty with all the Marks of Tenderness and Affection On the Thursday following the Prince and all the Persons of Quality that came over with him were honoured with his Majesty's and his Royal Highness's Company to my Lord Chamberlan's House at Euston where they were nobly Entertained and lay that Night and the next Morning returned to New-Market and on Saturday with the King and the whole Court his Highness came to Whitehall But not to dwell upon Ceremony and State the Caresses and Reception he met here let it suffice that his Highness having not only proved a successful Lover in his own personal Addresses to the Princess but likewise a prevailing Oratour with his Majesty the Royal Assent was obtained and accordingly his Majesty was pleased on the 24th of October to declare to the Lords of his Privy Council whom he had caused to meet extraordinary for that purpose that his Majesty had concluded a Marriage between her Highness the Lady Mary and his Highness the Prince of Orange upon which their Lordships about Three in the Afternoon went in a Body to make their Complements to her Highness and afterwards to the Prince The News of which being spread in the Town was followed at night with Bone-fires Ringing of Bells and all the other Demonstrations of Joy And the same Day the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of London went to preform their humble Congratulations by the Mouth of their Recorder to his Majesty and his Royal Highness and afterwards to the Princess and Prince on so happy an Occasion On the 29th of October following their Majesties accompanied with his Royal Highness their Highnesses the Lady Mary and the Lady Anne and his Highness the Prince of Orange attended by a great many of the principal Nobility and other Persons of Quality having been pleased upon the humble Invitation of the City to honour them with their Presence first at the Show in Cheapside it being that Day the Entrance of Sir Francis Chaplin to the Mayoralty where placed in a Balcony under a Canopy of State at the House of Sir Edward Waldo upon whom his Majesty was then pleased to conferr the Honour of Knighthood and afterwards at the Guild-hall at Dinner where the Entertainment was very Noble and Magnificent his Majesty being highly pleased with those great Demonstrations of Duty and Affection with which the City received the Honour of this Royal Presence at this Day 's Solemnity This Declaration of the Princess's Marriage was so gratefully and indeed so Universally received that particularly in Scotland his Grace the Duke of Lauderdale Lord President of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council of that Kingdom appointed a Meeting of such of the Lords of the Council as were in and near the City of Edinburgh having in the mean time given Notice thereof to the Magistrates to acquaint them with it to the end such Resolutions as the shortness of the time would permit might be taken for expressing their extraordinary Joy on this happy Occasion and having at their Meeting ordered a Congratulatory Letter to be prepared to be sent to his Majesty on the 30th of October at Four in the Afternoon his Grace accompanied by the Lords of the Council and the rest of the Nobility then in Town came from the Pallace in their Coaches to the chief Gate of the City where they were met by the Lord Provost and Bayliffs in their Scarlet Robes and the Town Council in their Gowns with the Sword and Mace carried before them followed by a Guard of Partisans through which with Trumpets sounding and Drums beating they walked all on Foot to the Cross hung with Tapestry whereupon was placed an Arbour hung with many hundreds of Oranges which his Grace and the Lord Provost ascending with as many of the Nobility as it could hold the rest of the Magistrates with the other persons of Quality placing themselves upon a Stage erected before the Cross for that purpose they drank the Good Healths of their Highnesses the Prince and Princess next of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dutchess then the Queen's and last of all his Majesty's Health during which the Cannon plaid from the Castle all the Conduits upon the Cross ran Wine in great abundance and many Voiders of Sweet-meats were thrown among the people who were filled with a general Joy since they first heard they happy News which then was exprest by their loud and frequent Acclamations After which the Bonefires being kindled and the Bells ringing his Grace and the Nobility retired to their Lodgings leaving the Magistrates who at Eight of the Clock at Night went down to the great Bonefire that was in the outward Court of the Pallace where his Grace and many of the Nobility that were to sup with him met them and drank the Healths again And were the next Day invited to Dine with his Grace in an Apartment of the Pallace where with the Nobility and Ladies the Clergy the Judges and all the Gentlemen of Quality they were splendidly entertained by His Grace To compleat the mutual Felicities of this happy Royal Pair on Sunday the 4th of November their Marriage was privately solemnized at St. Iames's by the Bishop of London in the prefence of His Majesty Their Royal Highnesses and some of the chiefest of the Nobility It was remarkable that when the Bishop came to these Words of Form Who gives this Woman That His Majesty answered I do Upon which Their Majesties Their Royal Highnesses and Their Highnesses received the Complements and Congratulations of the Ambassadors of the States General of the United Provinces and of the other Foreign Ministers residing in the Court. And the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen the next Morning made likewise their dutiful