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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

cheerful and thankful Prayers of the Poor are of all the loudest Trumps of Fame for their Sound reaches Heaven and makes the sweetest and most grateful Musick there Take her in all Capacities she was a Wife so tender that all her Sex might take Pattern from A Princess so gracious that all Mankind could do no less than reverence A Mistress so obliging that even the poorest of her Menials could not but doat upon her And a Companion so cheerful where ever she vouchsafed her Friendship and Conversation that made all Harmony where-ever she spoke every thing smiled round her Heaven only excepted when it so early snatch'd her away Yet pardon that Expression Heaven smiled not less on her in advancing her to that brighter Crown of Glory she so long aspired to and was so well prepared for but on us when we were thought unworthy the longer Blessings of such a Princess To all her more Princely Perfections those superiour Ornaments for we have still new Subject of her Praises in a yet lower Class of Vertues she thought it no Disgrace to wear the humbler Feminine Badg even of common Domestick Housewifery whilst that Hand that graced a Royal Scepter condescended to the poor Needle as if she resolved to make her Life a Pattern to Woman-kind as well to the Cottage as the Court and by this particular Humility to shame the Idleness of the highest and proudest as well as lead and encourage it from so Royal an Example even the lowest and the meanest And now to descend to the humblest and at least the most neglected part of her Life her Diversions the Hours she rarely stole from Books or Devotion The Theatres have sometimes but very rarely prevailed and that by Dint of Address and Supplication for the Honour of her Royal Presence The Muses for whom both her Person and her Life were the fairest Scene have now and then obtain'd the Grace of her Royal Encouragement And besides the several Balls and Masks at Court upon the Anniversaries of her Coronation or those of her own or his Majesty's Birth-days her Majesty was twice publickly entertain'd by the City of London the first was on the 29 th of October in 1689 being the Festival Day of Sir Thomas Pilkington's Instalment into his Mayoralty and the second on the same Day in the Year 1692 the like Festival Triumph at Sir Iohn Fleet 's Accession to the Chair At the first of these Invitations from the City their Majesties with both the High Courts of Parliament then sitting with all the Chief Ministers of State Foreign Ministers their Majesties Privy-Council the Judges Ladies of the Court c. besides the Pageantry of the Day were treated at a splendid and magnificent Dinner at Guild-hall At the second Entertainment there was much the like Splendor and Magnificence repeated excepting that the Parliament not then sitting that part of their Honourable Guests were wanting Both which were attended with the universal Shouts and Acclamations of the People in Gratitude for the Honour the City and the Satisfaction they themselves received from their Majesties Royal Presence there both through their Entry into the City and also their Return to White-hall I shall only recite some part of the Solemnity Upon the Hastings at the upper End of the Hall where under a Royal Canopy of State the Table for their Majesties was seated being erected a stately Structure supported with noble Columns and Pillasters of Egyptian Marble the Base and Capitals of Gold bearing a large Etableture of Silver with Banners Trophies Escutcheons Statues all sutable to the Grandure of the Royal Guests and the Solemnity of their Reception upon a large Shield was excellently painted the Poetical Story of Perseus and Andromeda with this Inscription HVC VOLAT HOC FVGAT HANC SOLVENS CVPIENTE POTITVR Thus English'd Hither he flew this Monster he destroy'd And his deer Care the grateful Nymph enjoy'd Under their Majesties Effigies was written this Motto FIDEI STATORES Thus Paraphrased T' our Faith's Defenders let our Homage bow Those Titular Names are solid Glories now Round the two middle Columns were enwreathed these words REX REGINA BEATI Our LION and our ROSE the Great and Fair Live ever happy this Imperial Pair In a long Scroll under their Majesties Arms was inscribed IMPERIVM OCEANO FAMAM NON TERMINET ASTRIS Let the wide Ocean his Dominion bound But his loud Fame beyond the Stars resound On a large Target on which was painted the memorable Naval Victory gain'd over the French Fleet at La Hogue was under written EXTINCTO SOLE VICTA INVINCIBILI When Power meets Pride thus Insolence subdued Their Sun extinct Invincible subdued On another piece of Triumph was this Inscription NASSOVIAE NIL NON EFFICIENT MANVS What Glories are for NASSAU's Arms decreed His own Steel Pen shall write and Ages read But now to come to the most mournful part of our History On Thursday the 20 th of December her Majesty felt an Indisposition which at first she did not think of moment enough for Application to her Physicians The Day following her Illness increasing the worthy Dr. Millington and Dr. Ratcliff were called and upon the growing Danger Dr. Brown Dr. Cox Dr. Gibbons Dr. Robinson and Dr. Cole and some other learned Gentlemen were added to the Consult of Physicians On Saturday the Symptoms of the Small Pox appeared At the same time for her Ghostly Physicians the most Reverend the Bishop of Canterbury the Right Reverend the Bishops of Worcester Ely Sarum and Bath and Wells paid her their Religious Attendance These worthy Prelats the ever most delightful Society of her Life are now the mournful Assistants to conduct her out of it And tho 't is easily to be imagined what a more melancholy tho Christian Office they undertook in this last duteous Service to their most gracious Royal Mistress their best of Friends and Patronesses Yet as afflicted as they were at the too visible Face of that King of Terrors DEATH that so imminently threatned that Sacred Life however on the other side they could not but be as extraordinary pleased to find her so well and so richly prepared to receive him His Grace of Canterbury who was the most constant Attendant even to her last Breath was one day ask'd by her Majesty What her Physicians Opinion of her was To which his Grace ingeniously replying to this Effect that they despaired of her Recovery Her Majesty wholly unstartled with her natural Sweetness was pleased to answer in these words God be praised I am provided That constant Tranquillity and Composure of Mind attended her through her whole Sickness her Preparation for Eternity being not the Work of her Death-bed that all along she express'd a perfect Resignation to the Pleasure of Heaven and seem'd to have nothing in this World that she should be concern'd to part from but her dear Lord to whom amongst many other affectionate and tender Expressions she was pleased to utter this