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A Funeral Oration ON THE Most High Most Excellent and Most Potent PRINCESS MARIE STUART QUEEN OF England Scotland France and Ireland c. Recited by the Learned Author of The Collection of Canons and New Pieces In his Third Tome pag. 274. Done into English from the French Original Printed at the Hague LONDON Printed for J. Dunton at the Raven in Jewen-street and Sold by Edmund Richardson near the Poultry-Church 1695. A Funeral Oration c. Favour is Deceitful and Beauty is Vain but a Woman that feareth the Lord she shall be Praised Prov. chap. 31. v. 30. WE cannot but wonder and be sensible of the works which Nature sets before our Eyes but on the other side we must acknowledge that those Objects so lovely and worthy of our Admiration are subject to Corruption and that they fade away and Perish All things that are under the Sun shall Perish and there is no longer any memory of things that are past and those things that are to come shall be forgotten by those that come after us sayes Solomon in the Ecclesiastes Those Empires formerly so Vast and Potent what are now become of ' em The mighty Men and Potentates of the Earth after they have made a noise in the World for Fifty or Threescore Years at most whether do they retire What is become of all their Grandeur and Luster They are returned into the Earth from whence they came and by a fatal necessity they instruct us that All that is no more then Dust must return to Dust The Days of Man sayes David are like the Flower of the Field which in the Morning is clad with a Thousand lively Colours but no sooner is it cropt but it Fades and Withers nor is there the least Beauty of it to be discovered by the Evening This is the fate of the things of this World 'T is then upon the meditation of their Vanity that they ought to reflect 'T is to the Consideration of Eternal Blessings that we ought to apply our selves to the end we may learn so to govern our days that we may be said to have a Heart of Wisdom and Understanding The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom A good Understanding have all they that do his Commandments His Praise endureth for ever Psalm 3. Favour is Deceitful and Beauty is Vain but the Woman that feareth the Lord she shall be Praised It may be justly said that never any Person merited this Praise more then the Most High Most Excellent and Most Potent Princess MARY STUART Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland My Design is therefore to endeavour to set before your Eyes the surpassing Virtues of this great Queen not only to excite your Admiration of that Piety that Greatness of Soul that prudent Conduct which she made appear in all her Actions and in all her Words but more especially to follow the Examples of Piety and Sanctity of which we have been some part of Us the Eye-witnesses during her Life and which she left us after her Death I must acknowledge my self altogether unable to undertake a task so far above my strength only my Zeal for the Memory of this great Princess and the great desire I had that we should make the best benefit of a Life and Death so Holy and so Pretious in the sight of God has engag'd me in despite of my self and caus'd me to forget my weakness in going beyond the limits of my Character Think it not then strange if I observe not in this discourse all the Methods and all the Rules of Art Consider that there is something I know not what of Irregular in Sorrow and Affliction and that it is not so much the work of my Wit as of my Heart it being out of the abundance of my Heart that my Mouth speaketh Most Holy and Divine Spirit who didst enliven this Pious Queen enliv'n me now with a sacred Fire to the end I may render serviceable to thy Glory the Holy Examples which he hath given us and that by the imitation thereof we may become more Prudent and more Pious Never fear it 't is not here my design according to the Idea's of the Worldly Eloquence to study for flattering Discourses to give in this place false Phrases to false Virtues When we have for the subject matter of such discourses any one of those common and Worldly Lives in whom we can find nothing to commend but the last motives of a long delay'd and almost fruitless Repentance it is a difficult thing I must confess if I may not say impossible but that we must flatter Vanity and confound Fortune with Virtue But here all our trouble will be that we shall not be able to find Elogies enow to set forth so many Virtues nor Terms strong enough to express so many admirable Qualities wherewith Nature and Grace seem'd to be at strife to accomplish this most incomparable Queen What a Majesty and Grandeur in her Aire What a sweetness What a modesty in her Counnance What a politeness in all her Manners What Charming Graces in her Person And these you know were the least things to be commended in her For if we pass to the qualities of her Soul what a large Field was there for Elegies or rather what a subject of wonder and admiration In the first Years of her Youth this Princess displaid the best Natural disposition in the World a sweet Humour agreeable and always equall a Heart upright and sincere a solid and firm Judgment and a Piety beyond her Age. And it was upon this sincere report that the great Prince who espous'd her desired to be united to her declaring That all the circumstances of Fortune and Interest did never engage him so much as those of her Person and particularly those of her Humour and Inclination A sentiment truly great generous prudent and Christian-like and so much the more noble and worthy to be observ'd as being rare in great Personages who regulate their Friendships only according to their Interests and have neither so much Christianity nor niceness as to consider that it is Virtue which produces and cherishes Friendship and that when a Man is really a Man of worth he can never be too attentive in making choice of the Person to whom he is to be ty'd all the Days of his life However this was the Care of the great Prince who espous'd her and as his intentions were pure and upright God heard his Prayers and his Wishes in giving him for a Consort I will say not only the most amiable and most accomplish'd Princess of Europe but the most perfect of all Women that ever were in the World Of whom we mâ—y say that all Virtues were assembled together in her without any mixture of Vices And in saying so I say no more then what was the publick and unanimous Voice of all People and of this Princess it is that we may justly say what is said in the Proverbs Many
either pronounce for or against us an Eternity of Glory or an Eternity of Misery and Damnation Come Luke-warm Souls unworthy Souls that think you have done enough for your Salvation and who over-rul'd by the multiplicity of your Affairs and your Pleasures delay your Conversion till the last minutes of your gasping breath come and learn by the Example of a great Queen that the most Eminent the most difficult the most indispensable imployments ought never to make us forget the grand affairs of Salvation and the formidable Judgment of the last day I have let no day pass said the Pious Queen when they told her what a dangerous condition her Life was in I have let no day pass without thinking upon Death So that she did not look upon it as the people of the World are wont to look upon it with dread and Horrour but she lookt upon it after a Most Christian-like manner as the end of her time and the happy entrance into Eternity 'T was this Reflexion upon the shortness of Life and the inconceivable Diuturnity of Eternal Bliss which wrought in her this Effect that she was not taken with any thing of Temporal Grandeur but that she had a high esteem of Eternity She had frequently thought upon that Sentence which will be pronounced to every one of us at the hour of Death You shall be no more A fatal Sentence for so many people a Terrible decree of which Death it self is to be the Executioner But they who like her think and meditate upon death in their Life time die not when they die death being no more to them then the Beginning of Life This Pious Queen meditating upon death and the duties of Christianity had learnt in the Sacred Scriptures that the Love of our Neighbour necessarily attends the Love of God and that the Glorious promises of Life Eternal are only made to those who are useful to Mankind either by Instruction or by Succour or Assistance 'T was this Charity which is so highly recommended in Holy Scripture by the Saviour of the World which this Pious Queen exercised with so much care and so much Zeal Whatever represented it self to her Eyes as a suffering Person was the object of her Compassion and her Charity With what goodness did she still inform her self of the wants of necessities of those that were in Affliction With-what care did she order 'em to be provided for Her Alms had no other Bounds then those which God had given to the Grandeur of her Power We have seen Tears in her Eyes for sorrow that she could not do so much as she desir'd With what Goodness I will not say of a Princess and a Queen but of a Mother did she take particular Accompts and make particular Enquiries for the succour of Poor Families Parents over-burthen'd with a great number of Children Children depriv'd of their Parents Aged People without any relief of Children or Kindred But more especially with what Goodness with what Tenderness did she interest her self in the Distresses and Want of a great number of Persons of Quality who had generously quitted their Country their Dignities their Estates their Relations to follow Jesus Christ rather then do any thing to wrong their Consciences You know it you that weep you that with somuch reason lament a loss so great so overwhelming and so highly deserving your Moans and Lamentations I cannot disapprove the Tears you shed let 'em have their free course if ever Person merited the Effects of your sorrow without doubt 't was this August Queen But set 'em however their just bounds and remember that 't is the decree of Heaven and that we ought to yield an entire and profound submission to what ever comes from thence Let us take care to appease the Wrath of God justly provoked against us which bereav'd us of this Pious Queen of which the World was not worthy If we desire to do any thing pleasing to God acceptable to the memory of this Good and Charitable Princess let us make good use of this Example of Charity which she has shew'd us while she remained among us in this World let us renounce all manner of Pride and Vanity and if we have any thing to spare from our Necessities let us employ it well let us be Charitable as much as in us lies Let us Love our Divine Saviour in the Persons of the Poor who represent him so that he may say to us at the Great Day as he has said to the Queen I was a dry and ye gave me to dâ—ink I was a Hungry and ye gave me to Eat I was a Stranger and you Rescu'd me c. Verily I say unto you for as much as you have done it to one of these little ones ye have done it to me Come and enjoy the Kingdom which was prepared for ye from the Beginning of the World 'T was this Charity that made her shut her Eares against Calumny and Backbiting Never durst any one speak ill of any body before the Queen Neither Flattery nor Calumny two of the most dangerous Pests of Soveraign Courts durst never open their Mouths in her Presence Slander was utterly bannish'd from her sight and Hearing I abominate the Secret Slanderer and him that is double Tongu'd for he is the Destruction of several that liv'd in Peace says the Wise Man And indeed it is not enough for Great Persons not to be Slanderers but they must never shew any marks of their taking Pleasure in Slander let it be deliver'd with never so much Wit and quaintness For what do they do by their Complacencies and encourging smiles but animate the Slanderer and warm the malicious Serpent that his malignant Sting may peirce more surely and more to the quick Let 'em Understand that they are no less the Assassins of their Brethren when by their Cruel Abettings they sharpen the weapon that runs 'em through then if they stroke the Fatal blow themselves that made the Mortal Wound Lord says David Who shall abide in thy Tabernacle He that is pure in his Life whose actions are just who speaks always according to Truth who Slanders not his Neighbour and who lends not his Ear to the Backbiter This is then one more Encomium which it behoves us to give the Queen and which you who had the Honour to be near her Person knew that she most justly deserved Let us endeavour to imitate her in this as well as the rest of her Admirable Virtues If I make it thus my business to set before your Eyes the Virtues of this Queen 't is because they were those which She particularly Caressed and because they are also in reality solid Virtues and the Foundations of all the rest But if she possessed 'em in an eminent Degree it may be said without Flattery that there are few persons in the World that had for their share a greater number of those which the World so highly boasts of and which without doubt
attended never shall attend greater and unfold with me the Birth the Life the Death of a Queen the most renown'd in the World And that we may begin from her Cradle the most August Queen was born in the sixty second Year of this Age upon the tenth of May James then Duke of York and the Lord Chancellor's Daughter being her Parents If Splendor of Birth can add any thing of Reputation to her what place more famous than London the most celebrated Emporium of all England and of all Europe What Family more illustrious than that of the Stuarts which plac'd both James and Charles and this his Renown'd Neece upon the most August Throne of Great Britain And has diffus'd the Splendour of its Race into all parts of the Earth But as it was both Noble and Great to be descended from an Illustrious Country and Family so was it much more Noble much more Great to have adorn'd them with her own Vertues and to have added new Splendor to ' em For neither had the Family of the Stuarts ever a more excellent Woman nor the British Empire a more Excellent Princess who gave more Honour more Glory to the Royal Dignity then she receiv'd from it and as far excell'd all other Queens as Queens exceed Private Women Many and conspicuous were the Prognosticks of a true and far from counterfeited Piety that glitter'd in her and shin'd forth in the early dawn of her Infancy For when in her tender Years she had lost an excellent Mother and under the tuition of Persons less concern'd was deliciously bred up in a Court full of all manner of Pleasure and Voluptuousness such was always her Constancy such her Temperance and Modesty that no Example of others no Allurement of Vice no Contagion of Neighbouring Courts could force her to go astray from the right Path. Charles the Second cherish'd these sparks of Vertue and Seeds of Piety and that he might alienate her from the Roman Ceremonies commanded her to be instructed in the Fundamentals of the true Reform'd Religion by the Bishop of London which he so happily laid and she so cordially imbib'd that she could never be shaken by any Treacherous Insinuations any Promises or Threats any Punishments or Rewards choosing rather to dye then never so little to receed from the Truth wherein she had been grounded After she had spent the rest of her Childhood in those Studies by which generous and illustrious Souls are rais'd to the Expectations of great Fortune and had abundantly furnish'd herself as well with Christian as with Royal Vertues in the fifteenth year of her Age she was auspicionsly Marry'd to William the third of that Name Prince of Orange Governour of those our United Provinces a Prince no less renown'd for his Vertues and his far fam'd Atchievements then for the Images of his Ancestors and a long Series of Pedigree William Marries Mary a Kinsman a Kinswoman and thus by a double Tye and a firmer Knot then hitherto the most noble Families of all Europe are joyn'd together She for her Ancestors claims the Family of the Stuarts he the Nassavian Race She the Monarchs of Great Britain He the Governours of Germany and the Caesars themselves The Nuptial Solemnities being over the Royal Bride cross'd over out of England into these Parts together with her Husband and chose for her Seat and Residence the Hague the most pleasant and delightful place not only of Holland but almost of all Europe first of all the Seat of the Counts of Holland afterwards of the Princes of Orange and native Country of this Prince where belov'd of all Men and fix'd in the Good-will of all the People propensely devoted to her for the space of some Years she so charmingly and affectionately liv'd with her Husband the best of Men and no less cordially affectionate to her not only without the least contention or quarrel but without the least suspicion of Luke-warmness that she might well be said to be a conspicuous example of Conjugal Affection not only to Kings and Princes and Men in high Degree but also to private Persons By which Matrimonial Conjunction not only the Persons who contracted it but both People and Nations and the Countries themselves otherwise divided by the Sea and the Interflowing Ocean were combin'd together by a stronger League of Friendship and Society then before and a stricter tye of Amity After some Interval of Time when they who bare ill will to our Princes and us to Liberty and Religion and more especially to this Republick stirr'd up new Troubles in England and the Nobility of the Kingdom call'd to their Aid our Prince who was only able to apply a Remedy to the growing Mischief and that our most undaunted Hero undertaking a vast and absolutely Herculean Labour such as will scarce find credit with Posterity not without a Miracle altogether divine while he strove one way and the Winds drove another at length wafted over with favourable Gales and Wishes safely arriv'd in England and without Resistance but rather with the general Applause of the Nation and as it were born upon the Shoulders of the People came to the Royal City when afterwards he invited his dearest Consort then the Companion of his Bed now of his Kingdom to partake of the Honour offer'd him and the Dignity soon after to be conferr'd upon him and the equal share of his Fortune in the eighty ninth Year of this Age luckily and auspiciously both Husband and Wife were declar'd King and Queen with equal Power and Authority by the common Vote and Suffrage and unanimous Consent of both Houses What was then the Grief of these People when not without sighs and Tears and Sobs interrupted with grief when a Princess so dearly beloved set Sail from this Shoar and left this her so well belov'd Country never to return What was then the Joy of those People when she arriv'd upon the English Coast when the Citizens of London beheld their Future Queen what Crouding what Applauses what Acclamations is more easie to be imagin'd than to be related or comprehended in Words But when the King was to subdue Ireland when our Great General was frequently to cross the Seas in order to withstand the Common Enemy of Europe with what prudence did she administer the Grand Affairs how wisely and advisedly govern the Kingdom and with what Magnanimity confirm the Minds of the People Witness that Dismal and Fatal Day when upon the Tydings of the Navy shatter'd at Sea and of the threatned Invasion of the Enemy by Land like an Armed Minerva she rode through the City raised the dejected Spirits of the People restored Life and Courage to all and muster'd her self the Soldiers design'd for the Guard of the Coasts Witness Havre de Grace and that other Town upon the Coast of France by the Courage of the English Fleet which her industrious Care set forth laid in Ruines and thunder'd into Ashes Witness Both Houses of Parliament that
and that Motherly Affection of a Munificent Princess to the Sick and Poor whose charitable Deeds like those of the Roman Centurion may be thought to have ascended up into Heaven Or lastly that extraordinary and more than Masculine Magnanimity and Constancy as well through the whole Course of her Life as at her Death Who among the poorest and most miserable ever with more easiness resign'd this mortal Life so obnoxious to a Thousand Calamities than She in the midst of Regal Pomp and plenty with a Royal and truly Heroick Mind contemn'd and surrender'd all the Pleasures of Life and Regal Dignity and hasten'd to the Supream King of Heaven and Earth by whom she had been only sent us hitherto How many proofs did she manifest of a Mind undaunted joyful and desirous to leave this Life How many clear and evident Demonstrations did she give of her Love to God How comfortably did she address herself to the King and the rest of the standers by How well assured of Eternal Life and Immortality did she bid farewell to this Life and all Terrestrial Felicities and transmigrate to that same only Fountain and perpetual Spring of all Beatitude So that her Life and Death was a most perfect and consummate Exemplar of Vertue and Piety Nor did Nature ever produce any thing more excellent than she who in all her Life never did never said or thought any thing but what was Praise-worthy so that what was said of Scipio Aemilianus may be more truly recorded of our Princess whose Vertues were so many so great and of that moment every one that no Man ever durst presume so much as tacitly to beg of the Immortal God as this our Queen obtain'd from the most indulgent Dispenser of all Good And because the mind of Man is better discern'd by his Death than by his Life for Man is apt in his Life time to conceal and dissemble his Affections but at his Death the Mask being remov'd he appears what he is what was more noble or signal than the Death of this Queen What more becoming a Wise Man and a Christian than that saying of hers This is not the first time that I prepar'd my self for Death Great Sentence most worthy a Philosopher and a Pious Man What more does Philosophy teach us what more the Christian Religion For if Philosophy be meditation upon Death as rightly of old the Platonics observ'd if we must be always learning to dye according to the Stoies may not she be said to have liv'd a Philosophical Life and the likest to Socrates himself who during the whole course of her Life was always meditating upon Death Socrates is every where lovely every where appears a Vertuous and Holy Man but no where more lovely or greater than at his Exit and at his death which he so generously sought by which he immortaliz'd his Vertue and Integrity and confirm'd what he had all along taught not by Words but Deeds and his Voluntary Exit out of this Life How much a more signal and Laudable Testimony of her Vertue and Sanctity than that Philosopher did our Queen give to the World by her death so Heroick and to be imitated by all Christians Who forsook not a private not a miserable but a Royal Life abounding in all delights without the least repining who so departed this Life as from a Banquet efcap'd from the Court as out of a Prison who more assur'd of the immortality of her Soul and the hopes of a better Life with a greater Resolution did not inflict a spontaneous Death upon herself but expected a decreed Stroak from the Hand of the Supream Lord of all things who forbids us to quit our Stations uncommanded by himself and beheld the common Enemy of Mankind the most terrible of all most terrible things with a Mind altogether undaunted and a Countenance nothing terrified No wonder she had learnt to dye it had been her only Study She understood the Frailty of Life like Glass the brighter the more brittle She knew that we dy'd every day that the beginning of Life was the beginning of Death that there was nothing firm and Stable here that we are promis'd another Life constant solid and and permanent that Death is but the Passage to it that no Man can dye well but he that liv'd well that no Man lives well but he that has Death always before his Eyes and has learnt to dye well Our Princess fill'd with these Cogitations scorn'd and repudiated all the conveniences and blandishments of Life Honors and Dignities Scepters and Diadems and whatever Men deem Fortunate and with a great and Royal Mind while she liv'd contemn'd Life and Death when she dy'd and by so doing nobly and gloriously triumph'd over both Renown'd Woman of a Masculine and Couragious Spirit victorious over Death it self By what name shall I call thee Whether Parent of thy Country formerly the Sirname ascrib'd to Livia bnt more truly to be given to thee Whether August which was attributed to the Roman Empresses but due to thy Merit than which nothing was more Sacred nothing more August Or the best of Princesses which was first allow'd to Scipio Masica afterwards to Trajan by decree of the Senate An Epithete that must never be renew'd again now thou art gone nor will return to Earth without the Remembrance of thy Vertues Or the Defendress of the Faith a Title more truly appropriated to Thee than to Him to whom it was first indulged Most Holy and Religious Princess before whom no Woman is to be preferr'd Let sacred and prophane Histories recommend to us the Fortitude of Deborah the Charity of Dorcas the Prudence of Semiramis and her Knowledge how to Govern the Couragious Soul of Zenobia and her fervent Love of Learn-the incredible Endowments both of Body and Mind in Aspasia and her singular Modesty the Piety of Placilla and her assiduous care of the Needy and Sick let the British Annals extol their Maud their Philippa their Elizabeth and their transcending Vertues neither Antiquity nor this our modern Age can boast of any thing that is to be compar'd with this our far surpassing Queen worthy of far greater Encomiums What singly they possess'd this had accumulatively crouded in one Person as being a Compendium of all those Vertues For my part when I revolve all these things in my Mind and diligently weigh the particular Vertues of this single Woman I am plainly and evidently convinc'd that never any thing was produc'd in this world more excellent than this Princess nor that ever any greater Blessing happen'd to Mortals For if that saying of Plato be true as 't is most certain that Cities then will have an end of all their miseries when great Power and Prudence by a certain divine State meet with mutual Embraces with Equity and Justice if the VVorld shall then be happy as the same Author asserts when either Kings are wise or wise Men Reign how happy and fortunate would have been
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
and suppress'd and extinguish'd Conspiracies enter'd into by a new sort of Catilines She muster'd the Land Armies and view'd the Fleets and took care that nothing should be wanting in either that might be useful either to stop or invade the Enemy or relieve and assist her own For this Tranquility of the Times for this same singular Providence and Vertue did she not more truly then any Princess before her deserve the Appellations of Augnst of Parent of her Country of Best Mother and Mother of the Martial Camps This every year she labour'd to see accomplish'd to the end the King might recross the Seas in his Military Ornaments the Key of the Kingdom being deliver'd to the Queen till towards the end of last Autumn after an Expedition ended upon the Borders of France he hasten'd to the Embraces of his Royal Consort and to provide for those things which were to be consulted in Parliament for the raising of Money towards the supplies of the Armies and Fleets The King took Shipping put to Sea and with a prosperous Wind arriv'd in England where he had no sooner set his Foot ashoar but the loud acclamations of the People were heard in all quarters of the British Dominions Long flourish Great Britain long live our Country long live King William And not long after her Majesty meeting the King all along upon the Road these lucky Omens and transcending Applauses fill'd the Sky Vnder the Protection of our King and Queen we live under their Protection we Navigate and Trade under their Protection we enjay our Fortunes and our Liberties Then most August Monarch should any one from among those vast congratulating and triumphing Multitudes have shew'd himself and presag'd that those Rejoycings were but the Fore-runners of Grief and would be soon defil'd by some signal Calamity impending on the Royal Family would he not have been deservedly lookt upon as some impertinent Enthusiastick So ignorant are human Minds of future Chance and Fate Such Sacrifices and Attonements as these the Omnipotent has prescrib'd to vaunting Mortals and ordain'd it as a Law that the greatest Inconstancy should rule their Affairs the Prosperity of which no Man could ever so assuredly promise himself as to depend upon a Fortunate Course of his Life without some intermixture of Adversity Thus it fell out that when the toilsome Labours of the Camp had recall'd the King to Rest and Pastime a mournful Calamity shook and oppress'd his generous Soul still wakeful over the safety of his Kingdoms where all succeeded according to his Mind and no less vigilent for the Common Good of the Belgians who conceiv'd in their Minds a lucky Omen of succeess from the more early then usual tho' ardently wish'd for return of their renown'd General For upon the third of January 1694-95 The Queen was seiz'd with a slight shivering but which threatned nothing of danger to her Life the Physicians giving hope of Relief and Cure believing this Royal Fortress might be defended by their Hands But upon the sixth of January the Fever gathering Strength and reinforcing its Virulency and the small-Pox a Contagion generally incident to Youth appearing but not kindly coming forth tho' all help and remedies were apply'd that human Experience has invented against the violence of that distemper it was in vain at length for all the Art of Physick to contend for the Disease immediately seiz'd upon the Queen with such a pernicious force as vanquish'd all the aid of Man All the while the King refus'd to stir from the Languishing Queen's Bedside assiduous to serve her and careless of the Infection that many times accompanies that Malady and being often requested to spare his Royal Person and not to inflict another Wound upon suffering Europe made Answer That when he Marry'd the Queen he Convenanted to be the Companion not only of her Prosperity but of whatever Fortune befel her and that he would with the hazard of his Life receive from her Lips her last expiring Gasps Felices ter amplius Quos Irrupta tenet Copula nec Malis Divulsus querimoniis Suprema citius solvet Amor Dic. All hope of Recovery now was fled away and the most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury being admitted into the Room in order to perform the last Duties of his Function told her Majesty that the fatal hour was at hand that the Forces of her Body being weaken'd and broken Death was making his Approaches and therefore she had nothing more to do but to submit herself to the Pleasure of the Almighty Such a harsh and disconsolate Message would have struck another Person tho' long exercis'd and harden'd in Stoical Indolency with Horror and Trembling But what said the Queen to this Full of Faith and Constancy she receiv'd the tidings with a chearful and undaunted Countenance saying withal That she did no way seek to shun the the stroke of Death but was ready prepar'd for the Dark Mansion of the Grave for that she had always so led her Life that whenever Death gave her his last Summons she should be a gainer by it Having thns spoken without the least emotion of Mind she receiv'd the certain Pledges of Divine Peace and ineffable Consolation to allay the Thirst and Hunger of her Soul deliver'd her by the Most Reverend Father at the same time with most ardent Wishes and pious Ejaculations calling upon her Redeemer nail'd to the Cross This last and most mournful Act remain'd and then the King oppress'd and bowing under the Burden of his own Sorrows e're death had quite benumm'd her trembling Arteries and the warm Vapour of Breath lay panting in her sacred Breast bid her Eternally farewell Which last demonstrations and evident signs of the most tender motions of the Soul were perform'd with that Sincerity of a Cordial Passion that you may readily most Learned Auditors conjecture the Anguish of such a doleful Parting though my Oration my bow being enfeebled with Sadness cannot reach the perfect Description At length my words stick fast upon my Tongue At length I say upon the seventh day of the Ides of January about twelve a Clock at Noon the Blessed Queen resign'd her pure Soul to God with a most placid Exit not having fully accomplish'd the thirty third year of her Age and consequently in the flower of her Years This was the End of a Queen in whom not only Piety Benignity and Humanity but all Vertues seem to be ecclips'd Oh cruel Fate Oh untimely Death Timely I should have said my Accompt fail'd me For if we measure the Course of the Queen's Life circumscrib'd by Years at first sight it appears to be very much streightned and very short But if we look farther we shall find it to be a long and immense Race of Glory One day of a Wise Man says Possidonius is more extensive then the whole Age of an ignorant Person That same Alexander whose Atchievements acquir'd him the name of Great Germanicus Caesar endu'd
with as many Graces of Body and Mind as I remember any Man to have been both dy'd at the same Age and if we may presume to compare small with great things he whose Garment and Thigh has these Words inscrib'd upon 'em Rex Regum prolong'd his days no farther In this accompt we find it often fall out quite contrary to the Opinion of Diogenes maintaining by way of Dispute that they who make it their Business during the whole Course of their Lives to be beneficial to Mankind and to seek renown by Laudable Atcheivments and profitable Sciences ought to live longer then they who waste their leisure in sloth and Idleness The King when the first word os her final departure swoon'd more than once away and that some undaunted Hero Fearless of all Dangers who never was wont to fly before a tenfold Number of Enemies who never gave way to the ensnaring Ambuseadoes and Thefts of War who always stood immoveable in the middle of Showers of Bombs Granadoes and Bullets sunk under the weight of one single Sorrow But he is easily to be pardoned For he wants the Queen the sweet half of his Soul whom he was wont to lay in his Bosom whom he lov'd more tenderly than his Eyes whom he was wont to make the partaker of his Cares and whom he always made the Companion of his Joys The Palace of Whitehall resounded with the Sobs and Sighs of those wail'd her Decease but the Publick Lamentation not to be confin'd within those narrow Walls orewhelm'd the whole City of London and struck with Consternation the Hearts of all Men Peers and Common People young and old Matrons and Virgins so deeply did the sence of the Misfortune penetrate all Ages The unspeakable cruelty of Death was bemoan'd the spacious Age of Time upbraided and accused the General Misfortune bewail'd and a universal disguise of Sorrow disfigured the Countenances of both Sexes This fatal News from England reach'd our Coasts to which at first because we always slowly believe those Rumours which are unwelcome to us we gave but little credit Presently all People were in a hurry one runs one way another another and what is this sad News they cry whence comes it who reports it But being at length assur'd by frequent Confirmations presently all Men of Worth and Prudence who made a just Estimate of the loss which the Publick sustain'd by the Death of the Queen were seiz'd with more than ordinary Grief which fail'd not to diffuse it self into universal Mourning and Lamentation And now you People of England who retain the acknowledgment of those Immortal Benefits which the Queen conferr'd upon ye when she succour'd your Religion and Liberty You Belgians to whom the Queen for her Maternal Indulgence was dearer then your Lives I make my appeal to ye in the memorable Words of Metellius surnam'd Macedonicus who when the News was brought him of the Death of Scipio Aemilianus thus bespake his Sons Go Children Solemnize the Obsequies you will never behold the Funeral of a braver Citizen So I say to you Go English Men go Belgians solemnize her Obsequies You will never behold the Funeral of a greater Queen But wherefore do I by an unpleasing Commemoration go about to impose Affliction and the performances of Respectful sorrow upon those that are forward enough of themselves Let us rather return Thanks to God that he permitted the Residence of so great a Queen among us 'till he call'd her to himself which was the saying and the Consolation of those who attended the Funeral of Marcus Antonius that most worthy Emperor without any Tears or Lamentations Let us raise our Minds above Necessity and our Thoughts above Fate Were her Manes permitted to return back to us the Queen would tell us she was well and that we did but envy her in grieving For that indeed that is to be accounted the affection of true Love which outwardly shews it self and which forgetful of it self is transported to what it loves But as they say the Effigies of Phidias can never be defac'd from the Shield of Pallas so we cannot better deserve of Marie the most renown'd Queen within the Memory of Ages then by storing up her Vertues in the most secret Recesses of our hearts on purpose for imitation We know that the Roman Senate was wont by a decree to propose for a Pattern to all those that were sent abroad to command in the Provinces one only Quintus Mucius Scaevola once their high Priest as if they had display'd in that one Person whatever was Egregious and Illustrious and consequently fit for Imitation So now they who at present sit or shall hereafter sit at the Helm of Government have one only Queen far transcending not only her Sex but Mucius himself to be by them recommended for universal Imitation to all those who would not want any of those accomplish'd Perfections by which we ascend the Steps to Heaven I congratulate thee O Queen for that Felicity of Living so long as it was this thy desire while it was thy daily acknowledgment that thou hadst learnt to dye Hail and farewell most beautiful and blessed Royal Soul The King and all of us must follow thee in that Order which Nature has appointed Hail most happy Soul all hail and Eternally farewell Lastly to thee most Potent Monarch environ'd with Anguish and Affliction and welcom'd home with such an unfortunate Calamity I address my self Forbear great Sir forbear to bath your Royal Cheeks continually in streams of Tears but set just limits to your Sorrows Sorrows that will nothing avail I know said the Wise Athenian and for that reason grieve the more that all my Mourning and Lamentation does me no good I confess indeed Invincible Prince I must acknowledge 't is a great matter the remembrance of the Embraces the Company and Converse of such a Queen the depository of the greatest part of your Cares so studious and diligent in her Obedience and Complacency But your transcending Prudence doubtless considers that the Supream Arbiter of all things is not bound to fulfill all our Wishes and desires 'T is a trite Proverb The young Man whom God loves soon dies The great Reward of Dying well is fix'd beyond all danger of those Vexations and Calamities with which the Life of Mortal Men contends Then with your wonted Resolution sustain a Loss that could not be avoided revive your Spirits and renew your Strength bow'd down with Sorrow and like a second Joshuah your days of Mourning being over take care of your Person take care of the Welfare of all Europe and may the Almighty who has been your Protection all along wipe away all your tears of Grief prosper you Counsels and Affairs and add to your own the Years which he has taken from your Queen DIXI A Funeral Oration OF J. G. Grevius UPON THE DEATH OF MARY II. QUEEN of Great Britain France and Ireland Perform'd by Authority of the Illustrious and
and procure the safety of so many People and generally after her Death desir'd and bewail'd Now as she was always like her self through the whole Course of her Life so neither did she swerve from her self at her death The manner of her most pious and constant End apparently answer'd the most Holy Purpose of her whole Life As against all other fears so against the most terrible of all Terrours her Courage was Invincible neither the cruelty of the Disease nor the unlucky approach of Death in the Flourish of her Age in the midst of so many soothing Pleasures of this Life could prevail with the Queen to shew the least sign of sadness On the other side when she heard and was sensible of being call'd away many and most Illustrious were the signs of her undaunted departing from this Station of Life When the Right Reverend Arch-Bishop of Canterbury sent for some few days before she expir'd gave her to understand the certain Approach of Death that she was to prepare for the Journey which all Mortals early or later are to take placidly without any sign of a sick Mind though extreamly weakned in Body by the Force of the Disease she made Answer That that was not the first Day of her Learning to prepare for Death for that she had serv'd God during the whole Course of her Life A saying truly worthy of so great a Queen worthy the Remembrance of all Ages She had learnt that then we begin to live when we die We die as soon as born every day something is imperceptibly cropt from our Lives till by degrees the whole be lopt away And that this most pious Queen neither deceiv'd her self nor the Archbishop is apparent from that memorable saying of hers about six years before her fatal day when she sate by the Bed-side of a Noble Person 's Wife whom she highly Lov'd and valued to confirm and comfort her then drawing her last breath They who were present desir'd her that she would turn away her Eyes from the Expiring Lady But the Queen refus'd saying withal That it rarely fell out for Persons of her Rank and Quality to see such a Spectacle as now was offered her by the design'd Favour of Heaven to make Advantage of it in better understanding the Vanity of our Life What Advantage she made of it the conclusion of her Days sufficiently taught us After this she fed her Soul with the Coelestial Food of the Body and Blood of Christ with a deep sence of the Pains which our Redeemer Suffered for us Refresh'd with this Sacred Banquet she cast away all Further Care of Earthly Affairs that she might think upon nothing else but of Enjoying God when freed from her Corporeal Imprisonment that God whom upon Earth she had so fervently lov'd and so purely Worshipt She bid the King farewel in these words which are utter'd by me in Latin for you do not hear what she could say but what she said I leave the Earth I hope dear King you never mistrusted my Fidelity and Love Moderate your Grief I wish that with the same Joy that I depart with the same easiness you may set bounds to your sorrow Soon after the Divine MARY expir'd in the Hands and Embraces of the King who never left her nor stir'd out of her Chamber Day or Night whilst she lay labouring under three most cruel Diseases the Small-Pox an Erysipelas and a Pestilential Fever either of which was enough to have carried off the strongest of Men. 'T is better to pass over in silence the Grief that overwhelm'd the King than to spend time and words in vain For words cannot be found that can in any measure express the Vastness of his Grief Such was always and so great the Resolution of the most Couragious King and such his Fortitude that tho assail'd with Angry fortune's utmost Fury he never could be mov'd never succumb'd but bore his Adversity with an Elevated mind Never any Man whatever were the madness of Raging Disaster could perceive any change of Countenance in the King But this same Grief he was not able to withstand Vanquish'd by the Force of his Love and Loss as having lost the most certain and faithful Componion of his Fortune of his Counsels his Cares his Labours and his Thoughts who far exceeded all the Excellencies of the Female Sex that hardly the Vertue of any Woman in any Age can be compar'd to hers For that reason perhaps it was that Heaven deny'd her Off-spring lest she should bring forth a worse than her self and her Husband seeing Nature could go no further No wonder then that Invincible Resolution that undaunted yet sedate Courage of William in all the Rudest Tempests of this Life was so deeply struck and shaken with this Thunder-Bolt For he now misses the only Best and Wisest of Queens when he most needed her and might have reap'd infinite Advantages from her Fidelity Prudence and Assistance in Governing wisely at Home while he perform'd Wonders abroad There is no man so Iron-hearted but must be sensible of the Extremity of Pain when the One half of his Soul is sever'd from him by so violent a stroke However we doubt not but the King out of his incredible Wisdom tho his Grief can never be exhausted will recollect himself and re-call his Mind from the Bitterness of his Grief to accomplish what he has so prosperously begun that Work which turns the Eyes of all Europe upon him on whom the Fate of it depends To the End that by his Conduct and Counsel Ease Tranquility and Security may be restord to so fair a Portion of the Habitable World and Peace so settl'd that not only Arms may be laid down but with those Arms all fear of taking 'em up again Wherefore as all men unmeasurably Grieve for the Death of the Queen as being a Wound by which all suffer so now again all Pray for the Safety and Preservation of the King all who are concern'd for the safety and liberty of Europe Mary was The Flower of Queens was once the Ornament of the Age the Love of the People the Delight of the World the Granary of the Poor the Altar of the miserable Thou best and Greatest of Queens hast lost nothing who Reapest now Eternal Beatitude the Fruit of a Life so Piously so Chastly so Prudently Led exempt from all the Cares and Troubles wherewith we miserable Wretches are toss'd by Storms and Waves of these wicked times The King has lost the Alleviation of his Cares the Ornament of the People in Prosperity their Aid in Adversity and all good Men their main Tower of Defence Thou Departedst this Life in the Flower of thy Age but what remorseless Death has abstracted from the Number of thy Years men will add as much and more to the Eternal Glory Fame and Remembrance of thy Name That was not to be said thy Life which thou ledst in the Chains of thy Mortal Body but is to be call'd
thy Life which thou art to Live immortal in the Hearts and Minds of all People who will always burn with Love and Admiration of thy Vertues Thou hast no reason to grieve that thou didst not bless the King with Off-spring the only thing which many thought was wanting to compleat thy happiness of Earth and which indeed is a more than ordinary Grief both to the King and us For as of old when Epaminondas was upbraided with want of Issue he boasted that he left a Daughter behind him meaning the Battle of Leuctra which would not only survive him but be Immortal so thou most Blessed MARY the Mother of so many Kingdoms and People the Mother of the Oppressed the Mother of the Poor and Needy wilt leave behind thee so many Daughters that will never Dye the Eternal Encomiums and Sempiternal Glory of thy Goodness Beneficence Charity Clemency Mildness and the rest of thy other most lovely Vertues which will live immortal in the Remembrance of all Posterity This Life will prolong thy Consecrated Memory to after Ages Nor Marble Mausoleum nor Golden Vrn shall hide thee Thy Tomb shall be our Breasts DIXI A Funeral Oration TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE Most Serene and Potent MARY II. QUEEN of Great Britain France and Ireland By Francis Spanheimius F. F. Chief Professor of the Academy of Leyden Pronounc'd by Publick Authority in the Hall of the Most Illustrious States Upon the Day of the Royal Obsequies March 5. 1694-95 Containing many Remarkable Passages in the Life and Death of Her Late Majesty not hitherto made Publick LONDON Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in Jewen-street and are to be Sold by Edm. Richardson near the Poultry-Church MDCXCV A Funeral Oration UPON MARY II. QUEEN of Great Britain France and Ireland WHether I should express my self in Inarticulate Lamentations intermix'd with Tears and Sobs among so Great and so many Provocations to Grief that am to be a Spectacle of Mourning to yee all most Sorrowful Assembly of all Degrees and Orders or whether I should let loose my Tongue Speechless almost and motionless through the bitterness of my Anguish into articulate Words tho interrupted with frequent Throbs astonisht and forsaken by my Senses I was long time considering No man can believe that a Flood of Eloquence should flow from his Mouth whose Eyes are blubber'd Cheeks are overflow'd with Torrents of Water continually streaming while we bewail the Funeral of this Day These Walls deformed with gastly and unusual Accoutrements this very Pulpit resembling a Scaffold prepar'd for some sad Execution the alteration of our Senators Weeds every Order in Sable and the Muses in Black the Ensigns of Magistracy revers'd our Citizens with dejected Looks every where a profound Silence every where dropping Eyes and delug'd Cheeks more livelily and forcibly express even without an Interpreter the Grief unspeakable beyond what Imagination can Comprehend and so ponderous upon the Hearts of all Men then it is in the Power of Human Utterance to do tho every particular Member of the Body were turn'd into Tongues and resounded forth several Mones and Lamentations Must I be the Person I who first in this same School in a Publick Speech congratulated not so much the Royal Ensigns of Kingdoms offer'd to William and Mary ty'd together in an Association rarely known Oh that it had been Eternal Two the Choicest Boons of Heaven bestow'd on the Britannick World and the two Tutelar Numens upon Earth of the Universal Church Must I be the first bound by the Sacred Tye of Duty to those who in their own Right have Authority to Command after they had once ordain'd this solemn Day wherein No Body counterfeits Grief that am oblig'd to perform the Office of a Herald of Death to Proclaim the Death of Britannic Mary It was unanimously agreed then Conscript Fathers the Best of Queens is gone in which one word all things are comprehended Not in the sense of the Lacedemonians who at the Funerals of their Kings always call'd the Last the Best Nor as Nero stil'd his Poppaea the Genius of the City which was the Sirname of the Best Emperors but She is gone who by the General Voice of all People so deserv'd the Appellation of BEST that while it remains the allow'd Glory of Kings and Queens in this World can never be ascrib'd to any other by the same Vniversal Consent of Mankind The most Splendid and most Benign Constellation if ever any other enlightn'd and shed down its Influences upon Earth of Britain is set the Constellation of the United Belgian States is set but in an Eternal and Gloomy Night only now to refresh both Nations with the sole shadow of her Name MARY is set like that Star which causes the vicissitudes of Day and Night returning from whence first of all She rose And in this Common tho far different loss of all men WILLIAM bewails more than the one Half of his Soul The Court as it were grown decrepit with Age bewails their Delight The Kingdoms bewail an Empress hardly shewn to 'em yet Greater than the Narrow Limits of Kingdoms or an Age could contain The Subjects bewail their most Indulgent Mother more truly then formerly Livia or Julia the Pious the Mother of their Country the Senate and the Armies Holland bewails her Foster-Child as it were ravish'd and torn from her tender Bosom wherein she had continually cherish'd Her even divided from the whole World beside The Female Sex now misses Her that was their Lustre their Excellency their Glory The Vniversal Church her most loving Protectrix They that were stript of all their Fortunes their Liberal Reliever The Miserable the Asswager of their Calamities The Oppress'd their certain Consolation The Banish'd their not to be violated Sanctuary The Sons of Peace their Irene truly so call'd Lastly All Ages all Orders all Nations who ever they are that in the highest Station of Human Affairs reverence Vertue and Piety miss their most Sacred and most Vnited Head And who among us is not deeply affected and pierced to the Heart in beholding the Mournful sight of one single WILLIAM that most invincible Hero resembling some One of those most Valiant Captains who being opprest by some sudden Astonishment stand Speechless for a while at least bewailing the Companion of his Counsels and his Labours his Delights and Royal Functions snatch'd from an unexpected Fate Of that WILLIAM who was never puft up with Prosperity nor broken by Adversity who terrifi'd by no dangers nor dismaid at any Terrible Accident as if his Breast were environ'd with a Threefold Corslet of Brass or that he carry'd not an Iron but an Adamantine Heart now wounded beyond the Aid of Cure cannot refrain from Tears and Throbs as not being wounded or pierced through by any Bullet of his Enemy but by a Force surpassing Human God Himself which befel the most Holy Men thus wrestling with our Hero in a Dark and Bitter Night till at length the
Supream Creator of all things rent away the Rib that stuck to his Royal Side not when he was asleep as in that Fabrick of Eve but when he was awake and watching o're the Publick Safety And this was a Pain which the First of Husbands in Primitive Felicity was not able cope with Yet does he not sink under so much Grief nor does the Greatest of Hero's refuse to submit his Equal Courage to the Arbiter of Life and Death so cruelly afflicting his Royal Bowels So neither would it become us who ought in imitation of so Great a King to lift up our selves to him by whom all Human Affairs are govern'd with a Nod this sad and unfortunate Day to solemnize the Royal Exequies with Female Lamentations or the hir'd Howlings of the Ancient Praesicae which the Law of the Twelve Tables forbid the Roman Matrons or to fill the Market Public Streets the Temples and Tribunals with hideous Clamours For neither Breasts distended with vain Sighs nor Countenances composed to sadness nor the warm streams of Tears still gushing from our Eyes will afford any alleviation to our afflicted Minds these being many times vain Shews and Ostentation of Sorrow which the Bitterness and Solemnity of our Present Calamity abhors above what it is possible to imagine What then Shall we suppress and hide our Grief until we turn into Noibe's and Stones shall we make known our deeply conceiv'd Sorrow to our Fellow Citizens to the People to succeeding Posterity by no Demonstrations of Piety by no long lasting Monument For Rome the Mistress of the World decreed to the Women in High Stations after their deceases no less then to the Soveaign Emperors besides Divine Honours and the Vows of Sacrilegious Piety Funeral Encomiums also such as were made with Solemn Pomp and in publick Commemoration of their Vertue upon Augustus's Livia Nero's Poppaea Hadrian's Sabina Antoninus Pius's Faustina and Severus's Julia Domna But for the most part these things were so carried by the controul of those that Govern'd or according to the prevailing Manners of a loose Court and a dissolute People that the Dishonours and Disgraces of their Sex were Consecrated to Immortality under the Names Juno's Venus's and Mothers of the Gods With the same Confidence and Lust of Flattery did the Princes that succeeded extol the Father's Praise The Tables transmit to Eternity the Clemency and Moderation of Tiberius the Prudence of Claudius the Patience of Hadrian the Indulgence of Caracalla the Noble Acts of Commodus as if they had been born to eternize the Roman Name Oh! how different is the Reason of this Days most Religious Solemnity by which the whole World is made a Witness of Batavian Piety How far different are thefe Parentals truly Just the sign of Love and Judgment which the Fathers of this Republick and Academy have by a Solemn Decree and with redoubl'd Honour decree'd to MARY the AVGVST Imitating the Piety of Octavius Caesar who ascribed that Honour to his Sister Octavia a Renowned Woman that the Emperor himself in the Julian Temple and Drusus in the Publick Place of Judicature in Mourning Vestments deliver'd themselves in Praise of the Deceas'd How far that Commendation of this Queen is from Idolatry most Noble Auditors or from whatever vain Ambition is usually wont fallaciously to forge I leave to you the Commendation of a Queen whose Divine Genius Pure and Chast Vertue and Immortal Glory all People Subjects and Confederates Domesticks and Foraigners they who reverence Vertue in an Enemy with equal consent of Mind and Voice admire and extol to the Skies Nay the Fucus's of Flatteries and all crisp'd and curl'd Orations would as much dishonour Her Sacred MANES as not only the Bitterness of our Sorrow forbids the practice of such Delusions in commanding us to lay aside all Gaiety of Ornament but She Herself who when alive and breathing but sparingly admitted moderate Praises and not only expell'd from her Royal Presence all Adulterated Beauties all Dissimulation and Sycophantizing Language all Feigned Acclamations the very Pests of the Court and Mothers of Nero but was always wont to call 'em the Affronts of Majesty For my part Fathers Collegiates Citizens and Strangers in this condition of my dejected Mind I shall be so far from all Assentation or suspicion of Immoderate Praise as my Oration is distant from necessity And if I have take upon me this day the Task of paying a Last Duty to the IMMORTAL WOMAN believe it done not out of any confidence of Performance nor any profuse Ostentation of Piety but meerly out of Shame to refuse for the truth of which I appeal to those that sit at the Helm of our Affairs But when I revolve in my mind that formerly upon occasions of Important and Publick Mourning Kings themselves took this Office upon 'em David of Old and since him Persons of Consular Dignity from Valerius Publicola sometimes the Caesars or Princes of the Roman Youth when Julius Augustus Tiberius Drusus Caligula Nero ascended the Tribunal to Commemorate dishonour'd Vertue with that Majesty of Countenance that became it When I am in the midst of silent Contemplation to renew Reflexions upon this August Queen of whom nothing Low nothing Mortal ought to be said Octavianus Caesar himself refusing the Panegyricks of any but the Sublimest of Wits Lastly When I behold All you that with Anxious and Wistful Looks surround this Pulpit nothing from without presents it self to my Eyes nothing to my Mind and Affections but what is sufficient to cast down a Person worn with years and almost spent with Labour but most certainly languishing with the Publick Sorrow and to deter him from speaking Therefore in so much plenty of Matter I shall shorten this Funeral Encomium of mine from which the strictness of going according to the Laws of Panegyric is not to be exacted such a one as the Father of Grecian Eloquence was longer Elaborating then the Macedonian Victor was subduing almost all the World And in kindness to your Patience and my own Infirmities I shall leave it to Masters of Art Men of Florid Age and Elocution to expatiate upon what I have contracted beseeching your Pardon at the beginning if my Abilities prove not equal to the Majesty of a most August Princess or the Bitterness of my Anguish How Bright soever be that Star which sometimes sharpen'd into Horns sometimes with a Half Face at length with a full Orb in some measure supplies and mitigates the Absence of the Sun it shines not however with its own Light but borrows all its splendor from the Aspect and situation of the Sun In like manner the World has frequently beheld Illustrious and far shining Women but that I may speak in the Words of one Septimius they have more truly glitter'd with the Decorations of their Husbands then their own Much of Light and Splendor since Her Conjunction with the Present Sun of the European World has been added to our Heroess from the Reflexions of
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
threatning BULLETS and every where cover'd Your Sacred Person in Your Cradle in Your Palace in the Camp in Battle in Your Journeys and in all Manner of Dangers He it was who when all men thought there had been a final End put to the Rights of Royal Succession Ex falso mendaci ventre Puerperio By the False-birth of a Fallacious Womb That the Ruin of Britain her Laws and Religion had been determin'd and the Extirpation of the Reformed Name and the Total Destruction of Carthage had been concluded raised up You far greater then Constantine MARY then Helena to be the Saviours of the British Orb. So is it also the same God who has safeguarded Your Person till these times by so many Prodigies and Miracles to be the Asserter of Liberty the Curb of Tyranny the Terror of a Potent Enemy the Bulwark of the Christian World the Sanctuary of Religion and the Standard by which the Successes of the Greatest Actions and Deliberations are Debated In You alone as in a certain Center now the Wishes of all men meet which before were divided between Two And now as long as the FIERCE GAUL still proudly advances his Head tho with a languishing Kingdom exhausted Treasures intercepted Trade Manufactures laid aside and the Blood of the Subject supplying the Exchequer the Generalitie of the People oppressed and languishing under Exactions Slavery War Famine and scarcity of all Things 't is Your Part to restore and revive what has been prostrated and laid waste by so many cruel Losses receiv'd from a Triumphant Enemy to wipe away our Sorrows and our Grievances and to raise again to its Pristine Lustre Peace and Security almost all the European Orb tired out with so many Calamities wasted by so many Conflagrations deformed with the Ghastly Footsteps of Gallic Fury and streaming every where with Human Blood In a Word 't is You POTENT WILLIAM that the World demands for its Restorer Britain for her Preserver Holland for her Defender the Church for her Vpholder the Army for their Leader the Oppressed and Wandring for their Avenger the Confederacy for their Bond of Concord and all Europe for the Arbiter of her Peace and Wars And while we singly pray that all Things Lucky and Prosperous may attend your Enterprizes we wish that by the same means all Things may Prosperously and Fortunately befall Your Kingdoms this Our Republick all the Christian Churches our Selves our Wives our Children and our Posterity In the mean time we also implore this Advantage to our selves from the Death of your Dear MARY that where-ever we contemplate that Most Accomplish'd Image of all Vertue and Perfection so far as Mortality would allow Her LIFE and DEATH may to every one of us be Guides to Heaven DIXI Books lately Printed for John Dunton SOme Remarkable Passages in the Life and Deâ—â—…h of her late Majesty not hitherto made publick as they were delivered in a Funeral Oration pronounc'd by Publick Authority in the Hall of the Most Illustrious States upon the Day of the Royal Obsequies March 5. 1694-95 By Francis Spanheimius F. 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