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

England and with all their Might to endeavour the Restoration of King James to the Crown that he himself had thrown away The King considering the Danger was in deep suspence for some time whether he should return back into England or stay in the Low Countries to curb the Fury and disappoint the Counsels of the Enemy The first was advis'd by many who were of the King 's more secret Counsels in England and not a few of the Officers here about the King were of the same Opinion In this same Commotion of his Fluctuating Thoughts after an anxious deliberation the King at length decreed That the Yachts that wafted him hither should be sent back into England but that the Men of War that guarded him should be so disposed of that if need required he might be speedily conveigh'd back into England Whither he also sent word that Forty of the Men of War with the Admiral should steer away toward the Coast of France with this Design that if they found an Opportunity they should burn all the Enemies transport-Transport-Ships But before the Yachts and the Messenger who was sent with the King 's Expresses arriv'd in England the Queens Letters were brought hither to the King giving him an Account That she had ordered a Fleet of Forty Men of War to sail away for the Coast of France and burn the Enemies Ships which were reported to be design'd to infest the English Shoar What Symphony could produce a more harmonious Harmony of Notes then this of the Opinions and Counsels of the King and Queen when the one knew nothing of the others Mind Insomuch that similitude of Manners and consent of Minds not Fortune seem'd to have joyn'd William and Mary together This is that true Love that so conglutinates and knits both Hearts together that nothing can be more closely join'd not to be sever'd by any distance of Time or Place and constitutes such a concord of Opinions that no force is able to dissolve Which who sees not in the King and Queen and being seen does not admire must needs be blind and ignorant of what is to be wondred at Therefore in all varieties of Times and Fortunes the King still found the greatest safety in the Love of the best of Queens It was a Saying of the King before he thought of Marriage to Charles the Second's Embassador at a time when there happen'd an accidental discourse about the choice of Wives that of all the Qualities to be sought for in a Wife his first care should be to find out the Best-Condition'd And he himself made himself the Master of his Wish for he could not have found a better Wife had the Sun it self according the Proverb been to have sought her out But as the King met with his chief help and assistance in the Queen's Love so not only her Subjects but all others for whom it was in her Power to do good found more than ordinary Succour in her bountiful Nature She thought the Day lost wherein she had not an opportunity to do good to several She measur'd her Felicity in that indulgent Height of Fortune by nothing more than by her Power to render others happy Yet was she not profuse nor did she scatter her Benefits promiscuously without Judgment or diligent Enquiry but gave plentifully gave considerately gave to fitting Objects She took more Pleasure if she had plac'd her Charity right than if Princes had heap'd upon her self all manner of Benefits and more rejoyc'd in bestowing than they who wanted in receiving She never forgot those Benefits which she receiv'd from others but still recalling 'em to Mind never suffer'd to slip out of her Memory What she bestow'd upon others she scarce remember'd as if she had lost her Memory I wish I could find Words to set forth the flowing Liberality of the most Pious Queen and were able so loudly to proclaim it and in such Language as that it might be heard in all Places Sparing to herself profuse to the miserable and wanting who believ'd that she herself enjoy'd what they receiv'd from her How many experienc'd the Bounty of her Munificent and Liberal Hand as well in England as in Germany the Low-Countries Piedmont but more especially the French Exiles who rather chose to lose their Estates than to hazard the loss of their Souls And the Splendor of this Benevolence shin'd forth in Mary's first coming into this Country For the Prince of Orange so soon as Mary became his Consort order'd such a sum of Money to be paid her for the necessary Expences of her Apparel and Princely Ornaments What did the Divine Princess do with it at those Years She did not stifle the Money in close and dark Chests nor did she lavish it out in gorgeous Attire upon Pearls and Gemms which other Women far distant from her degree are so mad after that they never cease this Fury till they have quite ruin'd their Husband's Patrimonies But moderate in her layings out considering the Grandeur of her Fortune upon her Apparel and other Ornaments which the Dignity of so great a Princess requir'd she introduc'd into the Court Diligence Frugality Parsimony Vertues most commonly unknown in Courts The rest of that large Allowance she consum'd in relieving the distresses of honest and worthy People who labour'd under great Necessities not through their own Extravagancy but reduc'd thereto by Misfortune and the hardness of the Times Magnanimous Queen superiour to all Applause For who is able deservedly to extol the Excellency of so bountiful and beneficent a Soul Where is the Woman among Ten Thousand that would deprive herself of the Money allow'd her for fine Cloaths and gaudy Ornaments to bestow upon the poor and needy while so few are contented with wearing the spoils of fair Estates upon their Backs and think all mis-spent that is not wasted upon Vanity and Finery But alas to compare the Queen with other Women is to do an Injury to her Divine Vertues wherein she equall'd or exceeded the Praises of the Greatest Men. Nor did she expect or desire any other Fruit from this her Bounty than a Conscience that told her she did well She never vaunted her Charity nor imputed it to Merit Most commonly she sent her Charity by Persons unknown who were not permitted to discover the Doner that she might not burden the Modesty of the Receivers So far was she from seeking the Favour of those on whom she conferr'd her Bounty that she deny'd 'em the Hopes of returning thanks when the greatest part were ignorant who bestow'd the unlook'd for Liberality Arcesilaus is highly applauded who laid a bag of Gold under the Pillow of his poor Friend but counterfeiting poverty all the while that he might privately supply the want of one who was needlesly modest Which Praises are not to be attributed to Mary who reliev'd not her Friends but Forreigners and Strangers whom she never saw whose Exigencies she had only heard of contrary to their Expectation

most perfect Exemplar of those Vertues which would render her the Immortal Desire both of us and our Posterity But from these Exercises of her Youth she was called to Greater and Higher Things and to lay the Foundations of Empire and Council under the Conduct of WILLIAM HENRY And what a Name was that This was he to whom the Divine Wand and that Mortal pointing out the way mark'd out MARY of Britain she that was only to kindle his Flame She that among all Women was the only Person fit for his Choice to be the Glory and Ornament of his Conjugal Life and such a One as Solomon sought but could not find among thousands As He alone among all the Hero's and Princes truly Christian was brightly Eminent and fit for MARY'S Wish to be the Conductor of her Youth and Life As in whom there was a Concurrence of all Praises and Universal Glory As in whom alone all those Great Things met divided of Old in the Persons of the four Ephori that were to instruct the Persian Princes selected to the Government of the Empire of which the First to infuse Religion the Second to govern the Affections the Third to inspire Fortitude of Mind and the Fourth to infuse Love of Justice into those that were to Reign And MARY so deeply imprinted in her Mind the Image of this Great Master and her Mind being capable of Great Things beyond her Sex she profited so well by the Company of so Great a Prince not only by his Instructions but by his Example that she was taught to Reign before she could know her self I will faithfully relate what I only heard my self and therefore can attest While she staid at the Hague after the Expedition for England expecting a Wind I was admitted to the Presence of the Royal Princess and found her turmoil'd with many Cares and deep Cogitations At what time she who was never wanting in any measure of Familiarity casting a Propitious Look upon the Interpreters of the Holy Bible deliver'd her self in these Expressions to me What a Severe and Cruel Necessity said she now lies upon me either to forsake a Father whom my Grandmother first ruin'd hence France the Author of our Parents Calamity or to forsake a Husband my Country nay God himself and my Soul my Nearest and my Dearest Pledge 'T is a Cruel Necessity indeed Madam answer'd I but not to be avoided Heaven not enduring divided Duty nor divided Affections Heaven that has not only joyn'd you by an Eternal Tie to WILLIAM but calls you to Succour your Labouring if not Perishing Country the Church of God your Religion and these your Batavians over whose Necks the Sword or Bondage hang. You forsake a Father Madam 't is true but who first forsook Himself Nature his Children Kingdoms Religion Laws his Word and the Hopes of his Subjects who departed himself from the Government that he might serve the Conveniences of those who under the pretence of False Religions measure all things Divine and Human by their own Advantages And when I added that she was called by the Voice of Heaven from a most delightful Ease to be the Companion of WILLIAM in his Cares and Toyles and unless our Wishes fail'd us to the Government of one of the Greatest Empires in the World I said the Very Image of Modesty it self I Govern a People and Weild Scepters I who have only learnt to handle next the Sacred Bible Books that either may instruct or recreate the Mind then to handle my Needle Pen or Pencil or to mind my Flowers Garden or whatever else belongs to my Family Affairs or calls off our Sex from the Contagion of Idleness And therefore be not deceived in your Opinion continued she smiling as if the Prince by his Society had instructed me in the Arts of Peace and War 'T is true after Hard Hunting or wearied with Continual Audiences or tir'd with Incessant Cares for the Good of the Republick He comes to my Chamber about Supper-time upon this Condition that I should not tire him more with multiplicity of Questions but rather strive to recreate him overtoil'd and almost spent with pleasing Jests that might revive him with Innocent Mirth Thus you see most Noble Auditors that MARY may be said to have been for the greatest part her own School-mistress in the most difficult of all Arts the Art of Reigning nor would she so lately have taken Empire upon her had it not been to preserve the Empire from Ruin And indeed her first Rudiments from the time that she betook her self to the Helm of the Republick while WILLIAM was labouring beyond the Seas to stop the Career of an Impetuous Enemy equall'd if not surpassed the consummate Foresight Sagacity Courage Virtue and fidelity as well in Council as in the Field either of the Marcia's formerly among the Britons or the Zenobia's in the East And that which amaz'd the World was this that neither the Pride nor the Ambition of those Women actuated her yet when all things were in a Tottering Condition within the Kingdom when the surrounding Ocean shook with Gallick Thunder and all good men were struck with astonishment and under the Terror of dubious Event she shewed a Courage undaunted and unacquainted with Fear The British Sea was covered with the Enemies Fleet in a manner Victorious and contemning Female Empire block'd up the English Havens when at the same time after their Fidelity sold and adulterated for Mony the English and their Admiral look'd on as immoveable while the Belgian Ships deserted by Nefarious Conspiracy were sunk and batter'd when they least expected it Within the Bosom of the Kingdom also Fell Conspirators endeavour'd through hidden and pernicious Mines not delv'd with Spade or Pickax but Horrid Machinations to open a way to a most Crafty Enemy who under the Specious pretence of James's Name not only threatned the Queen with Chains the English with Servitude Religion with Exile and to mix all things with Confusion Slaughter Conflagration Sack and Rapine but sang their IO Triumphs as if the Town had been their own In Flanders through a certain Fatal Misfortune and by the Craft rather then the Courage of French Impetuosity our Horse giving way to their first Fury the Confederate Forces were worsted All this while WILLIAM was a great way off in Ireland where the French in conjunction with the perfidious Irish possessed all the Cities Towns Castles Fortresses Ports and the Metropolis of the whole Kingdom Nor were Affairs in a doubtful condition only but almost desperate beyond the Power of Human Sagacity to imagin that ever our Hero in view of an opposing Enemy should ford the Boyn as Caesar did the Rhine and Baetis exposing his Royal Person not unwounded neither to the Cannon Bullets and Musquet Hail and in one day put the Barbarians with their French Confederates to flight and constrain Trembling James to quit the Island In the midst of so many Streights what did MARY do Did