to enter into the Ioy of her Saviour having left Grief behind Her Whom in the Whole as to all Relations as Her Noble Father in Whose Affections if Any had a greater share then Other it was She in a Letter of His since her Sickness Stiles Her the Best of Daughters so Her Husband praises Her for the Best of Wives Her Children rise up and call the Best of Mothers Her Servants for whose Encouragement and Reward she took care to the Last own as the Best of Mistresses Her Allies lookt upon as the Best of Friends Those that had the Honour to know Her the Best of Acquaintances and Those that liv'd near Her the Best of Neighbours May We All that knew Her keep her Vertues alive in our Memory and in our Imitation May her Worthy and Afflicted Husband as he does praise Her and with a chearful gratitude mitigate his Sorrow and comfort himself with the expectation of a Happy Meeting when Her own Works shall Praise her in the Gates of Heaven May her Children those Three Noble Plants She hath left behind Her as the dear Pledges of her Memory rise up and grow up in her Example and call her Blessed And may the Echo of her Praises tend to the setting forth of the Praise of God the Father of Spirits and the Father of Lights from whom cometh every good and perfect Gift To whom the Immortal and Ever-blessed Three Persons and One God We together with the whole Company of All his Saints ascribe as is most due all Honour Praise and Glory Now and for Ever Amen FINIS AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH of the THRICE NOBLE And VERTUOUS LADY THE Lady IANE CHEYNE Eldest DAUGHTER to WILLIAM DUKE of NEWCASTLE By a Person of Quality and Neighbour in Chelsey An Elegy on the Death of the Thrice Noble and Vertuous Lady the Lady Jane Cheyne Eldest Daughter to William Duke of Newcastle DIsmal the darkness fearful was the Night All thoughts were banish'd bord'ring on delight Nature wore Blacks and the Worlds beauteous Eye Fled far from the approaching Tragedy My doubtful Muse lay trembling when the Knell More doleful from the midnight passing Bell Subtracting hopes addition gave to Woe Now ripe in Numbers and in Tears to flow Ye Chelsey Fields no more your pleasures boast Your greatest Pride is with your Lady lost No more cry up your sweet and healthy Air Now only fit for such as breath despair Of your delightful River brag no more Briny its Waves and Fatal is its Shore Not all its Sands can count the Tears we spilt Not all its Stream can wash away this guilt Farewel Dear Lady now a blessed Saint Did not Religion on us lay restraint Our Vows and Prayers soon would turned be From Praying for to Praying unto Thee But these as fruitless are as those are vain Thou feelest none nor pitiest our pain Our Eyes will better shew the Love we bore Where to lament's more fit then to implore And sorrow sure our loss will most become Like losing Gamesters when we count the sum Her Noble Birth she from Newcastle took High in Bridgwater and in Bullingbrook But she not half so Great as she was Good Ow'd her least Praise to her Illustrous blood By her intrinsick Worth her Titles rise More splendid from her Vertues then Allies And she more Honour gave unto their Fames Then she derived from their mighty Names Yet not pufft up with Honours Timpany Like Stars she less appear'd for being High And like them too she freely did dispence On all beneath her gentle Influence So sweetly condescending as if she Less then our selves had own'd a Dignity Her Goodness did our Modesty besiege She never knew where she did not oblige Hence at her Ills so common was our grief Nothing but hers could perfect our relief Tears drown'd our Joy Joy did from Tears release As her Distempers did arise or cease And at her Death an Universal groan Was heard as if her Fate had been our own Since then she 's gone Oh! that I could inherit One portion of her great Poetick Spirit Like him who caught Elijah's Mantle I Of Her and Heaven soon would Prophecy My Muse should learn to bear a noble Part And boundless Grief make regular by Art An Art she knew and practised so well Her Modesty alone could it excell Which by concealing doubles her Esteem 'T is hard to understand and not to seem Wandring abroad small Poets does become Great Wits like Princes best are seen at home And yet her Name might Patronize a Muse Defying strictest Censure to accuse For whatsoe'er her Fancies stamp did own Was Sterling Coin to be refus'd by none Without allay and as her self refin'd High as her Birth yet gentle as her mind Where Female sweetness manly strength did meet At once like Samsons riddle strong and sweet If such her Art her Nature was the same As this her Wit so that adorn'd her Frame Mov'd by a Soul so Pious that might be Well term'd a Beam of the Divinity Which in her Life and Actions shone so bright That We i'ts Heat perceiv'd as well as Light Her thousand Graces with a mingled Ray Made her Lifes Path seem one pure milky Way Whilst others Splendors only shew their Blots As the Moons Light discovers her own Spots Her Passions all to Reason gave the sway As she unto her Husband did obey From just Complyance neither did desist 'Cause neither were accustom'd to resist Each kept within it's proper bounds and range Serving to vary her but ne're to change Her Humor still in Complaisance did ' bide Ne're ebb'd to Sullenness nor swell'd to Pride In her a Multiply'd Example's gone And many Noble Patterns lost in One None more Devout none was more Chast of Life None better Mother none more loving Wife Three Blessings Copies of her self she brought Yet was her self the greatest Blessing thought Worthy by none but him to be possest Who best deserv'd her 'cause he lov'd her best Such his affection as in Truth extends Beyond th' Examples of the loving Friends Her griefs he griev'd and all her Pains he felt As if one Soul within two Bodies dwelt And she from that did part I 'm bold to say With less regret then He from her away With hers He would have given up his Breath And Love preserv'd untoucht by mighty Death But that to dare to suffer life might prove More kindness to the Pledges of her Love Pardon Dear Saint my Muses wandring fire Silence is heard where'ts easie to admire The praise that him I give praise justly due I 'm sure you will not think detain'd from you 'T is equal to rejoyn whom cruel Fate So hardly did attempt to separate As you to dye his glory were content So may he live your noblest Monument FINIS
Value which is therefore as mutable and uncertain as Opinion which 't is built upon And this crys up one thing to day another to morrow Thamar after Amnons wicked satisfaction was as Unpleasing in his eyes as she was Fair before Nay the Text says that the Hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her And it appears so by his usage of her for a Friend was imploy'd to bring her in but a Servant serv'd to turn her out and bolt the door after her 2. As things that may be Counterfeited and put on These are many times but ascititious Ornaments when Art is taught to supply the defects and to repair the decays of Nature Nor is Beauty alone thus false when some through a Fantastick Pride or some worse Distemper walk as if they were their own Sepulcres Painted but Favour or Grace it self may be abus'd to meretricious ends whilest in a demure Aspect and a graceful Behaviour it may be difficult to distinguish betwixt a Courtesan and a Matron betwixt the strange woman and the woman that fears the Lord. 3. As they prove too frequently Occasions of Evil and Incentives to Lust. This is indeed Fallax Gratia a deceitful Favour which leads into Temptation and a vain Beauty which insnares and betrays the Soul Thus some of the Fathers tell us the Angels themselves were surpriz'd with the Beauty of the daughters of men from whom came the Impious race of Giants Some Holy persons have upon this consideration been remarkably Severe to themselves mischieving their Bodies to secure their Souls and preferring a Voluntary Deformity before an Involuntary Temptingness Matthew of Westminster tells us that in the year of Christ 870. when the Danes were got into this Island St. Ebbe with all her Nuns of Colingham did all by one consent cut off their noses and upper lips to discourage wicked Attempts and to preserve their Chastity which disappointment so inrag'd the Danes that turning their Lust into Cruelty they burnt them all alive together with their Abbey And Vincentius Bellovacensis tells us of another English Nun who being for her lovely Eyes coveted of one of the King Richards and by him demanded of the Convent got both her Eyes pluck'd out and sent them to him as a Present in a Dish with this Complement that her Eyes were at the King's service but her Heart was to be only Christ's This was very close to the Letter If thine Eye offend thee pull it out O dangerous Beauty which dost so hazard Vertue when 't is in thy company O unfortunate Vertue that art thus fain to wound and mangle thy self that thou may'st be kept Intire However notwithstanding this deceitfulness and vanity Those Advantages of good Carriage and a Courteous Behaviour of Beauty and a graceful Aspect are not absolutely to be condemn'd or to be at all disparaged by us where God gives them they being Blessings as they come from his Hand And Vertue and Piety it self doth by this means oftentimes meet with a fair Respect and a kindly Welcom in the World a good Face and an ingenuous Address being a kind of potent Recommendation even to Strangers who will be ready to think the Face a good Index of the Mind and a fair compos'd Body a suitable lodging for a Beauteous Soul So I know not how Vertue having Favour and Beauty for its Attendants and Maids of Honour appears more Serene and yet no less Majestick and does more plausibly insinuate its Aw and Veneration into peoples minds Nor is our Vertuous Woman here wanting in these Imbellishments which may be requisite either to her Sex or State but is like the Merchants Ships to which she is compar'd in the 14th ver even in this Sense that she is not without her Tackle and Ornaments We find in the 22d ver that her Cloathing is Silk and Purple she goes in good Habit in a rich and fashionable Garb and ver 26. that she openeth her Mouth with Wisdom and in her Tongue is the law of Kindness she charms all she Converses with and wins them with her Discourse But then she prizes these Advantages under these three Conditions 1. Not so as ambitiously to seek them or fondly to Vaunt them She would not borrow a Complexion from her Boxes but what S t Nazianzen says of his Sister Gorgonia in her Funeral Oration likes that Red best which she owes to a blushing Modesty and that White or Pale which comes by a severe Abstinenee 2. Not so as to be Proud of them or to Rely upon them as solid goods Beauty is a thing but skin-deep and at best is but a Set-off no real Substance Piety is her alone Confidence and Vertue design'd for the Pillar of her Praise whereon her fair Name shall be ingrav'd in legible Characters to succeeding Generations 3. Not so as to Mis-imploy them but to Guide them with Vertue and Discretion She likes a Chearful but would not have it a tempting Look She composes her self all over exactly to Innocence and then makes that very Innocence all over Complaisant and above all things takes care that Beauty may not be her Crime and that the Fair Vessel her Soul is Imbarked in may not want a good Pilot a Vertuous Mind to Govern it And this for the Negative or Comparative Part that Favour and Beauty are not of themselves Things commendable in Women any further then they are accompanied and manag'd by Discretion and Vertue We come now to the Position which is that a Woman which feareth the Lord she shall be Prais'd In which Proposition we have 1. The Subject a Woman with her Qualification that fears the Lord. 2. The Predicate She shall be Praised WOMAN in the primitive design of Nature God's Master-piece being the last work of Creation and made with a great deal of Deliberation and Solemnity For to look upon her as a Supernumerary Creature and one brought into the world by the By besides the Creator's first Intention upon second Thoughts though Those too amongst us Men with whose methods it pleases God out of condescension to comply pass for the Wisest is to lay a foul Imputation upon Divine Wisdom as if it had been at a stand and were to seek Wherefore as we use to argue that All things were made for the use and service of Man because He was made Last of all I do not see if that Argument be good why the same Consequence should not be of like force here too that Man himself was made for the service and affectionate Care of the Woman who was fram'd not only after him but out of him too the more to Ingage his tenderest and dearest Respects Certainly this manner of Production doth plainly evince the Equality of the Woman's Merits and Rights with Man she being a noble Cyon transplanted from his Stock and by the Mystery of Marriage Implanted into him again and made One with him She is then Equally at least
CAVENDISH Duke Of NEWCASTLE Sherlock sculp A SERMON AT THE FUNERAL OF THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE Lady JANE Eldest Daughter to his GRACE WILLIAM Duke of NEWCASTLE AND Wife to the Honourable CHARLES CHEYNE Esq At CHELSEY Novemb. 1. Being All-Saints day By Adam Littleton Priest LONDON Printed by Iohn Macock MDCLXIX PROV XXXI 30. Favour is deceitful and Beauty is vain but a Woman that feareth the Lord She shall be Praised WHO King Lemuel and his Mother mentioned in the first Verse of this Chapter were I shall not undertake to decide 'T is agreed on by most Interpreters that by Lemuel is intended Solomon who as Grotius observes was Octanominis had eight several Names given him in Scripture and by his Mother consequently is meant Bathsheba thought the same Grotius intimate too it might be Hezekiah himself who order'd the Collection of these Proverbs and his Mother Abijah the Daughter of Zechariah and that Lemuel was blanda matris Appellatio a made word of Kindness to sweeten her motherly Instructions In the Chapter that we may come orderly to the Text there are two main Parts to be observed I. The Queen Mothers Lesson to the young Prince her Son in the Nine first Verses II. The Character of a good Woman from the 10. verse to the end Which if it be but the continuation of the Mother's Lecture is then a Direction to him how to chuse a Wife but if we take it for a Composure of Solomon's then 't will be a dutiful Return of the Son to his Mother's Instructions in a large Commendation of her Wisdom and Care wherein he sets her forth as the Pattern of her Sex and pleats Laudum Corollam a Garland and Imperial Wreath of Praises for his Mother's Royal Head Be this Good Woman then in the History Bathsheba or Abijah or as the Popish Expositors turn it the Blessed Virgin be she in the Allegory the Church or any pious Soul it cannot be deny'd but that even Literally it belongs and may properly be apply'd to any Good Vertuous Woman whatsoever of the whole Sex who is here Commended through all the Letters of the Hebrew Christ-cross-row This being Carmen Alphabeticum in Laudes Bonae Foeminae an Alphabetical Poem in the Praise of a Good Woman And though the whole of the Description be Praise yet we may take a distinct notice of two Particulars contained in this Poem I. Her Properties or Vertues reckon'd up all along to the 28. verse II. Her Praise more Emphatically exprest in the very Close the four last Verses Her Vertues to give you a brief Summary of them are Her Conjugal Fidelity verse 11. Her Kindness and Constancy of Affection verse 12. Her Houswifery and Diligence v. 13. 19. Her Thrift and Menage verse 15 16. Her Industry and Assiduity vers 17 18. Her Charity and Liberality to the Poor verse 20. Her Providence and Forecast verse 21. Her Magnificence in her Furniture and Apparel verse 22. Her Reputation in Publick V. 23. 25. Her Traffick and Credit abroad in Selling v. 24. in Buying v. 16. and in both v. 14. Her Discretion and Obligingness in her Discourse v. 26. Her Care of Home and good Government of her Family v. 27. Her Praise to these many Vertues is threefold 1. At Home by her Husband and Children who do not speak out of Flattery but as having been constant Witnesses of her Vertuous Carriage ver 28. commending her in this form of words ver 29. Many Daughters have done Vertuously but Thou excellest them all 2. Pro Rostris solemnly out of the Pulpit in the words of the Text for so She shall be praised implies a solemn Commemoration of her Vertues and an Encomiastick Harangue upon her Person 3. For an everlasting Memorial of her throughout the whole Country where she lived common Fame shall do her that right in the last Verse Her own Works shall praise her in the Gates to wit among the Elders of the Land as 't is ver 23. among the Nobles and Rulers of the Kingdom Persons of the highest Place and greatest Quality Our present business is that Part of her Praise which is to be perform'd in this place whereto as I have always accounted it no mean Advantage of my life to have been known to a Person of so eminent a Worth and Goodness so I find my self somewhat enabled by that personal Knowledge for a fair discharge of the Duty of this Hour without being much beholden either to publick Report or private Information though the Whole almost of what I have to say will be That too which All that hear me will readily back with their Testimony To come to the business then the Vertuous Woman's Commendation here is expressed I. Negatively or if you will Comparatively Favour is deceitful and Beauty is vain II. Positively But a Woman that feareth the Lord She shall be Praised As if he had said Favour and Beauty are Idle Insignificant sorry mean toyish Things that deserve not serious Commendation at least are not fit to come in Competition with Vertue and Discretion and Piety which are the truly Laudable Qualities and make the only durable lasting Foundation to erect a Monument of Praise upon 'T is indeed the Humour and Custom of wanton loose Wits to Court the Beautiful to Commend the Fair and the Gay ones in their Sonnets and to make Elogies upon them while they are Living and Elegies when Dead but alas Those are poor Subjects in comparison of the Good and Vertuous and when those Poets Laurels and their Mistresses Praises too shall be blasted by Truth and withered by Time the Woman that fears the Lord the Pious Lady the Vertuous Matron shall be Praised on still and her Memory ever continue fresh and green We shall to clear our way for the proving Vertue the alone Praise-worthy thing shew the Deceit Vanity of those other two Candidates for Praise Favour and Beauty Favour in the Original Grace that is the gracefulness of Habit Gesture Gate Discourse and the Attractives of a hansom Carriage so as to gain Beholders Love 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 say the Septuagint the Complaisances of Conversation which do readily procure peoples Favour and good Opnion Ag in Beauty in the Symmetry and Proportion of Parts in the Feature and Complexion That which strikes the Eye and affects the Heart And yet both these deceitful and vain for these Reasons 1. As Frail and Subject to Decay whether in their own Nature or which is all one as to the Praise and Esteem of them in the Opinions of Men. The Fairest Face is as brittle as the Glass it views it self in and is at best thus but a Miroir of Beauty and when broken with Age or marr'd by Disease becomes a Looking-glass of Mortality The distinction betwixt Beauty and Deformity is quite lost in the Grave and many times before they come there Besides These are things that owe their Estimate to the Opinion of men and not to any Intrinsick
partaker with him of all the Advantages which appertain to Humane Nature and alike Capable of those Improvements which by the Efforts of Reason and the Methods of Education and the Instincts of the Blessed Spirit are to be made upon it and no less fitted in her natural Ingeny for all kind of Studies and Imployments though Custom like a Salique Law hath excluded them from Publick Offices and Professions and confin'd them mostly to the narrow Territories of Home Our Vertuous Woman here besides her Oeconomical Government wherein her Husband's cares are not concern'd plays the Purchaser and the Merchant ver 16. and 24. though too whilst her Husband is sitting in the gates among the Elders of the Land ver 23. her hands are holding the distaff at home ver 19. A Learned Woman of Vtrecht has in a Printed Discourse fairly in this behalf vindicated the Reputation of her Sex Nor are there wanting Illustrious Examples of Those who for Atchievments in Arms and Attainments of Arts have not come short of the Bravest Men and lest behind them signal proofs that their Minerva can upon occasion as well weild the Sword and manage the Pen as lay her hands to the Spindle One Instance out of our own History will be sufficient Elizabeth of Happy Memory who 44 years together sway'd the Scepter of this Realm with as much Repute as ever any of her Predecessors did and through all her Reign shew'd at once the Spirit and Resolution of her Father and the Policy and Wisdom of her Grand-father without their Vices Hence it was that all Arts and Sciences all Vertues and Graces both Divine and Moral are represented in the shape and Habit of Women Nor is there any reason for fancying Angels themselves more of Our Sex then of the Other since amongst them there 's no such Distinction but they may be as well imagin'd Female as Male. Above all for Piety and Devotion which is the Top-perfection of our Nature and makes it most like Angelical as the Capacity of Women is as large so their Inclinations are generally more vigorous the natural Biass and Tendency of their Spirits lying that way and their softer Temper more kindly receiving the supernatural Impressions of God's Spirit This is That if any thing which gives their Sex the Preeminence above us Men and gains them just advantages of Praise that whereas Those who have only a hansom Shape and good Features to command them are Ador'd and Idoliz'd by persons of slight Apprehensions and ungovern'd Passions Pious and Vertuous Women command the Veneration of the most Judicious and are deservedly Admired by Holy Men and Angels Hereupon S t Ierom though no Friend to a Married life yet seem'd to pride himself in his Acquaintance with Vertuous Women and made so many Addresses to Religious Ladies that those very Epistles and Missives of His which wear Female Names would make a competent Volume of themselves And our Blessed Lord himself has in his History honour'd Them with a frequent mention as his ordinary Associates and constant Attendants Thus the Woman who feareth the Lord shall be praised That 's the Qualification She that feareth the Lord for that is the right Vertuous Woman in the 10. ver whose price is far above Rubies But there we have an Objection which I must first take out of the way Where shall we meet with such an One Who can find a Vertuous Woman I can speak it with as much Truth as I must speak it with Sorrow we have lost One for by all the Description if there be such an One to be found This was She. But this Question does not import an Impossibility but only the Difficulty of finding her He had in vain taken all this pains to describe her so at large if there be no such Person to be found There are sure such Women more perhaps then Men as Men are now deserve there should be and as they are extraordinary Blessings so they that Fear God shall meet with them 'T is shrewdly Observ'd by one that the reason of their Paucity proceeds from us Men. Men being generally so Evil as they are make Women generally not so good as they would be For at that time of the World when Men priz'd Vertue and made that the Standard of their Affection and the Sole Object of their Choice when Discretion and Goodness were lookt on as the Taking things and Piety alone was accounted a sufficient Portion then in that Golden Age the great Emulation of that Sex was who should weigh most in real Deserts and come best Dowried with those desirable Qualities when Wives were to be bid for and purchased at considerable Rates But now since the Scales have been turn'd and love has been brought into the Market that Vertue and good Education are undervalued and Wealth is become the Lovely Thing and all the Shafts of mens Destres are Tipt with Gold and Silver or else by Some that lay their Judgments aside and let their Fancy choose for them Beauty is made the Mark and so there be a fair inviting Outside no regard had to the Inward disposition of the Mind 't was Consequent that Women also should grow more negligent of Vertue and apply themselves more particularly to those Things for which they were to be priz'd and esteem'd by Men. And yet there are still notwithstanding this Degeneracy of Manners such Women to be found of the Primitive Stamp who though they may in common Civility to Vulgar Error comply in sinless Fashions and Modes and in the Innocent Ceremonies of life taken up by Others peradventure to ill Ends in these corrupt Ages yet do make it their main Imploy to inrich and beautifie their Minds and bestow most of their Time in the Culture and Adornments of their Souls To find them out let us Examine the Character by which the Hue and Cry is made She whom we call the Vertuous Woman goes amongst the Interpreters under several names 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Esheth Hhaïl say some a Stout Valiant Woman so the French une Vaillante Femme a Virago one fit to lead an Army so that as it follows in the next verse her Husband shall have no need of Spoil Fear being so natural to this Sex it looks like Miracle to meet with such an One and yet we read there have been whole Nations of Them Witness the Amazonian Courage and the valour of the Spartan Ladies Others strenuain sedulam a busie Industrious Woman one of a stirring active Spirit A Woman of Wealth and Riches says Aben Ezra which is not One of a great Portion for Then there was no such Custom but one that by Industry and good Managery got Wealth so in the verse before the Text she is commended in the Margin of our Bibles Many Daughters have gotten Riches but Thou surpassest them all A right good Vertuous Woman so the Chaldee one that in her Carriage and Actions shews that she has the Fear of God in
that it may be both Brief and Useful and That according to our former Method where we treated of the Fear of God which is here given as Her Character First as to Principle the Candour of Her Disposition the Sweetness of her Nature and the Evenness of her Temper whereof throughout her whole Life she gave Innumerable Demonstrations And certainly Good Nature however some Ill-natur'd People who would pass for the most strictly Religious may declaim against It and all Morality is the best Seed-plot for Piety and all Vertue to thrive in the Kindliest Soil for the Fruits of the Spirit Meekness Ioy Patience Gentleness Long-suffering Loving kindness c. which were abundantly seen in all the Instances of her Conversation Now because much of This may seem to be Extracted from the Parents and by Lineal Descent to be derived from the Family For Fortes creantur Fortibus Boni Bonis Vertues and good Qualities likely run in a Blood I must so far mention Her Pedigree as to give the True Blazonry of her Vertues She was Eldest Daughter to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle a Person of no less Excellence in His Merit and in His Nature then he is in his Title One that has been the most Illustrious Example in all the three Nations of an Acting and Suffering Loyalty To him besides His other vast Deserts the World ow'd this Excellent Lady who being powerfully inclin'd by Instinct and Duty and Choice to be like Her Noble Father did so Naturally Resemble Him and so Affectionately Imitate Him that She represented the lively Characters of his Soul as well as Feature Nor must I omit her Pious Mother a Lady of most Exemplary Charities from whom She received the first Elements of her Vertuous Education and Her Noble Grand-Mother the Lady Ogle whose Daring she was who to this Lady IANE did in her life and at her death give particular Testimonies of an extraordinary Affection which were often gratefully remembred and repeated by Her From these Advantages of Birth that Natural Principle of Goodness flow'd which being Inlarged by the Moral accessions of Noble Breeding and Impregnated with Holy Exercises and the Influences of God's good Spirit stream'd into all the Faculties of her Soul by which she became the Absolute Governess of Her own Mind She had that Command of Her Passions that it might be questioned whether she had Any Anger and She were so utter Strangers that the very Expressions of Dislike from Her were Obliging Greatness and Goodness of Mind kept her Soul always in an equal Poise so that she could never fancy an Injury or an Ill meaning from any one or be upon any Provocation Exceptious She knew her self so Innocent and Good that she deserv'd no Ill and therefore suspected none and withal She was of so Generous and Great a Spirit that unkindnesses if intended could not reach Her So that as on the one hand no body she believ'd would wrong Her if they could so on the other she resolv'd they should not if they would Her soft yielding Compliance back'd with Magnanimity was like polish'd Marble smooth and strong She was seated above the clouded Atmosphere of Worldly Joys and Troubles even while she was Here and had wrought Her self to a perfect Indifference and Vnconcernedness in all things but Her Service of God and Kindness to her Friends She had no Value for the World nor Over-value for Her self who was one of the Best Parts of it For as Her Worth had set Her Even with the Greatest so Her Humility plac'd Her familiarly with the Meanest and yet this attended with so natural a Becomingness that her very Humility exalted her and her Condescensions made her the more Venerable and Highly Esteemed Where the Passions are kept in this Aw and Order the Superiour Faculties being clear and undisturb'd must needs exercise all their Functions aright She took when Young special delight in her Father's Excellent Composures And she hath left in Writing a considerable Stock of Excellent ones of Her own ever spending the time that best pleased Her with her Pen. Above all Reading of good Discourses and making of Pious Meditations were Her chief and daily Imployment to which and to Her Devotions she was so Constant that as she hath fill'd some Volumes with the One so for the Other from her Youth to her late Death-bed she fail'd not of Prayer as I am Informed thrice a day and if Morning or Noon hapned to be omitted She would make amends at Night and then to be sure even that Account Herein lay her solid Satisfaction in Conversing thus with God that She lookt upon all Occasions that Interrupted That as Impertinent and Uneasie and if She had any Quarrel to this Place 't was this the Multitude of Formal Visits which she could not avoid receiving from London and returning that took off her time from these Spiritual Exercises This as to her Principle Then as to the Emanations of It to the Eye and Observation of the World for we have as yet been but in the Closet In her Maiden-state Of her Infant-years which were spent at Welbeck a place that bears the Proportion and Resemblance of a Court under the Tuition of her Father and Mother we have already spoken We shall now treat of her more Adult Vertues What Courage and Loyalty as the right Daughter of a General as the Valiant Woman here spoken of did she shew in keeping the Garrison'd House of her Father where she was left with One of her Noble Sisters as a Sharer in her Vertues and the Misfortunes of Ill times the Other being before that Time Happily bestow'd amongst the Horrid Circumstances of War till taken by the Enemy and there made their Prisoners What Gallantry of Charity at the Retaking it by the King's Forces when She became Petitioner to save her Iaylor's life whose Treatments though not Barbarous yet had been much short of such Civilities as to Persons of their Age Tenderness and Quality were due What Patience and Magnanimity in all the Disasters of Her Loyal Family Her Mother's Death the Loss of my Lord's Army his leaving England His and her Brothers Banishment after and Proscription and the Seizure of all their Fortunes beside Her own Personal Sufferings and Unsettlements What Duty and Piety when after the Fifths were procur'd She was inabled to become Sollicitor for her Father and Brothers when Loyalty was so Criminal that nothing less would serve then to Except them from Life when with all Her early Diligences and Attendances and Petitionings how humbly and closely soever prosecuted She could not prevail for Her Father Her Brothers only with much difficulty had Pardon for Life And then when things were grown to that Extremity that All that could be had from an Enemy was too scant a Support for Her Banisht Father I have it from an Excellent Hand that with great Obligingness gives this Account in Print She converted Her own Peculium of Jewels and