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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

and unlook'd for Nor did she open those Fountains of Beneficence once or twice only but constantly and every Year that she might not be thought to give out of a sudden heat or through weakness but upon mature Consideration and Advice She sent from England certain Persons who distributed this same Tribute if I may so call it of her Liberality and order'd 'em to make a faithful Report of the Condition of those to whom she decreed her Charity that she might enlarge her Bounty if what she had sent did not suffice to allay the Troubles of their Exigency The French Fugitives despoil'd of all the Comforts of Fortune upon which Domestick Harpies had laid their Gripes with what a plentiful Benignity she cherish'd both here and in England they themselves are Witnesses An Illustrious Widow dy'd who was Married to a Prince in Germany To him an Annual Pension was owing and pay'd him out of the Common Treasury of the States Therefore that this Money might be converted to the support of the French especially of Noble Ladies and Gentlewomen who had forsaken their Country for the sake of Religion and had no way to get their Living as having been bred up tenderly and in the midst of Affluency at home was a favour for which they are beholden solely to the Queen whose desire of deserving well from the Indigent was never tyr'd To the Savoyards and Vaudois of the Reform'd Religion exhausted by long wandrings from Place to Place by Hunger and Misery when they return'd again to their Native Habitations she order'd a Sum of Money to be sent for the support of fourteen Ministers as many Readers and as many necessitous Laymen Nor was the most bountiful Queen less compassionate upon the Seamen who naked stript and wounded swam from the sunk Vessels which the Enemy burnt As many as went to London and they were not a few were cloathed by the Queens Command and furnish'd with Money to supply their necessities She took care also all along the Shores of Kent and Sussex that the Wounded should be taken in diligently look'd after cur'd and kindly us'd To the Widows and Children of the Slain she dispers'd her bounty even in this Land that their Losses might be repair'd and their Sorrows allay'd Lastly in all parts of England and Holland she imprinted innumerable Marks of her Royal Munificence and Charity Nor was she less a Peculiar Specimen of Clemency than Liberality She rather chose to forget than revenge Injuries For she remember'd that the One was the Character of the fordid Vulgar the Other of those who excel Other Mortals in Vertue and Magnanimity Nor was she inferiour for the Commendations of Justice to any of the Areopagites She allowed nothing to Favour nothing to Hatred No body suffer'd Punishment or Fine who was not more gently us'd than he could think or hope for had the Law been rigorously Executed Honour was bestow'd on no Man but the Reward far exceeded the Merits What her Innocency and Temperance was in the midst of so much wealth your selves cannot be ignorant who know how pious she vvas Nor have I any thing to add as to her Chastity vvhen you have heard how entirely she Lov'd the King She could not endure a wanton word nor the sight of a Woman who was reported or suspected to have violated her modesty Her Womens Apartment was a kind of Temple of Chastity Integrity and Sanctity The Affability of MARY born and bred up in a Court all people admir'd more especially the Dutch when first she came into Holland Before they understood her many fear'd an Imperious Mistress and the swelling Disdain of those Courts where the Name of Civility is either unheard of or hated In her Dress her Dyet her Royal Ornaments in her Converse in her making and repaying of Visits she hardly exceeded Common Familiarity How easy of access to all Persons and at all Hours when she was at Leisure from Divine Worship or the Administration of the Government For tho she spent her leisure hours in reading either History or Geography wherein she was so expert that no man knew so well his own Lands and House as she understood the Nature of Countries Islands Kingdoms Citys Rivers Mountains and the manners Religion and Laws of the Inhabitants so that in this sort of Polite Learning nothing could be more Elegant or accomplishd then Mary yet was not the Pleasure which she took in reading so great as to detain her from giving audiences to all persons at any leisure time What Burgomaster or Mayor of a Town could be easier of access or more freely spoken so then this Princess to Hollanders and English Her affability and sweet Delivery wherewith she Season'd all her Vertues exceed belief As she excell'd all in Majesty so she suffer'd none to outdo her in Humanity I will give you one rare Example of her extraordinary affability and goodness An Embassador of a great Prince after he had paid his Duty to Mary at the Hague retiring out of the Chamber lest he should turn his Back to the Princess went backward stopping and bowing two or three times By chance it happen'd that after he had bow'd a second time still retreating backward his Periwig caught hold of a Branch that hung in the room which either he had not seen or else had forgot and pulling it off discover'd his Bald Head The Embassadour blush'd and the Ladys and Maids of Honour could not forbear Laughing onely the Princess did not so much as smile but kept her Countenance with the same Gravity as when she heard the Embassadour's Address After the Embassadour was gone one of the Ladys who was greatly in her favour admiring the Reservedness of the Princess upon such a Jocular accident made bold to ask her how she could hold laughing To whom the Princess I should have done the Embassadour an Injury said she should I by an unseasonable fit of Laughter added to the shame and trouble of a Person who was in Confusion and Perplexity enough at what had unhappily and through no fault of his befall'n him No Madam that had been ill done and against my Duty With this Serenity of Aspect and sweetness of her Countenance all people who were admitted to the Queen were so mov'd that they could not think they beheld a Queen but some certain Goddess beneficent and propitious to mankind A singular Gravity accompany'd this Divine Goodness after a wonderful manner intermixing Majesty and Familiarity together Add to this the Graces of her Countenance the Serenity of her Aspect the Sparkling and Chearfulness of her Eyes and indeed the Majesty of her whole Body No body could behold her who was not strook with so many Excellencies No wonder then that so many Ornaments both of Body and Mind should beget so much Love and Admiration and love in the minds of all People in so much that she was belov'd and worshipt like a Goddess sent down from Heaven to enlighten this Age

was That she submitted to the Will of Heaven She was ever present at Publick Congregations especially when the Army was in motion and some more imminent dangers threatned And when she was there no person more attentive to the Preacher no person pour'd forth more fervent Prayers to God with a mind rather than a Countenance Dejected and fix'd upon the Earth Then how benificent how bountiful both in the Church and without it to the wanting Members of the Church in all Parts of the Earth How many thousands did she support at her own Charges which that same horrid Tempest and dismal Rage of the Monks which they call Piety had driven into these Countrys or into England Exiles from their Native Country and depriv'd of the Liberty of their Consciences much dearer than their Country Who lastly ever was in real Want to whose Succour something did not always flow from that abounding Fountain Four times every year she sent Letters Subscrib'd with her own Hand with Mony to be distributed to the Poor from whom she never desir'd the Repayment of Thanks 'T is not above three years since that she sent a vast Sum of Mony into Holland for the Relief of the Poor and to supply the necessities of a bitter Winter concealing her Name according to her Custom Benign and Munificent Princess Give thou wouldst but yet conceal thy Name Hadst thou been now alive how many poor and indigent that Perish'd through the intense Rigour of this last Winter had been then reliev'd by thy most Royal Bounty But as she Consecrated her first and chiefest Duties to God her next she Dedicated to her Husband How Lovingly did she Accompany him at his Departure How affectionately did she Embrace him Returning With how much Kindness and Sweetness did she Compensate the Hardships of War and continual Travel by him stustain'd This last time unhappy last Time With what an incredible speed and Fervency contemning the Injuries of the Weather did she hasten to meet her dearest Consort and Congratulate his safe Return While the King was absent she alone took care of all the Affairs of the Kingdom When he was present she ceased to meddle with any Publick Business but surrendred back the Government of the whole Empire into his Hand more joyful to resign it than to take it up So that never any Mother of a Family could be more obsequious to her Husband than she was to the King Nor are you to believe she wasted that Life in idleness She had business enough to do She oblig'd all People by her Favours She studied to deserve the love of all men She Cur'd the Sick she succoured the Afflicted and dispersed Relief to all that were in Want or that Laboured under any Calamity of Body Of Time so pretious and the only thing of which we may be laudably allow'd to be Covetous she was most sparing and parcimonious Many times she set her Royal Hands to Embroider which she did not think beneath her self in imitation of the Antient Queens VVhen at the same time give ear great Seneca who so highly commendest to us Covetousness of Time she order'd to be read to her some profitable and learned Piece which treated either of Politicks or History of Ethicks or of Divinity She her self also Read very much whether in the City or the Country and with honest yet delightful ease deceiv'd her solitary Hours so that like the great Scipio Africanus she was never less at leisure than when at leisure never less alone than when alone and like that other Scipio Advantageously and Elegantly divided her Intervals of Leisure and Business An Egregious Act enough to shame not only VVomen not only Youth but Men of Years and Learning Nor was it long since give Ear ye Kings and Princes that she Erected in her Palace a Library peculiar to her self a Precedent but rarely heard of before and had furnish'd it not so much with Gaudy as with useful Books Thence had she drawn a copious Stock of Learning deeply Read in History and no less skill'd in Architecture and Geometry So that the Situations of all Countries Regions Cities and Seaport-Towns were familiar to her And she who expended so much upon the Worship of God her Duty to her Husband upon the People and upon all in Necessity how much did she Expend upon her self She spent all upon her Mind took little or no care of her Body VVhen any new fashion'd Garment or costly Ornament was shewed her she rejected 'em as superfluous and Answered The Mony might be better laid out upon the Poor Wonderful Princess endu'd with so Pious and Modest a Mind Great Exemplar fit for Imitation She bestows upon the Poor she denies her self she contemns so great and Potent a Princess neglects and scorns those Things which all other private Women so ardently and vehemently covet and desire Which shall I most admire amidst so many and so great Vertues Whether that extraordinary Piety towards God that shun so brightly forth in her tender Years while never Woman worship'd lov'd and honour'd God with a more fervent or purer zeal Whether that sacred and Praise-worthy Desire of promoting Religion upon which she was so singularly intent that without the Providence of God and the Care and Vigilance of this our Princess we should have hardly had any stirring by this Whether that most ardent Conjugal Love wherein she far exceeded Cyrus's Panthaea Mausolius's Artemisia and Mithridates's Hypsicrataea Whether that Prudence and Wisdom in Governing wherein she surpass'd not only Women but many famous Men Whether her Equity in the Administration of Justice while Men lookt upon her as Superiour to Aristides to Phocian and deem'd her to be Justice her self Whether that Benign both Mind and Countenance that equall'd her with Socrates and his Imperial Competitor Antoninus while her deportment was affable and benevolent to all sorts and degrees of People fully convinc'd that nothing could be more Royal than the Saying of that most excellent Prince and Emperor most like herself that it behov'd her not to let any Person depart sad from her Presence VVhether that Modesty and Temperance that Frugality in so great an Exuberancy of Fortune by means of which she stood impregnable to all the Temptations and Circaean Sorceries of a Vicious Court nor could be seduc'd from the Paths of true Vertue So that her Court seem'd not to be the Mansion of a Queen but the House of some private Matron or rather the Temple of Chastity by which means she made the Bad Good as is said of Antoninus the Philosopher the Good Better and like her self Or whether her Clemency and good Nature prone to win the Good-will of all People so that she was no less griev'd than they who Petition'd if it so fell out that she could not grant their Requests and like that most Magnanimous Prince thought that day lost wherein she was not kind to some body or other Or that transcendent Benificence her Compassion