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A51781	A short view of the lives of those illustrious princes, Henry Duke of Glovcester, and Mary Princess of Orange deceased, late brother and sister of His Majesty the King of Great Brittain collected by T.M. Esq., to whome the same will serve a rule & pattern.	Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690.	1661 (1661)	Wing M446; ESTC R8035	34,733	124

may with us dissolve to tears Or thaw with Arethusa to a spring Nere to be drayn'd by all our sorrowing Decem. 24. 1660. Sic maestissime plangit T. Manley ON the 31 day of December following she was honourably though privatly interred in King Henry the seventh chappell at Westminster among her royal ancestors Her corps wayted on by abundance of the Nobility and Gentry whose inward sighes expressed thir sorrow for so great a loss But alas as we know that inevitable decree Semel statutum est omnibus mori and thereby may gather that though they be as terrestrial Gods yet they shall dye like men so we must thereby conclude Prov. 16.33 good is the word of the Lord since without his providence nothing can happen The Lot is cast saith the wise man Pro. 16.33 into the lap but the whole disposition therof is of the Lord so as that which seemeth most subject to chance is yet disposed by the Ordinance of God And hereof the wiser sort of philosophers were not Ignorant as Cicero witnesseth for them in his collecting and comparing the opinion of Aristotle and his sectators with that of Plato and the Academicks to this effect that the same power wich they call Anima mundi was no other then that incomprehensible wisdome which we express by the name of God governing every thing in heaven and earth To which also they sometimes gave the name and title of Necessity and fate because it bindeth by an inevitable ordinance sometime the stile of fortune because of many effects there appeares unto us no certain cause To this effect St. Augustine in his question on Genesis lib. 1. St. Aug. Quest in 〈◊〉 And likewise Seneca which was also the Doctrine of the Stoicks of which Sect he was for whatsoever saith he thou callest God be it nature fate or fortune all are but one and the same differenced by divers termes according as he useth and excerciseth his power diversely Why then should we too solliciously greive since their vertues assure us they are possessors of more then an earthly happiness the sweet savor of their pius lives hath not been pleasing to God but for the future wil be an example to men who shal record their fame and eternize their memories which the dust of oblivion or ingratiude can never sully or cover for in memoriâ aeternâ erit Iustus The just shall be had in everlasting remembrance Thus have I brought you to the graves of these two unparalleld Princes it only remaines now that I shew you them in character tanquam in speculo severally by themselves Henry Duke of Glocester born as aforesaid was of complexion and haire of a dark colour but in face and nature much resembling his Father of glorious memory Now although it be none of the least honour and happiness to be borne of Noble and high parents whose vertues have been more exemplary then their lives so it is also a great addition of felicity when Paternal vertue goes with the descent which very frequently happens ac cording to that saying Est in juvencis Patrum Virtus or as the old Poet speaks more at large Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis Horat. Ilb. ● ode 4. Est in juvencis est in equis Patrum Virtus nec imbecillem seroces Progenerant aquilae columbam By which meanes as also his other endowments of learning he became one of the most rarely accomplished Gentleman of the world in ●is behaviour sober and somewhat inclining to sadness of a strong body and sound constitution which were much bettered by a frequent and well displined exercise whereby he became a most absolute Master over himself in the conquering all the passions and affections of his minde which otherwise might have misguided his youth for the better clearing wherof we must take notice that three sorts of actions proceed from mens souls some are internal and immaterial as the act of our wits or wills two be more external and material as the acts of our sences seeing in hearing c. Three other stand between these two extremes and border upon them both the discovery whereof is best found in Children because they lack the use of reason and a●● guided by an internal imaginatio● following nothing else but that tha● pleaseth their sences no otherwis● then Brute Beasts Aug. lib. 9. de civitate dei ch 4. Cicero quest Ruscul 3. These action which as it were common to us wit● Beasts are called passions affections perfurbations and are certaine internal acts or operations of the soule● bordering upon reason and senc● prosecuting some good things or flying some ill things yet not equall● observing both for passions and sence are like two evill servant● who beare more love to each other then either of them to their Master but reason as a Princess in her Throne sets bounds to those several habits maintaining a continual conflict with them which most men finding and perceiving that by making peace with their sence they should receive ●reat pleasures presently struck ●●ile thereto and in despight of rea●on what curiosity the eyes will see ●●ey yeilded unto them what dainty ●ates the palate requireth they ●ever deny nor savors or odors which ●ill please the sent are restrained ●or musick to content the Eare is for●idden and finally there is nothing ●f that cost or rareness which iensu●lity can request but is presently by ●ll the endeavours of importunity ●rayers and riches sought for and at●ained so that reason now being ●onquered and drawn to submit ●roves a better freind to sensuality ●hen the passions were before in●enting straight wayes ten thousand ●orts of delights which the dulness of ●he passions could have reached to or ●nce imagined so that if it should ●e asked who was the first cause of ●o much profuseness and prodigality ●n meats and drinks clothing and attire costly buildings and rich furniture no better answer can be give then this reason to please sensuality which made a religious man one lamenting this ignominious industr● of reason to sence wish with all h●● heart that godly men were but ha● so industrious to please God a● worldly men to please their inordinate appetites Now although it be true as is before spoken yet doubtless these passions may be guided by vertue and by good men so moderated tha● they shall rather serve for Instruments of vertue then fomenters ●●vice And the reason commonly allowed of Philosophers and divine● most pregnantly proveth this verity for if the motions of our wills be vertuous and directed by the square of religion and prudence certainly with the same if not much more ease● pleasure delight vertuous actions are accomplished then vicious therupon the Phiosophers and fathers perceiving what commodities these passions afford to a vertuous soule with divers similitudes declared their service Cicero 3. Tusc. some say they were sparkes of fire apt to kindle vertue into a flame others that they were Souldiers to