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On the Death of Mary Princess Dowager of Aurange.
  
  


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On the Death of Mary Princess Dowager of Aurange.

Hayle Graceful Mary! summon'd up, to be
A Member Saint ith' heavenly Hierarchy!
For, since your Virgin Name-sake's, peer'd with You,
Our Ave-Maryes, must be doubl'd too.
What Zeal of Glory did your highness move,
To rob low-countries, to enrich th'Above?
Or was it in a Complement you fell?
To leave, Henrietta 'thou a Paralel?
Was't not enough that Gloucesters shining Star
Shrunk the Pair-Royal to a Royal Pair?
And, as Embassador, to fit, your State,
Prepar'd the wayes, knowing the Path was Strait
But must (Oh Times!) more Royal Blood be Spilt
To make attonement for the Subjects Guilt?

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Thus the Lamb suffers, while the Fox still thrives,
Heaven's Kingdome's near! 'tis time t'amend our lives
Curst be that Bane of Greatness! a Disease,
That scandals Galen and Hippocrates!
So loathsome (too) the Soul would hardly, own
The Body, at the Resurrection!
Here let our souls, flow from our eyes in Tears!
Like those whose hopes, are stifled, by their fears!
Another Branch, lopt from the Royal Tree!
And shall the Shrubs, remain secure, & free?
Oh! if our Earthly gods, like men, must lye,
How like the Beasts that perish, shall Vassals dye?
'Tis, for the Nation sins, a Punishment
On Princes falls, they'd live, if wee'd Repent.
All things immortal in this Lady are,
But meer mortality, and that lyes here;
Whose goodness needs no gloss to set it off,
Say but—'twas Charles his Daughter, that's enough.
Oh! may her son, like her, live to Inherit,
The Mothers Virtue, and the Fathers Spirit!

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When heaven, will bless, it's blessing, with that good
Which cannot be express'd, (less understood)
The Ages Joy, and Grief! Envy, and Pride!
You could not think her Mortal, 'till she dy'd.
The wonder of her sex! lesse great than good!
Honouring her Name, Enobled by her Blood!
But—
Cease to Mourn!
A Princess never dyes,
But only as the sun does set to rise.
In brief, be this inscrib'd upon her Tombe,
Here lyes the Miracle of Christendome.

O he! Jam satis est! O he Libelle!

Mar.
------ Dirus Exclamat Charon
Quo pergis Audax?—
Sen.
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