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Continent the news of Mary sdeath excited various emotions. The Huguenots, in every part of Europe to which they had wandered, bewailed the elect Lady, who had retrenched from her own royal state in order to furnish bread and shelter to the persecuted people of God. In the United Provinces, where she was well known and had always been popular, she was tenderly lamented. Matthew Prior, whose parts and accomplishments had obtained for him the patronage of the munificent Dorset, and who was now attached to theE mbassy at the Hague, wrote that the coldest and most passionless of nations was touched. The very marble, he said, wept.f The lamentations of Cambridge andO xford were echoed by Leyden and Utrecht. The States General put on mourning. The bells of all the steeples of Holland tolled dolefully day after day.$ James, meanwhile, strictly prohibited all mourning atS aint Germains, and prevailed on Lewis to issue a similar prohibition at Versailles. Some of the most illustrious nobles ofF rance, and among them theD ukes of Bouillon and of Duras, were related to the House of Nassau, and had always, when deathS eeC laudes Sermon on Mary sdeath. tP rior to Lord and Lady Lexington, Jan. 14-24, 1695. The letter is among theL exington papers, a valuable collection, and well edited. tM onthly Mercury for January, 1695. An orator who pronounced an eulogium on the Queen at Utrecht was BO absurd as to say that she spent her last breath in prayers for the prosperity of the United Provinces :V aleant et Batavi v- these are her last words Bint incolumes ;sint florentes; sint beati; stet in aeternum, stet immota praeclarissima illorum civitas, hospitiura aliquando mihi gratissimum, optime de me meritum. See also the orations of Peter Francius of A msterdam, and of John Ortwinius of Delft.
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