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PREFACE.
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cency becoming her Sex, and a Magnanimity equal to her Blood, and so very affecting, that even the Priest wept.

Ipse etiam flens, invitusque sacerdos, &c.

She shows no Concern at approaching Death, but on the Account of her old, unfortunate Mother,

Mors tantum vellum matrem mea fallere possit.
Mater obest, minuitque necis mea gaudia; quamvis
Non mea mors illi: verum sua vita gemenda est.

Then begs her Body may be deliver'd to her without Ransom,

——Genetrici corpus inemptum
Reddite; néve, auro redimat jus triste sepulchri,
Sed lacrymis: tunc, cum poterat, redimebat & auro.

The unhappy Queen laments, she is not able to give her Daughter royal Burial,

Non hæc est fortuna domûs

Then takes the Body in her decrepid Arms, and halts to the Sea to wash off the Blood,

Ad littus passu processit anili
Albentes laniat a comas.—

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