The Queens letter from France, to his Highness the Prince of Orange This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B43746 of text R182312 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B43746 297421127 ocn 297421127 Wing Q157D

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 eng Mary, -- of Modena, Queen, consort of James II, King of England, 1658-1718 -- Humor -- Early works to 1800. William -- III, -- King of England, 1650-1702 -- Humor -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- William and Mary, 1689-1702 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The Queens letter from France, to his Highness the Prince of Orange. n/a 1689 2 390 1 0 0 0 0 0 25.64 C The rate of 25.64 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-11 Sampled and proofread 2014-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Queens Letter from France , to his Highness the Prince of Orange .

YOU may Judge of my grief for the Loss of a Crown , from my inordinate opinion of my Self while I had it ; and tho' the Extravagancy of my Carriage might have deserv'd some Rebuke , yet the Natural frailty of my Sex , I thought might have serv'd for an Apology . Since most Actions are commonly Judg'd by the design of them , I doubt not but Reason will speak in my favour ; for , standing on the Pinacle of Honor as I did , my thoughts were as giddy as a Man in his Drink , and could no more digest my unexpected Glory , than a Man could talk Reason in the height of a Fever ? Tho' I aim'd at the Ruin of the Establish't Church and State , yet , I assure you , I did it for the good of the Peoples Souls ; and tho' I consented to have all their Throats Cut , yet Father Peters satisfied me , it might be done in the Fear of the Lord . How well I have deserv'd of the Mother-Church , you may Guess ; since His Holiness already has dubb'd me a Saint : tho' to tell you the Truth of it , I thought the advantages of an Earthly Crown too great to be yet very fond of a Change . How ore the Mighty fallen ? alas ! from England to Modena , from a Kingdom to a Dutchy ! where the number of my Attendance make the better half of my Subjects , and the extent of my Government's not half a days Progress : Well Sir , if you have either complaisance or good Nature , you 'd quit any pretence to save a Womans longing ; for I am as surely in a Teeming condition at present , as ever I was of a Prince of Wales . If you have any Suspition , or fear of a Relapse , His Holiness himself will be Bound for my good behaviour ; and to tie up my Hands from any personal mischief , you may take the Kings , word , or Father Peters word , for the Per●●mance of it .