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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Court and Kingdoms in Tears: Or, The Sorrowful Subjects Lamentation for the Death of her Maje&s;ty Queen MARY <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ho departed this Life, the 28th. of <HI>December,</HI> 1694; To the Un&s;peakab&s;e Grief of his Maje&s;ty, and all his Loyal and Loving Subjects.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>If Love's a &s;weet Pa&s;&s;ion,</HI> &amp;c.</OPENER>
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<L>IN Mourning, in Mourning the Kingdoms appears,</L>
<L>And the Eyes of true Subjects are flowing with Tears,</L>
<L>For our Grief and our Sorrow, alas, it is great,</L>
<L>Since our Gracious Queen <HI>Marie</HI> departed of late;</L>
<L><HI>By the hand of cold Death &s;he was &s;natch'd from the Throne,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Having left our mo&s;t gracious King</HI> William <HI>alone.</HI></L>
<L>The lo&s;s of our Queen, we have cau&s;e to lament,</L>
<L>In the prime of her Years, from the World &s;he is &s;ent,</L>
<L>While her Sorrowful Subjects, do weeping complain,</L>
<L>Knowing that they &s;hall never behold her again:</L>
<L><HI>By the hand of cold Death,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
<L>O! what an un&s;peakable Change is there wrought?</L>
<L>From a Throne, Crown and Septer, Q: <HI>M:</HI> is brought,</L>
<L>For to take up her Lodging, now, now in the Grave;</L>
<L>So uncertain is Honour and all that we have:</L>
<L><HI>By the hand of cold Death,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
<L>She in the Kings ab&s;ence, did Govern the Realm,</L>
<L>With Di&s;creation and Wi&s;dom, &s;he &s;at at the Helm,</L>
<L>While her Subjects in Loyal Obedience did &s;tand,</L>
<L>For a publict Ble&s;&s;ing &s;he was to the Land;</L>
<L><HI>To our Sorrow and Grief &s;he is &s;natch'd from the Throne,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And our Monarch King</HI> William, <HI>now Governs alone.</HI></L>
<L>There's nothing but Sorrow and Grief to be &s;een,</L>
<L>Thro' the Court and the Kingdoms for lo&s;s of the Q:</L>
<L>Who in le&s;s than a week, was Alive, Well, and Dead;</L>
<L>And with her all our Joyes and our Comforts are fled:</L>
<L><HI>By the hand of cold Death,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
<L>O! who would have thought, when from <HI>Flanders</HI> he came,</L>
<L>And the Queen &s;he did meet him in Triumph and Fame,</L>
<L>That her time was &s;o near, yet, alas, it is &s;o.</L>
<L>She is gone and hath left us in Sorrow and Wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L><HI>By the hand of cold Death,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
<L>The learned Phy&s;itian was &s;ent for with &s;peed</L>
<L>She was dangerous ill, there was never more need;</L>
<L>But, alas, all the Skill in the World was in vain,</L>
<L>For the Doctors they could not re&s;tore her again:</L>
<L><HI>By the hand of cold Death,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
<L>Her Soul is convey'd to the Regions of Joy,</L>
<L>Where there's nothing her Comfort and Peace can annoy,</L>
<L>It is we that are left in &s;ad &s;orrowful Fears,</L>
<L>For the lo&s;s of a Queen in the prime of her Years;</L>
<L><HI>By the hand of cold Death,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
<L>For gracious King <HI>William</HI> let's &s;end up our Prayers.</L>
<L>That the LORD would &s;upport him in all his Affairs;</L>
<L>That he &s;till may be able our Laws to defend,</L>
<L>He has been to the Nation a Fatherly Friend;</L>
<L><HI>Therefore Heaven, we hope, will e&s;tabli&s;h his Throne,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In the &s;pight of his Foes, tho' he Governs alone.</HI></L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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