![]() Goodness it self is obliged to you, Madam for you must endear it to all by so Charming an Example, and be a means of promoting its Empire in the World, when it is seen to have so Illustrious a Votary. So as that when we consider the Root from whence you spring and reflect upon all those Great and Good Actions of Your Family, with the many instances your Ladyship has already given of a beni and generous disposition, we may for a while, think that it was impossible for you to be otherwise, and that all your Perfections were owing to your Extraction, and that you had only the Blessing of an Hereditary Goodness but when we see that as you come up to a riper Age, so you continue to despise and subdue all the Temptations which do constantly besiege Greatness, when we see that the nearer your Wit and Reason, as well as Beauty, approach to consummation, you redouble your Triumphs over the Vanities of Youth, and even in the blossom of Youth it self, put to despair all emulation of those who are far advanc'd in Years, we readily yield, that it is in Your Ladyship, as well an act of Choice and Judgment, as an Inclination to be Vertuous. And yet, as if Beauty was to be the least of your Ladyships Perfections, You, Madam, are no less admired for your Wit and for your Vertue, than for your outward advantages. Every stroke she drew was with her most exact Skill, and when she had finish'd every Line and every Feature, she prided her self in her own Workmanship, and in a Transport, if I may say it, pronounced, That all was good, in the words of her own Creatour. You are the object of all Peoples admiration, and when they look up to you, they presently conclude, that Nature laid aside the care of the rest of your Sex, while she was employed in framing so many excellencies which she intended as her Masterpiece, and has not fail'd of her design. All those who have been bless'd with your Ladyships sight and converse, do acknowledge that you possess in a sovereign degree, all Accomplishments of Beauty and Vertue. And some in the Extasies that are caused by these reflections, cry out, that it must needs please the Ghost, and if with Reverence to Heaven it may be safely said, add to the joys of that great Hero, whose less we all mourn and regret, when he looks down and assures himself, that from so beautiful a Body, adorn'd with a Mind so rich in Goodness, there must spring up a Noble Progeny, who will imitate the unparallel'd Vertues of their Ancestors, and prop gate their Fame and Honour to Eternity. For since the happy Vnion of two such great Familys, the whole Kingdom is fallen in Love with you, and with the highest respect adores those Charms that could be the occasion of so grateful and mighty a work, as to make the Ormonds and Hides as near in Bloud, as they were before in Greatness and Loyalty! All persons look upon you with joy, and promise themselves and their Posterity, a sure and continued happiness, when they think that by this Marriage, there will never an Ossory be wanting in this Land to defend its Quiet, advance its Glory, and establish it too upon lasting Foundations. Nevertheless being burried away by the rapid stream of the English Affections, I cannot forbear shewing my zeal in this Encounter, nor hold from falling in with the universal acclamations. ![]() ![]() But when I meditate the many Illustrious Qualities that conspire to the composing your Ladiships Character When I meditate all the Glorys of your Birth and Al iance, tho I am lost in the dazzling Contemplation, yet I streight grow sensible, there can be no Sacrifice worthy of the honour of your allowance. THE Allarums and Apprehensions which attend Ambition were wholly strangers unto me, before I was instamed with the Passion of aspiring to lay something at your Ladyships Feet, as might be worthy of your acceptance.
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