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virtue confllcling with extreme mifery ; we fliould 

 hear her bitter complaints of the indifference of 

 her Sovereign, whom (lie had fo nobly ferved; we 

 fhoul.d fee her perturbation, at the idea of the hor- 

 lid punifliment prepared for her, and ftill more, 

 at the apprehenfion of the calumny which is for 

 ever to fully her reputation ; we (hould hear her, 

 amidft conflids fo tremendous, calling in queftion 

 the exiftence of a Providence, the protedlor of the 

 innocent. 



To death at laft, however, walk out (he mud. 

 At that moment it is, I could wifli to fee all her 

 courage re-kindle. I would have her reprefented 

 on the funeral- pile, where (he is going to termi- 

 nate her days, looking down on the empty hopes 

 with which the World amufes thofe who ferve it ; 

 exulting at the thought of the everlafting infamy 

 with which her death will clothe her enemies, and 

 of the immortal glory which will for ever crow^n 

 the place of her birth, and even that of her execu- 

 tion. 1 could wifli that her laft words, animated 

 by Religion, might be more fubHme than thofe of 

 Vidoy when flie exclaims, on the fatal pile : — 

 Exoriare aliquis nofiris ex ojfibiis idtor. '' Start up 

 *' fome dire avenger from thefe bones." 



I could wiîli, in a word, that this fubjed. 

 Created by a man of genius, after the manner of 



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