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I will not make any appology Dear Mad. for not having wrote sooner and I do asure you this is ye first time I have taken a Pen in hand since yeQueens illness which lasted 12 days nine are now past since we lost ye best Queen friend and mistress that ever servts.had yet still all my facultys seem [[unclear]] as if seiz’d wth a palsy you that know what it is to feel can best judge what one suffers with a broken heart and distracted head and how little one is capable of uttering even there sorrow. From ye [[unclear]] seizure I foresaw our loss &hardly ever felt one gleam of hope & yet when ye stroke came it found me unprepared but nother that underwent it, she never from her first illness had any hopes of a recovery nor show’d ye least fear of ye pain she endur'd as of ye last closing scene her only concern was for the kind affection is certainly as sencere as & in intence as ever human nature sustain’d. ye Arch bishop who constantly attended her told me he never saw a behavior equally glorious & christian to hers & that all she had deserv’d to be printed ye first time when he went [[unclear]] he expres’d his sorrow to see her so ill and her pains so great but she told him tho her body suffer’d she had a good conscience which spoke inexpressible comfort to her and supported her in ye midst of all her torments about 2 hours before she died she call’d for ye Duke who was in ye room with ye King and ye Princess tho he had at ye time a severe fever contracted by sitting up several nights together when he cam to her bed side she told him she had call’d him to give him her blessing and upon that to charge him to be allways dutiful too he father and never to listen to any who might be wicked enough to insinuate to him yt they could have separate in [[unclear]] for even if ye were possable he would find more comfort in ye reflection of having adheard to his duty then in ye posestion of all ye empires if ye world and added that whether he liv’d long or not he would find no thought worth his care on a dying bed but how he had liv'd &if he could then feel that he
