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 with those attractions, which seat a Sovereignty in the face of most beautiful persons; yet was her mind endued with more excellent charms than the attractions of her face; modest and mild of disposition, courteous of carriage, and of such affable deportment, as might intitle her to the name of the Queen of Hearts, before she was desigued for Queen over any subjects.

F accomplishments were probably the first part of her education, and her genius appeared in the works of her needle, and then in the beautiful character which she wrote, commended by all who had seen it. She played admirably on various instruments of music, and accompanied them with a voice exquisitely sweet in itself, and assisted by all the graces that art could bestow.

H father, the Marquis of Dorset, had himself the tincture of letters, and was a patron of learned men. He had two Chaplains. Harding and Aylmer, both men of distinguished learning whom he employed, as tutors to his daughter;