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Rh becoming her Sex, and a Magnanimity equal to her Blood, and so very affecting, that even the Priest wept.

She shows no Concern at approaching Death, but on the Account of her old, unfortunate Mother,

Mors tantum vellum matrem mea fallere possit. Mater obest, minuitque necis mea gaudia; quamvis Non mea mors illi: verum sua vita gemenda est.

Then begs her Body may be deliver'd to her without Ransom,

Genetrici corpus inemptum Reddite; néve, auro redimat jus triste sepulchri, Sed lacrymis: tunc, cum poterat, redimebat & auro.

The unhappy Queen laments, she is not able to give her Daughter royal Burial,

Then takes the Body in her decrepid Arms, and halts to the Sea to wash off the Blood,

—Ad littus passu processit anili Albentes laniat a comas.— Rh