For her new coronation now prepare!
How welcome! how caressed!
Among the blest!
And first mankind’s great mother rose—
‘Give way, ye crowding souls,’ said she,
‘That I the second of my race may see!’”
In his Life of Christ he couples the Queen with the Virgin Mary.—Tyerman’s Life and Times of Samuel Wesley, 192–194.
[237] See Memoirs of Tenison, 32. and Life of Ken, 418.
Tenison, in a letter to Evelyn, speaks of his funeral sermon, adding, “There is come forth an answer to it, said to be written by Bishop Kenn; but I am not sure he is the author: I think he has more wit, and less malice.”—Evelyn’s Diary and Corresp., iii. 345.
[238] Macpherson’s Original Papers, i. 509, 520.