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ally have not abundance of Love, they often carry it as if they had an Excess of good Humour and Complaisance, which makes up a something almost equivalent to Love; and they are not so miserable in the deficiency as meaner People are.
However, they have their Unhappinesses too, and as they are not without their Uneasinesses, when the want of a mutual Affection breaks out, and gets the mastery of their Civilities; so, on the other hand, where an entire agreeing Affection meets in Persons of that high Rank, how superior is their Felicity to that of other People! How glorious is their Peace! How beautiful the conjugal Figure! How happy is the Life of such a Pair! So great an Addition is a mutual Affection to the happiness of Life, even in Persons of the highest Rank; it adds a Lustre to their Glory, and is, notwithstanding all other good Circumstances, the brightest Beam in all their illustrious Enjoyments. Such was the Life of two glorious Sisters, the late Queen Mary, and Queen Anne, of whom it is said, and I never heard it contradicted, that they were entire Mistresses of their Royal Consorts Affections, Queens of their Hearts, enjoyed a compleat conjugal Felicity, and furnished back the same Joy, making full Returns in kind. Nor is it the least Part of their Fame. But then it may be added to both those happy Couples, and which yet confirms what I am arguing upon, that they saw and loved before they married. They neither courted by Pictures, or married by Proxy; their Princes came over hither to view, chuse, and approve, and then married the Persons they chose; they courted in Person, and so,I
