Note 236 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
Cooper’s Annals of Cambridge, iv. 28. Thoresby’s Diary and Correspondence, iii. 197.
Amongst the wilder eulogists was Samuel Wesley, who thus refers to her celestial happiness:—
“How was Heaven moved at her arrival there! With how much more than usual art and care, The angels, who so oft to earth had gone, And borne her incense to the Eternal’s throne, 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.