The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the MoonDefoe, Daniel
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The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon
Defoe, Daniel
Fantasy fiction; Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction; Moon -- Fiction; Political fiction; Satire
But the Friends of this last Prince have a double advantage, for they
also commemorate the Birth Day of this Prince, and are generally very
merry on that Day; and the custom is at their Feast on that Day, just
like our drinking Healths, they pledge one another to the immortal
Memory of their Deliverer; as the Historical part of this Matter was
absolutely necessary to introduce the following Remarks, and to
instruct the Ignorant in those things, I hope it shall not be thought
a barren Digression, especially when I shall tell you that it is a
most exact Representation of what is yet to come in a Scene of
Affairs, of which I must make a short Abstract, by way of
Introduction.
The deceas'd Prince we have heard of, was succeeded by his Sister
in-Law, the second Daughter of the banish'd Prince, a Lady of an
extraordinary Character, of the Old Race of their Kings, a Native by
Birth, a Solunarian by Profession; exceeding Pious, Just and Good, of
an Honesty peculiar to her self, and for which she was justly belov'd
of all sorts and degrees of her Subjects.
This Princess having the Experience of her Father and Grand-father
before her, join'd to her own Prudence and Honesty of Design; it was
no wonder if she prudently shun'd all manner of rash Counsels, and
endeavour'd to carry it with a steady Hand between her contending
Parties.
At her first coming to the Crown, she made a solemn Declaration of
her resolutions for Peace and just Government; she gave the Crolians
her Royal Word, that she would inviolably preserve the Toleration of
their Religion and Worship, and always afford them her Protection,
and by this she hop'd they would be easy.
But to the Solunarians, as those among whom she had been Educated,
and whose Religion she had always profess'd, been train'd up in, and
Piously persued; she express'd her self with an uncommon Tenderness,
told them they should be the Men of her Favour, and those that were
most zealous for that Church should have most of her Countenance; and
she back'd this soon after with an unparallel'd Act of Royal Bounty
to them, freely parting with a considerable Branch of her Royal
Revenue, for the poor Priests of that Religion, of which there were
many in the remote Parts of her Kingdom.
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