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xii P R E F A C E,
Peace being now reilored to the King-
dom, and the Crown completely settled in
Orus\ in order perhaps to vindicate herself
from the imputation of having been too fami-
liar with the grand enemy of her family, and
of having treacherouily permitted him to make
his escape, becomes extravagant in the honours
she pays her dead husband’s memory: she ere&s
Monuments to him in several parts of the
country; his Obsequies are appointed to be an-
nually celebrated with all the marks of the
utmost sorrow, with Hymns and Songs proper
to so doleful an occaiion; Festivals are more-
over inslituted, according to the custom of
thole early ages, commemorative of their deli-
verance from the Tyrant and other the moil
siriking parts of the above-mentioned Hiilory.
The people readily came into any proposal,
•whereby they might more effe&ually exprels
their deteilation of Typbo^ and manifest the
grateful regard they paid the memory of their
murthered Prince. Even the neighbouring Na-
tions of xSyr/#, Pbenicia, &c, as they had learn-
ed the ufe of Corn from Egypt) Hill carried on
a Commerce with this Nation for that useful
commodity, and had experienced the benefit
of other the wise institutions of Ofiris^ seem to
have joined with his own subjects in annually
Peace being now reilored to the King-
dom, and the Crown completely settled in
Orus\ in order perhaps to vindicate herself
from the imputation of having been too fami-
liar with the grand enemy of her family, and
of having treacherouily permitted him to make
his escape, becomes extravagant in the honours
she pays her dead husband’s memory: she ere&s
Monuments to him in several parts of the
country; his Obsequies are appointed to be an-
nually celebrated with all the marks of the
utmost sorrow, with Hymns and Songs proper
to so doleful an occaiion; Festivals are more-
over inslituted, according to the custom of
thole early ages, commemorative of their deli-
verance from the Tyrant and other the moil
siriking parts of the above-mentioned Hiilory.
The people readily came into any proposal,
•whereby they might more effe&ually exprels
their deteilation of Typbo^ and manifest the
grateful regard they paid the memory of their
murthered Prince. Even the neighbouring Na-
tions of xSyr/#, Pbenicia, &c, as they had learn-
ed the ufe of Corn from Egypt) Hill carried on
a Commerce with this Nation for that useful
commodity, and had experienced the benefit
of other the wise institutions of Ofiris^ seem to
have joined with his own subjects in annually