He seems really to have loved and honored this one.

In the year 1750 there had been a new Cathedral got finished at Berlin; the ancestral bones had to be shifted over from the vaults of the old one,--the burying-place ever since Joachim II., that Joachim who drew his sword on Alba.

"King Friedrich, with some attendants, witnessed the operation, January, 1750.

When the Great Kurfurst's coffin came, he made them open it; gazed in silence on the features for some time, which were perfectly recognizable; laid his hand on the hand long dead, and said, _'Messieurs, celui-ci a fait de grandes choses_ (This one did a great work)!'" [See Preuss, i.

270.] He died 29th April, 1688;--looking with intense interest upon Dutch William's preparations to produce a Glorious Revolution in this Island; being always of an ardent Protestant feeling, and a sincerely religious man.