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A53048	Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1671 (1671)	Wing N856; ESTC R11999	321,583	731

you give Innocency no protection nor let Chastity live undefiled Cruel Fates to spin my Thread of Life to make me up a Web of Misery Accurst Fortune that brake not that Thread with an untimely Death And you unjust Powers to torment poor Virtue making it a sin to free it self for bad I leave to dye I would not live in shame for to dwell bere committing Acts dishonourable although I am forced yet shall I seem a Party guilty and though no outward Accusers yet my Conscience will condemn me But O you Gods of Light Since you regard me not nor will not hear me You Powers of Darkness hearken unto me and wrap me up in your dark Mantles of perpetual Night that no Eye may see me and cast me into black Oblivion where no remembrance is The old Man her Father who was come from the Water-side where he had been for the directing and ordering the building of a new Ship came to her in the midst of her Complaints and asked her What she lacked or If she were sick I would I were said she then might I hope Death would reprieve me But I am worse for I am miserable having Torment like to those of Hell within my Mind My Thoughts are Vultures eating on my Carrion-Infamy or like the restless Stone that cannot get up to the Hill of Peace but rolleth back with fear and sad remembrance Then she told him what she was which he did never know before and what had pass'd since the first of her Misfortunes to that present and how he had ignorantly discovered her Which when he heard he cursed his Tongue for telling how and where he found her Father said she What is past cannot be recalled wherefore I must strive to help my self in what 's to come and since I have been dutiful and you so loving and kind as to save me from the Jaws of Death help me now to protect my Honour convey me hence let me not live here to please his Appetite but cast me to some unknown place where like an Anchoret I may live from all the World and never more to see the face of Man for in that Name all Horror strikes my Senses and makes my Soul like to some furious thing so much affrighted it hath been Her Father said Heaven give you quiet and me aid to help your Designs But you must said he dissemble to compass them wherefore rise and put on a smooth and pleasant face and let your Discourse be so compliant that you may have a free liberty for if a Doubt should cross his Thoughts you may chance to be restrained and kept by force which will break that assistance I may give you Whilst they were thus discoursing the Prince came to them who had not patience to be long from her for her Absence was his Hell and her Presence his Heaven flattering the old Man My Father said he for so I may call you now let me entreat you I may be your Son and she your Daughter since she you thought a Boy is proved a Girl and since Fortune hath brought us so happily to meet let us not despise her Favours but make the best use of them to our advantage Then telling the old Man how that Island might be made a Paradice and in what felicity they might live there if their peevish Humours did not overthrow their Pleasures The old Man seemed to approve of all the Prince said whereupon the Prince took him to be his dear Friend and secret Councellor for the old Man did not omit to give him Counsel concerning the setling and advancing of his new and small Monarchy because he thought in doing so he might the better work out his own Design by taking away those suspitions that otherwise he thought might be had of him Then the Prince bid the old Man to have a care and to order his Maritime Affairs in over-seeing his Ships and Boats built for said he our chief Maintenance will be from the Sea the whilst I will perswade these Men I have here to make this place the Staple and Port of their Prizes and Dwelling Then taking Travelia along with him the old Man and he parted for that time and going to the rest of the Company he perswaded so well with his Rhetorick that they resolved to stay and build them Houses there to live and also Ware-houses to lay their Prizes in and from thence to traffick with them into safe and free places Whereupon every one put himself in order thereunto some cut down Wood others digg'd up Stones some carried Burthens and some builded Thus like Bees some gathered the Honey and Wax whilst others made and wrought the Combs The mean time the old Man made himself busie at the Coast side about Ships and Boats as being the chief Master employed in that Work But oft-times he would go out a fishing in a Fisher-boat all alone bringing several Draughts of Fish and when he thought he should be least mistrusted conveyed Victuals therein and then gave Travelia notice to steal to the Water-side who watching her opportunity when the Prince was busie in surveying and in drawing the Platforms of the City he would have built stole away and as soon as she came her old Father went as if he meant to go a fishing carrying his Nets and the like with him to the Boat his supposed Son busie in helping him and so both being put out to Sea and not gone very far were taken by the Sympathetical Merchants who trafficking into the Kingdom of Amity sold them there to other Merchants who carrying them to the chief City the Queen of that Countrey who was an Absolute Princess in the Rule and Government thereof seeing Travelia who was brought to her as a Rarity took such a liking to him that she received him into her Family as also to attend near her Person wherein he behaved himself so well that he became her Favourite and the old Man was treated very well for his Son's sake In the mean time the Prince was in a sad condition for the loss of his Mistress who searched about all the Island for her but could hear nothing of her until he sent to the Sea-side for the old Man to enquire for her and had answer back That the old Man and the Youth went out a fishing but were not as yet returned Which he no sooner heard but guesled a-right that they were fled away Whereupon he grew so enraged that he lost all Patience swearing tearing stamping as if he had been distracted But when his Fury was abated his Melancholy encreased walking solitary accompanied only with his sad Thoughts casting about which way to leave that hated place for all places seemed so to him where his Mistress was not yet he knew not very well what to do because he had perswaded the rest of the Company to abide there and make it their home and in order thereunto he knew they had taken great pains besides

in secret guise Courting her privately for fear of Spies He strove to win her unto his embraces Muffle the Faults he would and the Disgraces Said he Why may not we our Senses all delight Our Senses and our Souls Heaven unite That we call Honour only Man creates For it was never destin'd by the Fates It is a word Nature ne're taught us nay It is a Precept she forbids t' obey Then follow Nature for that follows God And not the Arts of Men they 're vain and odd Let every Sense lye steep not drown'd in pleasure Let us keep up their height in balanc'd measure First let our Eyes all Beauteous Objects view Our Ears all Sounds which Notes and Times keep true Then Scent all Odours to refresh the Brain With Tastes delicious Palates entertain Touch things most pleasing that all Parts may feel Expansion of the Soul from Head to Heel Thus we shall use what Nature to us gave For by restraint in Life we dig our Grave And in the Grave our Senses useless lye Just so is Life if Pleasures we deny Thus Heav'n that gave us Sense may take it ill If we refuse what 's offered to us still Then let our Sense and Souls take all delight Not to surfeit but feed each Appetite Come Pleasure Circle me within thy Arms Inchant my Soul with thy delightful Charms Said she It is not always in our Power To feed Delight nor Pleasure to devour Man no free Power hath of any thing Only himself can to destruction bring Can kill his Body and his Soul can damn Although he cannot alienate the same Nor can he make them always to remain Nor turn them to what they were first again Thus can we cross and vex our selves with pain But being sick cannot be well again We can Disturb great Nature's work at will But to Restore and Make is past our skill But he did plead so hard such Vows did make Such large Professions and such Oaths did take That he would constant be and that his Bride He would her make when that his Father dy'd She young and innocent knew no deceits Nor thought that Words and Vows were us'd as baits So yeelded she to all he did desire Thinking his Vows as much as Laws require But they so oft did meet till it befell She sick did grow her Body big did swell Which she took care to hide and would not be As she was wont in other Company But to her Parents she would often cry And said she swell'd so with a Tympany They did believe her and did make great moan Their only Child was now so sickly grown His Father old the Marriage to prevent Now in all haste his Son to travel sent Gave him no time nor warning to be gone Nor till he saw him ship'd left him alone But he to ease his Mistress of her fear For to return he only now took care But she no sooner heard that he was gone But in her Chamber lock'd her self alone Complain'd against her Destiny and Fate And all her Love to him was turn'd to Hate You Gods said she my Fault 's no wilful sin For I did think his Vows had Marriage been But by his stealth so privately to leave me I find my Crime and that he did deceive me For which said she you Gods torment him more Than ever any Man on Earth before With that she rose about her Neck she flung A Silken String and in that String she hung Her Parents to her Chamber did repair Calling her forth to take the fresh sweet air Supposing it might do her Health some good And at her Chamber door long time they stood But when they call'd and knock'd no answer made She being sick they ' gan to be afraid Their Limbs did shake with age Nerves being slack't Those Nervous Strings with fear were now contract At last though much a-do they had to speak They Servants call'd to open or to break The Lock No sooner done but with great fear They entred in and after they were there The horrid sight no sooner struck their Eyes But it congeal'd their Hearts and straight both dyes The Fame of their sad Fates all round was spread The Lover heard his Mistress then was dead His Clothes his Hair he tore his Breast did beat His Spirits issu'd out in a cold Sweat Said he O cursed Death come kill me quick And in my Heart thy Spear or Arrow stick Because my Love in thy cold Arms doth lye I now desire nay am resolv'd to dye But O! Love is a powerless God in vain He strives with 's Flame to melt Death's Icy Chain For though with Love my Heart so hot doth burn Yet cannot melt I fear Death's Icy Urn. Then he all in a rage to the Earth fell And there invoking up the Devils of Hell Saith he Ye Powerful Terrors me assist For to command or force Death when I list That by your help and pow'r my Love may rise From the dark Vault or Grave wherein she lies Or else by Death's cold hand alone Convert me into Marble-stone Then running as distracted in and out By Fancies Visions strange saw all about And crying loud My Mistress she is there He seem'd to catch but grasp'd nought else but air See see her Ghost how it doth slide away Her Soul is pure and shines as glorious Day But my foul Soul which is as black as Night Doth shadows cast upon the Soul that 's bright Which makes her walk as in a gloomy shade Like Shadows which the Silver Moon hath made Hark how my Love sings sweetly in the Skye Her Soul is mounted up to Heavens high And there it shall be made a Deity And I a Devil in Hell tormented lye His spirit being spent fell to the ground And lying there a while as in a swound At last he rose and with a sober pace He bent his steps as to her burying-place And with his Cloak he muffled him about His Hatpull'd o're his Brows his Eyes look't out To guide his way but far he had not gone That straight he saw the Funerals coming on Three Hearses all were born as on a breast Black cover'd two with white the third was drest A Silver Crown upon that Hearse did stand And Myrtle-boughs young Virgins bore in hand The graver sort did Cypress-branches bear The mournful Parents death for to declare With solemn Musick to the Grave them brought With Tears in-urn'd their Ashes in a Vault But he before the People did return Did make great haste to get close to the Urn His Hat pulls off then bows le ts loose his Cloak With dropping Eyes countenance sad thus spoke You charitable Friends whoe're you be To see the Dead thus buri'd solemnly The like to me your Favour I do crave Stay all and see me buri'd in this Grave Giving himself a private wound there fell Into the Grave and dying there did tell Of his sad Love but now said he Our Souls nor

Virtuous Fair and Bright A Disposition suitable and kind No more Obedience Man in VVife could find She did esteem him so and priz'd him such Of Merit she thought no Man had so much And lov'd him more than Life lov'd perfect Health Or Princes for to rule a Commonwealth But such the Natures of most Husbands be That they love Change and seek Variety Or else like Fools or Children eas'ly caught With pleasing looks or flatt'ring tongues are brought From Virtues side in wicked ways to run And seldom back with Virtue do return But Misery may drive them back again Or else with Vices they do still remain It chanc'd this Lord a Lady fair did meet Her Countenance was pleasing Speech was sweet And from her Eyes such wanton Glances went As from her Heart Love-Messages had sent Whereby this Lord was catch'd in Cupid's Snare How to address he only now takes care But he straight had access and Courtships makes The Lady in his Courtships pleasure takes And Pride she takes that she could so allure A Husband from a Wife that was so pure As Heaven's Light and had the Praise and Fame Of being the most Fair and Virtuous Dame At last this Lady by her wanton Charms Inchanted had this Lord till in his arms He might embrace her in an amorous way His Thoughts were restless working Night and Day To compass his Designs nor did he care To lose his Wife's affection but did fear His Mistress to desplease and as her Slave Obey'd her will in all that she would have But she was subtil and of Nature bad A crafty Wit in making Quarrels had For which she seemed to be Coy and Nice And sets her Beauty at so great a price That she would never yeeld unless that he From his Chast Wife would soon divorced be Straight he to please her from his Wife did part For which his VVife was grieved at the Heart And sought her self obscurely for to hide And in a solitary House did ' bide As if she had a grievous Criminal been Or Causer was of his adulterous Sin And for a Penance she did strictly live But she was Chast and no offence did give Yet she in sorrow liv'd no rest could find Sad melancholy thoughts mov'd in her Mind Most of her time in Prayers she did spend Which as sweet Incense did to Heav'ns ascend Did often for her Husband Mercy crave That they would pardon all his Faults and save Him from Destruction and that they would give Him Happy Days as long as he should live But after he his Mistress had enjoy'd And that his Amorous Appetite was cloy'd Then on his Virtuous Wife his Thoughts did run The later Lady he did strive to shun For often they did quarrel and fall out He gladly would be rid of her no doubt At last he was resolv'd his VVife to see And to be Friends if that she would agree But when he saw his VVife his Heart did ake As being guilty all his Limbs did shake The terror of his Conscience did present To him her wrongs but yet to her he went She being set near to a Fountain low Her Tears did make the Stream to overflow Thither he came and on the Earth did kneel But in his Soul such passions did he feel Of Shame Fear Sorrow as he could not speak At last his Passion through his Lips did break Begging her Pardon and great Vows did make Of Reformation and that for her sake He would all Pain or Punishment endure And that no Husband should to Wife be truer Which when she heard she sighing did reply You come too late my Destiny is over-fraught My Bark of Life with Grief is over-fraught And ready is to sink with its own weight For show'rs of Tears and stormy Sighs do blow Me to the Ports of Death and Shades below He being affrighted at the word she spake In haste he rose her in his arms did take Wherewith she pleas'd and smiling turn'd her Eye Upon his Face so in his arms did dye And being dead he laid her on the ground He in the Fountain and her Tears was drown'd Impatiently in a high discontent There dy'd so had a watry Monument Another Lady said Such Men I hate That wrong their Wives and then repent too late But all Adulterers I wish might have A Violent Death and an Untimely Grave The next Man's turn to speak was one that in The Warrs was bred and thus be did begin A Description of Natural Affection THere were two Potent Princes whose great Fames For Actions in the Warrs got mighty Names It chanc'd these Potent Princes both did greet And were resolv'd in open Warrs to meet Their Courages to try their Strengths and Pow'r Their prudent Conducts or their fatal Hour In short these Armies meet a Battel fight VVhere one Side beaten was by Fortune's spight The Battel won that Army routed ran And for to save his Life strove every Man And their Artillery they left behind Each for himself a shelter hop'd to find VVhen from pursuit the Victors did come back The Solidiers for to plunder were not slack And every Tent they search'd and sought about To see if they some Treasure could find out To th'Prince's Tent did some Commanders go VVhere they did find an Object of much wo. That Prince being dead upon the ground was laid And by him sate a fair and sweet young Maid Her Beauty was so splendrous and so bright Through Clouds of Grief it shone like Heavens light VVhich the Commanders saw then straight did go To let their General of this Beauty know VVho when he came amazed was in mind Such Beauty for to see and Grief to find For this fair Princess by her Father set Her Eyes being fixt her Tears his Cheeks did wet She leaning o're his Head her Eyes down bend From whence her Tears upon his Face descend Upon his Mouth such deep-fetch'd sighs did breathe As if therein her Soul she would bequeathe For which this General did her admire Her Tears quench'd not but kindle did Love's Fire With that he did command the Solidiers there The Dead to take the Body up to bear But then she spake For pity have remorse Remove not from me my dead Father's Corpse For had not Fortune which he never trust With any business but what needs he must Conspir'd with Death to work his overthrow His wisdom crossing her she grew his Foe But all her Spight could never do him harm For he with Prudence still himself did arm But when that Death assisted her Design She struck him dead when Battels were to join His Solidiers forc'd to fight when that their Mind Was press'd with grief which fast th' Spirits did bind It was his Death that made him lose the Day And made you Victors that now wear the Bay But look said she his Hands now strengthless lye In fight which made his Enemies to flye His Eyes now shut by Death in Life gave light Unto his

some Weeks in the mean time the Prince recovered resolving to visit this young Lady having heard by his Aunt the relation of what she was whose Birth made him doubt she would not be so easily corrupted as he hoped before and she knowing his Birth had more hopes of honourable usage Yet sitting in a studious posture with a sad Countenance and heavy fixt Eyes accompanied with melancholy Thoughts contemplating of her Misfortunes past with a serious consideration of the condition she stood in advising with her Judgment for the future in comes the Prince whom she no sooner saw but she trembled for fear remembring her past danger and fore-seeing the trouble she was like to run through But he with an humble Behaviour and civil Respect craved pardon for his former Faults promising her That if she would be pleased to allow him her Conversation he would never force that from her which she was not willing to grant for there was nothing in this World he held dearer than her Company and sitting down by her began to question her of Love as Whether she had engaged her Affection to any person of her own Countrey or any where else She told him No. By which Answer he being jealous before imagining she might be so valiant as to wound him more for the sake of her Lover than out of a love to Honour or Reputation received great content and joy esteeming it the next happiness that since she loved not him she loved no other I wonder at your Courage said he for usually your Sex are so tender and fearful and so far from using Instruments of Death as Swords Guns or the like that they dare not look at them but turn their Head aside She answered That Necessity was a great Commandress And thus discoursing some time at last he took his leave until the next day But when he was gone how glad she was O what a torment will this be said she to be affrighted every day with this ravenous Lyon But said she I must get a spell against his Fury and not only against him but against all such like and by her industry she got a subtil Poyson which being put in a very small Bladder she fastned to her Arm that when any occasion served she might have it ready to put in her mouth which in great extremity she might use and crushing it but betwixt her teeth she was sure it would expel Life suddenly The next Morning the Prince sent her a Present of all kinds of rich Persian Silks and Tissues fine Linnen and Laces and all manner of Toys wherewith young Ladies use to make themselves fine and gay But she returned them with great thanks bidding the Bringer tell the Prince That she did never receive a Present but what she was able to return with advantage unless it were from those to whom she had a near relation as Parents and Kindred or the like But he when he saw them returned thought it was because they were not rich enough and sent her another Present of Jewels of great value which when she had viewed she said They were very rich and costly but returning them back she said I dare not trust my Youth with the Riches and Vanities of the World lest they may prove Bribes to corrupt my free and honest Mind wherefore tell the Prince I am not to be catch'd with glorious Baits and so returned them back The Prince when he saw he could fasten no Gifts on her was much troubled yet hoped that Time might work her to his desires so went to visit her and when he saw her he told her He was very unfortunate that not only Himself but even his Presents were hateful for he could guess at no other reason why she should refuse them since they were neither unlawful nor dishonourable to receive She answered That the Principles that she was taught were That Gifts were both dangerous to give and to take from Designing or Covetous Persons He said He was unhappy for by that he saw she would neither receive Love nor give Love Thus he daily visited her and hourly courted her striving to insinuate himself into her favour by his Person and Services used Powdering Perfuming and rich Clothing though he was so personable and well-favoured and had such store of Eloquence as might have perswaded both Ears and Eyes to have been Advocates to a young Heart and an unexperienced Brain His Service was in observing her Humour his Courtship in praising her Disposition admiring her Beauty applauding her Wit and approving her Judgment insomuch that at the last she did not dislike his Company and grew to that pass as to be melancholy when he was gone blush when he was named start at his approaching sigh weep and grow pale and distempered yet perceived not nor knew her Disease Besides she would look often in the Glass curl heir Hair finely wash her Face cleanly set her Clothes handsomely mask her self from the Sun not confidering why she did so But he as all Lovers have watchful Eyes observed she regarded her self more than she used to do which made him more earnest for fear her Passion should cool protesting his Love vowing his Fidelity and Secresie and swearing his Constancy to death She said That he might make all that good but not the Lawfulness Can you said she make it no sin to God no dishonour to my Family no infamy to my Sex no breach to Virtue no wrong to Honesty no Immodesty to my self He answered It was lawful by Nature Sir said she It is as impossible to corrupt me as to corrupt Heaven But were you free I should willingly embrace your Love in lawful Marriage He told her They were both young and his Wife old almost ripe enough for Death and a little time more would cut her down Wherefore said he let us enjoy our selves in the mean time and when she is dead we will marry No said she I will not buy a Husband at that deer rate nor am I so evil as to wish the death of the living for any advantage unless they were Enemies to Virtue Innocency or Religion But he was so importunate as she seemed displeased which he perceiving left off persisting lest he might nip off the young and tender Buds of her Affection But it chanced not long after there was a Meeting of many Nobles at a Feast where Healths to their Mistresses were drank round and the Prince who thought it a sin to Love to neglect that Institution offered with great Ceremony and Devotion for his Mistress's Health sprinkling the Altar of the Brain with Fume and burning the Incense of Reason therein After the Feast was ended he went to see his Mistress whose Beauty like Oyl set his Spirits in a flame which made his Affection grow to an intemperate Heat Whereat she became so afraid as she puts the Poyson into her Mouth the Antidote of all Evil as she thought and then told him her intention But

Then chiding her gently for not making her self known unto her said that she had caused her many unquiet rests But Travelia begged her pardon telling her it was the cause of her misfortunes that concealed her and not out of any evil design she had to deceive her Then desired her assistance and help to secure her Whilst they were thus talking the King and the Prince came to see the sick Person to whom the Queen with a smiling-countenance said She was courting her hard-hearted Lover The King answered That he hoped she would take pity on him by what she had felt her self The Queen told him She was likelier to love him now than if she had never been a Lover before for said she there is something pleasing in Lovers Thoughts be their Fortunes never so adverse and I believe said she the Prince will say as much Madam said he It is a pleasing-pain as being mix'd with Hopes and Fears but if our Hopes do cease all Pleasure is gone and nothing doth remain but Pains of Hell Then said the Queen your Mistress should be in a sad condition if she loved you as you seem to love her you being a Married-Man No said the Prince I am now a Widower but I doubt said he that doth not advantage me in my Mistress's affection But when Travelia heard he was a Widower her Heart did beat like a Feverish Pulse being moved with several Passions fearing it was not so hoping it was so joying if it were so grieving that she ought not to wish it so But the Queen asked the Prince How that he came to know of it Whereupon he told her She said I have promised your Mistress to protect her against your outragious Assaults but since your Suit is just and your Treaty civil I will yeeld her to you upon that condition you carry her not out of my Kingdom for since I cannot marry her and so make her my Husband I will keep her if I can and so make her my Friend With that Travelia rises up in her Bed and bowed her self with a pleased countenance giving the Queen thanks The Prince said You have given me as much as the Gods could give which is Felicity Madam said the King You have given me nothing The Queen with Blushes answered That if her Council would agree she would give him her self The King for joy kneeled down and kiss'd her Hand Now said he I am like to the Gods they can but have their wish Thus passing that day in pleasing-discourses the next day they caused their Councils to meet where they concluded the Marriage of the King and Queen and that the Queen should live with their King in the Kingdom of Amours and that her first Son should be Heir to the Crown and her second should be Heir to the Kingdom of Amity but in case there were no Sons or but one then Daughters should inherit In the mean time the Prince and his Princess that was to be should be Vice-Roy or rather that she should rule who was so beloved of the People as if she had not only been a Native born but as if she had been born from the Royal Stock But they thought it fit she should make her self known unto the Army by word of mouth that she was a Woman otherwise they might think she was made away by a violent Death and that the report of being a Woman was only a trick to deceive them and from thence arise such a Mutiny as might bring a ruin to both Kingdoms When all was agreed they prepared for the Marriages In the mean time Travelia goeth to the Army attended by the Prince where the King and Queen came soon after that the Soldiers might see they were there as Witnesses of what she told them And being all in a Circle round about her she being upon a place raised for that purpose thus spake Noble Friends and Valiant Soldiers I Am come here at this present to declare I am a Woman although I am habited like a Man and perchance you may think it immodesty but they that will judg charitably will enquire the Reason before they give their Censure for Upright Judges never give Sentence before they examine Wherefore I believe you will not condemn me because Necessity did enforce me to conceal my Sex to protect my Honour for as the love of Soul and Body is inseparable so should the love of Chastity and the Feminine Sex and who can love and not share in danger And since no danger ought to be avoided nor Life considered in respect of their Honours and to guard that safe from Enemies no Habit is to be denied for it is not the outward Garment that can corrupt the honest Mind for Modesty may clothe the Soul of a naked Body and a Sword becomes a Woman when it is used against the Enemies of her Honour for though her strength be weak yet she ought to shew her good will and to dye in the defence of Honour is to live with Noble Fame and therefore neither Camp nor Court nor City nor Countrey nor Danger nor Habit nor any worldly Felicity must separate the love of Chastity and our Sex for as Love is the sweetest so it is the strongest of all Passions and true Love proceeds from Virtue not from Vice wherefore it is to be followed by Life and to be maintained till Death And if I have served my Queen honestly condemn not my Modesty Then she bowed her Head down low first to the King and Queen then to the Army Whereupon the Army gave a shout and cryed out Heaven bless you of what Sex soever you be After she had spoke this Speech she went into her Tent and drest her self in her Woman's Robes and came out again and standing in the same place thus spake Noble Friends THUS with my Masculine Clothes I have laid by my Masculine Spirit yet not so but I shall take it up again if it be to serve the Queen and Kingdom to whom I owe my Life for many Obligations First To my Queen who bought me as a Slave yet used me as a Friend and loved me with that Affection as if Nature had linked us in one Line for which Heaven reward her with Glory and Renown Besides her Love did bestow upon me great Honour made me Protector of her Kingdom in her absence and you her Subjects out of Loyalty obeyed all my Commands although I am young and unexperienced And 't is not only what your Loyalty enforces but I have found your Affections of Love to be such as it shewed they came freely from your Souts expressing it self in grieving for my Sickness taking care for my Health joying in my Company mourning for my Absence glorying in my Fame in so much as you would lessen your own to give it me What shall I do to shew my Gratitude Alas my Life is too poor a Sacrifice Had I the Mansion of the Gods I would resign it for your