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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

dead She was my Soul's delight in her I view'd The pure and Celestial Beatitude But were I sure the Soul that never dyes Should never meet nor Bodies never rise By Resurrection yet sure those are blest That pass this life and in the Grave do rest Then said the Duke his Father to his Son What ever comes Son Heaven's will be done But since you are resolv'd and needs will dye I in the Grave will keep you company The young Prince said I cannot you disswade Since none are happy but those Death hath made The Day of Execution drawing nigh Of the young Prince his Father too would dye Then the young Prince askt leave and leave he had That he like to a Soldier might be clad When he was brought to dye and on that day Death he did meet in Soldierly array Instead of Mourning-Garments he had on A Suit of Buff embroidered thick upon And a Rich Scarf that was of Watchet-dye Set thick with Pearls instead of strings to tye It close together were rich Diamonds so As like a Ring or Garter it did show Of but one entire Diamond this did bind The Scarf so firm as an united Mind A Scarlet Coat embroidered thick with Gold And Hangers like to it his Sword did hold And in his Hat a Plume of Feathers were In falling-folds which hung below his Hair He being thus accouter'd Death to meet In Gallantry yet gently friendly sweet He would embrace it and so gladly yeeld Yet would he dye as Soldiers in the Field For gallant valiant men do court Death so As amorous courtly men a wooing go His Father all in Mourning-Garments clad Not griev'd to dye but for his Son was sad Millions of People throng'd about to see This gallant Mourning Prince's Tragedy But in the time these Preparations were The Queen sent to th' young Lady to prepare Her self to dye when she the news did hear Joy in her Countenance did then appear Then she her self did dress like to a Bride And in a Rich and Gilded Coach did ride Thus triumphing as on her Wedding-day To meet her Bridegroom Death but in the way The people all did weep that she should dye And Youth and Beauty in Death's arms should lye But she did smile her Countenance was glad And in her Eyes such lively Spirits had As the quick-darting Rays the Sun out-shin'd And all she look'd on for a time were blind But when the Queen and Nobles all were set And the Condemned on the Scaffold met Where when the Lovers they each other spy'd Their Eye-strings seem'd as if together ty'd So firmly they were fix'd and did so gaze And with each other struck in such a maze As if with wonder they were turn'd to stone And that their feet unto the ground were grown They could not stir but at the last mov'd he In a slow pace amazed went to see That Heav'nly Object for thought he it may An Angel be my Soul to take away Her Limbs did shake like shiv'ring Agues cold For Fear upon her Spirits had got hold When she did see him move for she had thought He was a Statue and by Carvers wrought And by the Queen's Command was thither brought When he came near he kneeled down to pray And thus unto her sofrly he did say My Sense my Spirits surprise thy Spirit my Mind And great disturbance in my Thoughts I find My Reason's misty Understanding blind Tell me whether thou art of Mortal Kind Said she That Question I would ask of you For I do doubt my Senses are not true Intelligencers are you the Prince I see Or are you a Spirit that thus speaks to me With that the Queen did come their doubts to clear It was my Plot said she to bring you here And why I crost your Loves I will forbear To tell you now but afterwards declare Then did she cause a Priest to join their hands Which he devoutly ty'd in Wedlock-bands Then did the Queen unto her Nobles say That she a Debt to Gratitude must pay And to the Prince's Father straight she went Here Sir said she I do my self present To be your Wife for by your Counsel I Have Rul'd and Reign'd in great Felicity He kneeling kist her Hand and both agree That in few days the Wedding kept should be Such joys of acclamation loud of wonder Echo'd the air louder than is Jove's Thunder Her Princely Neece so Noble was that then For joy she modestly threw up her Fan Since to a High-born Prince she well knew she In glorions Nuptials soon should joined be The Marriage-Song WEre all the Joys that ever yet were known Were all those Joys met and put into one They 'd be than these two Lovers Joys far less Our Lovers height of Joys none can express They 've made another Cupid I am told And buri'd the blind Boy that was so old Hymen is proud since Laurel crowns his Brow He never made his Triumphs until now The Marriage-Song for the Old Duke and the Old Queen's Marriage NOW the Old Cupid he is fled Unto the Queen she to her Bed Brought the Old Duke so ends all harms In Love's Embraces in their Arms. This Elder Wedlock more than ripe Was of the Younger but a Type What wants of Cupid Hymen's Cup Ceres and Bacchus make it up A Marriage-Song of the Queen's Neece SEE the Old Queen's Beloved Neece For Beauty Favour such a Piece As Love could feign not hope to see Just such a Miracle was she She doth congratulate and 's eas'd To see these Noble Lovers pleas'd Above repining The Fates since Are just and gave her a brave Prince A SONG HYMEN triumph in joy Since overcom'd Love's Boy Each Age each Sex and Place The Wedlock-Laws embrace The looser sort can bind Monarch of what 's Mankind All things do fall so pat In this Triumvirat Which now in Wedlock mix Now Three though once were Six A Lady said Such Constant Love was dead And all Fidelity to Heaven fled Another Lady said She fain would know When Marri'd if they did continue so O said a Man such Love as this was sure Doth never in a Married Pair endure But Lovers cross'd use not to end so well Which for to shew a Tale I mean to tell The Description of the Violence of Love THere was a Lady Virtuous Young and Fair Unto her Father only Child and Heir In her Behaviour modest sweet and civil So innocent knew only Good from Evil Yet in her Garb had a Majestick Grace And affable and pleasant was her Face Another Gentleman whose House did stand Hard by her Father's and was rich in Land He had a Son whom Beauty did adorn As some might think of Venus he was born His Spirit Noble Generous and Great By Nature Valiant Dispositions sweet His Wit ingenious and his Breeding such That his Sci'nces did not Pedantry t'uch This Noble Gentleman in love did fall With this fair Lady who was pleas'd withall He Courted her

Soldiers in the Warrs to fight His Tongue that silenc'd is by Death's cold Hand In Life mov'd wisely and could well command It Knowledg gave to those that little knew And did instruct what was the best to do His Heart lyes still no Motion doth remain Ceas'd are the Thoughts in his well-temper'd Brain Where in his Heart all Virtues did abide And in his Brain strong Reason did reside But all is vanquish'd now and Life doth seem No better than a Shadow or a Dream 'T is strange in Nature to observe and see The unproportion'd Links in Destinie For Man's the wisest Creature Nature makes And best Extracts to form his Figure takes And yet so short a Life to him she gives He 's almost dead before he knows he lives Yet she from Man receives the greatest praise He doth admire all her curious ways With wonder he her sev'ral VVorks doth see And studies all her Laws and each Decree Doth travel sev'ral ways within his Mind His Thoughts are restless her Effects to find But in his Travels Death cuts him off short And leads him into dark Oblivion's Court. Thus Nature is unjust Heaven unkind Which strikes the Best the Worst do favour find My Father's Merits might have challeng'd still A longer Life had it been Heavens will But he is dead and I am left behind Which is a torture to my troubled Mind If Soldiers pity have grant my desire Here strike me dead and let my Breath expire Said the Victorious Prince Heaven forbid all horrid Acts we shun For in the Field the purest Honour 's won We stake our Lives for Lives and justly play A Game of Honour on a Fighting-Day Perchance some Cheats may be among the Rout But if they 're found the Noblest throw them out But since you cannot alter Destiny Nor none that live but have some Misery Raise up your Spirits unto Heaven submit And do not here in Grief and Sorrow sit Your Father was a Soldier of great Fame His Valiant Deeds did get an Honoured Name And for his sake judg us which Soldiers be To have Human'ty and Civility Your Father he shall safely be convey'd That he may be by his Ancestors laid But you must stay yet not as Prisoner You shall Command and Rule our Peace and War She answered not in words her Tears did plead That she with her dead Father might be freed But her clear Advocates could not obtain Their humble Suit but there she must remain With the Victorious Prince but he deny'd As Victor in a Triumph for to ride For though the Battel I have won he said Yet I am Prisoner to this Beauteous Maid She is the Conqueress therefore 't is fit I walk as Prisoner she Triumphant sit Then all with great Respects to her did bow So doth the Prince and plead protest and vow To be her Servant and to yeeld his Life To Death's sad strokes unless she 'ld be his Wife But she still weeps his Suit no favour gains Of Fates and Destiny she still complains Why said the Prince should you my Suit deny Since I was not your Father's Enemy Soldiers are Friends though they each blood do spill 'T is not for Spight nor any Malice ill But Honour to maintain and Power to get And that they may in Fame's House higher set For those of greatest Pow'r to Gods draw near For nought but Pow'r makes Men like Gods appear But had I kill'd your Father in the Field Unto my Suit in Justice you might yeeld But I was not the Cause your Father dy'd For Victory doth still with him abide And though that Death stid strike him to the heart Yet his great Name and Fame will never part Men will suppose the Loss is loss of Life And had he liv'd there would be greater strife Between our Armies but if you 'l be mine Our Kingdoms in a Friendly Peace shall join Then she began to listen and give ear She of her Countrey in distress took care And in short time they were both Man and Wife Long did they live and had a happy Life The next a Virgin 's turn her Tale to tell Her Youth and Modesty did fit it well The Surprisal of DEATH A Company of Virgins young did meet Their Pastime was to gather Flowers sweet They white Straw-Hats upon their Heads did wear And falling-Feathers which wav'd with the air Fanning their Faces like a Zephyrus Wind Shadowing the Sun that strove their Eyes to blind And in their Hands they each a Basket held Which Baskets they with Fruits or Flowers fill'd But one amongst the rest such Beauty had That Venus for to change might well be glad Her Shape exact her Skin was smooth and fair Her Teeth white even set a long curl'd Hair Her Nature modest her Behaviour so As when she mov'd the Graces seem'd to go Her Wit was quick and pleasing to the Ear That all who heard her speak straight Lovers were But yet her Words such Chast Love did create That all Impurity they did abate And every heart or head where wild Thoughts live She did convert and wise Instructions give For her Discourse such heavenly Seeds did sow That where she strew'd there Virtues up did grow These Virgins all were in a Garden set And each did strive the finest Flowers to get But this fair Lady on a Bank did lye Of most choice Flowers which did court her Eye And every one did bend their heads full low Bowing their Stalks which from the Roots did grow And when her hands did touch their tender Leaves Each seem'd to kiss and to her Fingers cleaves But she as if in Nature 't were a Crime VVas loath to crop their Stalks in their full prime But with her Face close to those Flowers lay That through her Nostrils those Sweets might find way Not for to rob them for her head was full Of Flow'ry Phansies which her wit did pull And Posies made the World for to present VVith a more lasting and a sweeter Sent. But as she lay upon this pleasant Bank For which those Flowers did great Nature thank Death envious grew she such delight did take And with his Dart a deadly wound did make A sudden Cold did seize her every Limb With which her Pulse beat slow and Eyes grew dim Some that sate by observ'd her pale to be But thought it some false Light yet went to see And when they came she turn'd her Eyes aside Spread forth her arms then stretch'd and sigh'd and dy'd The frighted Virgins ran with panting-breath To tell the sadder story of her death The whilst the Flowers to her rescue bend And all their Med'cinable Virtues send But all in vain their Power 's too weak each Head Then droop'd seeing they could not help the Dead Their fresher Colours did no longer stay But faded straight and wither'd all away For Tears they dropp'd their Leaves and thought it meet To strew her with them as a Winding-Sheet The Airy Choristers hover'd above And

Weakness as two Ambassadors to present her Affection but Life would not give them audience Whereupon Death sent Pain who had such a perswasive power that made Life yeeld to Death's embracements And after they were agreed the Wedding-day was set and Guests invited Life invited the Five Senses and all the Passions and Affections with Beauty Pleasure Youth Wit Prosperity and also Virtue and the Graces But Health Strength Cordials and Charms refused to come which troubled Life much None that Death invited refused to come they were Old Father Time Weakness Sickness all sorts of Pains and all sorts of Diseases and killing-Instruments as also Sighs Tears and Groans Numbness and Paleness But when Life and Death met Death took Life by the Hand then Peace married them and Rest made their Bed of Oblivion wherein Life lay in the cold Arms of Death Yet Death got numerous Issues and ever since whatsoever is produced from Life dyes Whereas before this Marriage there was no such thing as dying for Death and Life were single like Batchelors and Maids But Life proved not so good a Wife as Death a Husband for Death is sober staid grave discreet patient dwelling silently and solitary whereas Life is wild various unconstant and runs about shunning her Husband Death's company But he as a loving and fond Husband follows her and when he embraces her she grows big and soon produces young Lives But all the Off-spring of Death and Life are divided half dwelling with Life and half with Death At this Wedding old Father Time which looked the youngest although he was the oldest in the Company and danced the nimblest and best making several changes in his Dances he trod so gently and moved so smoothly that none could perceive how he did turn and wind and lead about And being wiser than all the rest with long Experience he behaved himself so handsomely insinuated so subtilly courted so civilly that he got all the Ladies Affections and being dextrous got Favours from every one of them and some extraordinary ones for he devirginated Youth Beauty Pleasure Prosperity and all the Five Sences but could not corrupt Wit Virtue nor the Graces But Nature hearing of the abuse of her Maids was very angry and forced him to marry them all But they although they were inamoured of him before they were married yet now they do as most other Wives not care for him nay they hate him rail and exclaim against him that what with his peevish froward and cross Wives and with the jealousie he hath of Sickness Pains and Mischances that ofen ravish them he is become full of wrinkles and his Hair is turned all gray But Virtue and Wit which are his sworn Friends and sweet Companions recreate him with their pleasant free honest and honourable Societies Of the Indispositions of the Mind THE Mind was very sick and sent for Physicians and the first that came were Divines who disputed so long and contradicted one another so much that they could conclude of nothing One advising the Mind to take a Scruple of Calvin's Institutions others a Dram of Luther's Doctrine some two Drams of the Romish Treacle or Opinions some of the Anabaptists Water others to take some of the Brownists Spirits But there were some quite from these Opinions and would advise the Mind to lay some of Mahomet's Pigeons at the feet cutting them with the Turkish Scimitar then bind it up with his Alcaron others would have the Mind bind the Head with the Talmud of the Jews But the Mind grew sicker and sicker insomuch that it was almost at the last gasp whereupon the Mind desired them to depart for said he your Controversies will kill me sooner than your Doctrine will cure me The Mind being very sick sent for other Sects of Physicians who were Moral Philosophers who being come set round a Table and there began to discourse and dispute of the Diseases of the Mind One said Grief is a Lethargie No said another Stupidity is a Lethargie for Grief rather weeps than sleeps O but said another there are dry Griefs that sweat no Tears Pray Gentlemen dispatch said the Mind for I am in great pain One says Hate is an Apoplexy for it is dead to it self though it lives to the Beloved No said he but Hate is a Dead-Palsie No said the other Ignorance is a Dead-Palsie but Hate is an Apoplexie caused by the stopping of the Spirits either Animal or Vital the Vital Spirits being Compassion the Animal Spirits Generosity You are most strangely mistaken said another for all the Spirits are composed of Fortitude the Vital Spirits are active the Animal are passive But they disputed so long upon this point that they had almost fallen out and the Mind prayed them not to quarrel for wrangling noise did disturb him much Then one said That Spight and Envy were Cancers the one caused by sharp Humours the other by salt Another said That Spight was not a Cancer but a Fistula that broke out in many several places and that Envy was the Scurvy that speckled the whole Body of the Mind like Flea-bites The Mind prayed them to go no further in that dispute Then one of them said That Anger was a Hot Burning Fever Nay by your favour said another Anger is an Epilepsie that soams at the Mouth and beats its Breast strugling and striving and will be often in Cold-Sweats and as pale as Death Then another said That an Ague in the Mind was Doubt and Hope the Cold Fit being Doubt and the Hot Fit Hope A second answered That Agues were Fear which caused Shaking-Fits A third said That Jealousie was an Ague that had Cold and Hot Fits Nay said a fourth Jealousie is an Hectick Fever that is an extraordinary Heat got into the Arteries which inflames the Spirit of Action drinks up the Blood of Tranquillity and at last wasts and consumes the Body of Love A fifth said Jealousie is the Gout which is a burning beating pain never letting the Mind be at rest Said a sixth Jealousie is a Head-ake caused from an ill affected Friend But there grew such a Dispute upon this as whether it was the Head Heart or Arteries that the Mind was forced to threaten them they should have no Fees if they did dispute so much As for the Wind-cholick in the Mind some said It was an overflow of Imaginations and Conceptions others That it was strange Opinions others said It was wild Fancies others That it was the over-dilating of the Thoughts and many more several Judgments were given whereupon they were ready to fight To which the Mind replied That it is impossible you should prescribe effectual Medicines if you cannot agree about the Disease Then another said Slander was the Spotted-Fever Another said A Spotted-Fever was Malice Says another A Spotted-Fever and the Plague have near relation but the Plague said he is Discontent that is caused by Envy Slander Malice and the like This Plague of Discontent breaks out

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

Slaves both Males and Females to breed on as we do breed Flocks of Sheep and other Cattel the Children were eaten as we do Lambs or Veal for young and tender Meat the elder for Beef and Mutton as stronger Meat They kill five Males for one Female for fear of destroying the Breed although they be so fruitful that they never bear less than two at a birth and many times three and they seldom leave Child-bearing until they are Threescore years old for they usually live there until they are Eight score and sometimes Two hundred years but the ordinary Age is a Hundred unless Plagues come not out of Sluttery or evil or corrupt Air but with too much nourishment by reason of their delicious Diet which breeds such a superfluity of Humours that it corrupts their blood As for their Houses they are kept very cleanly by reason they never eat in them for their custom was to eat all together in common Halls as the Lacedemonians did only they had better Cheer and more Liberty Likewise their Women were common to every one's use unless it were those Women of the Royal Blood which is a sort by themselves as was described before and therefore never mixt with the rest but if they did and were known it was death These of the Royal Blood had all their Skins wrought like the Britans As for their Government it was Tyrannical for all the common People were slaves to the Royal Race But to return to the old Man observing how careful and choice they were kept he told his Son what he thought was their intention which vvas to sacrifice them and said he there is no vvay to escape unless vve had their Language and could make them believe vve came from the Gods and that the Gods vvould punish them if they put us to death and you are young said he and apt to learn but I am old and my Memory decayed vvherefore novv or never study for your Life Well said he since my Life lyes in my Learning I vvill learn for my Life Which he did so vvell that he got in that Tvvelve-month their Language so perfect as he understood and could speak most of it In vvhich time he understood all that I have delivered in this Relation and besides understood that they had many Gods and Goddesses The Sun was their chief God and the Earth the chief Goddess their next God was the Sea and their Goddess the Moon and they prayed to the Starrs as some do to Saints to speak in their behalf and to present their Prayers to the Sun and Moon which they thought to be as Man and Wife and the Starrs their Children To their Gods they offered none but the Males and those offerings were offered by Men And the Men pray'd only to the Gods and to their Goddesses none but the Women nor none but Female-offering were offered unto them At last by their Discourse and Preparation they perceiv'd they were to be sacrificed to the Sun as being both Males as they thought and with great Ceremony as being Strangers and such Rarities yet they did not touch Travelia as supposing if they should ' he would dye before he was brought to the place of Sacrifices In all this time he never disclosed that he could speak their Language nor understand them But in this time the old Man had got some Salt-peeter and Brimstone and burnt Wood into Charcoal so made Gunpowder for they had the liberty to go where they would about their Temples and after he had made the Gun-powder he made two things like Pistols although not so curious and neat yet well enough to serve his turn and directed his Son what he should do and say Against that day he made himself a Garment of a Grass which was like to Green Silk which he had woven so finely as it look'd like Sattin He had also upon the Calfs of his Legs like Buskins of several-colour'd Flowers and a Garland of Flowers on his Head the Soles of his Sandals were of that Green but the stripes a-top was of Flowers like his Buskins in each hand he held the two Pistols his Hair which was grown in that time for he never discovered it keeping it tyed up untied and let down spread upon his back But when the Priest which came to fetch him forth saw him thus drest never seeing Hair before for they had none but Wool and very short as Negroes have was amazed at the sight and not daring to touch him went by him guarding him as the chief Sacrifice to the place where the King and all his Tribe and all his People waited for their coming the King being placed at the head of the Altas with a Dart in his right hand the Spear of the Dart being an entire Diamond cut with a sharp Point to signifie the piercing beams of the Sun which Spear he usually struck into the Heart of the Sacrificed which Heart the Priest used tb cut out and give the King to eat raw the whilst the Priest sung Songs in the praise of the Sun as the Father of all things Thus after some expectation the Priests came with their Sacrifices which when the King and People saw they were all amazed as well they might for the Youth appear'd most beautiful But at last they all shouted and cryed out Their Gods had beautified and adorned their Sacrifices as being well pleased therewith making great shouts and noises of Joy But when he came to the Altar he call'd to them in their own Language at which they grew mute with wonder and being silent he thus spake OKING and you Spectators Why do you offend the Gods in destroying their Messengers which come to bring you life and to make you happy Hed I brought you Plagues then you might have sacrifieed me to your God of Lights as coming from Death and Darkness his Enemies but for this your false Devotion the great Sun saith he will destroy you with one of his small Thunder-bolts killing first your Priests and then the rest With that shot off his Pistol into the breast of the Chief Priest wherewith he straight fell down dead The noise of the Pistol and the flash of the Fire which they never saw before and the effect of it upon the Priest struck them with such a horror and did so terrifie them as they all kneeled down imploring Mercy and Forgiveness with trembling Limbs and weeping Eyes Whereupon he told them There was no way to avoid Punishment but first To fast two days from any kind of Nourishment Next Not to open their Lips to speak And then To obey whatsoever he shall teach them as being sent from the Gods bidding them go home until their time of Fasting were out and then to return to the Temple again commanding none to remain there but to leave it to the old Man and himself The Temple was most rich and curiously built having in that Countrey great Art and Skill in Architecuture

be dead So in two or three days all Contracts were confirmed and the Match was concluded with the approbation of all Friends of either side married they were and in a short time after he carried her to his House there made her Mistress of his Estate and whilst he governed his outward Affairs she governed the Family at home where they lived plentifully pleasantly and peaceably not extravagantly vain-gloriously and luxuriously they lived neat and cleanly they loved passionately thrived moderately and happily they lived and piously dyed The She-Anchoret THERE was a Widower who had but one Child and she a Daughter which Daughter he bred with Pious Devotions Moral Instructions and Wise Advertisements but he falling sick to death called his Daugher unto him and thus spake to her Farewell my dearest Child for dye I must My Soul must flye my Body turn to dust My only care is that I leave thee young To wander in the World Mankind among Few of them charitable are or kind Nor bear they in their Breast a Noble Mind To help the Fatherless or pity Youth Protect the Innocent maintain the Truth But all their time 's spent with laborious toil For to pervert to ruin and to spoil Flatter thy Beauty and thy Youth betray To give thy Heart and Virgin-flower away They will profess love vow to be thy Friend Marriage will promise yet they will pretend Their Friends will angry be or else they 'l say Their Land 's engag'd they first their Debts must pay Or else that they during some time of life Have made a Vow Not yet to take a Wife And twenty such Excuses they will find For to deceive the simple Female-Kind And if you marry Troubles you will find Pains Griefs and Cares to vex a quiet Mind But here I charge you lying in Death's Arms That you do stop your Ears against their Charms Live chast and holy serve the Gods above They will protect thee for thy zealous Love Daughter I will obey whatever you command Although you dye your will shall fixed stand Father Next I do charge thee Not to grieve nor mourn Since no redress will from the Grave return Daughter O do not so said she But give Grief leave to flow out of my Eyes For if it be supprest the Body dyes Whilst now you live great wrong y'uld think you have If I should sit and laugh upon your Grave Or with neglect should I your Grave pass by And ne're take notice where your Ashes lye Father You cannot hinder Destiny's Decree Daughter O no! but Nature Nature still will be Nature created Love within the Mind The Object dead the Passion still is kind Had I as many Lives as Nature make I 'de lay them on Death's Altar for your sake That single one I have O Heavens me hear Exchange it for my Father's Life so dear But when her Father found that Death drew on He bid her lay her Hand his Eyes upon Father Close up my Eyes said he and then receive Upon thy Lips my last Breath let me breathe When he was dead sh' amaz'd long time sate still At last bethought her of her Father's Will Then up she rose his Body did entomb And how she spent her Life rehearse I 'le soon The Description of her Life in Prose AFTER she had interred her Father's Corps although she had rich honourable and importunate Suiters yet she resolved to live like a kind of an Anchoret's Life living encloistered by her self alone vowing Chastity and a Single-life but gave leave for any to speak to her through a Grate When she went first into her solitary Habitation she thus spake Virtues are several Pathes which lead to Heaven And they which tread these Pathes have Graces given Repentant tears allay the Dust of Pride And pious Sighs doth blow vain Thoughts aside Sorrow and Grief which in the Heart doth lye Doth cloud the Mind as Thunder doth the Skie But when in Thundring-groans it breaketh out The Mind grows clear the Sun of Joy peeps out This pious Life I now resolve to lead Will in my Soul both Joy and Comfort breed She had not been long enclosed but she grew as famous as Diogenes in his Tub all sorts of people resorted to her to hear her speak and not only to hear her speak but to get knowledg and to learn wisdom for she argued rationally instructed judiciously admonished prudently and perswaded piously applying and directing her Discourse according to the several Studies Professions Grandeurs Ages and Humours of her Auditory The first that came to her were Natural Philosophers who asked her Opinion of Man's Soul of which she discoursed in this manner She said Man hath three different Natures or Faculties A Sensitive Body Animal Spirits and a Soul This Soul is a kind of Deity in it self to direct and guide those things that are far above it and to create by Invention and though it hath not an absolute Power over it self yet it is an harmonious and absolute thing in it self and though the Sensitive Body hath a relation to it yet no other ways than Jove's Mansion hath unto Jove for the Body is only the residing-place and the Animal Spirits are as the Angels of the Soul which are Messengers and Intelligencers All Animal Creatures have not this Soul but only Man for Beasts have none nor every Man for most Men are Beasts and have only a Sensitive Body and Animal Spirits as Beasts have but none know when this Soul is out or in the Body but the Gods and not only other Bodies and Spirits cannot know but the Body where it resides and the attending-spirits are ignorant thereof for this Soul is as invisible to the Body and the Animal Spirits as the Gods to Men for though this kind of Soul knows and hath intelligence by the Senses and by the Animal Spirits yet the Senses nor Animal Spirits have none from the Soul for as Gods know Men but Men know not Gods so this Soul knows the Senses and Animal Spirits but the Senses nor Animal Spirits know not this Soul Then they asked her Whether Souls were Immortal She answered That only the Life was Immortal from whence all Souls are derived Then they asked her What Deities she thought there were She answered She thought but one which was the Father of all Creatures and Nature the Mother he being the Life and Nature the only Matter which Life and Matter produceth Motion and Figure various Successions Creations and Dissolutions Then they asked her What she thought Time was She said Time was only the Variation and Alteration of Nature for Time is only in respect to Creations Alterations and Dissolutions Then they asked her What Eternal was She answered An endless Succession Then they asked her What Infinite was She said A Numberless Succession but said she Eternal is in respect to Infinite as Infinite to Eternal Then they asked her Whether she thought there were fixt Decrees or all were governed by