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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53044	The description of a new world, called the blazing-world written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.; Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.	1668 (1668)	Wing N850; ESTC R13228	80,921	168

MARGARET DUTCHESS of NEWCASTLE Publishd 10 Augt. 1799 by S. Harding 127 Pall Mall THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW WORLD CALLED The Blazing-World WRITTEN By the Thrice Noble Illustrious and Excellent PRINCESSE THE Duchess of Newcastle LONDON Printed by A. Maxwell in the Year M. DC.LX.VIII TO THE DUCHESSE OF NEWCASTLE ON HER New Blazing-World OUr Elder World with all their Skill and Arts Could but divide the World into three Parts Columbus then for Navigation sam'd Found a new World America 't is nam'd Now this new World was found it was not made Onely discovered lying in Time's shade Then what are You having no Chaos found To make a World or any such least ground But your Creating Fancy thought it fit To make your World of Nothing but pure Wit Your Blazing-World beyond the Stars mounts higher Enlightens all with a Coelestial Fier William Newcastle To all Noble and VVorthy LADIES THIS present Description of a New VVorld was made as an Appendix to my Observations upon Experimental Philosophy and having some Sympathy and Coherence with each other were joyned together as Two several Worlds at their Two Poles But by reason most Ladies take no delight in Philosophical Arguments I separated some from the mentioned Observations and caused them to go out by themselves that I might express my Respects in presenting to Them such Fancies as my Contemplations did afford The First Part is Romancical the Second Philosophical and the Third is meerly Fancy or as I may call it Fantastical And if Noble Ladies you should chance to take pleasure in reading these Fancies I shall account my self a Happy Creatoress If not I must be content to live a Melancholly Life in my own World which I cannot call a Poor VVorld if Poverty be only want of Gold and Jewels for there is more Gold in it than all the Chymists ever made or as I verily believe will ever be able to make As for the Rocks of Diamonds I wish with all my Soul they might be shared amongst my Noble Female Friends upon which condition I would willingly quit my Part And of the Gold I should desire only so much as might suffice to repair my Noble Lord and Husband's Losses for I am not Covetous but as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was is or can be which is the cause That though I cannot be Henry the Fifth or Charles the Second yet I will endeavour to be Margaret the First and though I have neither Power Time nor Occasion to be a great Conqueror like Alexander or Cesar yet rather than not be Mistress of a World since Fortune and the Fates would give me none I have made One of my own And thus believing or at least hoping that no Creature can or will Envy me for this World of mine I remain Noble Ladies Your Humble Servant M. NEWCASTLE THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW WORLD CALLED The Blazing-World A Merchant travelling into a foreign Country fell extreamly in Love with a young Lady but being a stranger in that Nation and beneath her both in Birth and Wealth he could have but little hopes of obtaining his desire however his Love growing more and more vehement upon him even to the slighting of all difficulties he resolved at last to Steal her away which he had the better opportunity to do because her Father's house was not far from the Sea and she often using to gather shells upon the shore accompanied not with above two or three of her servants it encouraged him the more to execute his design Thus coming one time with a little leight Vessel not unlike a Packet-boat mann'd with some few Sea-men and well victualled for fear of some accidents which might perhaps retard their journey to the place where she used to repair he forced her away But when he fancied himself the happiest man of the World he proved to be the most unfortunate for Heaven frowning at his Theft raised such a Tempest as they knew not what to do or whither to steer their course so that the Vessel both by its own leightness and the violent motion of the Wind was carried as swift as an Arrow out of a Bow towards the North-pole and in a short time reached the Icy Sea where the wind forced it amongst huge pieces of Ice but being little and leight it did by the assistance and favour of the gods to this virtuous Lady so turn and wind through those precipices as if it had been guided by some experienced Pilot and skilful Mariner But alas Those few men which were in it not knowing whither they went nor what was to be done in so strange an Adventure and not being provided for so cold a Voyage were all frozen to death the young Lady onely by the light of her Beauty the heat of her Youth and Protection of the Gods remaining alive Neither was it a wonder that the men did freeze to death for they were not onely driven to the very end or point of the Pole of that World but even to another Pole of another World which joined close to it so that the cold having a double strength at the conjunction of those two Poles was insupportable At last the Boat still passing on was forced into another World for it is impossible to round this Worlds Globe from Pole to Pole so as we do from East to West because the Poles of the other World joining to the Poles of this do not allow any further passage to surround the World that way but if any one arrives to either of these Poles he is either forced to return or to enter into another World and lest you should scruple at it and think if it were thus those that live at the Poles would either see two Suns at one time or else they would never want the Sun 's light for six months together as it is commonly believed You must know that each of these Worlds having its own Sun to enlighten it they move each one in their peculiar Circles which motion is so just and exact that neither can hinder or obstruct the other for they do not exceed their Tropicks and although they should meet yet we in this World cannot so well perceive them by reason of the brightness of our Sun which being nearer to us obstructs the splendor of the Sun of the other World they being too far off to be discerned by our optick perception except we use very good Telescopes by which skilful Astronomers have often observed two or three Suns at once But to return to the wandering Boat and the distresed Lady she seeing all the Men dead found small comfort in life their Bodies which were preserved all that while from putrefaction and stench by the extremity of cold began now to thaw and corrupt whereupon she having not strength enough to fling them over-board was forced to remove out of her small Cabine upon the deck to avoid that nauseous smell and finding the Boat swim between two plains of

and of the Characters she was pleased to give of him to the Emperor Amongst other Relations she told him all what had past between the Empress and the several Monarchs of that VVorld whither she went with the Empress and how she had subdued them to pay Tribute and Homage to the Monarch of that Nation or Kingdom to which she owed both her Birth and Education She also related to her Lord what Magnificent Stables and Riding-Houses the Emperor had built and what fine Horses were in the Blazing-world of several shapes and sizes and how exact their shapes were in each sort and of many various Colours and fine Marks as if they had been painted by Art with such Coats or Skins that they had a far greater gloss and smoothness than Sattin and were there but a passage out of the Blazing-world into this said she you should not onely have some of those Horses but such Materials as the Emperor has to build your Stables and Riding-Houses withall and so much Gold that I should never repine at your Noble and Generous Gifts The Duke smilingly answered her That he was sorry there was no Passage between those two VVorlds but said he I have always found an Obstruction to my Good Fortunes One time the Duchess chanced to discourse with some of her acquaintance of the Empress of the Blazing-world who asked her what Pastimes and Recreations her Majesty did most delight in The Duchess answered That she spent most of her time in the study of Natural Causes and Effects which was her chief delight and pastime and that she loved to discourse sometimes with the most Learned persons of that World And to please the Emperor and his Nobles who were all of the Royal Race she went often abroad to take the air but seldom in the day-time always at night if it might be called Night for said she the Nights there are as light as Days by reason of the numerous Blazing-Starrs which are very splendorous onely their Light is whiter than the Sun 's Light and as the Sun's Light is hot so their Light is cool not so cool as our twinkling Starr-light nor is their Sun-light so hot as ours but more temperate And that part of the Blazing-world where the Empress resides is always clear and never subject to any Storms Tempests Fogs or Mists but has onely refreshing-Dews that nourish the Earth The air of it is sweet and temperate and as I said before as much light in the Sun's absence as in its presence which makes that time we call Night more pleasant there than the Day And sometimes the Empress goes abroad by Water in Barges sometimes by Land in Chariots and sometimes on Horse-back her Royal Chariots are very Glorious the Body is one intire green Diamond the four small Pillars that bear up the Top-cover are four white Diamonds cut in the form thereof the top or roof of the Chariot is one intire blew Diamond and at the four corners are great springs of Rubies the Seat is made of Cloth of Gold stuffed with Ambergreece beaten small the Chariot is drawn by Twelve Unicorns whose Trappings are all Chains of Pearl and as for her Barges they are onely of Gold Her Guard of State for she needs none for security there being no Rebels or Enemies consists of Giants but they seldom wait on their Majesties abroad because their extraordinary height and bigness does hinder their prospect Her Entertainment when she is upon the Water is the Musick of the Fish and Bird-men and by Land are Horse and Foot-matches for the Empress takes much delight in making Race-matches with the Emperor and the Nobility some Races are between the Fox and Ape-men which sometimes the Satyrs strive to out-run and some are between the Spider-men and Lice-men Also there are several Flight-matches between the several sorts of Bird-men and the several sorts of Fly-men and Swimming-matches between the several sorts of Fish-men The Emperor Empress and their Nobles take also great delight to have Collations for in the Blazing-world there are most delicious Fruits of all sorts and some such as in this World were never seen nor tasted for there are most tempting sorts of Fruit After their Collations are ended they Dance and if they be upon the Water they dance upon the Water there lying so many Fish-men so close and thick together as they can dance very evenly and easily upon their backs and need not fear drowning Their Musick both Vocal and Instrumental is according to their several places Upon the Water it is of Water-Instruments as shells filled with Water and so moved by Art which is a very sweet and delightful harmony and those Dances which they dance upon the Water are for the most part such as we in this World call Swimming-Dances where they do not lift up their feet high In Lawns or upon Plains they have Wind-Instruments but much better than those in our World And when they dance in the Woods they have Horn-Instruments which although they are of a sort of Wind-Instruments yet they are of another Fashion than the former In their Houses they have such Instruments as are somewhat like our Viols Violins Theorboes Lutes Citherins Gittars Harpsichords and the like but yet so far beyond them that the difference cannot well be exprest and as their places of Dancing and their Musick is different so is their manner or way of Dancing In these and the like Recreations the Emperor Empress and the Nobility pass their time THE EPILOGUE TO THE READER BY this Poetical Description you may perceive that my ambition is not onely to be Empress but Authoress of a whole World and that the Worlds I have made both the Blazing-and the other Philosophical World mentioned in the first Part of this Description are framed and composed of the most pure that is the Rational parts of Matter which are the parts of my Mind which Creation was more easily and suddenly effected than the Conquests of the two famous Monarchs of the World Alexander and Cesar. Neither have I made such disturbances and caused so many dissolutions of particulars otherwise named deaths as they did for I have destroyed but some few men in a little Boat which dyed through the extremity of cold and that by the hand of Justice which was necessitated to punish their crime of stealing away a young and beauteous Lady And in the formation of those Worlds I take more delight and glory than ever Alexander or Cesar did in conquering this terrestrial world and though I have made my Blazing-world a Peaceable World allowing it but one Religion one Language and one Government yet could I make another World as full of Factions Divisions and VVarrs as this is of Peace and Tranquility and the Rational figures of my Mind might express as much courage to fight as Hector and Achilles had and be as wise as Nestor as Eloquent as Ulysses and as beautiful as Hellen. But I esteeming Peace before VVarr VVit before Policy Honesty before Beauty instead of the figures of Alexander Cesar Hector Achilles Nestor Ulysses Hellen c. chose rather the figure of Honest Margaret Newcastle which now I would not change for all this Terrestrial World and if any should like the World I have made and be willing to be my Subjects they may imagine themselves such and they are such I mean in their Minds Fancies or Imaginations but if they cannot endure to be Subjects they may create Worlds of their own and Govern themselves as they please But yet let them have a care not to prove unjust Usurpers and to rob me of mine for concerning the Philosophical-world I am Empress of it my self and as for the Blazing-world it having an Empress already who rules it with great Wisdom and Conduct which Empress is my dear Platonick Friend I shall never prove so unjust treacherous and unworthy to her as to disturb her Government much less to depose her from her Imperial Throne for the sake of any other but rather chuse to create another World for another Friend FINIS