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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

so high lived in the Lower Region and by intermixing together as their Parents did produced more of their Kind But after those productions of these Souls they went to the Planets where they found some of their Climates too cold others too moist others too cold and moist others hot and others hot and moist others hot and dry others cold and dry with which they did not agree being not equally temper'd But yet in every Planet these Souls being fruitful they left many of their Issues called Meteors which are shining-lights like Starrs but being produced from the Mortal temper of the Souls are subject to Mortality for Amorous Thoughts are the Bodily-dregs of Mortality which made these Meteors subject to dye as other Generations being the Mortal Effects of their Immortality otherwise they would be Starrs for whatsoever is Mortal may beget their Like or Kind which other things that are Immortal never do But when these two Souls had travelled above the Planets they became one fix'd Starr as being Eternal and not subject to dye And when they were thus they did produce no more Issues for what Mortality the Body left Those Souls to Earth and Planets did resign Which in a Generation of Meteors shine Fancy's Monarchy in the Land of Poetry IN the Land of Poetry Reason was King a Gallant Prince he was and of a Heroick Spirit a Majestical Presence and of a Sober and Grave Countenance He was tall of Stature and strong of Limbs His Queen was the Lady Wit a Lady of a quick Spirit of a pleasant Conversation amiable Countenance free Behaviour and of a sweet Disposition she was neatly shap'd fair Complexion'd and finely but variously attired This King and Queen loved one another with an extraordinary Affection and lived very happily and peaceably for he governed wisely His Kingdom was large and fully populated well manured and of great Traffick He made profitable Laws set strict Rules and kept good Orders both in the Church and State As for the Church Faith and Zeal were the two Arch-bishops who were sworn to consecrate none but Moral Virtues to preach Good Life and leave all Sects Opinions Superstitions Idolatry and the like Neither were they suffered to make Lectures of Learning because it is always about Controversies puzling Belief with nice Distinctions vain Fantasms and empty Words without Sense The Cathedral Church was the Conscience The two Universities were Study and Practice wherein all the Masculine Youth of the Kingdom were bred As for the State there were Superintendent Officers and Magistrates made of all degrees The Sen ces were the five Ports to this Kingdom the Head and the Heart were the two Magazines There were two Governours made to every Port to Command and Rule Judgment and Understanding always sit at the Ports called the Ears to examine all that enter there having a strict Command from the King to let in no Sound but Harmony no Reports but Truth no Discourses but Rational or Witty and that they should shut the Gates against Flattery Falshood Discord harsh loud Strains Scraping Creaking Squealing Noises Love and Skill were the two Commanders to the Port Eyes who were commanded to let none in but Uniformity Cimmetry Beauty Graceful Motions pleasing Aspects light and well-mixt Colours and to shut the Gates against Deformity or Monstrosity rude or cruel Actions glaring Lights illmix'd Colours false Shadows and Darkness and to set up the light of Dreams when they are shut Also to let no Tears pass through the Eyes but those that have a Pass-port from the Governour of the Heart At the Port of the Nostrils sate Like and Dislike who were commanded to let in none but sweet Smells such as refresh the Brain as the scent of sweet Flowers savoury Herbs Earth new-plough'd new-bak'd Bread also sweet Gums sweet Essences and the like but to shut the Gates of the Nostrils against snuffs of Candles stinking Breaths corrupted Flesh stale Fish old Apples strong Cheese spilt Drink foul Gutters especially the Pump or Sink in a Ship also no Smells of Suet or Grease and from many more stinking Scents which would be too tedious to mention But in case of necessity they were to be allowed or at least commanded to let in some sorts of Stinks as Assafoetida and burnt Feathers to cure the Fits of the Mother Then the two Commanders of the Mouth were Truth and Pleasure one was to govern the Words the other the Taste Pleasure was commanded to let nothing into the Mouth that was either too sharp too bitter too salt or too deliciously sweet Truth was commanded to suffer no Lyes Cursing Slandering Railings Flattering nor Amorous Lascivious Factious Discourses Likewise never to let pass an Oath but to confirm a Truth no Threatning but to terrifie or reclaim the Wicked or Cross-natur'd no Pleading but for Right no Commands but for Good no Praises but for Worth Also to let no Sighs nor Groans pass nor no Professions except they have a Pass-port from the Heart Nor no Promises but when they have a Pass-port from the King which is Reason The two Commanders of Touch were Pain and Pleasure who were commanded to keep out all sharp Colds burning Heats Bruises Pinches Smartings Cuttings Prickings Nippings Pressing Razing and to let in none but nourishing Warmth soft Rubbing gentle Scratching refreshing Colds and the like And upon pain of Death or at least high Displeasure these Rules were to be kept Yet sometimes Bribery corrupted the Commanders The Privy-Council-Chamber was the Breast the Privy-Councellors were Secrecy Constancy Fidelity Unity Truth Justice Fortitude Prudence and Temperance These Privy-Councellors helped the King to manage the Affairs of the Kingdom The Secretaries of State were Intelligence and Dispatch The Treasurer was Memory The Lord Keeper was Remembrance The Mayors of every City were Authority The Constables were Care The Judges were Commutative and Distributive Justice Honesty was the Commander of all the Forces of the Actions and Thoughts The Heroick Actions are the chief Commanders as Captains and Colonels and the like The Common-Soldiers are the ordinary and necessary Actions which are employed in Offensive and Defensive Warrs The Merchants are the Imaginations which traffick and trade all over the World The Inventions are the Handicrafts-men and Labourers The Appetites are the Citizens that are so covetous as to engross all Commodities and the Wealth of the Kingdom and are the most Luxurious People in the Land But as I said the King was a Wise Prince and to divert his Subjects from too serious Studies dull Contemplations and laborious Dictatings he had Masques Plays Pastorals and the like being attended by his Nobles the Sciences and the Gentry of the Kingdom which were the several Languages The Queen by the Muses and Graces The Marriage of Life and Death DEATH went a wooing to Life but her grim and terrible Aspect did so affright Life that she ran away and would by no means hearken unto her Suit Then Death sent Age and

or rather resolution for Love is obstinate and if it finds not a like return but a neglect grows spightful rather wishing evil to what they love than another should enjoy what they would have and hate themselves out of a displeasure in not having what they desire So did he and was impatient until he was shipt and gone who steered his course towards the Kingdom of Riches as believing she was sailed towards her own Countrey and resolved he was to find her out or to end his days in the search his Life being a burthen to him without her company Thus Love sailing in the Ship of Imagination on the Ocean of the Mind toss'd on the troubled Waves of discontented Thoughts whilst his Body sailed in the Ship on the Sea cutting the salt Waves they were set on by Pyrates and taken Prisoners so that he was doubly captivated his Soul before now his Body At first they used him but roughly according to their barbarous natures but by degrees his noble Disposition and affable Behaviour got indifferent entertainment It chanced some time after in the sharing of those Prizes they got with him and some others they had got before they fell out and from rude words they fell to ruder blows The Prince apprehending the danger that might befall to himself strove to pacifie them giving them such Reasons in elegant words that it charmed their Ears and softned their Hearts and ended the strife amongst them and begot from them such love and respect that they made him their Albitrator and Divider of the Spoils which he performed with that Justice and Discretion to each one that they made him their Governour and chief Ruler over them which Power he used with that Clemency and Wisdom that he was 〈◊〉 father as their God than their Captain giving him all Ceremonious Obedience And thus reigning in his Watry Kingdom with his three-forked Trident we leave him for a time and visit the old Man and adopted Son who now began to grow weary of their Divine Honours and like wise Men that seek a retired and secured life from the Pomp of dangerous Glories bethought themselves how they might get away and to return into their own Countreys again for an humble and mean Cottage is better beloved by the Owner than the bravest and stateliest Palace if it be another's Thus putting their Designs in execution they invited the King and People to a solemn Meeting in the Temple where Travelia standing in his usual place thus spake THE Gods said he will have us to return from whence we came and to you Great King their Command is To love your People and to distribute Justice amongst them guarding the Innocent punishing the Offendor and not to use any cruel Ceremony to destroy your own Kind but to instruct them in the Right and to lead them into the ways of Truth as being their High-Priest amongst them Also To make as Warrs against your Neighbouring Kingdoms but as a defence and guard to your own for in Peace lives Happiness when Warrs bring Ruin and Destruction and in doing this Tranquillity shall be as a Bed of Ease for Life to sleep on and Length of Days as a Chariot for Life to ride in to Heaven where your Souls shall dwell in the height of Bliss And in this World Fame shall Crown your Deeds and your Posterity shall glory in your Name And to you beloved People the Gods command Piety in your Devotion Obedience to your King Love to your Neighbour Mercy to your Enemies Constancy to your Friends Liberty to your Slaves Care and Industry for your Children Duty to your Parents and in doing this Plenty shall flow in amongst you Mirth shall dance about you Pleasures shall invite you Delight shall entertain you Peace shall keep you safe till the Gods call you to partake of the Glories of Heaven and my Prayers shall always be That Jove may preserve you all Then going off from the place where he stood they went to the King to take their leaves whereat the King and People wept and wish'd the Gods had given them leave to dwell amongst them But since they could not have their desire therein they travelled to the River-side in attendance on them offering them great Riches to carry with them But they desired nor took they any more with them than they thought would defray their charges in a time of necessity Neither did they build a new Ship to sail in but went in the same Boat they came which had been kept as a Relick safe for the old Man considered with himself that a bigger Vessel would be more dangerous without Sea-men than the small Boat which they could manage themselves And so with great sorrow of either side the one to lose their Angels as they thought them to be the others for the dangers they were to run through And thus they parted from the Kingdom of Fancy putting forth their Boat from the shore the old Man who was very skilful at Sea observing what Angle they came in returned the same way where after six days they were upon the Main Sea the Winds being fair and the Waters smooth the Boat went as swift as an Arrow out of a Parthian's Bow and as even as if it meant to hit a Mark but if by a fresh Gale the Waves did chance to rise the Boat would as nimbly skip each ridg as a young Kid over a green Hillock being as leight as Mercury's winged Heels So Joy filled their Hearts with Hopes as Winds filled their Sails But various Fortune causing several changes in the World did raise such Storms of Fears as drowned all their Joys for a Ship fraughted with Pyrates like a great Whale seized on them Pyrates let nothing escape which they can get to make advantage of so ravenous is their covetous Appetite But finding not such a Prize as they did expect but such as might rather prove a burthen consulted to put the old Man into the Boat again and to keep only the young Youth whom being very handsom they might sell for a Slave and get a Sum of Money But when the old Man was to depart Travelia clasped about him so close that his Tears and the Tears of the old Man mix'd and joined and flowed as Waters through a Channel swell'd with several Brooks But when he was forced to leave his hold down on his kness he fell begging he might go or keep his Father there Pity said he my Father's Age Cast him not out alone to sail on the wide and dangerous Sea for though my Help is weak yet I am a Stay and Staff for his decayed Life to lean upon and I hope the Gods have destin'd me to that end but if no pity can move your Hearts for Him O let it do it for Me Cut me not from the Root though old and dry For then poor Branch I wither shall and dye Nay said he I will dye when I can no longer help him

Fruit and if it doth said she they will be but sowr Crabs So their Speech would sound harsh to the Ear as such sowr Fruit would be sharp to the Tast. Whereas a Natural Orator said she bears nor brings forth any other Fruit but his own which is sweet and pleasent without pains-taking or ingrafting but all things grow as Nature sets them without the help of Art But I have observed said she that in Matches of Orations the last hath ever the Victory or for the most part although not so Wise or Eloquent as the first which shews that the digesting part of the Brain which is Judgment and Nutriment and is Truth which nourisheth the Rational Understanding is not like the Stomack the digestingplace for Food that is to nourish the sensitive Body for when the Stomack is full the Tast dis-relishes all Meat presented thereunto be it never so delicious it heaves against it as being over-charged neither doth variety tempt it Whereas the Head although it be stuft or over-gorged as I may say still covets more and the Ears suck and draw in with an eager appetite so it be variety otherwise it grows dull flat and drowsie for the Brain will feed on gross Matter or unwholsome Trash with more pleasure and a greater gust than on that which is fine or wholsome if once received before Also said she I perceive all those that make Orations in the Field to their Soldiers repeat their Victories from the first descent of the foundation of their Cities Kingdoms and Commonwealths and the Renown of their Ancestors but never their Losses their Treacheries or their Follies they strive to bury them in oblivion for though it be a good Policy yet it is not a clear Honesty to present a half-faced Glass for a whole But this is not so great a fault but it may be excused when it is to a good End as to defend what is rightly their own or to gain back what unjustly they lost or to revenge an unpardonable Wrong or to punish a wicked Crime or to take the part of the Helpless Innocent otherwise it is a Dishonesty not excusable when it is used for Treason Rapine or the like But you Orators said she are like those that are skilful in playing on a Flute or Cornet where the Ears of the Auditors are the holes and your Tongues or Words as the Fingers do make the stops your Breath gives the sound and your Wit and your Learning are the Ayres and Musical Ditties that move their Passions or rather their Passion for indeed there is but one Passion in Nature or at least in an Animal Figure which Passion changes into several Forms according to the several subjects or objects it is placed upon for upon some subjects it is Love upon others it is Hate upon others it is Fear upon others Anger and so the like of all the rest of those they call several Passions which is but one natural Faculty Property Quality or what you will name it which is the Heart That these severally alter and Camelion-like change and sometimes seem all one colour and sometimes of divers colours or as a Triangular-Glass which makes a Million of various colours from one light so doth the Triangular-Heart from the light of Life seem to have many Passions But said she lest Orators should be the cause of unlawful Passions there ought to be a Law That the publick Assemblies that are drawn about an Oracle either such as are to declare the Command of the Gods or for any other Instruction Informations or Exhortations either in the Church or on Theaters should not be mixed of several Sexes but either the Assembly should be all Men or all Women otherwise a Consecrated Place may be polluted with wanton Eyes and enticing Countenances self-whisperings and secret agreements to dangerous Meetings evil Intentions and wicked Actions by which a Church would become a Bawdy-House and the Priests the Pimps or Procurers to draw them together And all Orations concerning the Commonwealth or for any important matter would be lost for the Ears of the Assembly would be stopt by their Eyes at least the hearing of the Auditors would be imperfect and their Understanding confounded and their Memory dazled with the splendor of light glances and fair Faces of each Sex The Eighth sort of Visiters were States-men who ask'd her What Government was best She answered Monarchy For said she a good King is the Center of a Commonwealth as God is the Center of Nature who orders and disposes all to the best and unites and composes all differences which otherwise would run into a confusion and Unity said she is sooner found and easier made by one than by more or many Neither said she can one Man make so many Faults as more or many may Besides said she there is less Justice and more Injustice in a Multitude than in one Then they asked her Whether it were lawful for a King to lay down his Scepter and Crown She answered That Princes that voluntarily lay down their Royal Dignity do either express some infirmity in Power or weakness of Understanding or imperfect Health of Body or Effeminacy of Spirits or doting Affection or Vain-glory for Religion requires it not nay said she it seems rather an Impiety for Jove's Annointed being his chief Deputy on Earth to leave or be weary in governing the people by which and in which he serves Jove And it was accounted said she a Blessing as well as an Honour in the Ancient Writ to go out and in before the People most being inspired by Jove to that Dignity of Prophesying and for the Great Gallant Heroick Heroes as Alexander and Caesar they left not their Crowns nor parted with their Power until Death uncrowned and divested them Neither said she were there any that voluntarily laid down or yeelded up a Crown but have had more Condemners and Dispraisers than Commenders or Admirers Thus said she neither the Laws of Honour or Religion allow it nor can I perceive Morality approves it Then they asked her If a foolish King might not bring a Commonwealth to ruin sooner than a Council of Many She said No for said she the plurality breeds Faction which Faction causeth more evil than one foolish Head can make or bring about Then they asked If a tyrant-Tyrant-King were not worse than a Factious Assembly She said No for said she a tyrant-Tyrant-King may make good Laws and keep Peace and maintain Supreme Power and Authority but a Factious Assembly said she will break all Laws do no Justice keep no Peace obstruct Authority and overthrow Supreme Power and said she that Kingdom is happiest that lives under a Tyrant-Prince for when the People are afraid of their Prince there is Peace but where the Prince is afraid of the People there is Warr and there is no Misery like a Civil-Warr Nor is there a greater sign that a King is afraid of his People than when he advances those