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kingdom_n	king_n	say_a	sovereign_a	6,197	5	10.5774	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53049	Observations upon experimental philosophy to which is added The description of a new blazing world / written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1666 (1666)	Wing N857; ESTC R32311	312,134	638

your Enemies I come not to make bargains with you or to regard my own Interest more then your safety but I intend to make you the most powerful Nation of this World and therefore I have chosen rather to quit my own Tranquility Riches and Pleasure then suffer you to be ruined aud destroyed All the Return I desire is but your Grateful acknowledgment and to declare my Power Love and Loyalty to my Native Country for although I am now a great and absolute Princess and Emperess of a whole World yet I acknowledg that once I was a Subject of this Kingdom which is but a small part of this World and therefore I will have you undoubtedly believe that I shall destroy all your Enemies before this following Night I mean those which trouble you by Sea and if you have any by Land assure your self I shall also give you my Assistance against them and make you Triumph over all that seek your Ruine and Destruction Upon this Declaration of the Emperess when both the General and all the Commanders in their several Ships had return'd their humble and hearty Thanks to Her Majesty for so great a favour to them she took her leave and departed to her own Ships But Good Lord what several Opinions and Judgments did this produce in the minds of her Country-men some said she was an Angel others she was a Sorceress some believed her a Goddess others said the Devil deluded them in the shape of a fine Lady The morning after when the Navies were to fight the Emperess appear'd upon the face of the Waters dress'd in her Imperial Robes which were all of Diamonds and Carbuncles in one hand she held a Buckler made of one intire Carbuncle and in the other hand a Spear of one intire Diamond on her head she had a Cap of Diamonds and just upon the top of the Crown was a Star made of the Star-stone mentioned heretofore and a Half-moon made of the same stone was placed on her forehead all her other Garments were of several sorts of precious Jewels and having given her Fish-men directions how to destroy the Enemies of her Native Country she proceeded to effect her design The Fish-men were to carry the Fire-stones in cases of Diamonds for the Diamonds in the Blazing-world are in splendor so far beyond the Diamonds of this World as Peble-stones are to the best sort of this Worlds Diamonds and to uncase or uncover those Fire-stones no sooner but when they were just under the Enemies Ships or close at their sides and then to wet them and set their Ships on fire which was no sooner done but all the Enemies Fleet was of a Flaming-fire and coming to the place where the Powder was it streight blew them up so that all the several Navies of the Enemies were destroyed in a short time which when her Country-men did see they all cried out with one voice that she was an Angel sent from God to deliver them out of the hands of their Enemies Neither would she return into the Blazing-world until she had forced all the rest of that World to submit to that same Nation In the mean time the General of all their Naval Forces sent to their Soveraign to acquaint him with their miraculous Delivery and Conquest and with the Emperess's design of making him the most powerful Monarch of all that World After a short time the Emperess sent her self to the Soveraign of that Nation to know in what she could be serviceable to him who returning her many thanks both for her assistance against his Enemies and her kind profer to do him further service for the good and benefit of his Nations for he was King over several Kingdoms sent her word that although she did partly destroy his Enemies by Sea yet they were so powerful that they did hinder the Trade and Traffick of his Dominions To which the Emperess returned this answer That she would burn and sink all those Ships that would not pay him Tribute and forthwith sent to all the Neighbouring Nations who had any Traffick by Sea desiring them to pay Tribute to the King and Soveraign of that Nation where she was born But they denied it with great scorn Whereupon she imediately commanded her Fish-men to destroy all strangers Ships that traffick'd on the Seas which they did according to the Emperess's Command and when the neighbouring Nations and Kingdoms perceived her power they were so discomposed in their affairs and designs that they knew not what to do At last they sent to the Emperess and desired to treat with her but could get no other conditions then to submit and pay Tribute to the said King and Soveraign of her Native Country otherwise she was resolved to ruine all their Trade and Traffick by burning their Ships Long was this Treat but in fine they could obtain nothing so that at last they were forced to submit by which the King of the mentioned Nations became absolute Master of the Seas and consequently of that World by reason as I mentioned heretofore the several Nations of that World could not well live without Traffick and Commerce by Sea as well as by Land But after a short time those Neighbouring Nations finding themselves so much inslaved that they were hardly able to peep out of their own Dominions without a chargeable Tribute they all agreed to join again their Forces against the King and Soveraign of the said Dominions which when the Emperess receiv'd notice of she sent out her Fish-men to destroy as they had done before the remainder of all their Naval Power by which they were soon forced again to submit except some Nations which could live without Forreign Traffick and some whose Trade and Traffick was meerly by Land these would no wayes be Tributary to the mentioned King The Emperess sent them word That in case they did not submit to him she intended to fire all their Towns and Cities and reduce them by force to what they would not yield with a good will But they rejected and scorned her Majesties Message which provoked her anger so much that she resolved to send her Bird and Worm-men thither with order to begin first with their smaller Towns and set them on fire for she was loath to make more spoil then she was forced to do and if they remain'd still obstinate in their resolutions to destroy also their greater Cities The onely difficulty was how to convey the Worm-men conveniently to those places but they desired that her Majesty would but set them upon any part of the Earth of those Nations and they could travel within the Earth as easily and as nimbly as men upon the face of the Earth which the Emperess did according to their desire But before both the Bird-and Worm-men began their Journey the Emperess commanded the Bear-men to view through their Telescopes what Towns and Cities those were that would not submit and having a full information thereof she instructed the

before a true and profitable Relation As for relation replied the Duchess our Poets defie and condemn it into a Chimney-corner fitter for old Womens Tales then Theatres Why said the Emperess do not your Poets actions comply with their judgments for their Plays are composed of old stories either of Greek or Roman or some new-found World The Duchess answered her Majesty that it was true that all or most of their Plays were taken out of old Stories but yet they had new actions which being joined to old stories together with the addition of new Prologues Scenes Musick and Dancing made new Plays After this both the Souls went to the Court where all the Royal Family was together attended by the chief of the Nobles of their Dominions which made a very magnificent show and when the soul of the Emperess viewed the King and Queen she seemed to be in amaze which the Duchess's soul perceiving asked the Emperess how she liked the King the Queen and all the Royal Race She answered that in all the Monarchs she had seen in that World she had not found so much Majesty and affability mixt so exactly together that none did overshadow or eclipse the other and as for the Queen she said that Vertue sate Triumphant in her face and Piety was dwelling in her heart and that all the Royal Family seem'd to be endued with a Divine splendor but when she had heard the King discourse she believ'd that Mercury and Apollo had been his Celestial instructors and my dear Lord and Husband added the Duchess has been his Earthly Governour But after some short stay in the Court the Duchess's soul grew very Melancholy the Emperess asking the cause of her sadness She told her that she had an extreme desire to converse with the soul of her noble Lord and dear Husband and that she was impatient of a longer stay The Emperess desired the Duchess to have but patience so long until the King the Queen and the Royal Family were retired and then she would bear her company to her Lord and Husbands Soul who at that time lived in the Country some 112 miles off which she did and thus these two souls went towards those parts of the Kingdom where the Duke of Newcastle was But one thing I forgot all this while which is That although thoughts are the natural language of souls yet by reason souls cannot travel without Vehicles they use such language as the nature and propriety of their Vehicles require and the Vehicles of those two souls being made of the purest and finest sort of air and of a humane shape this purity and fineness was the cause that they could neither be seen nor heard by any humane Creature when as had they been of some grosser sort of Air the sound of that Airs language would have been as perceptible as the blowing of Zephyrus And now to return to my former Story when the Emperess's and Duchess's Soul were travelling into Nottingham-shire for that was the place where the Duke did reside passing through the forrest of Sherewood the Emperess's soul was very much delighted with it as being a dry plain and woody place very pleasant to travel in both in Winter and Summer for it is neither much dirty nor dusty at no time at last they arrived at Welbeck a House where the Duke dwell'd surrounded all with Wood so close and full that the Emperess took great pleasure and delight therein and told the Duchess she never had observed more wood in so little a compass in any part of the Kingdom she had passed through The truth is said she there seems to be more wood on the Seas she meaning the Ships then on the Land The Duchess told her the reason was that there had been a long Civil War in that Kingdom in which most of the best Timber-trees and Principal Palaces were ruined and destroyed and my dear Lord and Husband said she has lost by it half his Woods besides many Houses Land and moveable Goods so that all the loss out of his particular Estate did amount to above half a Million of Pounds I wish said the Emperess he had some of the Gold that is in the Blazing-world to repair his losses The Duchess most humbly thank'd her Imperial Majesty for her kind wishes but said she wishes will not repair his ruines however God has given my Noble Lord and Husband great Patience by which he bears all his losses and misfortunes At last they enter'd into the Dukes House an habitation not so magnificent as useful and when the Emperess saw it Has the Duke said she no other house but this Yes answered the Duchess some five miles from this place he has a very fine Castle called Bolesover That place then said the Emperess I desire to see Alas replied the Duchess it is but a naked house and uncloath'd of all Furniture However said the Emperess I may see the manner of its structure and building That you may replied the Duchess and as they were thus discoursing the Duke came out of the House into the Court to see his Horses of mannage whom when the Duchess's soul perceived she was so overjoyed that her aereal Vehicle became so splendorous as if it had been enlightned by the Sun by which we may perceive that the passions of Souls or Spirits can alter their bodily Vehicles Then these two Ladies Spirits went close to him but he could not perceive them and after the Emperess had observed the Art of Mannage she was much pleased with it and commended it as a noble pastime and an exercise fit and proper for noble and heroick Persons But when the Duke was gone into the house again those two Souls followed him where the Emperess observing that he went to the exercise of the Sword and was such an excellent and unparallell'd Master thereof she was as much pleased with that exercise as she was with the former But the Duchess's soul being troubled that her dear Lord and Husband used such a violent exercise before meat for fear of overheating himself without any consideration of the Emperess's soul left her aereal Vehicle and entred into her Lord. The Emperess's soul perceiving this did the like And then the Duke had three Souls in one Body and had there been but some such Souls more the Duke would have been like the Grand-Signior in his Seraglio onely it would have been a Platonick Seraglio But the Dukes soul being wise honest witty complaisant and noble afforded such delight and pleasure to the Emperess's soul by her conversation that these two souls became enamoured of each other which the Duchess's soul perceiving grew jealous at first but then considering that no Adultery could be committed amongst Platonick Lovers and that Platonism was Divine as being derived from Divine Plato cast forth of her mind that Idea of Jealousie Then the Conversation of these three souls was so pleasant that it cannot be expressed for the Dukes soul entertained the