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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53051	Orations of divers sorts accommodated to divers places written by the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1662 (1662)	Wing N859; ESTC R27520	144,720	333

Live without them which shews we are as Ungratefull as Inconstant But we have more Reason to Murmur against Nature than against Men who hath made Men more Ingenious VVitty and Wife than VVomen more Strong Industrious and Laborious than Women for Women are Witless and Strengthless and Unprofitable Creatures did they not Bear Children Wherefore let us Love men Praise men and Pray for men for without Men we should be the most Miserable Creatures that Nature Hath or Could make IV. NOble Ladies Gentlewomen and other Inferiour Women The former Oratoress sayes we are Witless and Strengthless if so it is that we Neglect the One and make no Use of the Other for Strength is Increased by Exercise and Wit is Lost for want of Conversation but to shew Men we are not so Weak and Foolish as the former Oratoress doth Express us to be let us Hawk Hunt Race and do the like Exercises as Men have and let us Converse in Camps Courts and Cities in Schools Colleges and Courts of Judicature in Taverns Brothels and Gaming Houses all which will make our Strength and Wit known both to Men and to our own Selves for we are as Ignorant of our Selves as Men are of us And how should we Know our Selves when as we never made a Trial of our Selves or how should Men know us when as they never Put us to the Proof Wherefore my Advice is we should Imitate Men so will our Bodies and Minds appear more Masculine and our Power will Increase by our Actions V. NOble Honourable and Vertuous Women The former Oration was to Perswade us to Change the Custom of our Sex which is a Strange and Unwise Perswasion since we cannot Change the Nature of our Sex for we cannot make our selves Men and to have Femal Bodies and yet to Act Masculine Parts will be very Preposterous and Unnatural In truth we shall make our Selves like as the Defects of Nature as to be Hermaphroditical as neither to be Perfect Women nor Perfect Men but Corrupt and Imperfect Creatures Wherefore let me Perswade you since we cannot Alter the Nature of our Persons not to Alter the Course of our Lives but to Rule our Lives and Behaviours as to be Acceptable and Pleasing to God and Men which is to be Modest Chast Temperate Humble Patient and Pious also to be Huswifely Cleanly and of few Words all which will Gain us Praise from Men and Blessing from Heaven and Love in this World and Glory in the Next VI. VVOrthy Women The former Oratoress's Oration indeavours to Perswade us that it would not only be a Reproach and Disgrace but Unnatural for Women in their Actions and Behaviour to Imitate Men we may as well say it will be a Reproach Disgrace and Unnatural to Imitate the Gods which Imitation we are Commanded both by the Gods and their Ministers and shall we Neglect the Imitation of Men which is more Easie and Natural than the Imitation of the Gods for how can Terrestrial Creatures Imitate Celestial Deities yet one Terrestrial may Imitate an other although in different sorts of Creatures Wherefore since all Terrestrial Imitations ought to Ascend to the Better and not to Descend to the Worse Women ought to Imitate Men as being a Degree in Nature more Perfect than they Themselves and all Masculine Women ought to be as much Praised as Effeminate Men to be Dispraifed for the one Advances to Perfection the other Sinks to Imperfection that so by our Industry we may come at last to Equal Men both in Perfection and Power VII NOble Ladies Honourable Gentlewomen and Worthy Femal Commoners The former Oratoress's Oration or Speech was to Perswade us Out of our Selves as to be That which Nature never Intended us to be to wit Masculine but why should we Desire to be Masculine since our Own Sex and Condition is far the Better for if Men have more Courage they have more Danger and if Men have more Strength they have more Labour than VVomen have if Men are more Eloquent in Speech VVomen are more Harmonious in Voice if Men be more Active Women are more Gracefull if Men have more Liberty Women have more Safety for wenever Fight Duels nor Battels nor do we go Long Travels or Dangerous Voyages we Labour not in Building nor Digging in Mines Quarries or Pits for Metall Stone or Coals neither do we Waste or Shorten our Lives with University or Scholastical Studies Questions and Disputes we Burn not our Faces with Smiths Forges or Chymist Furnaces and Hundreds of other Actions which Men are Imployed in for they would not only Fade the Fresh Beauty Spoil the Lovely Features and Decay the Youth of Women causing them to appear Old whilst they are Young but would Break their Small Limbs and Destroy their Tender Lives Wherefore Women have no Reason to Complain against Nature or the God of Nature for though the Gifts are not the Same they have given to Men yet those Gifts they have given to Women are much Better for we Women are much more Favour'd by Nature than Men in Giving us such Beauties Features Shapes Gracefull Derncanour and such Infinuating and Inticing Attractives as Men are Forc'd to Admire us Love us and be Desirous of us in so much as rather than not Have and Injoy us they will Deliver to our Disposals their Power Persons and Lives Inslaving Themselves to our Will and Pleasures also we are their Saints whom they Adore and Worship and what can we Desire more than to be Men's Tyrants Destinies and Goddesses ORATIONS IN Country Market-Towns where Country Gentlemen meet PART XII I. Noble Gentlemen WHo are Innobled by Time and not by Favour give me Leave since we are Sociably met here in this Town that I Remember you of our Happy Condition of Life we Live in as on our Own Lands amongst our Own Tenants like as Petty Kings in our Little Monarchies in Peace with moderate Plenty and Pleasure our Recreations are both Healthfull and Delightfull which are Hunting Hawking and Racing as being far Nobler Pastimes than Carding Dicing and Tennis-Playing for whereas Gamesters meet for Covetousness we meet for Love they leave most of their Gettings to the Box we bring most of our Gettings to our Tables and whereas we make our selves Merry with Our Games they make Quarrels with Theirs Thus we Live more Friendly than Gamesters and more Happily than Great Monarchs we neither Quarrel nor fear Usurpers II. Noble Gentlemen THe Gentleman that formerly Spoke said we were Petty Kings making our Tenants our Subjects but if they be as Subjects they are Rebellious Subjects not Paying us our Rents Duely nor Truly besides they are apt to Murmur at the Least Increase of our Farms although they Sell their Commodities they get out of our Lands at a Double Rate and as for our Pleasures as Hawking Hunting and Racing they may be Sociable but they are very Chargeable for Hawks Hounds and Horses with their Attendance will Devour a Great Estate