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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

infuse a Saving-grace By his Tongue 's Rhet'rick for to preach SEVERAL Feigned Stories IN PROSE The Second BOOK The strict Associate THERE was a Gentleman came to a Lady with a Message from his Lord which was to tell her His Lord would come to visit her Sir said she Is your Lord a Poet No Lady said he Then he hath no Divine Soul said she Is he a Philosopher No Madam said he Then said she he hath no Rational Soul Is he an Historian Neither said he Then said she he hath no Learned Soul Is he an ancient Man No Lady said he Then he hath no Experienced Soul said she Is he an Orator No Lady said he Then he hath no Eloquent Soul said she And if he hath neither Poetical Wit Philosophical Wisdom Studious Learning Experienced Knowledg nor Eloquent Language he cannot be conversable and if he be not conversable his Visit can neither be profitable nor pleasant but troublesome and tedious therefore I do entreat your Lord that he will spare his pains and mine in giving me a Visit. But said the Man though my Lord is neither a Poet a Philosopher an Historian an Orator nor Aged yet he is a Young Beautiful Man which is more acceptable to a fair Lady Sir said she Youth and Beauty appears worse in Men than Age and Deformity in Women wherefore if it were in my power I would make a Law That all young men should be kept to their Studies so long as their Effeminate Beauty doth last and old Women should be put into Cloysters when their Youth and Beauty is past but I must confess That the custom of the World is otherwise for old Women and young Men appear most to publik view in the World when young VVomen and aged Men often retire from it The Judgment THERE were two Gentlemen that had travelled both into England and France and meeting another Gentleman he asked one of them Which he liked best England or France Who said He liked both well where they were alike worthy and disliked them both in things that were not worthy of praise Then he said to the second Gentleman And which like you best VVhich do you mean answer'd he the Countreys or Kingdoms VVhy what difference is there betwixt saying a Countrey and a Kingdom was reply'd to him Great difference said he for to say a Countrey is but such a circumference of Earth and to say a Kingdom is to say such a Countrey manured inhabited or rather populated with Men that dwell in Cities Towns and Villages that are governed by Laws either Natural or Artificial Well which Kingdom do you like best then Truly said he I cannot give a good judgment unless I had travelled through every part in both Kingdoms and had taken strict surveys of their Forts Havens Woods Plains Hills Dales Meadows Pastures Arrable also of their Architectures as Cities Towns Villages Palaces Churches Theaters of their Laws Customs and Ceremonies of their Commodities Trafficks and Transportations of their Climates and Situations and of the several Humours of the several People in each Kingdom which will not only require a solid Judgment and a clear Understanding but a long Life to judg of it all But said the other judg of as much as you have seen To judg of Parts answered he is not to judg of the Whole but to judg of as much as I have seen I will compare them or similize the Parts of those two Kingdoms to two Ladies whose Faces I have only seen their Bodies and Constitutions being unknown the one that a larger and fairer Forehead than the other and a more Sanguine Complexion the other hath better Eyes Eye-brows and Mouth So France is a broader and plainer Countrey and the Climate is more clear and somewhat hotter than England and England hath better Sea-Ports Heavens and Navigable Rivers than France hath also the one hath a more haughty Look than the other and the other a more pleasing and modest Countenance So France appears more Majestical and England more Amiable The Vulgar Fights A Young Gentleman of a good Natural Wit had a desire to travel but first he would visit every Province in his own Countrey before he went into Forreign Kingdoms preferring the knowledg of his own Native Soil before those wherein he was neither born nor meant to dwell So he went to the Chief Metropolitan City where he did intend to stay some time that he might inform himself best of the several Trades Trafficks Imposts Laws Customs Offices and the like When he was come to it he sent his Man to seek him out some Lodgings in some private House because Inns are both troublesome and more chargeable His Man had not gone far but he saw a Bill over a Trades-man's Door to let Passengers know there were Lodgings to be Lett. The Mistress sitting at the Door he asked her if he might see the Lodgings that were to be Lett She answered No she would first see them that were to take them Who is it that would take them said she My Master said he Hath he a Wife said she Why ask you that said he Because said she I will not Lett my Lodgings to any Man that brings a Wife for Women to Women are troublesome Guests whenas Men are very acceptable and I thank the Gods said she I am not so poor as I care for the Profit but for Company and Conversation for to have no other Company but my Husband is very dull and melancholy The man said My Master hath no Wife Is he a young man said she Yes said he Is he a handsome man said she Yes said he Then said she my Lodging is at his service At what Rate are they said the Man She said Your Master and I shall not fall out about the Price So he returned to his Master and told him He had found not only Lodgings but as he thought a fair Bed-fellow for him for the Mistress would make no Bargain but with himself So thither he went where he found all things accommodated for his use and his Landlady who was a handsome Woman and her Husband a plain Man bid him very welcome then taking their leave left him to himself after which the good man seldom troubled him but the Wife was so officious as he seldom mist of her Company and so wondrous kind as might be making him Whitewine-Caudles for his Break-fast and giving him very oftern Collations besides if he stay'd out she would send her Husband to bed and wait for his coming home for which Kindness he would return her Courtly Civilities He went often abroad to view the City and to see the course of the People and the several passages that happen in such places and one day as he went through a large Street a Coach-man and Carman man fell out for out for the right side of the way the Carman said he was loaded and therefore would not give way the Coach-man said It was not fit for a

sorrowfully departed No sooner were they gone but in came my Play-fellows the Muses who seeing me sit so dejected began to sport with me one pulled me out to Dance another would have me Sing another repeated Love-Verses another described Battels and Warrs another like a Mimmick imitated several Humours and so every one endeavoured to please me in their turns But the Tragedian Muse said That she liked my Humour very well and that I was the only fit Company for her But my Moral Governess chid them away and said She would order me better than to suffer such wanton Wenches and idle Huswives to keep me Company for they were able to spoil and corrupt a whole Nation with their wildness and impoverish a Kingdom with their laziness whereupon some went laughing away but others went weeping So after I had been some time chastised by Virtue the Sciences returned in a Chariot which the Arts had made being finely carved neatly cut and lively painted joined with curious Screws and subtil Engines and the Wheels Mathematically Compassed Which Chariot was drawn by Six new sound strong and well-breath'd Opinions Harnessed with Speculations Shod with Disputations wherewith they often stumble upon the ridg of Ignorance or plunge into holes of Nonsense He that drove the Chariot was Ambition the Postillion was Curiosity the Sciences sat in it and Doubts and Hopes run by as Lacquies which Lacquies did bear me upon their Shoulders and placed me in the midst of the Chariot the Sciences being round about me Where I was no sooner set but Rhetorick presented me with a Posie of sweet Eloquence and the Mathematicks crown'd me with Truth But they all in their turns encouraged me with Promises That they would carry me to Fame's Palace and there I should remain No sooner had Ambition given a Lash to make the Opinions run but the Muses came in another Chariot made by Contemplation cut out of Imagination lined with several-colour'd Fancies embroidered with Rhymes rowling upon the Wheels of Numbers drawn by Distinguishings whose Trappings were Similizing Plumed with Delight Shod with Pleasure which makes them run smooth swift and easie He that did drive the Chariot was Judgment and the Postillion Wit But when the Muses who were therein saw I was in the Chariot of the Sciences they began to quarrel and draw out their Satyrical Swords The Sciences being more Grave and Temperate received their Assaults very civilly as coming from fair Ladies But after some dispute they did agree to take turns to carry me to Fame's Palace After I had travelled some time with the Sciences I was received into the Chariot of the Muses where I was received with great joy and crowned with a Wreath of Flame And thus I am travelling with very wise and pleasant Company though as yet I have no sight of the Palace but howsoever my Mind is so pleased with the Journey so delighted with the Society and so proud of the Favours and Gifts it receives from them every day that it despises the Follies and hates the Falshood of Mankind and scorns the Proffers of Fortune not regarding the Vanities of the World Would you could bring me into that Society said the second Lady The first answered I will do my endeavour So after a short time She pleaded so earnestly in her Friend's behalf that she was received into their Company in their Chariots where each Lady took their turns to ride in each Chariot whereby the Muses and Sciences were both pleased having always one of them with each And when at any time they rested from travelling the Sciences and Muses made Pastimes for those two Ladies like those of the Olympick-Games the Sciences found out new places to play in and took the Height the Longitude and Latitude of them Also by the help of the Arts they fortified and made them strong and built thereon and the Muses invented Masques made Plays and the like for the Sciences Arts and Muses were so proud and did so glory that they had gotten two of the Feminine Sex that they strove with all their Industry to delight them and to entertain them after the best manner The Propagating SOULS THERE was a handsom young Lord and a young beautiful Lady who did love one another so passionately and entirely that their Affections could never be dissolved but their Parents not agreeing to it would by no means be perswaded to let them Marry nor so much as to let them converse like Strangers Setting Spyes to watch them But when they found they would meet in despight of their Spies they enclosed them up from coming at each other Whereat they grew so discontent and melancholy that they both dyed and just at one and the same time to the great grief of their Parents who now wish'd they had not been so cruel But when their Bodies were dead these Lovers Souls leaving their Fleshly Mansions went towards the River of Styx to pass over to the Elyzium-Fields where in the way they met each other At which meeting they were extreamly joyed but knew not how to express it for they had no Lips to kiss nor Arms to embrace being Bodiless and only Spirits But the Passion of Love being always ingenious found out a way that their Souls which are Spirits did mingle and intermix as liquid Essences whereby both their Souls became as one But after these gentle smooth soft Loveexpressions they began to remember each other of their Crosses and Oppositions whilst they lived in their Bodies but at last considering of the place they were moving to the Masculine Soul was unwilling to go to it for since he had his Beloved Soul he cared not to live in the Elyzium Then speaking in the Soul's Language he perswaded his Love not to go thither for said he I desire no other Company but yours nor would I be troubled or disturbed with other Lovers Souls Besides I have heard said he that those that are there do nothing but walk and talk of their past-life which we may desire to forget Then let us said he only enjoy our selves by intermixing thus She answered She did approve of his desire and that her Mind did join and consent But where said she shall be our Habitation He answered He would build a Mansion in the Air of Poets Fancies and Philosophers Imaginations and make Gardens of Oratory Wherein should Flow'rs of Rhetorick grow By which Rivers of Divine Faith should flow That place said she a Paradice would be But I no strong Foundation there can see For it will shake with every puff of Wind No certainty nor surance will you find My Soul said be then we will higher fly And there another Mansion we will try And after they had argued some time at last they did agree to dwell in one of the Planets but before such time as they could arrive to the lowest Planet these two Noble Souls by Conjunction produced several Flames which were called Meteors these being not able to travel

Hair hung down and on her Shoulders spread And in a Chair she sate a Table by Leaning theron her Head did side-ways lye Upon her Hand the Palm a Pillow made On which being soft her Rosie Cheeks she laid And from her Eyes the Tears in show'rs did fall Upon her Breast sparkling like Diamonds all At last she fetch'd a sigh Heart break said she Gods take my Life or give me Liberty When those words were exprest she was constrain'd He courage took on what she there complain'd And boldly entring in she seem'd afraid He kneeling down askt pardon and thus said Celestial Creature do not think me rude Or want of Breeding made me thus intrude But Fortune me unto this House did bring Whereby a Curiosity did spring From my desires this House to view throughout Seeing such shady Groves to grow about And when I came near to the Gate not one Was there to ask or make opposition The House seem'd empty not a Creature stirring But every Room I entred still admiring The Architect and Structure of each part Those that design'd were skilful in that Art VVandring about at last Chance favouring me Hath brought me to this place where I do see ABeauty far beyond all Art or any That Nature heretofore hath made though many Of all the Sex creates she sweet and fair Yet never any of your Sex so rare This made me stand and gaze amaz'd to see What wondrous glorious things in Nature be But when I heard your words for to express Some grief of heart and wisht for a redress My Soul flew to your service here I vow To Heaven high my life to give to you Not only give my life but for your sake Suffer all Pains Nature or Hell can make Nor are my Proffers for a base Self-end I 'm to your Sex a Servant and a Friend Pure is my Zeal and my Flame being clear Chuse me your Champion and adopt me here If I cannot your Enemy destroy I 'le do my best no rest I will enjoy Because my Fortune Life and Industry I 'le sacrifaice unto thy Liberty When that the Lady heard him speak so free And with such passion and so honestly I do accept your Favour Sir said she For no Condition can be worse to me Than this I now do live in nor can I My Honour hazzard in worse Company VVherefore to your protection I resign Heaven O Heaven prosper this Design But how will you dispose of me pray tell I will said he convey you to a Cell Which is hard by and there will Counsel take What way is best to make a clear escape With that his Riding-Coat which he did wear He pull'd straight off which she put on her Hair She ty'd up short and covered close her Face And in this posture stole out of that place An old ill-natur'd Bawd that did wait on her Being then asleep did never think upon her But when sleep fled awak'd she up did rise Sitting upon her Bed rubbing her eyes That were seal'd up with Matter and with Rheum When that was done she went into the Room VVherein the Lady us'd alone to be Straight missing her cry'd out most piteously Calling the Servants to search all about But they unto a VVake were all gone out The Peasant's Ball is that we call a VVake VVhen Men Maids do dance and love do make And she that danceth best is crown'd as Queen VVith Garlands made of Flow'rs Laurel green Those Men that dance the best have Ribbans ti'd By every Maid that hopes to be a Bride Youth loves these kind of Sports and to a Fayre 'T will venture life rather than not be there Which made the Servants all although not many To be abroad and leave the house for any To enter in which caused this escape And to the Owner brought so much mishap A Lord came galloping as from his Palace With pleasing thoughts thinking alone to solace Himself with his fair Mistress who admired Her Beauty more than Heaven and desired Her Favour more than Jove's her angry words Did wound him more than could the sharpest swords Her Frowns would torture him as on a Rack Muffling his Spirits in melancholy black But if she chanc'd to smile his joys did rise Much higher than the Sun that lights the Skies But riding on the Castle coming nigh The VVoman running 'bout he did descry His heart misgave him with doubts he alighted Asking the reason she was so affrighted She shak'd so much no answer could she make He being impatient unto her thus spake Devil said he what is my Mistress dead Or sick or stole away or is she fled She kneeling down cry'd out O she is gone And I left to your Mercy all-alone With that he tore his hair his breast did beat And all his body in a cold damp sweat Which made his Nerves to slack his Pulse beat slow His strength to fail so weak he could not go But fell upon the ground seeming as dead Until his Man did bear him to a bed For he did only with him one Man bring VVho prov'd himself trusty in every thing But when his diffus'd Spirits he did compose Into a deep sad Melancholy he grows Could neither eat nor drink nor take his rest His thoughts and passions being so opprest At last this Lady and her Noble Guide Got to a place secure yet forc'd to hide Her self a time till such Friends could make That would protect Vertue for Vertue 's sake Because her loving Foe was great in Power Which might a Friendless Innocent devour This Noble Gentleman desir'd to know From what Misfortunes her restraint did grow Willing she was to tell the Gentleman The story of her Life and thus began After my birth my Mother soon did dye Unto my Father leaving a Son and I My Father nor my Brother liv'd not long Then was I left alone and being young My Aunt did take the charge to see me bred To manage my Estate my Brother dead I was the only Child and Heir but she Was married to a Lord of High Degree Who had a Son and that Son had a VVife They disagreed led an unhappy Life VVhen I was grown to sixteen years of age My Aunt did dye her Husband did engage To take the charge and see me well bestow'd And by his tender care great love he show'd But such was my Misfortune O sad Fate He dy'd and left me to his Son's VVife's hate Because this younger Lord grew much in Love VVhich when his VVife by circumstance did prove She sought all means she could to murther me Yet she would have it done with privacy The whilst her amorous Lord fresh Courtships made VVith his best Rhetorick for to perswade My honest Youth to yeeld to his desire My Beauty having set his heart on fire At last considering with my self that I Having a plentiful Estate whereby I might live honourable safe and free Not subject to be betray'd to slavery Then to the