Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	duke_n	king_n	savoy_n	4,461	5	11.5012	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

sense and reason and if you can but write so that any of my Secretaries may learn your hand they shall write it out fair and intelligible The Duchess answered That she questioned not but it might easily be learned in a short time But said she to the Emperess What is it that your Majesty would have written She answered The Jews Cabbala Then your onely way for that is said the Duchess to have the Soul of some famous Jew nay if your Majesty please I scruple not but you may as easily have the soul of Moses as of any other That cannot be replied the Emperess for no mortal knows where Moses is But said the Duchess humane Souls are immortal however if this be too difficult to be obtained you may have the Soul of one of the chief Rabbies or Sages of the Tribe of Levi who will truly instruct you in that mystery when as otherwise your Majesty will be apt to mistake and a thousand to one but commit gross errors No said the Emperess for I shall be instructed by Spirits Alas said the Duchess Spirits are as ignorant as Mortals in many cases for no created Spirits have a general or absolute knowledg nor can they know the Thoughts of Men much less the Mysteries of the great Creator unless he be pleased to inspire into them the gift of Divine Knowledg Then I pray said the Emperess let me have your counsel in this case The Duchess answered If your Majesty will be pleased to hearken to my advice I would desire you to let that work alone for it will be of no advantage either to you or your people unless you were of the Jews Religion nay if your were the vulgar interpretation of the holy Scripture would be more instructive and more easily believed then your mystical way of interpreting it for had it been better and more advantagious for the salvation of the Jews surely Moses would have saved after ages that labour by his own explanation he being not onely a wise but a very honest zealous and religious Man Wherefore the best way said she is to believe with the generality the literal sense of the Scripture and not to make interpretations every one according to his own fancy but to leave that work for the Learned or those that have nothing else to do Neither do I think said she that God will damn those that are ignorant therein or suffer them to be lost for want of a mystical interpretation of the Scripture Then said the Emperess I 'le leave the Scripture and make a Philosophical Cabbala The Duchess told her That sense and reason would instruct her of Nature as much as could be known and as for numbers they were infinite but to add non-sense to infinite would breed a confusion especially in humane understanding Then replied the Emperess I 'le make a moral Cabbala The onely thing answered the Duchess in morality is but to fear God and to love his Neighbour and this needs no further interpretation But then I 'le make a Political Cabbala said the Emperess The Duchess answered That the chief and onely ground in Government was but Reward and Punishment and required no further Cabbala But said she If your Majesty were resolved to make a Cabbala I would advise you rather to make a Poetical or Romancical Cabbala wherein you can use Metaphors Allegories Similitudes c. and interpret them as you please With that the Emperess thank'd the Duchess and embracing her soul told her she would take her Counsel she made her also her favourite and kept her sometime in that world and by this means the Duchess came to know and give this Relation of all that passed in that rich populous and happy world and after some time the Emperess gave her leave to return to her Husband and Kindred into her native world but upon condition that her soul should visit her now and then which she did and truly their meeting did produce such an intimate friendship between them that they became Platonick Lovers although they were both Females One time when the Duchess her Soul was with the Emperess she seem'd to be very sad and melancholy at which the Emperess was very much troubled and asked her the reason of her melancholick humour Truly said the Duchess to the Emperess for between dear friends there 's no concealment they being like several parts of one united body my Melancholy proceeds from an extreme ambition The Emperess asked what the height of her ambition was The Duchess answered That neither she her self nor no Creature in the World was able to know either the height depth or breadth of her ambition but said she my present desire is that I would be a great Princess The Emperess replied so you are for you are a Princess of the fourth or fifth degree for a Duke or Duchess is the highest title or honour that a subject can arrive to as being the next to a Kings Title and as for the name of a Prince or Princess it belongs to all that are adopted to the Crown so that those that can add a Crown to their arms are Princes and therefore a Duke is a Title above a Prince for example the Duke of Savoy the Duke of Florence the Duke of Lorraine as also Kings Brothers are not called by the name of Princes but Dukes this being the higher Title 'T is true answered the Duchess unless it be Kings eldest Sons and they are created Princes Yes replied the Emperess but no Soverain does make a subject equal to himself such as Kings eldest sons partly are And although some Dukes be soveraign yet I never heard that a Prince by his Title is soveraign by reason the Title of a Prince is more a Title of Honour then of Soverainty for as I said before it belongs to all that are adopted to the Crown Well said the Deuchess setting aside this dispute my ambition is that I would fain be as you are that is an Emperess of a World and I shall never be at quiet until I be one I love you so well replied the Emperess that I wish with all my soul you had the fruition of your ambitious desire and I shall not fail to give you my best advice how to accomplish it the best informers are the Immaterial Spirits and they 'l soon tell you whether it be possible to obtain your wish But said the Duchess I have little acquaintance with them for I never knew any before the time you sent for me They know you replied the Emperess for they told me of you and were the means and instrument of our coming hither Wherefore I 'le conser with them and enquire whether there be not another World whereof you may be Emperess as well as I am of this No sooner had the Emperess said this but some Immaterial Spirits came to visit her of whom she inquired whether there were but three Worlds in all to wit the Blazing-world where she was in