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The worlds olio written by the Right Honorable, the Lady Margaret Newcastle.
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Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
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1655
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Wing N873; ESTC R17513
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no Physician shall be allowed to study more than one Disease or at least practice the Cure but of one lest they make by their half-knowledge and understanding a Confusion in the Body for want of Experience Item That all Sutes shall be heard pleaded and decided in the space of half a Year Item It shall be Death for any to sell Land that is any waies engaged or entangled lest it should ruin the Buyer thereof Item That all Landlords and Freeholders shall be bound to plant Timber for Ships Hemp for Sails and Tow for Cordage if the Land be an Isle Item There shall be a set Stipend for Wages Fees Rewards Sales or Purchases also of all Merchandizes that Cosenages Briberies Extortions and the like may be eschewed Item That none shall execute the Function of two several Trades nor be imployed in more than in one Office lest they should perform none well Item That no Alchymy-Lace nor Stuffs nor Counterfeit Pearls Diamonds and the like shall be worn nor sold unless the Counterfeit be sold at as high a price as the Right or the Right to be sold at as low a rate as the Counterfeit and as different Sexes are distinguished by their Habits so different Habits should distinguish different Qualities Professions and Degrees Item That all degrees of Titles shall be distinguished by their Habits and Ceremonies as well as by their Arms Titles Patents and Creations Item No Men shall wear Swords in time of Peace but Gentlemen and in the Wars there shall be some differences of Arms to make distinction Item That no Officer neither in Martial Command nor Civil Government shall be chosen or imployed but such as have Abilities to execute their Authorities and able to discharge their Duties Item Rewards shall be as frequent as Punishments lest Industry should grow careless and the Flame of Heroick Spirits be quenched out Item None shall make Great Feasts and Sumptuous Entertainments but for Forein Persons of Quality or Strangers that travel to see the Kingdome where they may see the Plenty Riches and Magnificence thereof that they may not despise it when they return to their own Native Country but give cause to renown it in their Relations Item All Detracting or Slandering Tongues shall be clipt and the more the Detraction or Slander is the greater slices shall be cut therefrom Item That the People shall have set times of Recreation to ease them from their Labours and to refresh their Spirits Item That all Noble Youths shall be bred by Experienced Age to perswade admonish and correct by Grave Authority instructed by Virtuous Examples taught Honourable Principles and the practice of Heroick Actions their onely Play-fellows shall be the Muses the Grave and Sober Companions the Sciences the Domestick Servants and Acquaintance the profitable and usefull Arts for the Life of Man As for the generality of Youth they shall be bred to Silent Attentions Sober Demeanors Humble Obediences Handsome Customes and Gracefull Arts As for the meaner sort of Youth to Trades of Arts and Arts of Trades for the use and benefit of the Commonwealth Item No Children shall speak before their Parents no Servants before their Masters no Scholars before their Tutors no Subject before the Prince but either to answer to their Questions to deliver a Message or to know their will and pleasure to declare their Grievances to ask pardon for Faults committed or to present an humble request in the most humblest manner unless they command them to discourse freely to them yet not without a respect to their Presence and Authority Item For the Generality none shall speak but to ask rational dutifull and humble Questions to request just Demands to discourse of probable Arguments to defend Right and Truth to divulge Virtue to praise the Meritorious to pray to Heaven to ask Mercy to move Pity to pacisie Grief to asswage Anger to make an Atonement and to instruct the Ignorant Item All shall be accounted Wise that endure patiently that live peaceably that spend prudently that speak sparingly that judge charitably that wish honestly and that obey Authority Item All Men that may live quietly at home and travel to no purpose or that neglect their own Affairs to follow the Affairs of other Men or decide those Mens Quarrels they shall have no thanks for or live upon hopes of great Fortunes of high Favours when they may feed upon present Comfort and enjoy humble Delights in that Estate and Condition they possess shall wear a Fools Cap and a Motly Coat Item That none shall live at a greater Expence than their Estate will allow and maintain Item That all Spendthrifts shall be condemned for Fools all Gamesters for idle Miscreants all Drunkards for Mad-men a Bedlam provided for the Drunkards a Bridewell for Gamesters and an Hospital with Long Coats for Spend-thrifts Item All Men that beget Children shall strive to provide for them by their Thrifty Managements or Industrious Labours Item No Man shall Father a Whores Child or Children unless he were sure he were the Father which few can tell otherwise it makes a Wise Man seem a Fool as being facile Item It shall be accounted not only a double Crime but a Baseness equal to Cowardise and a disgrace equal to a Cuckold for a Gentleman to court or make love to a Common Whore who is an Alms Tub of Corruption but if a Gentleman must or will have a Whore let him have one of his own making and not feed upon Reversions Item That no Husband shall keep a Houshold Friend lest he should make love to his Wife and he become a Cuckold thereby Item No married man or Master of a Family shall kiss or make love to his Maid nor Serving-men to their Mistrisses lest they should grow idly Amorous impertinently Bold rudely Saucy neglecting their Duty to their Mistris or Master through scornfull Pride Item In all publike Company all Husbands shall use their Wives with Respect unless they dishonor themselves with the neglect thereof Item No Husband nor Wife although but a day married shall kiss each other in publick lest it turn the Spectators from a lawfull and wholsome Appetite of Marriage to a gluttonous Adultery or weakning the Appetite so much as to cause a Loathing or an aversion to the Wedlock Bed Item No Wife shall entertain an Admiring Servant lest her Husbands and her own Reputation be lost or buried in his admiring Courtships nor their Hearts to receive and return Love to none but their Husbands no not Platonick love for the Conversation of Souls is a great temptation to Amorous Friendship indeed the Soul of a Platonick Lover is a Baud to the Body Item That Dancing be commendable as a gracefull Art in Maids or Batchelors but shall be accounted an Effeminacy for married Men a May-Game for Old men and Wanton Lightnes for Married Women Item That no woman of quality should receive Visits or give Visits but in publick Meetings nor have any
prudently justly valiantly or wisely done but shall be thought in the present and published in the future that all was done by the counsel of the Favorite especially if Fortune changes her Countenance from Frowns to Smiles when he is in Favour But a Wise Prince makes his own Breast the Cabinet-chamber his own Thoughts his Privy Counsellers his own Judgement his Particular Favorite and his own Arm his Chief Commander But Good Fortune gives Fame an Applause and Bad Fortune makes Fame go upon Crutches The Inventory of Iudgements Common-wealth the Author cares not in what World it is established THis Commonwealth to be composed of Nobility Gentry Burgesses and Pezants in which are comprized Souldiery Merchantry Artificers Labourers Commanders Officers Masters Servants Magistrates Divines Lawyers c. This Commonwealth to be governed by one Head or Governour as a King for one Head is sufficient for one Body for several Heads breed several Opinions and several Opinions breed Disputations and Disputations Factions and Factions breed Wars and Wars bring Ruin and Desolation for it is more safe to be governed though by a Foolish Head than a Factious Heart Item That this Royal Ruler to swear to the People to be Carefull and Loving as well as the People swear Duty and Fidelity The Contracts betwixt the King and people should be these Item That the Militia be put in the Royal Hand for since Power lyes in the Militia the Militia ought to lye in the Kingly Power for without Power Authority and Justice are as Cyphers which signifie nothing For which the King shall contract by Promise and Oath never to give Honours but to the Meritorious Item That if there should be any Dispute betwixt the Royal Command and the Publick Subjection there should be two Men chosen the one for one side and the other for the other these to be approved of both for their Honesty Wisdome and Courage as neither to fear Power nor Censure to be free from Bribes Self-ends Passions and Partiality Experienced and Known Men in the Kingdome or at least as able as any therein to decide all Differences and conclude all Disputes and present all Grievances to the Royal Power and return his Will Pleasure and Desires to the People for Great Counsels do rather insnarl all Publick Business than rectifie Errours by reason of their Various Opinions and Humoursome Differences with their Covetous Byasses and Popular Ambitions Item That the Royal Ruler shall contract with the People never to give Honours either for Favour or sell them for Gain but to reward the Meritorious and grace the Virtuous which will stop the Mouth of Murmure temper the Spleen of Malice clear the Eyes of Spight and encourage Noble Endeavours Item All those that keep not up the Dignity of their House by the Ceremony of the Titles shall be dishonoured and degraded as base and unworthy thereof in neglecting the Mark of their own or their Ancestors Merits Item All those that speak against Honour or Titles or give them not the due respect shall never be created thereunto Item It shall be Death for any Herald at Arms to give Arms for Price or Favour but to those are worthy thereof as those that have purchased them by their Merits Item All those that speak against their Native Country or tell Defects or Weaknesses or rail or dishonour their Country-men shall be banished therefrom or thereout Item That the Royal Ruler shall have no particular Favorite they being for the most part Expensive Proud Scornfull and Mischievous making difference betwixt the King and People by fomenting Errours untill they make them seem Crimes and creating Jealousies by making doubts of the Peoples Fidelity and Favourites most commonly tread upon the Necks of the Nobility and ride upon the Backs of the Gentry and pick the Purse of the Commonalty justle Justice out by Bribery and many times unthrone Royalty through Envy to them which causeth a hatred to the Prince for perchance perceiving this Favorite neither to have Worth nor Merit onely a Flattering Tongue that inchants a Credulous Prince Therefore a Prince should have no Favorite but Justice no Privy Counseller but his own Breast his Intention never to be disclosed but when he puts it in Execution Item This Royal Ruler to have none of those they call their Cabinets which is a Room filled with all useless curiosities which seems Effeminate and is so Expensive bestowing infinite Sums almost to the impoverishing of a Kingdome only to fill a Room with little cut carved Statues and Models of Stones and Metals as also divers Toyes made of Amber Cornelion Agats Chrystals and divers sorts of Shels and the like which Room might be better imployed and to more use in placing Famous and Learned Authors Works as a Library which the whole Kingdome may draw Knowledge and Understanding from and the Money imployed to more famous Curiosities than Shels or the like As in stately Monuments which shews a Kingdome in a Flourishing Condition and gives it a Noble Grace and makes it a Wonder abroad and a subject of Discourse amongst Strangers inviting curious and inquisitive Travellers from all Nations to view the Structures thereof Besides It makes a Prince seem Effeminate which is a disgrace to the Commonwealth and Forein Nations will despise it when they see or hear that the Prince is so mean a Spirit as to take delight in Toyes spending their time in looking on Shels Beads and Babies For those of Heroick Spirits take Delight to see their Souldiers in Arms to view their Fortifications Forts and Frontiers to behold their Stately Architecture Navigable Rivers their Safe Havens Sailing Ships with their Rich Fraights Likewise They delight in Crowns Scepters and Thrones by which they hold Power and keep up Authority making Obedience Fear and Subjection making it their Pastime to hear Sutes to decide Causes to give Justice And their Sports like the old Olympick Games After these Contracts between the Sovereign and the People there follow the Laws and Decrees in the Commonwealth As first concerning the Clergy Item That those that exercise the Divine Function be not preferred for Learning but for Life as being honest in their Parish or Diocese not exacting more Tythes than their due also Exemplary in their Actions Sober in their Behaviour Item That no Divine shall study Controversy or at least not to dispute but to preach according to the Doctrine that is allowed to be believed and followed for Learned Disputes and Controversies are apt to smother a Lively Faith and quench out a Flaming Zeal Item That no Sermons shall be preached by reason they do more harm than good troubling the Conscience of the Fearfull the Heads of the Ignorant and the Ears of the Wise But there shall be Prayers said in every Parish-Church once a Day and the Moral Laws the Divine Laws and the National Laws with their threatning punishments and promising rewards shall be read and repeated once a Week Item That