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A53065
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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
to perswade themselves to be content with that they have and to desire no more then honest industry may easily purchase Of the minde and the body THe minde and the body must be married together but so as the minde must be the husband to govern and command and the body the wife to obey and reason which is the judge of the minde must keep the senses in awe for as reason is the property of the minde so the senses are the property of the body but there is no judge more corrupted then reason or takes more bribes and the senses are the bribers for the eye corcupts it with beauty the ear with melodious sounds and so the sent taste and touch which makes false reason gives false judgment so as the minde may be an over-fond husband that would be a wise man were he not perswaded from it by the follies of his wife Of Riches and Poverty Necessity and poverty teacheth to dissemble flatter and shark for their advantage and lively-hood and long custom makes it a habit and habit is a second nature for what Poverty breeds many times proveth base and unworthy being necessitated to quit honour or life where most commonly life is chosen first besides poverty wants means to learn what is best for the poorer sort generally never standeth upon the honour of speaking the truth or keeping their word for they lie at the watch to steal what they can get when a rich-man vaving no wants to necessitate him but lives at plenty which keeps him not onely from that which is base but perswades to things that are Noble Riches make a man ambitious of Honourable Fame which desires make them rule their Actions to the length of good opinions but poverty is ambitious of nothing but riches and thinks it no dishonour to come to it any any way Thus poverty is ambitious of riches and riches of honours Riches as a Golden father beget a bastard gentry and poverty is the death and burial of it but the pure and true born gentry comes from merit from whence proceeds all noble and Heroick Actions it is nourished in the Court of Fame taught in the schooles of honour lives in the monarchical Goverment of justice Of Robbers or factious men THere be three sorts of Robbers as first those those that take away our goods as plate money jewels corn cattle and and the like The second are murtherers that take away life The third are factious persons which are not onely the cause of the taking away our goods which we call movable and our lives but our religion our frends our laws our liberties and peace For a factious man makes a commotion which commotion raiseth civil wars and civil war is a division in the bowels or heart of the State as to divide commands from obedience obedience from commands rending and breaking affections raising of passions so as a factious man is a humane Devil seeking whom he can devour insinuating himself into favour with every man that he may the better stir up their spirits to fury presenting them with grievances to catch in discontent speaking alwayes in Cyphers and characters as if it were a dangerous time and that they lived under a Tyrannioal government when they may speak as freely as they can live and live as freely as they think with free dom of thoughts which nothing but death can cut off but if they did live under a Tyrannical Government they ought not to reform by their passion nor to disobey with their grivances but it is both wise and honest to be a time-server so they go not through dishonourable actions for he that runs against the times is a disturber of the peace and so becomes factious which is the track of evil nature There is a difference betwixt a Rogue a dishonest man and a Knave THe Rogue is one that will act any villanie as murther sacriledge rapin or any horrid act the dishonest man is one that is ungrateful that will receive all curtesies but will return none though he be able and a breaker of his word as for example if a man should promise another man out of a sudden fondnesse and without witnesse a hundred pounds a yeer and after repenting of it should break his promise yet it is a dishonest part though they take nothing from the man that he could challenge for his own for he gave but a word of promise and a word is nothing unlesse had witnesse to make it an act by law And again if a man goeth to a Fair and seeth a horse that he likes and prayeth his neighbour to buy him that horse he goeth and likes him and buyeth the horse for himself so though he takes nothing from his neighbour by the reason the horse was none of his yet it is a dishonest part beacause his neighbour trusted him in it and many other wayes which would be too tedious to write but the Knave is not onelyone that wil break his word or neglect his trust but he will betray his trust and although he will not actually act murther yet for gain he will betray a life and though he will not break open houses and commit Robberies or any thing against the law yet he wil cozen where the law cannot take hold of him or do any thing that is not absolute against the laws and a knave takes more pleasure in his close wayes of deceiving then in the profit though that is sweet for many do not cozen for the various delights for the senses but delights himself in the various wayes of deceiving Nor is he wiser then the honest man though he think he be nor is it that he thinks himself wiser then an honest man for a wise honest man may be cozened by a crafty knave for wisdom goeth upon honest grounds and takes truth to be her guide but craft upon dishonest grounds and takes falshood to be her guide but some will say that a wise man will not trust a knave but how shall a wise man know a knave not by his face for a knave is not known by his face but by his acts nor by his report for report is a great Cozner Of Knaves THere are three sorts of knaves the foolish the crafty and the wicked knave the foolish and wicked knave most commonly comes under the lash of the laws but the crafty knave is too hard for the laws that they can get no hold of him and many times he makes them bawds for his Adulterate wayes yet it is better for a master to have an industrious knave to his servant then a negligent fool for an industrious knave although he steal one peny for himself he will gain at least another for his master not onely to hide his theft by it but because he would be imployed and keep his service but fooles lose in both For a man to be honest to himself MAny think that honesty is bound onely to the regard of others and not