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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53064	CCXI sociable letters written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1664 (1664)	Wing N872; ESTC R33623	211,049	486

but in the Pen I am writing with so that I am but a Cold Writer nay the very Thoughts seem to be Frozen in my Brain for they Love very Slowly as if they were Stupified only my Love to your Ladiship keeps Warm in my Heart indeed your Love doth help to maintain the Fire of Life I know not how Cold it is at the Poles for I never was there in Person but in my Imagination yet it cannot be Colder there than it is here at this present time for my part I could almost think that this Cold hath Travell'd from the Poles hither but this thought of mine would be Contradicted through two Reasons the One that Cold Moves Slowly although to bring Reason against Reason it seems Probable that Cold is very Quick for it catches every Mankind by the Fingers and by the Noses as Soon as it comes near them even as Soon as Burning Fire would do and much Sooner the Other Reason is that Cold in the Long Journy would get it self a Heat and so Wast by the way but leaving these Reasons Though the Senses know not from what Places or Parts Cold comes or what it Causes yet they know that we have here at this time Cold with all its Potent Strength as an Army of Flakes of Snow with Ammunition of Hail for Bullets and VVind for Powder also Huge Ships of Ice which Float in the Main Sea and Stop up all the Narrow Rivers also Cold and its Army Shooting forth the Peircing Darts which fly so Thick and Fast and are so Sharp as they Enter into every Pore of the Flesh of all Animal Creatures whereby many Animals are Wounded with Numbness and Die Insensibly although Mankind bring what Strength they can get against Cold as an Army of Furs where every Hair stands out like a Squadron of Pikes to Resist Cold 's Assault and Ammunition of Coals serves for Bullets and Ashes for Powder with great Loggs for Cannons Billets for Muskets and Carbines Brush Faggots for Pistols where the Bellows as Fire-locks make them fly up in a Flame also great Pieces of Beef for Ships for Men of VVar with Cabbage for Sails Sawsages for Tacklings Carrots for Guns and Marrow-bones for Masts Ballasted with Pepper and Pitch'd or Tarr'd with Mustard the Card and Needle being Brewis and Neats Tongues the Steers-men Cooks besides many Pinnaces of Pork Mutton and Veal and Flying Boats which are Turkies Capons Geese and the like all which Swim in a Large Sea of VVine Beer and Ale yet for all this we are Beaten into the Chimney-corner and there we sit Shaking and Trembling like a Company of Cowards that dare not stir from their Shelter and many in the Sea-fight have been Drowned from whence some have been taken up Dead-Drunk then carried and Buried in a Feather-bed where after a Long Sleep they may have a Resurrection but how they will be Judged at that time they Rise whether Damned with Censure or Saved by Excuse I cannot tell Thus Madam I thought it was the part of a Friend to give you a true Relation of our Cold Condition but in all Conditions or Extremities I shall alwayes be Madam Your faithful Friend and humble Servant CXCI. MADAM IF you were here in this City now all the ground of the Streets is covered with Snow you would see the Young men and their Mistresses ride in Sleds by Torch-light the Women and the Men dress'd Antickly as also their Horses that Draw their Sleds and then every Sled having a Fair Lady at least to her Lovers thinking sitting at one end of the Sled dress'd with Feathers and Rich Clothes and her Courting Servant like a Coachman or rather a Carter Bravely Accoustred driving the Horses with a Whip which draw the Sled upon the Snow with a Galloping pace whilst Footmen run with Torches to light them but many of these Lovers not using to drive Horses so often as Court Mistresses for want of Skill overturn the Sled and so tumble down their Mistresses in the Snow whereupon they being in a Frighted Hast take them up from that Cold Bed and then the Mistress appears like a Pale Ghost or Dead Body in a Winding sheet being all Covered with white Snow and the Sled when the Mistress is Seated again instead of a Triumphant Chair seems like a Virgins Funeral Herse carried and Buried by Torch-light and her Feathers seem like a Silver Crown that Usually is laid thereon also the Sled is Drawn then in a Slow Funeral Pace for fear of a second Fall By this Custom and Practice you may know we have here Recreations for every Season of the Year and as the Old Saying is that Pride in Winter is never Cold so it may here be said that Love in Winter is never Cold indeed I have heard say that Love is Hot and to my Apprehension it must be a very Hot Amorous Love that is not Cold this VVeather But leaving the Hot Lovers in the Cold Snow I rest by the Fire-side Madam Your very faithful Friend and Servant CXCII MADAM ALthough I am as Unwilling to stir from the Fire-side this Cold Weather as Criminals are to go to their Execution for indeed the Sharp Cold is to me as a Sharp Ax and the Peircing Motions like Points of Swords yet my Husbands Perswasion which is as Powerful on me as the Powerfullest Authority of States to particular Persons Forced me out of the City as without the VValls to see Men Slide upon the Frozen Moat or River which Runs or rather Stands about the City VValls as a Trench and Security thereof and I being Warm Inclosed in a Mantle and Easily Seated in my Coach began to take some Pleasure to see them Slide upon the Ice insomuch as I wished I could and might Slide as they did but yet I would Slide as one of the Skilfullest and most Practiced and with a Security the Ice was so Firm as not to Break but since I neither had the Agility Art Courage nor Liberty I returned Home very well Pleased with the Sight and being alone to my self I found I had a River Lake or Moat Frozen in my Brain into a Smooth Glassy Ice whereupon divers of my Thoughts were Sliding of which some Slid Fearfully others as if they had been Drunk having much ado to keep on their Incorporeal Legs and some Slid quite off their Feet and Fell on the Cold Hard Ice whereof some Sliding upon Imaginary Shoes with the Imaginary Fall were tossed up into the Air of my Brain yet most of my Thoughts Slid with a good Grace and Agility as with a Swift and Flying Motion but after I had sat by the Fire-side some time the Imaginary Ice began to Melt and my Thoughts Prudently Retired or Removed for fear of Drowning in the Imaginary River in my Brain And so leaving this Imagination I profess my self really Madam Your faithful Friend and Servant CXCIII MADAM TH' other day a man was brought to me to be seen

Nourish her Child within her which Excessive Fasting must oeeds Dry and so consequently Heat her for though Fasting may Cool after Excess Wasting the Superfluities which would otherwise cause too many Vapors or Corruption which Corruption or Vapors might cause an Unusual or Unnatural Heat yet in Scarcity or where there be no Superfluities Fasting doth Heat the like doth Sweating and thus Mrs. T. finding her Stomack Weak or rather Ill Digesting to Strengthen or Ease it hath Overheated and Dried the other Parts of her Body and hath fill'd her Body or rather her Thread-Veins with Thin Sharp Salt Bitter Humor which Humor Proceeds from Heat and Heat and Dryness many times Proceed from those Humors wherefore there should be Applyed such Remedies as to Draw out those Pernicious Humors which are Corroding Burning and Drying and therefore I pray Use Cooling and Moistening Remedies lest in striving to Cure one Disease a Worse be Produced but Cooling and Moistening will not only Cure her Numbness but the Overflowing of her Natural Flux which is caused through Heat which Over Rarifies the Blood and makes it Flow when it should Ebb like as a Double Tide But I leave all to your Better Judgment Skill Practice Observation and Wisdom and rest Your very loving Friend CCX MADAM I Hope you will not be Angry that I do not take your Advice to Leave the Country and Live in the City for I have so many Reasons which perswade me not to do it as this Letter cannot Compass yet lest I should Offend you I 'l set down some Few The first is that it is more Agreeing with my Humor to live in the Country for Naturally my Humor is a Solitary Musing and Contemplating Humor and my Delight is to Write those Fancies and Conceptions which my Contemplation doth Produce all which would be Disturb'd with the several Noises that are made in Populous Cities The second Reason is the Preserving of my Health for I have not a very Strong Body nor a very Healthful Constitution although I thank God not any Particular Disease yet so I am as I do not find my self so Healthful as I wish I were and therefore a Great and Populous City is not so well agreeing with my Health as the Sweet and Fresh Air in the Country where the Sun and the Wind have Freedom and Power to Disperse and so to Destroy Malignant Vapors The third Reason is that my Husband had an House in the City but by the Occasion of the Civil Wars his Estate being Torn in pieces amongst many Parts which are quite taken from him and his Posterity the said House is one so that we have no House for the present in the City to Live in But if I had one truly Madam I should not be willing to Live there for I am so much pleased with a Solitary Country Life that I cannot bring any Argument to my self which can Induce or Perswade me to a City Life which is but a Gossiping and Vain Life where there are in Conversations more Idle Words Spoken than Good Works Done and more Mony Spent than their Estates are able to Pay and if I Lived there and should not Speak Idely and Spend Vainly as others do I should be out of the Fashion and there is an Old Saying Better be out of the World than out of the Fashion But your Chief Argument to perswade me to Live in the City is that in a Great and Populous City there are many Learned and Witty Persons with whom I might Converse whose Conversation would Increase my Knowledge Better my Understanding Quicken my Wit and by Practice Refine my Speech or Language Truly Madam the Advantage would be Great if I could Alter the Nature of our Sex as not to Speak much but that is Impossible for all Women and so I amongst the rest are more apt to Talk than to Learn with Attention so that I should rather Discover my Imperfections by the Superfluity of my Discourse than gain Applause by my Wit for I in my Conversation Speak as I may say without Thinking or rather Considering but when I Write I Think without Speaking wherefore the Wisest way for me is rather to Write than to Speak for then my Speech will not Disgrace my Writings for most men Judge their Acquaintance rather according to their Words than their Works and those are most Applauded that are least Known for the least Errour either in Discourse or Behaviour makes not only the Person of less Esteem but all the Labours of their Life were they never so Exact Wise or Heroick wherefore it is a Madness to desire to Converse with much Company especially for those that desire to keep up a Fame once gotten unless it be in Publick Actions or Employments neither doth that last unless their Actions are like Pyramids which rise still Higher and Higher But for the most part Man's Nature is so Ambitious as to desire to do VVonders not contenting themselves with a Mean and then their Building proves like Babels Tower full of Confusion But Madam I only desire to keep up those small Mole-hills I have made that is the Reputation of my Books whereas if I did appear to the Publick VVorld I should be found a Blind Creature as a Mole is not Blind of the Eyes of my Head but my Understanding which is VVorse And as for Conversation and Company give me leave to tell you Madam I do not want a VVise and VVitty Companion so long as my Lord Lives neither can I want Friends so long as you both Live which I pray God to continue to many Years for these are the constant Prayers of Madam Your faithful Friend and humble Servant CCXI. MADAM AS I began this Book with those Letters to you so I will End it hoping you will Pardon me for Mixing some other Letters with those to your self for the Assurance and Belief of your Pardon Perswaded me to do it they are only to my Near and Dear Relations and Kind and Obliging Friends But Madam I know your Nature and Friendship is such that what is Fit and Convenient for me to do you will Approve and upon that ground I am Confident you will not be Angry with me that I do not Joyn the Answers to those Letters wherein you were pleased to Propound several Philosophical Questions to me to Resolve to this Book for truly Madam they are so many and my Answers to them so Long that if I should have Joyned them to these it would have been as a Type or Resemblance of Infinite Nature and I am careful not to be too Tedious or Wearisom to my Readers Besides the said Letters containing nothing but Philosophical Questions and Answers are not so Fit or Proper for this Book wherein are only Described Humors wherefore I am Resolved to put your Philosophical Questions and my Answers in a Book by themselves 'T is true many of your Questions are Subtiler than I have Wit to Answer but according to my Duty and the Laws of Friendship I have done as much as I was able and more I hope you do not Expect and therefore though I have not Answer'd them so well as I should have done and have more reason to fear rather to be Censured than to hope for any Applause for Publishing them yet I am satisfied that I have Answer'd your Desire for I had rather the World should Condemn me for a Fool than you for the Breach or but a Neglect in Friendship for as long as I Live I shall Prove my self Madam Your constant Friend and faithful Servant FINIS ERRATA PAg. 31. lin ult leave out should p. 37. l. 2. leave out Not. p. 42. l. 11. sor but read for p. 72. l. ult leave out is p. 87. l. 8. for is read his p. 88. l. 14. for Or r. and p. 89. l. 2. r. sometimes p. 108. l. 6. r. had rather have p. 114. l. 14. after Trouble set and p. 139. l. 14 r. thunder-strucken p. 146. l. 22. leave out Wherefore p. 164. l. 24. sor Sermons r. Ceremonies p. 168. l. 6. for either r. each p. 172. l. 2. r. it is p. 181. l. 16. r. relaxive p. 185. l. 16. r. Shamefaceness ibid. l. 20. r. Were not p. 190. l. 13. for the r. their p. 202. l. 11. r. it is likewise p. 213. l. ult leave out thereto p. 221. l. 21. r. behaved ibid. l. 22. r. flutterer p. 231. l. 2. for and r. of p. 267. l. 29 for the r. three p. 291. l. 2. r. things p. 307. l. 9. for Souls r. Sculls p. 314. l. 9. r. that is p. 320. l. 23. for their r. her p. 322. l. 19. r. thick p. 338. l. 20. for Heroick r. Lyrick p. 366. l. 2. sar either r. both p. 385. l. 31. r. those that will find fault with others p. 389. l. 3. r. pass'd p. 395. l. 26. for Love r. Move p. 399. l. 5. for Chair r. Chariot p. 403. l. 6 for there r. their p. 418. l. 21. for Souls r. Sculls