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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

on high above the Clouds appear The Woodcock said When we are up on high We rather swim like Fishes and not flye The Air is like the Ocean liquid plain The Clouds are Water and the Roof is Rain Where like a Ship our Bodies swift do glide Our Wings as Sails are spread on either side Our Head 's the Card our Eyes the Needles be For to direct us in our Airy Sea Our Tail 's the Rudder moves from side to side And by that motion we our Bodies guide Our Feet's the Anchors when to ground them set We mend our Sails that 's prune our Feathers wet And every Bush like several Ports they be But a large Haven is a broad-spread Tree O said the Cow this Voyage to the Skie I fain would see whilst on the Ground I lie To satisfie you said the Woodcock I Will mount so rose and shak'd his Wings to flie But the Woodcock had not flown above a Cast high but a Faulcon who had soared above for a Prey seeing the Woodcock underneath him came down with such force that he knocked him on the head with his Pounces Which when the Cow saw she lowed out with sorrow and made a most lamentable Voice bewailing the Woodcock 's misfortune and out of a sad melancholy and discontented grief for the Woodcock his death and for the unfortunate counsel she gave him she mourned and lamented putting on a black Hide which Hide she wore to her dying-day and all her Posterity after her and not only her Posterity but many of her Acquaintance The MORAL Some are so busily-good that they will perswade and counsel not only all those they have relation to or all they know and have acquaintance with but all they meet although they be meer strangers to them But although some do it out of a meer busie nature and intermedling humour and disposition yet questionless some do it out of a desire and natural inclination they have for a general fruition of Happiness putting themselves in the last place But these sort of men have more Good-nature than Judgment for their Counsel oft-times brings Ruin at least Sorrow both to those that take it and those that give it through a blind ignorance of both Parties But those that are prudently wise never give Counsel but when it 's asked and then not without great Caution chusing the safest ways and the likeliest means joining their own Reputation with the Party 's Good fearing to lose the one or hurt the other by a rash Advice Of a Butcher and a Fly IN Shamble-Row a Butcher walking in his Shop where Meat was lying upon his Shop-board and being in the heat of Summer a number of Flies were busily working thereupon which the Butcher seeing was very angry and said That Flies were good for nothing but to corrupt Dead Flesh. At which words the Flies murmured against the Butcher making a humming-noise to express their Passion But one of the ancientest and gravest Flyes amongst them which Fly living long and observing much had studied Natural and Moral Philosophy having observed the Humours and Actions of all Creatures especially of Man and more especially of Butchers by reason they most commonly frequent the Shambles she answered the Butcher thus Why said the Fly do you rail and exclaim against us when we do nothing against Nature but do good service to the Countrey for we create living Creatures out of that you destroy whereby we keep Nature from ruin and those only that destroy Life are Nature's Enemies but those that maintain or create Life are Nature's Friends Thus we are Friends and you are Enemies to Nature for you are cruel striving to destroy Nature not only by taking the Life of barren Creatures that are past producing but of young Creatures that would encrease had they been suffered to live in not killing them before their natural time to dye Besides said the Fly to the Butcher you are a Cheat and a Robber as well as a Murtherer for you cozen and rob Time of the Goods he is intrusted to keep until such time as Nature requires them to whom he carefully easily peaceably delivers them to the right Owner Also you do not only rob him of those Goods he hath in charge but you maliciously or covetously spoil his Work for those Creatures that he hath but newly made and shaped and some before they are quite finished nay some which he hath but moulded in a lump together you destroy which not only spoils old Father Time's Labours but defaces his Architecture disgracing his Skill Likewise you do not only endeavour to destroy Nature and rob and disgrace Time but you take away Divine Worship from the Gods who receive their Worship from Life which you destroy for which they may justly punish you to Death After the Fly had made an end of this Discourse Now saith the Butcher to the Fly you think you have spoke wisely honestly and piously but your Speeches shew you to be a formal prating Coxcomb For first Nature creates more Creatures from Death than from Life from the Grave than from the Womb for those Creatures she creates from the Womb she creates for the most part by single ones or couples as Mankind and most sorts of Beasts but those that she creates from Death and the Grave as from dead Carkasses and Corruption she produceth by numbers as Maggots Worms and the like and most commonly your impertinent Worships are created in that manner And if the Gods are only served by Life we serve the Gods best for we by killing of single Creatures are the cause of creating millions of living Creatures Neither have you reason to brag for it is not you that are the only cause that those Creatures are produced from those Carkasses but Corruption which is the Mother of Life and which by your Bloth you hasten whereby you take Time's Work out of his hands and so you do usurp on Time's Prerogative for which I will whisk you out of my Shop as a Company of busie prating idle foolish Creatures you are Whereat they being frighted flew away Of a Man and a Spider A MAN whose Thoughts were not busily employed upon potent Affairs but lazily sitting in his Chair leaning his Head on his Hand with his Face towards the Window viewing a crafty Spider and marking what pains she took in spinning a Web to entangle the innocent Flyes saw that her Work was no sooner done but a Fly was catch'd therein He seeing this poor Fly dragg'd along and ready to be murthered by the cruel Spider who had watched her coming thither thus spake Mischievous Spider says he who art only industrious to an Evil Design spinning out thy own Bowels only to entrap a Creature that never did nor meant thee harm Hadst thou spun out of a charitable intention to clothe the Naked thou hadst been worthy of my Commendation but now thy Malice falls justly under my Wrath and taking the Tongs intended to kill

Slaves both Males and Females to breed on as we do breed Flocks of Sheep and other Cattel the Children were eaten as we do Lambs or Veal for young and tender Meat the elder for Beef and Mutton as stronger Meat They kill five Males for one Female for fear of destroying the Breed although they be so fruitful that they never bear less than two at a birth and many times three and they seldom leave Child-bearing until they are Threescore years old for they usually live there until they are Eight score and sometimes Two hundred years but the ordinary Age is a Hundred unless Plagues come not out of Sluttery or evil or corrupt Air but with too much nourishment by reason of their delicious Diet which breeds such a superfluity of Humours that it corrupts their blood As for their Houses they are kept very cleanly by reason they never eat in them for their custom was to eat all together in common Halls as the Lacedemonians did only they had better Cheer and more Liberty Likewise their Women were common to every one's use unless it were those Women of the Royal Blood which is a sort by themselves as was described before and therefore never mixt with the rest but if they did and were known it was death These of the Royal Blood had all their Skins wrought like the Britans As for their Government it was Tyrannical for all the common People were slaves to the Royal Race But to return to the old Man observing how careful and choice they were kept he told his Son what he thought was their intention which vvas to sacrifice them and said he there is no vvay to escape unless vve had their Language and could make them believe vve came from the Gods and that the Gods vvould punish them if they put us to death and you are young said he and apt to learn but I am old and my Memory decayed vvherefore novv or never study for your Life Well said he since my Life lyes in my Learning I vvill learn for my Life Which he did so vvell that he got in that Tvvelve-month their Language so perfect as he understood and could speak most of it In vvhich time he understood all that I have delivered in this Relation and besides understood that they had many Gods and Goddesses The Sun was their chief God and the Earth the chief Goddess their next God was the Sea and their Goddess the Moon and they prayed to the Starrs as some do to Saints to speak in their behalf and to present their Prayers to the Sun and Moon which they thought to be as Man and Wife and the Starrs their Children To their Gods they offered none but the Males and those offerings were offered by Men And the Men pray'd only to the Gods and to their Goddesses none but the Women nor none but Female-offering were offered unto them At last by their Discourse and Preparation they perceiv'd they were to be sacrificed to the Sun as being both Males as they thought and with great Ceremony as being Strangers and such Rarities yet they did not touch Travelia as supposing if they should ' he would dye before he was brought to the place of Sacrifices In all this time he never disclosed that he could speak their Language nor understand them But in this time the old Man had got some Salt-peeter and Brimstone and burnt Wood into Charcoal so made Gunpowder for they had the liberty to go where they would about their Temples and after he had made the Gun-powder he made two things like Pistols although not so curious and neat yet well enough to serve his turn and directed his Son what he should do and say Against that day he made himself a Garment of a Grass which was like to Green Silk which he had woven so finely as it look'd like Sattin He had also upon the Calfs of his Legs like Buskins of several-colour'd Flowers and a Garland of Flowers on his Head the Soles of his Sandals were of that Green but the stripes a-top was of Flowers like his Buskins in each hand he held the two Pistols his Hair which was grown in that time for he never discovered it keeping it tyed up untied and let down spread upon his back But when the Priest which came to fetch him forth saw him thus drest never seeing Hair before for they had none but Wool and very short as Negroes have was amazed at the sight and not daring to touch him went by him guarding him as the chief Sacrifice to the place where the King and all his Tribe and all his People waited for their coming the King being placed at the head of the Altas with a Dart in his right hand the Spear of the Dart being an entire Diamond cut with a sharp Point to signifie the piercing beams of the Sun which Spear he usually struck into the Heart of the Sacrificed which Heart the Priest used tb cut out and give the King to eat raw the whilst the Priest sung Songs in the praise of the Sun as the Father of all things Thus after some expectation the Priests came with their Sacrifices which when the King and People saw they were all amazed as well they might for the Youth appear'd most beautiful But at last they all shouted and cryed out Their Gods had beautified and adorned their Sacrifices as being well pleased therewith making great shouts and noises of Joy But when he came to the Altar he call'd to them in their own Language at which they grew mute with wonder and being silent he thus spake OKING and you Spectators Why do you offend the Gods in destroying their Messengers which come to bring you life and to make you happy Hed I brought you Plagues then you might have sacrifieed me to your God of Lights as coming from Death and Darkness his Enemies but for this your false Devotion the great Sun saith he will destroy you with one of his small Thunder-bolts killing first your Priests and then the rest With that shot off his Pistol into the breast of the Chief Priest wherewith he straight fell down dead The noise of the Pistol and the flash of the Fire which they never saw before and the effect of it upon the Priest struck them with such a horror and did so terrifie them as they all kneeled down imploring Mercy and Forgiveness with trembling Limbs and weeping Eyes Whereupon he told them There was no way to avoid Punishment but first To fast two days from any kind of Nourishment Next Not to open their Lips to speak And then To obey whatsoever he shall teach them as being sent from the Gods bidding them go home until their time of Fasting were out and then to return to the Temple again commanding none to remain there but to leave it to the old Man and himself The Temple was most rich and curiously built having in that Countrey great Art and Skill in Architecuture

Kings being jealous are apt to suspect the worst which made him observe with a stricter Eye setting Spies and Watches on all his Actions until he catcht him in the Trap of his Rebellion for speaking some dangerous and seditious words he was cast into Prison until further trial A day being appointed for his hearing a Council was called of all the Peers of the Land which were his Judges and the Witnesses being brought he was cast and condemned to dye Great Preparations were made against the Day of Execution Scaffolds were set up Windows were pulled down that People might behold him Guards were set at each corner of the Streets and the multitude did so throng that when this Noble-man passed along every Eye strove to out-stare each other and every Neck stretch'd to out reach his fore-standers head and every Ear listned to hear if he did speak and every Tongue moved with Enquiries every Mind was filled with expectation of the Event and every one as busie as a Judg to condemn him or a Hang man to execute him and those that profest most Friendship to him in his Prosperity were his greatest Enemies upbraiding him with the Name of Traytor though truly yet not seemly from former profest Friends But he with a slow pace and a sad countenance habited in Black went on until he came to the Scaffold Then turning his Face to the People he thus spake I do not wonder to see so great a Multitude gathered together to view the Death of a single Person although Death is common to every one and that there is as many several ways to dye as Eyes to look on yet Beasts do not gather in Troops to see the Execution of their Kind But I wonder Men should change their Opinion with the change of Fortune as if they did applaud her Inconstancy hating what she seemed to hate and loving what she seemed to love calling them Fools which she casts down and those Wise which she raises up although it be without Desert for had I been prosperous in my evil Intention I should have had as many Acclamations as now I have Accusations had been called Wise Valiant Generous Just and all the Names that Praise could honour me with and not only they would have called me so but have thought me to have been so But O odd Man how art thou made To have so much Ambition as to desire the Power of Gods and yet to be more foolish than Beasts and as ill-natur'd as Devils of Hell For Beasts follow the Laws of Nature but Men follow their own Laws which make them more miserable than Nature intended them to be Beasts do not destroy themselves nor make they Laws to entangle themselves in the Nets of long strong Suits but follow that which pleaseth them most Unless Men vex them they weary not themselves in unprofitable Labours nor vex their Brain with vain Phantasms they have no superstitious Fear nor vain Curiosity to seek after that which being found they are never the better nor strange Opinions to carry them from the Truth nor Rhetorick to perswade them out of the right way And when Beasts prey upon one anothe it is out of meer Hunger not to make Spoil Man who is so disorderly as that he strives to destroy Nature her self and if he could pull Jupiter out of Heaven But when we come near to be destroyed by Death then we have a seeming-Repentance and flatter the Gods to have pity on us And though my Nature is so bad as being of Mankind that I may dissemble so nicely as not to perceive it in my self yet I hope the Gods will have as much mercy on me as I think I am truly sorrowful for my Fault and then kneeling thus said O Jupiter how should weak and frail Men agree amongst themselves when there have been Quarrels in thy Heavenly Mansions envying thy glory and being ambitious of thy Power conspiring against thee And since Ambition hath been in Heaven pardon it on Earth for it was not against thee my Maker but against my Fellow-Creature O Jupiter check thy Vice-gerent Nature for making me of such an aspiring quality coveting to be the chiefest on Earth for she might have made me Humble and Lowly and not of so proud and haughty a Disposition for it was in her power to have made me in what temper she had pleased I do not expostulate this out of a Murmuring-discontent but to draw down thy pity for my unhappy Nature which in a manner enforced me thereunto But I submit as thou hast commanded me and am content to obey thy will and either to undergo Pulto's Punishments or to be annihilated But if thy Judgment may be diverted send me to the blessed Elyzium Then turning to the Block he was executed No sooner was his Head off but all his Acquaintants Friends and Kindred forgot him as the living usually do any the dye And although most rejoyce at the fall of those that are most Eminent as if the chiefest Ingredient of Man were Malice and Spight which produceth Cruelty yet when the Multitude saw all was done and that their greedy Appetite was satisfied with Blood then a lazy and sleepy Pity seized on them and with yawning wishes would have had him alive again But King Oberon and Queen Mabb after the Execution having given Order for his Quarters to be set up on the Gates of the City rid to their Palaces in State hoping they should have no more such Traiterous Subjects disturb their Peace Assaulted and Pursued Chastity PREAMBLE IN this following Tale or Discourse my endeavour was To shew young Women the danger of Travelling without their Parents Husbands or particular Friends to guard them for though Virtue is a good Guard yet it doth not always protect their Persons without other Assistance for though Virtue guards yet Youth and Beauty betrays and the Treachery of the one is more than the Safety of the other for Young Beautiful and Virtuous Women if they wander alone find but very often rude entertainment from the Masculine Sex witness Jacob's Daughter Dinah which Shechem forced and others whose Forcement is mentioned in holy Scripture and in Histories of less Authority sans nombre which shews that Heaven doth not always protect the Persons of Virtuous Souls from rude Violences neither doth it always leave Virtue destitute but sometimes sends a Human Help yet so as never but where Necessity was the Cause of their Dangers and not Ignorance Indiscretion or Curiosity for Heaven never helps but those that could not avoid the Danger nay if they do avoid the Danger they seldom avoid a Scandal for the World in many Cause judges according to what may be and not according to what is they judg not according to Truth but Shew nor by the Heart but by the Countenance which is the cause that many a Chast Woman hath a spotted Reputation But to conclude I say Those are in particular favoured by Heaven that are protected

some Weeks in the mean time the Prince recovered resolving to visit this young Lady having heard by his Aunt the relation of what she was whose Birth made him doubt she would not be so easily corrupted as he hoped before and she knowing his Birth had more hopes of honourable usage Yet sitting in a studious posture with a sad Countenance and heavy fixt Eyes accompanied with melancholy Thoughts contemplating of her Misfortunes past with a serious consideration of the condition she stood in advising with her Judgment for the future in comes the Prince whom she no sooner saw but she trembled for fear remembring her past danger and fore-seeing the trouble she was like to run through But he with an humble Behaviour and civil Respect craved pardon for his former Faults promising her That if she would be pleased to allow him her Conversation he would never force that from her which she was not willing to grant for there was nothing in this World he held dearer than her Company and sitting down by her began to question her of Love as Whether she had engaged her Affection to any person of her own Countrey or any where else She told him No. By which Answer he being jealous before imagining she might be so valiant as to wound him more for the sake of her Lover than out of a love to Honour or Reputation received great content and joy esteeming it the next happiness that since she loved not him she loved no other I wonder at your Courage said he for usually your Sex are so tender and fearful and so far from using Instruments of Death as Swords Guns or the like that they dare not look at them but turn their Head aside She answered That Necessity was a great Commandress And thus discoursing some time at last he took his leave until the next day But when he was gone how glad she was O what a torment will this be said she to be affrighted every day with this ravenous Lyon But said she I must get a spell against his Fury and not only against him but against all such like and by her industry she got a subtil Poyson which being put in a very small Bladder she fastned to her Arm that when any occasion served she might have it ready to put in her mouth which in great extremity she might use and crushing it but betwixt her teeth she was sure it would expel Life suddenly The next Morning the Prince sent her a Present of all kinds of rich Persian Silks and Tissues fine Linnen and Laces and all manner of Toys wherewith young Ladies use to make themselves fine and gay But she returned them with great thanks bidding the Bringer tell the Prince That she did never receive a Present but what she was able to return with advantage unless it were from those to whom she had a near relation as Parents and Kindred or the like But he when he saw them returned thought it was because they were not rich enough and sent her another Present of Jewels of great value which when she had viewed she said They were very rich and costly but returning them back she said I dare not trust my Youth with the Riches and Vanities of the World lest they may prove Bribes to corrupt my free and honest Mind wherefore tell the Prince I am not to be catch'd with glorious Baits and so returned them back The Prince when he saw he could fasten no Gifts on her was much troubled yet hoped that Time might work her to his desires so went to visit her and when he saw her he told her He was very unfortunate that not only Himself but even his Presents were hateful for he could guess at no other reason why she should refuse them since they were neither unlawful nor dishonourable to receive She answered That the Principles that she was taught were That Gifts were both dangerous to give and to take from Designing or Covetous Persons He said He was unhappy for by that he saw she would neither receive Love nor give Love Thus he daily visited her and hourly courted her striving to insinuate himself into her favour by his Person and Services used Powdering Perfuming and rich Clothing though he was so personable and well-favoured and had such store of Eloquence as might have perswaded both Ears and Eyes to have been Advocates to a young Heart and an unexperienced Brain His Service was in observing her Humour his Courtship in praising her Disposition admiring her Beauty applauding her Wit and approving her Judgment insomuch that at the last she did not dislike his Company and grew to that pass as to be melancholy when he was gone blush when he was named start at his approaching sigh weep and grow pale and distempered yet perceived not nor knew her Disease Besides she would look often in the Glass curl heir Hair finely wash her Face cleanly set her Clothes handsomely mask her self from the Sun not confidering why she did so But he as all Lovers have watchful Eyes observed she regarded her self more than she used to do which made him more earnest for fear her Passion should cool protesting his Love vowing his Fidelity and Secresie and swearing his Constancy to death She said That he might make all that good but not the Lawfulness Can you said she make it no sin to God no dishonour to my Family no infamy to my Sex no breach to Virtue no wrong to Honesty no Immodesty to my self He answered It was lawful by Nature Sir said she It is as impossible to corrupt me as to corrupt Heaven But were you free I should willingly embrace your Love in lawful Marriage He told her They were both young and his Wife old almost ripe enough for Death and a little time more would cut her down Wherefore said he let us enjoy our selves in the mean time and when she is dead we will marry No said she I will not buy a Husband at that deer rate nor am I so evil as to wish the death of the living for any advantage unless they were Enemies to Virtue Innocency or Religion But he was so importunate as she seemed displeased which he perceiving left off persisting lest he might nip off the young and tender Buds of her Affection But it chanced not long after there was a Meeting of many Nobles at a Feast where Healths to their Mistresses were drank round and the Prince who thought it a sin to Love to neglect that Institution offered with great Ceremony and Devotion for his Mistress's Health sprinkling the Altar of the Brain with Fume and burning the Incense of Reason therein After the Feast was ended he went to see his Mistress whose Beauty like Oyl set his Spirits in a flame which made his Affection grow to an intemperate Heat Whereat she became so afraid as she puts the Poyson into her Mouth the Antidote of all Evil as she thought and then told him her intention But

After which the King and all the People rising up bowed their Heads down low as in humble obedience to the Commands he had receiv'd praying to him as a God to divert the Punishments intended to them and in sorrow lamenting their Fault went home each to his House sealing up their Lips for such a time from receiving Meat or sending forth Words In the mean time the old Man and he had leisure to bethink themselves what to do having at that time the Temple as a Palace to live in none to disturb them nor to hinder their Thoughts from working out their advantage and sitting in Counsel a long time disputing with each other what was best to do at last resolved That the old Man should go to the King as sent from the Gods to bid him send a Command to all his People to eat such Herbs for Sallads and drink their Water without mixture just before they came for else said the old Man their Hunger will make them impatient or so dull as it may stop their Ears by the faintness of their Spirits caused by their empty Stomacks and too much said he makes them furious sending up Malignant Vapours to their Brains which may cause our Ruins But after he had been with the King he returned back to the Temple again and the King obeyed his Desire as a Command from the Gods and brought the People all to the Temple where after they were all gathered together Travelia advanced himself so much higher than rest as they might hear him round about Then thus spake PIOUS Friends for so I may call you being willing to please the Gods though your Ignorance hath led you wrong ways But the Gods seeing your Zeal though through a false Devotion pitying your Ignorance have by their Wisdom found means to appease the Wrath of their Justice for every Attribute of the Gods must have a satisfaction for Right is their Kingdom and Truth is their Scepter wherewith they govern all their Works but the Gods have strowed Lots amongst Mankind of movable things which Chance gathers up and Chance being blind mistakes both in the gathering and distributing Now the Gods made this Chance by their Providence when they made Man for Man hath no more knowledg of the transitory things of the World than what Fortune gives them who is an unjust Distributer for all External Gifts come from her hand and for want of sight she gives oft-times the Beggar 's Lot to the King the Servants to the Master the Master 's to the Servant and for the Internal Gifts which the Gods have bestowed on Men they are different as the External are transitory for some are nearer to perfection some farther off yet none have perfect knowledg for the Gods mix Man's nature with such an aspiring Ambition that if they had a perfect knowledg of the glory of the Gods and a perfect knowledg of the first Cause and of the Effects produced therefrom they would have warr'd with the Gods and have strove to usurp their Authority So busie and vain-glorious hath the Gods made the Minds of Men Wherefore the Gods govern the World by Ignorance and though the goodness of the Gods is great yet it is bound in with their Justice which is attended with Terrors to punish the Crimes of Men and even to punish the innocent Errors that proceed from that Ignorance which they have muzled Man withall But as their Power made the World their Wisdom rules the World their Justice punishes the World so their Mercy keeps the World from destruction and their Love not only saves Man but preferrs Man to a glorious Happiness And some of this Love the Gods have sent to you although by your Ignorance you had almost cast it from you And since the Gods have sent you Knowledg by us take hold of it and do not wilfully fall in your superstitious Errors although it is a difficult pains even for the Gods themselves to perswade Man who is of a cross suspitious inquisitive and murmuring nature accusing the Gods of Partiality saying They prefer or cast out whom they please not as Man deserves Thus they judg of the Gods by their own Passions but the Gods by Variation are pleased to continue the World and by Contradiction to govern it by Sympathy delight it for Delight lives not altogether in the power of Chance being created in the Essence and Soul of Man for though Chance can present those things with Antipathies or Sympathies to the Senses which present them to the Soul yet it hath not the power to rule it for the Soul is a kind of God in it self to direct and guide those things that are inferior to it to perceive and descry into those things that are far above it to create by Invention and to delight in Contemplations and though it hath not an absolute power over it self yet it is a harmonious and absolute thing in it self and though it is not a God from all Eternity yet it is a kind of Deity to all Eternity for it shall never dye and though the Body hath a relation to it yet no otherwise than the Mansion of Jove hath unto Jove The Body is only the residing-place and the Sensitive Spirits are as the Soul's Angels or Messengers and Intelligencers So the Souls of Men are to the Gods as the Sensitive Spirits to the Soul And will you dislodg the Sensitive Spirits of the Gods by destroying and unbuilding each other's Body by violent Deaths before it be the Gods Pleasure to dissolve that Body and so remove the Soul to a new Mansion And though it is not every Creature that hath that Soul but only Man for Beasts have none nor every Man for most Men are Beasts only the Sensitive Spirits and the Shape may be but not the Soul yet none know when the Soul is out or in but the Gods and not only other Bodies may not know it but the same Body is ignorant thereof The Soul is as invisible to the Sensitive Spirits as the Gods to men for though the Soul knows and hath intelligence by the Sensitive Spirits yet the Sensitive have none from the Soul for as Gods know Men but Men know not Gods so the Soul knoweth the Senses but the Senses know not the Soul Wherefore you must seek all the ways to preserve one another as Temples of the Gods not to destroy and pull them down for whosoever doth so commits Sacriledg against the Gods Wherefore none must dye but those that kill or would kill others Death must be repaid with Death saith Jove and only Death is in the power of Man to call when they please but Life is in the power of the Gods and those that displease the Gods shall have a miserable Life not only in the bodily part which is sensible of pain and may be tormented out of one shape into another and be perpetually dying or killing with all manner of Torments and yet never dye in the

you give Innocency no protection nor let Chastity live undefiled Cruel Fates to spin my Thread of Life to make me up a Web of Misery Accurst Fortune that brake not that Thread with an untimely Death And you unjust Powers to torment poor Virtue making it a sin to free it self for bad I leave to dye I would not live in shame for to dwell bere committing Acts dishonourable although I am forced yet shall I seem a Party guilty and though no outward Accusers yet my Conscience will condemn me But O you Gods of Light Since you regard me not nor will not hear me You Powers of Darkness hearken unto me and wrap me up in your dark Mantles of perpetual Night that no Eye may see me and cast me into black Oblivion where no remembrance is The old Man her Father who was come from the Water-side where he had been for the directing and ordering the building of a new Ship came to her in the midst of her Complaints and asked her What she lacked or If she were sick I would I were said she then might I hope Death would reprieve me But I am worse for I am miserable having Torment like to those of Hell within my Mind My Thoughts are Vultures eating on my Carrion-Infamy or like the restless Stone that cannot get up to the Hill of Peace but rolleth back with fear and sad remembrance Then she told him what she was which he did never know before and what had pass'd since the first of her Misfortunes to that present and how he had ignorantly discovered her Which when he heard he cursed his Tongue for telling how and where he found her Father said she What is past cannot be recalled wherefore I must strive to help my self in what 's to come and since I have been dutiful and you so loving and kind as to save me from the Jaws of Death help me now to protect my Honour convey me hence let me not live here to please his Appetite but cast me to some unknown place where like an Anchoret I may live from all the World and never more to see the face of Man for in that Name all Horror strikes my Senses and makes my Soul like to some furious thing so much affrighted it hath been Her Father said Heaven give you quiet and me aid to help your Designs But you must said he dissemble to compass them wherefore rise and put on a smooth and pleasant face and let your Discourse be so compliant that you may have a free liberty for if a Doubt should cross his Thoughts you may chance to be restrained and kept by force which will break that assistance I may give you Whilst they were thus discoursing the Prince came to them who had not patience to be long from her for her Absence was his Hell and her Presence his Heaven flattering the old Man My Father said he for so I may call you now let me entreat you I may be your Son and she your Daughter since she you thought a Boy is proved a Girl and since Fortune hath brought us so happily to meet let us not despise her Favours but make the best use of them to our advantage Then telling the old Man how that Island might be made a Paradice and in what felicity they might live there if their peevish Humours did not overthrow their Pleasures The old Man seemed to approve of all the Prince said whereupon the Prince took him to be his dear Friend and secret Councellor for the old Man did not omit to give him Counsel concerning the setling and advancing of his new and small Monarchy because he thought in doing so he might the better work out his own Design by taking away those suspitions that otherwise he thought might be had of him Then the Prince bid the old Man to have a care and to order his Maritime Affairs in over-seeing his Ships and Boats built for said he our chief Maintenance will be from the Sea the whilst I will perswade these Men I have here to make this place the Staple and Port of their Prizes and Dwelling Then taking Travelia along with him the old Man and he parted for that time and going to the rest of the Company he perswaded so well with his Rhetorick that they resolved to stay and build them Houses there to live and also Ware-houses to lay their Prizes in and from thence to traffick with them into safe and free places Whereupon every one put himself in order thereunto some cut down Wood others digg'd up Stones some carried Burthens and some builded Thus like Bees some gathered the Honey and Wax whilst others made and wrought the Combs The mean time the old Man made himself busie at the Coast side about Ships and Boats as being the chief Master employed in that Work But oft-times he would go out a fishing in a Fisher-boat all alone bringing several Draughts of Fish and when he thought he should be least mistrusted conveyed Victuals therein and then gave Travelia notice to steal to the Water-side who watching her opportunity when the Prince was busie in surveying and in drawing the Platforms of the City he would have built stole away and as soon as she came her old Father went as if he meant to go a fishing carrying his Nets and the like with him to the Boat his supposed Son busie in helping him and so both being put out to Sea and not gone very far were taken by the Sympathetical Merchants who trafficking into the Kingdom of Amity sold them there to other Merchants who carrying them to the chief City the Queen of that Countrey who was an Absolute Princess in the Rule and Government thereof seeing Travelia who was brought to her as a Rarity took such a liking to him that she received him into her Family as also to attend near her Person wherein he behaved himself so well that he became her Favourite and the old Man was treated very well for his Son's sake In the mean time the Prince was in a sad condition for the loss of his Mistress who searched about all the Island for her but could hear nothing of her until he sent to the Sea-side for the old Man to enquire for her and had answer back That the old Man and the Youth went out a fishing but were not as yet returned Which he no sooner heard but guesled a-right that they were fled away Whereupon he grew so enraged that he lost all Patience swearing tearing stamping as if he had been distracted But when his Fury was abated his Melancholy encreased walking solitary accompanied only with his sad Thoughts casting about which way to leave that hated place for all places seemed so to him where his Mistress was not yet he knew not very well what to do because he had perswaded the rest of the Company to abide there and make it their home and in order thereunto he knew they had taken great pains besides