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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53061	Poems, and fancies written by the Right Honourable, the Lady Margaret Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1653 (1653)	Wing N869; ESTC R17512	154,101	257

Tongues makes me ignorant of the Opinions and Discourses in former times wherefore I may be absurd and crre grossely I cannot say I have not heard of Atomes and Figures and Motion and Matter but not throughly reason'd on but if I do erre it is no great matter for my Discourse of them is not to be accounted Authentick so if there be any thing worthy of noting it is a good Chance if not there is no harm done nor time lost For I had nothing to do when I wrot it and I suppose those have nothing or little else to do that read it And the Reason why I write it in Verse is because I thought Errours might better passe there then in Prose since Poets write most Fiction and Fiction is not given for Truth but Pastime and I feare my Atomes will be as small Pastime as themselves for nothing can be lesse then an Atome But my desire that they should please the Readers is as big as the World they make and my Feares are of the same bulk yet my Hopes fall to a single Atome agen and so shall I remaine an unsettled Atome or a confus'd heape till I heare my Censure If I be prais'd it fixes them but if I am condemn'd I shall be Annihilated to nothing but my Ambition is such as I would either be a World or nothing I desire all that are not quick in apprehending or will not trouble themselves with such small things as Atomes to skip this part of my Book and view the other for feare these may seem tedious yet the Subject is light and the Chapters short Perchance the other may please better if not the second the third if not the third the fourth if not the fourth the sifth and if they cannot please for lack of Wit they may please in Variety for most Palates are greedy after Change And though they are not of the choicest Meates yet there is none dangerous neither is there so much of particular Meat as any can feare a Surfet but the better pleas'd you are the better Welcome I wish heartily my Braine had been Richer to make you a fine Entertainment truly I should have spar'd no Cost neither have I spar'd any Paines for my Thoughts have been very busily imployed these eight or nine Months when they have not been taken away by Wordly Cares and Trouble which I confesse hath been a great hinderance to this Work Yet have they lat up late and risen earely running about untill they have been in a fiery heat so as their Service hath not been wanton nor their Industry slack What is amisse excuse it as a Fault of too much Care for there may be 〈◊〉 committed with being over-busie as soon as for want of Diligence But those that are poore have nothing but their labour to bestow and though I cannot serve you on Agget Tables and Persian Carpets with Golden Dishes and Chrystall Glasses nor feast you with Ambrosia and Nectar yet perchance my Rye Loafe and new Butter may tast more savoury then those that are sweet and delicious If you dislike and rise to go away Pray do not Scoff and tell what I did say But if you do the matter is not great For t is but foolish words you can repeat Pray do not censure all you do not know But let my Atomes to the Learned go If you judge and understand not you may take For Non-sense that which learning Sense will make But I may say as Some have said before I 'm not bound to setch you Wit from Natures Store TO THE READER READER IF any do read this Book of mine pray be not too severe in your Censures For first I have no Children to imploy my Care and Attendance on And my Lords Estate being taken away had nothing for Huswifery or thristy Industry to imploy my selfe in having no Stock to work on For Housewifery is a discreet Management and ordering all in Private and Household Affaires seeing nothing spoil'd or Prosusely spent that every thing has its proper Place and every Servant his proper Work and every Work to be done in its proper Time to be Neat and Cleanly to have their House quiet from all disturbing Noise But Thriftiness is something stricter for good Housewifery may be used in great Expenses but Thriftiness signifies a Saving or a getting as to increase their Stock or Estate For Thrift weighs and measures out all Expence It is just as in Poetry for good Husbandry in Poetry is when there is great store of Fancy well order'd not onely in fine Language but proper Phrases and significant Words And Thrift in Poetry is when there is but little Fancy which is not onely spun to the last Thread but the Thread is drawne so 〈◊〉 as it is scarce perceived But I have nothing to spin or order so as I become Idle I cannot say in mine owne House because I have none but what my Mind is lodg'd in Thirdly you are to spare your severe Censures I having not so many yeares of Experience as will make me a Garland to Crowne my Head onely I have had so much time as to gather a little Posie to stick upon my Breast Lastly the time I have been writing them hathnot been very long but since I came into England being eight Yeares out and nine Months in and of these nine Months onely some Houres in the Day or rather in the Night For my Rest being broke with discontented Thoughts because I was from my Lord and Husband knowing him to be in great Wants and my selfe in the same Condition to divert them I strove to turne the Stream yet shunning the muddy and foule waies of Vice I went to the Well of Helicon and by the Wells side I have sat and wrote this Worke. It is not Excellent nor Rare but plaine yet it is harmlesse modest and honest True it may taxe my 〈◊〉 being so fond of my Book as to make it as if it were my Child and striving to shew her to the World in hopes Some may like her although no Beauty to Admire yet may praise her Behaviour as not being wanton nor rude Wherefore I hope you will not put her out of Countenance which she is very apt to being of bashfull Nature and as ready to shed Repentant Teares if she think she hath committed a Fault wherefore pity her Youth and tender Growth and rather taxe the Parents Indiscretion then the Childs Innocency But my Book coming out in this Iron age I feare I shall sind hard Hearts yet I had rather she should find Cruelty then Scorne and that my book should be torn rather then laught at for there is no such regret in Nature as Contempt but I am resolv'd to set it at all Hazards If Fortune plaies Aums Ace I am gon if size Cinque I shall win a Reputation of Fancy and if I loose I loose but the Opinion of Wit and where the Gaine will be more then the Losse who