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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

so high lived in the Lower Region and by intermixing together as their Parents did produced more of their Kind But after those productions of these Souls they went to the Planets where they found some of their Climates too cold others too moist others too cold and moist others hot and others hot and moist others hot and dry others cold and dry with which they did not agree being not equally temper'd But yet in every Planet these Souls being fruitful they left many of their Issues called Meteors which are shining-lights like Starrs but being produced from the Mortal temper of the Souls are subject to Mortality for Amorous Thoughts are the Bodily-dregs of Mortality which made these Meteors subject to dye as other Generations being the Mortal Effects of their Immortality otherwise they would be Starrs for whatsoever is Mortal may beget their Like or Kind which other things that are Immortal never do But when these two Souls had travelled above the Planets they became one fix'd Starr as being Eternal and not subject to dye And when they were thus they did produce no more Issues for what Mortality the Body left Those Souls to Earth and Planets did resign Which in a Generation of Meteors shine Fancy's Monarchy in the Land of Poetry IN the Land of Poetry Reason was King a Gallant Prince he was and of a Heroick Spirit a Majestical Presence and of a Sober and Grave Countenance He was tall of Stature and strong of Limbs His Queen was the Lady Wit a Lady of a quick Spirit of a pleasant Conversation amiable Countenance free Behaviour and of a sweet Disposition she was neatly shap'd fair Complexion'd and finely but variously attired This King and Queen loved one another with an extraordinary Affection and lived very happily and peaceably for he governed wisely His Kingdom was large and fully populated well manured and of great Traffick He made profitable Laws set strict Rules and kept good Orders both in the Church and State As for the Church Faith and Zeal were the two Arch-bishops who were sworn to consecrate none but Moral Virtues to preach Good Life and leave all Sects Opinions Superstitions Idolatry and the like Neither were they suffered to make Lectures of Learning because it is always about Controversies puzling Belief with nice Distinctions vain Fantasms and empty Words without Sense The Cathedral Church was the Conscience The two Universities were Study and Practice wherein all the Masculine Youth of the Kingdom were bred As for the State there were Superintendent Officers and Magistrates made of all degrees The Sen ces were the five Ports to this Kingdom the Head and the Heart were the two Magazines There were two Governours made to every Port to Command and Rule Judgment and Understanding always sit at the Ports called the Ears to examine all that enter there having a strict Command from the King to let in no Sound but Harmony no Reports but Truth no Discourses but Rational or Witty and that they should shut the Gates against Flattery Falshood Discord harsh loud Strains Scraping Creaking Squealing Noises Love and Skill were the two Commanders to the Port Eyes who were commanded to let none in but Uniformity Cimmetry Beauty Graceful Motions pleasing Aspects light and well-mixt Colours and to shut the Gates against Deformity or Monstrosity rude or cruel Actions glaring Lights illmix'd Colours false Shadows and Darkness and to set up the light of Dreams when they are shut Also to let no Tears pass through the Eyes but those that have a Pass-port from the Governour of the Heart At the Port of the Nostrils sate Like and Dislike who were commanded to let in none but sweet Smells such as refresh the Brain as the scent of sweet Flowers savoury Herbs Earth new-plough'd new-bak'd Bread also sweet Gums sweet Essences and the like but to shut the Gates of the Nostrils against snuffs of Candles stinking Breaths corrupted Flesh stale Fish old Apples strong Cheese spilt Drink foul Gutters especially the Pump or Sink in a Ship also no Smells of Suet or Grease and from many more stinking Scents which would be too tedious to mention But in case of necessity they were to be allowed or at least commanded to let in some sorts of Stinks as Assafoetida and burnt Feathers to cure the Fits of the Mother Then the two Commanders of the Mouth were Truth and Pleasure one was to govern the Words the other the Taste Pleasure was commanded to let nothing into the Mouth that was either too sharp too bitter too salt or too deliciously sweet Truth was commanded to suffer no Lyes Cursing Slandering Railings Flattering nor Amorous Lascivious Factious Discourses Likewise never to let pass an Oath but to confirm a Truth no Threatning but to terrifie or reclaim the Wicked or Cross-natur'd no Pleading but for Right no Commands but for Good no Praises but for Worth Also to let no Sighs nor Groans pass nor no Professions except they have a Pass-port from the Heart Nor no Promises but when they have a Pass-port from the King which is Reason The two Commanders of Touch were Pain and Pleasure who were commanded to keep out all sharp Colds burning Heats Bruises Pinches Smartings Cuttings Prickings Nippings Pressing Razing and to let in none but nourishing Warmth soft Rubbing gentle Scratching refreshing Colds and the like And upon pain of Death or at least high Displeasure these Rules were to be kept Yet sometimes Bribery corrupted the Commanders The Privy-Council-Chamber was the Breast the Privy-Councellors were Secrecy Constancy Fidelity Unity Truth Justice Fortitude Prudence and Temperance These Privy-Councellors helped the King to manage the Affairs of the Kingdom The Secretaries of State were Intelligence and Dispatch The Treasurer was Memory The Lord Keeper was Remembrance The Mayors of every City were Authority The Constables were Care The Judges were Commutative and Distributive Justice Honesty was the Commander of all the Forces of the Actions and Thoughts The Heroick Actions are the chief Commanders as Captains and Colonels and the like The Common-Soldiers are the ordinary and necessary Actions which are employed in Offensive and Defensive Warrs The Merchants are the Imaginations which traffick and trade all over the World The Inventions are the Handicrafts-men and Labourers The Appetites are the Citizens that are so covetous as to engross all Commodities and the Wealth of the Kingdom and are the most Luxurious People in the Land But as I said the King was a Wise Prince and to divert his Subjects from too serious Studies dull Contemplations and laborious Dictatings he had Masques Plays Pastorals and the like being attended by his Nobles the Sciences and the Gentry of the Kingdom which were the several Languages The Queen by the Muses and Graces The Marriage of Life and Death DEATH went a wooing to Life but her grim and terrible Aspect did so affright Life that she ran away and would by no means hearken unto her Suit Then Death sent Age and

House and Goods on fire Where her rich Furniture did soon expire Then Envy sought all ways to pull her down And tax'd her Land as due unto the Crown And in that Suit great Sums of Money vast Lawyers ingross'd which made those Sums to wast And when those Lawyers got all that she had They cast her Suit as if her Cause was bad By which her Lands she lost then only left Her rich with Beauty but of Lands bereft In which she pleasure took although but poor Of Fortune's Goods of Nature's Giftssh ' had store But when the Gods did see her still content At last they to her Body Sickness sent She patient was her Beauty still did last But when that they their Judgment on that cast Making a Grave to bury Beauty in Which Beauty once did tempt the Saints to sin Because her Face so full of Pock-holes were That none could judg that Beauty once dwelt there Then did she sit and weep turn'd day to Night Asham'd she was to shew her Face the light Time an Ingraver cuts the Seal of Truth And as a Painter draws both age and youth His Colours mix'd with Oyl of Health lays on The plump smooth Youth he pencils thereupon Shadows of Age he placeth with much skill Making the hollow places darkest still But Time is slow and leisure he doth take No price will hasten him his Works to make But accidental Chance who oft doth jarr With aged Time and then some Works doth marr But when her wealth was gon and state was down Then did her Friends and Servants on her frown So far now from professing Slavery As they did use her most uncivilly Would rail against her spightful words throw out Or had she been but guilty would no doubt Betray her life such natures have Mankind That those in Misery no Friends can find For Fortune's Favours only Friendships make But few are Friends only for Virtue 's sake In Fortune's Frowns Man will not only be A Neuter but a deadly Enemy Nay ev'n a Devil to torment the Mind If he no mischief ' gainst the body find But after she had mourn'd Three hundred days Consid'ring Nature's Fortune's various ways She did repent weeping for what was past Imploring Gods to pity her at last Good Gods forgive my Vanity and Pride Let not my Soul with sinful spots be dy'd Let your great Mercies scour those spots off clean That by your Justice no spots may be seen Consider Lord the Works that Nature makes The Matter Motion and the Form she takes The Grounds and Principles on which she builds The Life and Death in all things she distills Is various still in what she doth compose Nothing but wild Inconstancy she shows Nor is it only the substantial part That is compos'd thus by her Curious Art But what we call Immortal as the Soul Doth various passions appetites controul And as all bodies that are young want strength And wait for Time to give them breadth and length So doth the Soul want Understanding too And knows not what is best to think or do Wherefore great Jove I never shall despair Of thy sweet Mercy nor yet Devils fear To punish Ignorance Youth rash ways runs Which Age by long-experienc'd knowledg shuns But Age oft time 's as faulty as Youths be Corrupted with bad Principles we see That length of Time and Custom makes them shew As if in Man they naturally grew But to conclude the time she had to live She heartily unto the Gods did give Though young into a Nunnery she went Her Vows unto the Gods she did present Her Days not being long she soon there dy'd And now her Soul with Angels doth reside For with her Penance Tears and Contrite Spirit She wash'd away her sins and Heav'n did merit The next Tale when you read it will discover The fortunate or the unfortunate Lover A Mock-Tale of the Lord Duke of Newcastle which his Grace was pleased to say out of his great Civility That it would serve for Shadows to set off the rest He loving Truth so well that he was never good at telling Tales A Young and Lusty Cheshire-Lad did move In Venus Sphere and was so fill'd with Love When first he saw a lovely Lass at Chester Whose badg of Christianity was Hester So beautiful and fair she did appear Fresh as the welcome Spring to the New Year And Odoriferous as Flower 's birth As fair as new-born Lillies from the Earth This set the young Man's heart in Love's Flame Fire Struck dumb in Love turn'd all now to admire At last Love found a Tongue which did not fail To burst out violently and thus to rail Cursing now partial Nature that did give More beauty to her than elsewhere doth live Bankrupt in Beauty since her store is gone Mankind condemn'd to foul ones now or none Was Nature lavish or else made the Thest Upon her self since she hath nothing left Of what is handsom so I now do find He enjoys thee enjoys all Womankind For Beauty Favour and what 's height of Pleasure Since thou art Nature's Store-house her Treasure O love me then since all my hopes are crost If I enjoy you not I 'm wholly lost For what I can call Happiness nay worse My Life then to me 's but a fatal Curse But if you yeeld I 'le bless Dame Nature's Gift And Bounty to you since 't was all her drist To make her Master-piece in you and vex The envious Females angring all your Sex And if her bounty to you you give me I shall be Deifi'd in love by thee Here on my knees I beg thy Love thus low Until I have it my Knees here shall grow Therefore be kind She answer'd with sweet Eyes Which spoke not speaking for to bid him rise And then discours'd with modest blushes so As that did tell him all her heart did know Trembling and shaking with Love's Palsi'd Tung With broken Sighs and half Words it was strung Love's Comma's Full-Points and Parenthesis And this Love's Rhetorick Oratory is With Love's pale-difficulty then afraid She softly said O I 'm a tender Maid And never heard such language you 'l deceive me And now I wish I could wish you would leave me Why d' ye inchant a silly Maid alas I never saw such beauty in my Glass And yet I 've heard of flatt'ring Glasses too But nothing flatters like you Men that woo Your Tongue 's Love's Conjuration without doubt Circles me here in Love cannot get out By your Love 's Magick whispering Then did yield And said You 've conquer'd and have won the field Such Joy between them such new Passions rais'd Which made the God of Love himself amaz'd Since by no Tongue or Pen can be exprest Cupid and Hymen ne're hop'd such a Feast But see the Fate of business which doth move So cross For Business hath no sense of Love O thou dull Bus'ness Yet some States-men pry Into Love's Secrets with a glancing Eye But here

and the two Ladies stood and after all the Judges were set the young Lady thus spake Grave Fathers and most Equal Judges I Come here to plead for Right undeck'd with Eloquence but Truth needs no Rhetorick so that my Cause will justifie it self But if my Cause were foul it were not pencil'd words could make it seem so fair as to delude your understanding Eyes Besides your Justice is so wise as to fortisie her Forts with Fortitude to fill her Magazine with Temperance to victual it with Patience to set Centinels of Prudence that Falshood might not surprise it nor Bribery corrupt it nor Fear starve it nor Pity undermine it nor Partiality blow it up so that all all right Causes here are safe and secured from their Enemies Injury and Wrong Wherefore most Reverend Fathers if you will but hear my Cause you cannot but grant my Suit Whereupon the Judges bid her declare her Cause I was married to this Prince 't is true I was but young in years when I did knit that Wedlock-knot and though a Child yet since my Vows were holy which I made by Virtue and Religion I am bound to seal that Sacred Bond with Constancy now I am come to years of knowing good from evil I am not only bound most Pious Judges to keep my Vow in being chastly his as long as he shall live but to require him by the Law as a Right of laberitance belonging to me and only me so long as I shall live without a Sharer or Co-partner so that this Lady who lays a Claim and challenges him as being hers can have no right to him and therefore no Law can plead for her for should you cast aside your Canon Law most Pious Judges and judg it by the Common-Law my Suit must needs be granted if Justice deals rightly and gives to Truth her own for should an Heir young before he comes to years run on the Lenders score though the Lender had no Law to plead against Nonage yet if his nature be so just to seal the Bonds he made in Non-age when he comes to full years he makes his former Act good and fixes the Law to a just Grant giving no room for Cozenage to play a part nor Falshood to appear The like is my Cause most Grave Fathers for my Friends chose me a Husband made a Bond of Matrimony sealed it with the Ceremony of the Church only they wanted my years of Consent which I give now freely and heartily The Judges asked What says the Duke Then the Duke thus spake I Confess I was contracted to this Lady by all the Sacred and most binding Ceremonies of the Church but not with a free consent of Mind for being forced by the Duty to my Father who did not only command but threatned me with his Curse he being then upon his Death-bed and I being afraid of a dying-Father's Curses yeelded to those Actions which my Affections and free-will renounced and after my Father was dead placing my Affections upon another Lady married her thinking my self not liable to the former Contract by reason the Lady was but Six years of age whose Non-age I thought was a warrantable Cancel from the Engagement Most Upright Judges MY Non-age is not a sufficient Reason to set him free he being then of full Age nor can his fear of offending his Parents or his loving-Duty towards them be a Casting-Plea against me his Duty will not discharge his Perjury nor his Fear could be no warrant to do a Wrong And if a Fool by Promise binds his Life to Inconveniences the Laws that Wise Men have made must force him to keep it And if a Knave by private and self ends doth make a Promise Just Laws must make him keep it If a Coward makes a Promise through distracted Fear Laws that carry more Terrors than the broken Promise Profit will make him keep it A Wise Just Generous Spirit will make no Promise but what he can and durst and will perform But say a Promise should pass through an ignorant Zeal and seeming Good yet a right Honourable and Noble Mind will stick so fast to its Engagements that nothing shall hew them asunder for a Promise must neither be broken upon Suspition nor false Construction nor upon enticing Perswasions nor threatning Ruins but it must be maintained with Life and kept by Death unless the Promise carry more malignity in the keeping than the breaking of it I say not this to condemn the Duke though I cannot applaud his second Action concerning Marriage I know he is too Noble to cancel that Bond his Conscience sealed before high Heaven where Angels stood as Witnesses Nor can he make another Contract until he is free from me so that his Vows to his Lady were rather Complemental and Love's Feignings than really true or so Authentical as to last He built Affections on a wrong Foundation or rather Castles in the Air as Lovers use to do which vanish soon away for where Right is not Truth cannot be Wherefore she can claim no lawful Marriage unless he were a Free-man not bound before and he cannot be free unless he hath my Consent which I will never give Then the other Lady spake Noble Judges THIS Crafty Flattering Dissembling Child lays a Claim to my Husband who no way deserves him she being of a low Birth and of too mean a Breeding to be his Wife Neither hath she any right to him in the Law she being too young to make a free Choice and to give a free Consent Besides he doth disavow the Act by confessing the disagreeing thereto in his Mind and if she was to give a Lawful Consent and his Consent was seeming not real as being forced it could not be a firm Contract Wherefore I beseech you cast her Suit from the Barr since it is of no validity Just Judges answered she WHAT though he secretly disliked of that Act be made Yet Human Justice sentences not the Thoughts but Acts Wherefore those Words that plead his Thoughts ought to be waved as useless and from the Barr of Justice cast aside And now most Upright Judges I must entreat your Favour and your Leave to answer this Lady whose Passions have flung Disgraces on me which I without the breach of Incivility may throw them off with scorn if you allow me so to do The Judges said We shall not countenance any Disgrace unless we knew it were a punishment for Crimes Wherefore speak freely Well then to answer this Lady who says That I am meanly born 'T is true I came not from Nobility but I can draw a Line of Pedigree Five hundred years in length from the Root of Merit from whence Gentility doth spring This Honour cannot be degraded by the Displeasure of Princes it holds not in Fee-simple from the Crown for Time is the Patron of Gentility and the older it groweth the more beautiful it appears and having such a Father and Mother as Merit and Time Gentry is

a fit and equal Match for any were they the Rulers of the whole World And whereas she says Most Patient Judges I am a false Dissembling Child I answer As to my Childhood it is true I am young and unexperienced a Child in Understanding as in years but to be young I hope is no Crime but if it be 't was made by Nature not by me And for Dissembling I have not had time enough to practice much Decev my Youth will witness for me It is an Art not an In-bred Nature and must be studied with Pains and watch'd with Observation before any can be Masters thereof And I hope this Assembly is so just as not to impute my Innocent Simplicity to a Subtil Crafty or a Deceiving Glass to show the Mind 's false Face making that fair which in it self is foul And whereas she says I have been meanly bred 't is true Honoured Judges I have been humbly bred taught to obey Superiors and to reverence old Age to receive Reproofs with thanks to listen to wise Instructions to learn honest Principles to Huswife Time making use of every minute to be thrifty of my Words to be careful of my Actions to be modest in my Behaviour to be chast in my Thoughts to be pious in my Devotions to be charitable to the Distressed to be courteous to Inferiors and to be civil to Strangers for the truth is I was not bred with splendid Vanities nor learnt the Pomp and Pride of Courts I am ignorant of their Factions Envies and Back-bitings I know not the sound of their stattering Tongues I am unacquainted with their smiling Faces I have not Wit to perceive their false Hearts my Judgment is too young and too weak to fathom their deep and dangerous Designs Neither have I lived so long in populous Cities as to share of their Luxuriousness I never have frequented their private nor publick Meetings nor turned the Day into Night by Disorders I can play at none of their Games nor can I tread their Measures But I was bred a private Countrey-Life where the Crowing of the Cocks served as Waights of the Town and the Bleating of the Sheep and Lowing of the Cows are the Minstrels we dance after and the Singing of the Birds are the Harmonious Notes by which we set our Innocent Thoughts playing upon the Heart-strings of Content where Nature there presents us a Masque with various Scenes of the several Seasons of the Year But neither low Birth nor mean Breeding nor bad Qualities nay were I as Wicked as I am Young yet it will not take away the Truth of my Cause nor the Justness of my Plea Wherefore I desire you to give my Suit a patient Trial and not to cast me from the Barr as she desires for I hope you will not cast out my Suit by unjust Partiality nor mistake the right Measure and so cut the Truth of my Cause too short but I beseech you to give it length by your serious Considerations and make it fit by your just Favour for though Truth it self goeth naked yet her Servants must be clothed with Right and dress'd by Propriety or they will dye with the Cold of Usurpation and then be flung into the Ditch of Sorrow there to be eaten up with the Ravens of Scorn having no Burial of Respect nor Tomb of Tranquility nor Pyramids of Felicity which your Justice may raise as high as Heaven when your Injustice may cast them as low as Hell Thus you become to Truth Gods or Devils Madam said the Judges to the young Lady The Justice of your Cause judges it self for the severest Judg or strictest Rules in Law can admit of no Debate And truly Madam it is happy for us that sit upon the Bench that your Cause is so clear and good otherwise your Beauty and your Wit might have proved Bribes to our Vote But yet there will be a Fine on the Duke for the breach of the Laws With that the Duke spake Most Careful Learned and Just Judges and Fathers of the Common-wealth I Confess my Fault and yeeld my self a Prisoner to Justice which may either use Punishment or Mercy But had I known the Laws of Custom Religion or Honour then as well as I do now I had not run so fast nor plunged my self so deep in the foul ways of Error But wild Youth surrounded with Ease and fed with Plenty born up with Freedom and led by Self will sought Pleasure more than Virtue and Experience hath learn'd me stricter Rules and nobler Principles insomuch as the reflection of my former Actions clouds all my future Happiness wounds my Conscience and torments my Life But I shall submit to what your wise Judgments shall think fit My Lord answered the Judges Your Grace being a great Peer of the Realm we are not to condemn you to any Fine it must be the King only we judg the Lady to be your lawful Wife and forbid you the Company of the other The Duke said I shall willingly submit With that the young Lady spake Heaven said she send you just Rewards for your upright Actions But I desire this Assembly to excuse the Faults of the Duke in this since he was forced by Tyrant Love to run in uncouth ways and do not wound him with sharp Censures For Where is he or she though ne're so cold But sometimes Love doth take and fast in Fetters hold The Vice-Roy being by said to the other Lady Madam Since the Law hath given away your Husband I will supply his Place if you think me so worthy with whom perchance you may be more happy than you were with him I accept of your Love said she and make no question but Fortune hath favoured me in the Change With that the Court rose and much Rejoicings there were of all sides The Ambitious TRAITOR THERE was a Noble-man in Fairy-Land which was in great favour with King Oberon but the Favour of the King made him so proud and haughty that he sought to usurp the Crown to himself His Design was To kill the King and then to marry Queen Mabb and to bring his Evil Designs to pass he feasted the Nobility devised sports for the Commonalty presented the old Ladies with Gifts flattered the young ones in praising their Beauties made Balls Plays Masques to entertain them bribed the Courtiers corrupted the Soldiers with Promises of Donatives fired the Youth with Thoughts of Chivalry and expectations of Honours and was industrious to present the Petitions of Suitors and to follow the Causes of the Distressed and to plead for his Clients and all to get a popular esteem and love But there is none so wise and crafty that can keep out Envy from searching into their ways with the Eyes of Spight His Popular Applause begot in him private Enemies which advertised the King to look to himself and to cut off his growing-Power not out of Loyalty to the King but out of hate to the Favourite and

by Nature are bred therein or root out the Vices the World has sown thereon for if we do not leave out the World the Flesh and the Devil in our humble Petitions and earnest Desires we offer to Heaven it may be said we rather talk than pray for it is not bended knees or a sad countenance can make our Prayers authentical or effectual nor words nor groans nor sighs nor tears that can pierce Heaven but a zealous Flame raised from a holy Fire kindled by a spark of Grace in a devout heart which fills the soul with admiration and astonishment at Jove's incomprehensible Deity for nothing can enter Heaven but Purity and Truth all the gross and drossie parts fall back with greater force upon our Lives and instead of Blessings prove Curses to us and the Ignorant not conceiving the difference may be lost for want of instruction therein being most commonly taught the varieties of Opinions the Sayings and Sentences of the Fathers of the Church or exclaimed against natural Imperfections or threatned for slight Vanities and many by giving warning against Vices raises those that have been dead and buried with former Ages unaccustomed and utterly unknown to the present Auditory But one good Prayer that is directly sent to Heaven buries a multitude of Errors and Imperfections and blots out many a Sin I speak not this to tax any one here for I believe you are all Holy Men and Reverend and Grave Fathers of the Church who are blessed Messengers and Eloquent Orators for Heaven the true Guides to Souls and the Example of a good Life Then they asked How they ought to pray Whereupon in a Zealous Passion thus she said O Gods O Gods Mankind is much too blame He commits faults when be but names his Name This Name saith she that Deity hath none His Works sussicient are to make him known His wondrous Glory is so great how dare Man similize but to himself compare Or how durst Men their Tongues or Lips to move In argument his mighty Power to prove As if Men's Words his Power could circle in Or trace his ways from whence he did begin His mighty Works to make or to what end As proudly placing Man to be his Friend Yet poor proud ign'rant Man knows not the cause Of any Creature made much less his Laws Man's knowledg so obscure not so much light As to perceive the glimmering of his Might Strive not this Deity to comprehend He no beginning had nor can have end Nor can Mankind his Will or Pleasure know It strives to draw Him to expression low Let Words desist let 's strive our Souls to raise Let our Astonishments be Glory's praise Let trembling thoughts of fear as prayers be sent And not leight words which are by Men invent Let Tongues be silent Adoration pray And Love and Justice lead us the right way The Sixth sort that visited her were Judges who asked her about Justice I will divide Justice said she into three parts Human Moral and Natural These three into six Punishing Deciding Distributing Censuring Trafficking and Suffering In Punishing Justice there is Divine Piety and Human Pity and if a Judg leave out those two it is no more Justice but Cruelty for Temporal Judges ought to have as great a care of the Soul of the accused as of executing Justice on the Body For if a Judg threaten terribly a timorous nature or cruelly torture a tender Body the fear of Pain may make them be lye forswear or falsly accuse themselves which endangers the Soul not only by their Oaths Lyes and false Accusations but by self-murther for those that falsly accuse themselves commit wilful-murther As for the punishing of the Body they ought not to be condemned before they can positively prove them Criminals for Probabilities although they appear plain yet are often-times deceitful The second is Dividual Justice or Common Justice in deciding of Causes and what is Right and Truth as put the case two Men claim equal right to one piece of ground which piece of ground but one can have right to The Judg not knowing how to distinguish the truth from the falshood divides the ground giving one half to the one and the other half to the other which is unjust for he that hath right to all hath as much injustice done unto him in that part that is given from him as if he had lost all the whole nay one grain of dust wrongfully taken or given away makes the injustice the same for it is not the weight of the Cause makes Justice more or less but the truth of the Cause But Judges will say It is not to be helped by reason Truth lyes many times so obscure that neither Industry Ingenuity Subtilty long Experience nor solid Judgment can find it out So they think that by dividing they do cut off some Branches of Injustice although the Root will lye obscurely do what they can But I say Injustice hath no Branches but is all Root The last Act of Justice is in distributing Reward according to Worth or Merit wherein there may be as much Injustice to deal beyond or above Worth or Merit as to fall short of Worth and Merit and though the Actions are the visible Objects of Merit yet Merit is often-times buried for want of opportunity and many times good Fortune is mistaken and taken for Merit Now it is as great Injustice to give Rewards to Fortune as unfortunate for Merit not to be made known by some act for though Merit dwells in the actions yet it was born in the Soul and bred in the Thoughts The fourth is Censuring-Justice which lives meerly in Opinion for Who knows the heart of another since no Man can give a true or a right account of his own And though Misdemeanors ought to be punished in a Commonwealth lest they should cause the ruin thereof yet to judg the heart and condemn it for faults by the Actions Words or Countenance were very unjust for many evil Actions are done through a good Intention for the Design might be honest though the Effect prove evil nay the Design or Intention may not only be morally honest but divinely pious yet the Effect prove wicked Likewise many evil actions are produced by Chance or Misfortune and it were an injustice to accuse the heart of dishonesty for Fortune's malice and Chance's carelesness Again there are many evil actions produced from some infirmity of Nature or from the ignorance of Practice or want of Experience not from a dishonest nature and though Infirmities ought to be corrected by Admonitions and Ignorance rectified by Instruction yet it were an injustice to condemn Honesty for Infirmities Faults or ignorant Errors Also for Words although there is an old saying The Mouth speaketh what the Heart thinketh yet Antiquity cannot verifie it for a truth but most commonly the Tongue runs by rote and custom without the consent of the Heart or knowledg of the Thoughts for the Tongue doth