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Philosophicall fancies

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish (1624?-1674)

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A Dedication to FAME.

An Epistle to Time.

A Request to Time.

An Epistle to my BRAINE.

AN EPISTLE To a troubled FANCY.

An Epistle to Contemplation.

An Epistle to my Musefull Thoughts.

Another to the Thoughts.

Reason, and the Thoughts.

No Judge In Nature.

Of Inequalities.

There is no Vacuity.

Of Thin, and Thick Matter.

Similizing the Spirits, or Innate Matter.

Of the Working of severall Motions of Nature.

Of the Motions of the Spirits.

Of Sense and Reason exercised in their different shapes.

Of the flowing of the Spirits.

Of the Motion of the Planets.

The Motion of the Sea.

A Dialogue between the Body, and the Minde.

A Request to my Friends.

[But be it bad, or good, it is my owne]

[Lord how the World delight to tell a Lye!]

[For had my Braine as many Fancies in't]

A Farewell to the MUSES.

[Great God, from Thee all Infinities do flow]

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Of the Motions of the Spirits.

Matter prime knowes not what effects shall be,
Or how their severall motions will agree.

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Because

Nothing can bee made or known absolute out of Infinite and Eternall.

tis Infinite, and so doth move
Eternally, in which nothing can prove.
For Infinite doth not in compasse lye,
Nor hath Eternall Lines to measure by.
Knowledge is there none, to comprehend
That which hath no beginning, nor no end.
Perfect Knowledge comprises all can be,
But nothing can comprise Eternity.
Destiny, and Fates, or what the like we call,
In Infinites they no power have at all.
Nature hath Generosity enough to give
All Figures ease, whilst in that Form they live.
But Motion which innated Matter is,
By running crosse, each severall paines it gives.