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Philosophicall fancies

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish (1624?-1674)

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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.

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.