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Poems, and phancies

written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, And Excellent Princess The Lady Marchioness of Newcastle [i.e. Margaret Cavendish]. The Second Impression, much Altered and Corrected

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Nature's Oven.

The Brain is like an Oven, Hot and Dry,
Which Bakes all sorts of Fancies low and high;
The Thoughts are Wood, which Motion sets on Fire,
The Tongue a Peel, the Hand which draws, desire;

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By thinking much the Brain too Hot will grow,
And Burn them up, if Cold, Fancies are Dough.