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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

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish (1624?-1674)

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TO THE LADY MARCHIONESS OF NEWCASTLE, On Her Book of POEMS.

TO SIR CHARLS CAVENDISH, My Noble Brother-in-Law.

[But at all other things let Fancy fly]

The Poetresses hasty Resolution.

The Poetresses Petition.

An Apology for Writing so much upon this Book.

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III.

IV.

UPON THE THEAM OF LOVE.

The Brain compar'd to the Elysium.

A Description of a Shepherds, and Shepherdesses Life.

The Allegory of Shepherds is too Mean for Noble Persons.

The House of Shame wherein Dishonour Lives.

The Temple of Honour.

Fame.

The Temple of Fame.

Fame's Library within the Temple.

The Fairy Queen's Kingdome.

The Pastime and Recreation of the Queen of Fairies in Fairy-Land, the Centre of the Earth.

The Pastime of the Queen of Fairies, when she comes upon the Earth out of the Centre.

The Palace of the Fairy Queen.

The Windy Gyants.

Of the Witches in Lapland that make Winds.

Of the Sun and the Earth.

Of a Garden.

Of an Oak in a Grove.

Of a Wrought Carpet, presented to the View of Working Ladies.

A Man to his Mistress.

THE CLASP.

PART V.

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Fame's Library within the Temple.

In Fame's great Library are Records plac'd,
What Act's not there, into Oblivion's cast;
There stand the Shelves of Time, where Books do lye,
Which Books are ty'd by Chains of Destiny.
The Master of this place they Favour call,
Where Care the Door-keeper doth Lock up all,
Yet not so fast, but Brib'ry in doth Steal,
Cousenage, Partiality, and Truth, not reveal;
For Brib'ry doth through all the World take place,
And Offerings, as a Bribe, in Heaven find Grace:

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Then let not Men disdain a Bribe to take,
Since Gods do Blessings give for a Bribe's sake.