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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Of the Subtilty of Motion.
Could we the several Motions of Life know,The subtile windings, and the ways they go,
We should of unknown things dispute no more,
How they be done, but the great God adore.
But we with Ignorance about do run,
To know the Ends, and how they first begun,
Spending that Life which God in us did raise
To Worship him, and in his Works to praise,
With fruitless, vain, impossible pursutes,
In Schools, Lectures, and Quarrelling disputes;
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But proud, as petty Gods, our selves do take.
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