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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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An Epistle to my Musefull Thoughts.

Thoughts , trouble not the Soule with falling out,
Siding in Factions, with Feare, Hope and Doubt.

But with the Muses dance in measur'd feet,
Taking out all the Fancies as you meet.
Some Fancies are like wilde, and Toyish Girles,
And some are sober, grave; others are Churles.
Let those that sober, sad, a Pavin measure,
Corantoes are the lighter Fancies pleasure.
Let Churlish Fancies dance with crabbed Feet,
In Numbers odd, not even, smooth, nor sweet.