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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
113
Noble
Friends,
I
think
it
fit,
by
your
leave,
to
answer
Lady
Fortune
in
the
behalf
of
my
Noble
Lord
and
Husband,
since
he
is
not
here
himself;
and
since
you
have
heard
her
complaint
concerning
the
choice
my
Lord
made
of
his
Friends,
and
the
neglect
and
disrespect
he
seemed
to
cast
upon
her;
give
me
leave
to
answer,
that,
first
concerning
the
Choice
of
his
Friends,
He
has
proved
himself
a
wise
man
in
it;
and
as
for
the
disrespect
and
rudeness
her
Ladiship
accuses
him
of,
I
dare
say
he
is
so
much
a
Gentleman,
that
I
am
confident
he
would
never
slight,
scorn
or
disrespect
any
of
the
Female
Sex
in
all
his
life
time;
but
was
such
a
servant
and
Champion
for
them,
that
he
ventured
Life
and
Estate
in
their
service;
but
being
of
an
honest,
as
well
as
an
honourable
Nature,
he
could
not
trust
Fortune
with
that
which
he
preferred
above
his
life,
which
was
his
Reputation,
by
reason
Fortune
did
not
side
with
those
that
were
honest
and
honourable,
but
renounced
them;
and
since
he
could
not
be
of
both
sides,
he
chose
to
be
of
that
which
was
agreeable
both
to
his
Conscience,
Nature
and
Education;
for
which
choice
Fortune
did
not
onely
declare
her
self
his
open
Enemy,
but
fought
with
him
in
several
Battels;
nay,
many
times,
hand
to
hand;
at
last,
she
being
a
Powerful
Princess,
and
as
some
believe,
a
Deity,
overcame
him,
and
cast
him
into
a
Banishment,
where
she
kept
him
in
great
misery,
ruined
his
Estate,
and
took
away
from
him
most
of
his
Friends;
nay,
even
when
she
favoured
many
that
were
against
her,
she
still
frowned
on
him;
all
which
he
endured
with
the
greatest
patience,
and
with
that
respect
to
Lady
Fortune,
that
he
did
never
in
the
least
endeavour
to
disoblige
any
of
her
Favourites,
but
was
onely
sorry
that
he,
an
honest
man,
could
find
no
favor
in
her
Court;
and
since
he
did
never
injure
any
of
those
she
favoured,
he
neither
was
an
enemy
to
her
Ladiship,
but
gave
her
always
that
respect
and
worship
which
belonged
to
her
power
and
dignity,
and
is
still
ready
at
any
time
honestly
and
prudently
to
serve
her;
he
onely
begs,
her
Ladiship
would
be
his
friend
for
the
future,
as
she
hath
been
his
enemy
in
times
past.
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