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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
123
You
speak
Reason,
said
the
Emperor,
and
I
wish
with
all
my
Soul
I
could
advise
any
manner
or
way,
that
you
might
be
able
to
assist
it;
but
you
having
told
me
of
your
dear
Platonick
Friend
the
Duchess
of
Newcastle
and
of
her
good
and
profitable
Counsels,
I
would
desire
you
to
send
for
her
Soul,
and
conferr
with
her
about
this
business.
The
Empress
was
very
glad
of
this
motion
of
the
Emperor,
and
immediately
sent
for
the
Soul
of
the
said
Duchess,
which
in
a
minute
waited
on
her
Majesty.
Then
the
Empress
declared
to
her
the
grievance
and
sadness
of
her
mind,
and
how
much
she
was
troubled
and
afflicted
at
the
News
brought
her
by
the
Immaterial
Spirits,
desiring
the
Duchess,
if
possible,
to
assist
her
with
the
best
Counsels
she
could,
that
she
might
shew
the
greatness
of
her
love
and
affection
which
she
bore
to
her
Native
Countrey.
Whereupon
the
Duchess
promised
her
Majesty
to
do
what
lay
in
her
power;
and
since
it
was
a
business
of
great
Importance,
she
desired
some
time
to
consider
of
it;
for,
said
she,
Great
Affairs
require
deep
Considerations;
which
the
Empress
willingly
allowed
her.
And
after
the
Duchess
had
considered
some
little
time,
she
desired
the
Empress
to
send
some
of
her
Syrens
or
Mear
men,
to
see
what
passages
they
could
find
out
of
the
Blazing-World,
into
the
World
she
came
from;
for,
said
she,
if
there
be
a
passage
for
a
Ship
to
come
out
of
that
World
into
this;
then
certainly
there
may
also
a
Ship
pass
thorow
the
same
passage
out
of
this
World
into
that.
Hereupon
the
Mear-
or
Fish-men
were
sent
out;
who
being
many
in
number,
employ'd
all
their
industry,
and
did
swim
several
ways;
at
last
having
found
out
the
passage,
they
returned
to
the
Empress,
and
told
her,
That
as
their
Blazing
World
had
but
one
Emperor,
one
Government,
one
Religion,
and
one
Language,
so
there
was
but
one
Passage
into
that
World,
which
was
so
little,
that
no
Vessel
bigger
than
a
Packet-Boat
could
go
thorow;
neither
was
that
Passage
always
open,
but
sometimes
quite
frozen
up.
At
which
Relation
both
the
Empress
and
Duchess
seemed
somewhat
troubled,
fearing
that
this
would
perhaps
be
an
hindrance
or
obstruction
to
their
Design.
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