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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
131
Upon
this
Declaration
of
the
Empress,
when
both
the
General,
and
all
the
Commanders
in
their
several
Ships,
had
return'd
their
humble
and
hearty
Thanks
to
Her
Majesty
for
so
great
a
favour
to
them,
she
took
her
leave,
and
departed
to
her
own
Ships.
But,
good
Lord!
what
several
Opinions
and
Judgments
did
this
produce
in
the
minds
of
her
Country-men!
some
said
she
was
an
Angel;
others,
she
was
a
sorceress;
some
believed
her
a
Goddess;
others
said
the
Devil
deluded
them
in
the
shape
of
a
fine
Lady.
The
morning
after,
when
the
Navies
were
to
fight,
the
Empress
appear'd
upon
the
face
of
the
Waters,
dress'd
in
her
Imperial
Robes,
which
were
all
of
Diamonds
and
Carbuncles;
in
one
hand
she
held
a
Buckler,
made
of
one
intire
Carbuncle;
and
in
the
other
hand
a
Spear
of
one
intire
Diamond;
on
her
head
she
had
a
Cap
of
Diamonds,
and
just
upon
the
top
of
the
Crown,
was
a
Starr
made
of
the
Starr-stone,
mentioned
heretofore;
and
a
Half-Moon
made
of
the
same
Stone,
was
placed
on
her
forehead;
all
her
other
Garments
were
of
several
sorts
of
precious
Jewels;
and
having
given
her
Fish-men
directions
how
to
destroy
the
Enemies
of
her
Native
Country,
she
proceeded
to
effect
her
design.
The
Fish-men
were
to
carry
the
Fire-stones
in
cases
of
Diamonds
(for
the
Diamonds
in
the
Blazing-World,
are
in
splendor
so
far
beyond
the
Diamonds
of
this
World,
as
Peble-stones
are
to
the
best
sort
of
this
Worlds
Diamonds)
and
to
uncase
or
uncover
those
Fire-stones
no
sooner
but
when
they
were
just
under
the
Enemis
Ships,
or
close
at
their
sides,
and
then
to
wet
them,
and
set
their
Ships
on
fire;
which
was
no
sooner
done,
but
all
the
Enemie's
Fleet
was
of
a
Flaming
fire;
and
coming
to
the
place
where
the
Powder
was,
it
streight
blew
them
up;
so
that
all
the
several
Navies
of
the
Enemies,
were
destroyed
in
a
short
time:
which
when
her
Countrymen
did
see,
they
all
cried
out
with
one
voice,
That
she
was
an
Angel
sent
from
God
to
deliver
them
out
of
the
hands
of
their
Enemies:
Neither
would
she
return
into
the
Blazing-World,
until
she
had
forced
all
the
rest
of
the
World
to
submit
to
that
same
Nation.
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