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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
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Lastly,
They
shewed
the
Empress
a
Flea,
and
a
Lowse;
which
Creatures
through
the
Microscope
appear'd
so
terrible
to
her
sight,
that
they
had
almost
put
her
into
a
swoon;
the
description
of
all
their
parts
would
be
very
tedious
to
relate,
and
therefore
I'le
forbear
it
at
this
present.
The
Empress,
after
the
view
of
those
strangely-shaped
Creatures,
pitied
much
those
that
are
molested
with
them,
especially
poor
Beggars,
which
although
they
have
nothing
to
live
on
themselves,
are
yet
necessitated
to
maintain
and
feed
of
their
own
flesh
and
blood,
a
company
of
such
terrible
Creatures
called
Lice;
who,
instead
of
thanks,
do
reward
them
with
pains,
and
torment
them
for
giving
them
nourishment
and
food.
But
after
the
Empress
had
seen
the
shapes
of
these
monstrous
Creatures,
she
desir'd
to
know,
Whether
their
Microscopes
could
hinder
their
biting,
or
at
least
shew
some
means
how
to
avoid
them?
To
which
they
answered,
That
such
Arts
were
mechanical
and
below
the
noble
study
of
Microscopical
observations.
Then
the
Empress
asked
them,
Whether
they
had
not
such
sorts
of
Glasses
that
could
enlarge
and
magnifie
the
shapes
of
great
Bodies
as
well
as
they
had
done
of
little
ones?
Whereupon
they
took
one
of
their
best
and
largest
Microscopes,
and
endeavoured
to
view
a
Whale
thorow
it;
but
alas!
the
shape
of
the
Whale
was
so
big,
that
its
Circumference
went
beyond
the
magnifying
quality
of
the
Glass;
whether
the
error
proceeded
from
the
Glass,
or
from
a
wrong
position
of
the
Whale
against
the
reflection
of
light,
I
cannot
certainly
tell.
The
Empress
seeing
the
insufficiency
of
those
Magnifying-Glasses,
that
they
were
not
able
to
enlarge
all
sorts
of
Objects,
asked
the
Bear-men,
whether
they
could
not
make
Glasses
of
a
contrary
nature
to
those
they
had
shewed
her,
to
wit,
such
as
instead
of
enlarging
or
magnifying
the
shape
or
figure
of
an
Object,
could
contract
it
beneath
its
natural
proportion:
Which,
in
obedience
to
her
Majesties
Commands,
they
did;
and
viewing
through
one
of
the
best
of
them,
a
huge
and
mighty
Whale
appear'd
no
bigger
then
a
Sprat;
nay,
through
some
no
bigger
then
a
Vinegar-Eele;
and
through
their
ordinary
ones,
an
Elephant
seemed
no
bigger
then
a
Flea;
a
Camel
no
bigger
then
a
Lowse;
and
an
Ostrich
no
bigger
then
a
Mite.
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