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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
84
This
belief
was
so
fixt
in
her
mind,
that
it
put
her
into
a
very
Melancholick
humor;
and
then
she
sent
both
for
her
Fly-men
and
Worm-men,
and
declared
to
them
the
cause
of
her
sadness.
'Tis
not
so
much,
said
she,
the
vanishing
of
those
Spirits
that
makes
me
Melancholick,
but
that
I
should
be
the
cause
of
their
miserable
condition,
and
that
those
harmless
Spirits
should,
for
my
sake,
sink
down
into
the
black
and
dark
abyss
of
the
Earth.
The
Worm-men
comforted
the
Empress,
telling
her,
That
the
Earth
was
not
so
horrid
a
Dwelling,
as
she
did
imagine;
for,
said
they,
not
onely
all
Minerals
and
Vegetables,
but
several
sorts
of
Animals
can
witness,
that
the
Earth
is
a
warm,
fruitful,
quiet,
safe,
and
happy
habitation;
and
though
they
want
the
light
of
the
Sun,
yet
are
they
not
in
the
dark,
but
there
is
light
even
within
the
Earth,
by
which
those
Creatures
do
see
that
dwell
therein.
This
relation
setled
her
Majesties
mind
a
little;
but
yet
she
being
desirous
to
know
the
Truth,
where,
and
in
what
condition
those
Spirits
were,
commanded
both
the
Fly-
and
Worm-men
to
use
all
labour
and
industry
to
find
them
out;
whereupon
the
Worm-men
straight
descended
into
the
Earth,
and
the
Fly-men
ascended
into
the
Air.
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