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After this, both the Souls went to the Court, where
all the Royal Family was together, attended by the
chief of the Nobles of their Dominions, which made
a very magnificent show; and when the soul of the
Emperess viewed the King and Queen, she seemed to
be in amaze, which the Duchess's soul perceiving, asked
the Emperess how she liked the King, the Queen, and
all the Royal Race? She answered, that in all the
Monarchs she had seen in that World, she had not
found so much Majesty and affability mixt so exactly
together, that none did overshadow or eclipse the other;
and as for the Queen, she said, that Vertue sate Triumphant
in her face, and Piety was dwelling in her
heart, and that all the Royal Family seem'd to be endued
with a Divine splendor: but when she had heard
the King discourse, she believ'd, that Mercury and Apollo
had been his Celestial instructors; and my dear Lord
and Husband, added the Duchess, has been his Earthly
Governour. But after some short stay in the Court,
the Duchess's soul grew very Melancholy; the Emperess
asking the cause of her sadness? She told her, that
she had an extreme desire to converse with the soul of
her noble Lord and dear Husband, and that she was
impatient of a longer stay. The Emperess desired
the Duchess to have but patience so long, until the
King, the Queen, and the Royal Family were retired,
and then she would bear her company to her Lord
and Husbands Soul, who at that time lived in the
Country some 112 miles off; which she did: and thus
these two souls went towards those parts of the Kingdom
where the Duke of Newcastle was.
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| And if any should like the world I have made,
and be willing to be my subjects, they may imagine themselves such, and they are such—I mean
in their minds, fancies or imaginations. But if they cannot endure to be subjects, they may
create worlds of their own and govern themselves as they please.
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| © 2022 by Sarah Reitmeier, except text from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World, published 1666 by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.
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