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The morning after, when the Navies were to fight,
the Emperess 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 Star made of the Star-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 Enemies 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 Enemies
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 that World to submit to that same Nation.
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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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| © 2023 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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