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Thus the Emperess did not onely save her Native
Countrey, but made it the absolute Monarchy of
all that World; and both the effects of her Power and
her Beauty did kindle a great desire in all the greatest
Princes to see her; who hearing that she was resolved
to return into her own Blazing-World, they
all entreated the favour, that they might wait on
her Majesty before she went. The Emperess sent
word, That she should be glad to grant their Requests;
but having no other place of reception for
them, she desired that they would be pleased to come
into the open Seas with their Ships, and make a Circle
of a pretty large compass, and then her own Ships
should meet them, and close up the Circle, and she
would present her self to the view of all those that
came to see her: Which Answer was joyfully received
by all the mentioned Princes, who came,
some sooner, and some later, each according to the
distance of his Countrey, and the length of the voyage.
And being all met in the form and manner aforesaid,
the Emperess appeared upon the face of the
Water in her Imperial Robes; in some part of her
hair she had placed some of the Star-Stone, near her
face, which added such a lustre and glory to it, that
it caused a great admiration in all that were present,
who believed her to be some Celestial Creature, or
rather an uncreated Goddess, and they all had a desire
to worship her; for surely, said they, no mortal creature
can have such a splendid and transcendent beauty,
nor can any have so great a power as she has, to
walk upon the Waters, and to destroy whatever she
pleases, not onely whole Nations, but a whole
World.
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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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| © 2020 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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