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Title:  Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.
Author: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
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Whereupon the Judges bid her declare her Cause.I was married to this Prince, 'tis true; I was but young in years when I did knit that Wedlock-knot; and though a Child, yet since my Vows were holy, which I made by Virtue and Religion, I am bound to seal that Sacred Bond with Constancy, now I am come to years of knowing good from evil.I am not only bound, most Pious Judges, to keep my Vow, in being chastly his as long as he shall live but to require him by the Law, as a Right of laberitance be∣longing to me, and only me, so long as I shall live, with∣out a Sharer or Co-partner: so that this Lady, who lays a Claim, and challenges him as being hers, can have no right to him, and therefore no Law can plead for her: for, should you cast aside your Canon Law (most Pious Judges), and judg it by the Common-Law, my Suit must needs be granted, if Justice deals rightly, and gives to Truth her own: for, should an Heir, young, before he comes to years, run on the Lenders score; though the Lender had no Law to plead against Non∣age; yet if his nature be so just to seal the Bonds he made in Non-age, when he comes to full years, he makes his former Act good, and fixes the Law to a just Grant, giving no room for Cozenage to play a part, nor Falshood to appear. The like is my Cause, most 0