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Title:  Orations of divers sorts accommodated to divers places written by the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.
Author: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
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VVarrs, unless Heaven open your Eyes of Un∣derstanding, to see your Faults, Errors, and Dangers, you are like to fall into; but I hope Heaven will give you Grace to Reform your Lives, and Conform your Manners to Live Peaceably.A Kings Speech to Discontented Subjects.Beloved Subjects,I Perceive Frowning Countenances amongst my people, which doth portend a Storm, but let me advise you from raising a Storm, lest you Ship-wrack the whole Kingdome, and be Drown'd your selves in the VVaves of Rebel∣lion; The truth of it is, Raging Men are worse than Raging Billows, and worse, more Devour∣ing than the Sea. Yet if you are resolve'd to make VVarr, rather make VVarr in Forein Na∣tions, than in your Own Country, and on Strangers, rather than on your Friends; for to make VVarr on Me, your King, and your So∣veraign, is against the Laws of God; to make VVarr on the Protector of your Liberties, and Father of your Country, is Unnatural; to spill your Friends Blood, is Ungratefull and Inhu∣man; to Ruine your Native Country, is Barba∣rous; by which Actions you will become worse than Beasts, and as bad as Devils; but if you be so possest with Fury, as no Intreaties will dis∣possess you, you must be Scourged with Misery: 0