Orations of divers sorts accommodated to divers places written by the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.

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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.
Publication
London :: [s.n.],
1662.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688.
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"Orations of divers sorts accommodated to divers places written by the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53051.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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Page 238

VI.

Noble Gentlemen,

VVE have Argued much of our Humours, Actions, and Estates of our Follies, Vanities, and Vices, but we have not Conclu∣ded what is Best for us to Settle in: as for the Course of our Lives, there are but three wayes, as to be either Meer Clowns, or Perfect Gen∣tlemen, or Between both; To be Meer Clowns, is to be Drudges in our Estates, To be Perfect Gentlemen, is to be Careless of our Expences, and to be Between both, is to be Carefull Over∣seers, and Moderate Spenders, and of these three I judge the Last best, as not to be so much a Gentleman, as to be a Beggar, nor so much a Clown, as to be a Beast.

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