Playes written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.

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Title
Playes written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.
Author
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
Publication
London :: Printed by A. Warren, for John Martyn, James Allestry, and Tho. Dicas ...,
1662.
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"Playes written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53060.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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Page 162

Scene. 6.
Enter the Lady Innocence alone.

WHilst I was in his favour, my mind was like a pleasant Garden, where seve∣ral Phancies like several Birds, did make sweet melody; and in this Gar∣den a large, high Tree of Noble ambition grew; whereon hung fruits of hopes, but low misfortunes now hath cut it down, and therewithall have built a house, where melancholly dwels, darkened with Clouds of discontents, and winds of sighs, and show∣ers of tears, doth blow and powre thereon.

She weeping and sighing.
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