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

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Playes written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.
Author
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
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London :: Printed by A. Warren, for John Martyn, James Allestry, and Tho. Dicas ...,
1662.
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Page 639

Scene 6.
Enter the Creating Princess, and her Woman.
VVOman.

Pray Madam do not marry so much below your self.

Creat. Princess.

Why? what matter whom I marry, since I can cre∣ate my Husband to Honour.

Woman.

But Madam, that Honour will do him no good, nor will it take off your disgrace; for none will give your Husband, if he be an inferiour person, the Place and Respect that is due to Great Princes Titles.

Creat. Princess.

No, but he shall take Place, and my Servants shall give him the Respect and Homage that is due to great Titles: For I will make him a Prince; and who dare call him any other, but Prince?

Woman.

There is none will call him Prince, unless your own Servants; and none will give him Place, that are above the degree of his Birth: no, nor he durst not take it of Gallant Noble Men; for if he offers thereat, they will beat him back, and force him to give way, and to be only a Prince in his own House, and not abroad, is no better than to be a Farmer, nay, a Cobler, or a Tayler, or any the like are Kings in their own Houses, although they be but thatch'd, if they have but a Servant subject, or Subject Ser∣vant.

Creat. Princess.

Well, say what you will, I will make him a Prince.

Exeunt.
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