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Title:  CCXI sociable letters 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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then the Mistress appears like a Pale Ghost, or Dead Body in a Winding sheet, being all Co∣vered with white Snow, and the Sled, when the Mistress is Seated again, instead of a Tri∣umphant Chair, seems like a Virgins Funeral Herse, carried, and Buried by Torch-light, and her Feathers seem like a Silver Crown, that U∣sually is laid thereon, also the Sled is Drawn then in a Slow, Funeral Pace, for fear of a se∣cond Fall. By this Custom and Practice you may know, we have here Recreations for eve∣ry Season of the Year, and as the Old Saying is, that Pride in Winter is never Cold, so it may here be said, that Love in Winter is never Cold; indeed, I have heard say, that Love is Hot, and to my Apprehension it must be a very Hot A∣morous Love that is not Cold this VVeather. But leaving the Hot Lovers in the Cold Snow, I rest, by the Fire-side,Madam,Your very faithful Friend and Servant.CXCII.MADAM,ALthough I am as Unwilling to stir from the Fire-side this Cold Weather, as Cri∣minals are to go to their Execution, (for indeed the Sharp Cold is to me as a Sharp Ax, and the 0