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The Blazing World (1666)
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The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table full of mathematical points, lines and figures of all sorts of squares, circles, triangles, and the like; which the Empress, notwithstanding that she had a very ready wit, and quick apprehension, could not understand; but the more she endeavoured to learn, the more was she confounded
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Margaret Cavendish
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Born:
1623
Died:
December 15, 1673
(aged 50)
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