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Chamber of Rarities, which is the System of the Novel Rarities of the knownWorld: For whom I lately beheld glorious upon a Throne in the Majesty ofa Queen, I now see cloistered up in a small Diaphanous Pix, in stature sosmall as is scarce credible: Moreover, whom I deemed so piously virtuousa Lady, to be so retiredly naked with a man, only attended with a Waterbearer,makes me very thoughtful what this thing should be. Moreover, itwas my hopes so to have ingratiated my self into your favour, as to havebeen a Servant unto you, who I see are otherwise provided of a Lover.Then said she, My Friend, what you admire in this strange Metamorphosisof me, know that it is by a Magical Vertue, which is alone given to me fromGOD, my immediate Lord and Ruler; and for any Diabolical Art, whichyour Scruple seems to manifest your suspition of, it is because of yourinexperience in these things; and this your Ignorance is no way provokingunto me, for in these Affairs (though a man) yet you are but a Child; andthis liberty I allow all my Sons while they are Children, so to speak, so tothink, and so to act; and I love to hear and answer their childish prattle.Know then that the Devil is but one of my Servants, and in my Kingdom hedoth serve GOD, is and my Lord: And though of all my Servants he is theworst, yet he can do nothing of himself, either without me, or against me,or above me: He for the most part is a deceitful Jugler, and doth makethings appear, that are not; but whatever is actually effected by him, isnothing but what is in my Power: He only applies Agents to Patients, andadds a little of his own villainous qualities, as a circumstantial aggravationof the horror of what he thus (by my virtue) brings to pass, and then hisvillainous mind attributes that to himself, which is my Act, that so he mightarrogate the honour die to my Lord and his Master. Now I will tell you astrange thing, which yet is very true: I am obedient to all my Subjects,which are many, and they obey me; I rule them, and they do as it wereinforce me, for so my Lord hath pleased to ordain it: If they call me, I amstraight at hand; yea, in my Body which thou seest (which is no Body butonly representative for I am all Spirit) I feel the Sympathies andAntipathies, the Actions and Passions of every thing in the World; and Imust be always present, for nothing is or can be well done without I bepresent: I always work according to the subject and its disposition, whichdoth alter the effect wonderfully. In a word, whatever thou seest that I am,and more then thou canst see by far, though thou hadst the Eyes of Argus.My Rule is not as is the Rule of Princes among Men, but I am serviceableto all, yea to the least Worm in the World; and because I am so serviceable,therefore my Master hath appointed that nothing can or may disobey me,or offer violence to me; the Devil here hath no power, though maliceenough: Therefore my Lord hath given me his own Diploma to make me themore Honourable; first, An Omnisciency of all things which are done in theWorld, as touching the Being, Conservation, or Mutation of them; and next,an Omnipresency, by which I am every where present at once, and I am67