Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies

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    [note]Of Moral Philosophy and Moralists] TO MORALL PHILOSOPHERS. 1653 [/note] Moral philosophy is a severe school, for there is no arithmetician so exact in his accounts, or doth divide and substract[note]“substract” is, roughly, a synonym for subtract [/note] his numbers more subtly, than they the passions; and as arithmetic can multiply numbers above all use,…