"I Write to Please my Self," Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, declared in her "Orations of Divers Sorts" (1662).
When Nature first this World she did create,She cal'd a Counsell how the same might make;Motion was first, who had a subtle wit,And then came Life, and Forme, and Matter fit.
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