Margaret Cavendish
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From The Blazing World. This is what I am trying to figure out:
"Thus she spake, and as she was going up, up started Honesty (for she has not always so much discretion as she ought to have) and interrupted Prudence."
(Prudence and Honesty are characters.)
What does 'going up' mean in this context? Is it a reference to something about her speech? Something physical? Some antiquated turn of phrase? Wiktionary has not been super helpful and neither has ChatGPT. I've been unable to find another use of this phrase, in this manner, as the words themselves are so common and I don't get good search results.
Here is a little more context:
"Rashness having thus ended her Speech, Prudence rose and declared her self in this manner:
Beautiful Truth, Great Fortune, and you the rest of my noble Friends; I am come a great and long journey in the behalf of my dear Friend the Duke of Newcastle; not to make more wounds, but, if it be possible, to heal those that are made already. Neither do I presume to be a Deity; but my onely request is, that you would be pleased to accept of my Offering, I being an humble and devout supplicant; and since no offering is more acceptable to the Gods, then the offering of Peace; in order to that, I desire to make an agreement between Fortune, and the Duke of Newcastle.
Thus she spake, and as she was going up, up started Honesty (for she has not always so much discretion as she ought to have) and interrupted Prudence."
If you want even more context, here is the whole book: https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/newcastle/blazing/blazing.html
Can someone please help me understand this? I am working on a historical translation of this book so that I can share more women philosophers with the world, since most that are taught about in school, especially from this period, are men. I don't want to guess on M.C's intention here. I want to reflect her work honestly and truly.
Thank you.
"Thus she spake, and as she was going up, up started Honesty (for she has not always so much discretion as she ought to have) and interrupted Prudence."
(Prudence and Honesty are characters.)
What does 'going up' mean in this context? Is it a reference to something about her speech? Something physical? Some antiquated turn of phrase? Wiktionary has not been super helpful and neither has ChatGPT. I've been unable to find another use of this phrase, in this manner, as the words themselves are so common and I don't get good search results.
Here is a little more context:
"Rashness having thus ended her Speech, Prudence rose and declared her self in this manner:
Beautiful Truth, Great Fortune, and you the rest of my noble Friends; I am come a great and long journey in the behalf of my dear Friend the Duke of Newcastle; not to make more wounds, but, if it be possible, to heal those that are made already. Neither do I presume to be a Deity; but my onely request is, that you would be pleased to accept of my Offering, I being an humble and devout supplicant; and since no offering is more acceptable to the Gods, then the offering of Peace; in order to that, I desire to make an agreement between Fortune, and the Duke of Newcastle.
Thus she spake, and as she was going up, up started Honesty (for she has not always so much discretion as she ought to have) and interrupted Prudence."
If you want even more context, here is the whole book: https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/newcastle/blazing/blazing.html
Can someone please help me understand this? I am working on a historical translation of this book so that I can share more women philosophers with the world, since most that are taught about in school, especially from this period, are men. I don't want to guess on M.C's intention here. I want to reflect her work honestly and truly.
Thank you.
