Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Sabrina versus the state
- 1 “Born of the mother's seed”: liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism
- 2 A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state
- 3 Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophecies of Elizabeth Poole
- 4 The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the “rise” of the sovereign individual
- 5 Improving God's estate: pastoral servitude and the free market in the writings of Mary Cary
- Conclusion
- Index
3 - Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophecies of Elizabeth Poole
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Sabrina versus the state
- 1 “Born of the mother's seed”: liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism
- 2 A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state
- 3 Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophecies of Elizabeth Poole
- 4 The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the “rise” of the sovereign individual
- 5 Improving God's estate: pastoral servitude and the free market in the writings of Mary Cary
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
We cannot free the Lady that sits here
In stony fetters fixt, and motionless;
Yet stay, be not disturb'd, now I bethink me,
Some other means I have which may be us'd,
There is a gentle Nymph not farr from hence,
That with a moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream,
Sabrina is her name, a Virgin pure
The Attendant Spirit, Comus (The Scene changes to a Stately Palace)I having the gift of faith upon me for her cure, was thus to appeal to the person on the other hand, that he should improve his faithfulnesse to the Kingdome, by using diligence for the cure of this woman, as I by the gift of faith on me should direct him.
Elizabeth Poole, A Vision Wherein is Manifested the Disease and Cure of the KingdomeI cannot deny my hand, said she, to him that hath my heart.
Lady Deletia in The Contract by Margaret Cavendish (1656)when he forgot his subordination to divine Fatherhood and headship; thinking he had begotten you a generation to his own pleasure and taking you a wife for his own lust, thereby is the yoak taken from your necks
Elizabeth Poole, A Vision Wherein is Manifested the Disease and Cure of the KingdomeAs in Comus, our scene shifts now to a stately palace – in this case, the palace of Whitehall. Here two stories about contract theory may be told.
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- Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth CenturyEnglish Women Writers and the Public Sphere, pp. 115 - 165Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004