Harry R. McCarthy (offline)
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Assistant Professor of English at USC. Early modern childhood, race, gender, education, and performance. Book on boy actors with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. Next book sometime, somewhere. dornsife.usc.edu/profile/harry-mcca…
![Text reads:
MADAM,
We have here at this time Cold with all its Potent Strength, as an Army of Flakes of Snow, with Ammunition of Hail for Bullets, and Wind for Powder […] Shooting forth the Peircing Darts, which fly so Thick and Fast, and are so Sharp, as they Enter into every Pore of the Flesh; although Mankind bring what Strength they can get against Cold, as an Army of Furs, where every Hair stands out like a Squadron of Pikes, to Resist Cold’s Assault; and Ammunition of Coals serves for Bullets, and Ashes for Powder, with great Loggs for Cannons, where the Bellows are Fire-locks, make them fly up in a Flame; also great Pieces of Beef for Men of War, with Cabbage for Sails, Sawsages for Tacklings, Carrots for Guns, and Marrow-bones for Masts, Ballasted with Pepper, and Pitch’d or Tarr’d with Mustard, the Steers-men Cooks, besides many Pinnaces of Pork, Mutton, and Veal, all which Swim in a Large Sea of Wine, Beer, and Ale; yet for all this we are Beaten into the Chimney-corner, and there we sit Shaking and Trembling like a Company of Cowards, that dare not stir from their Shelter […]
The text is accompanied by an etching of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, standing on a pedestal in classically-inspired dress and flanked by two Grecian statues.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ulb76z6fxxd4nqbrrpq2grku/bafkreid7ltfyfvj5tv6ahglocwzh4ws2jattbdatky5d2ysax5v6jt7ogu)
