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A70610	Essays of Michael, seigneur de Montaigne in three books : with marginal notes and quotations and an account of the author's life : with a short character of the author and translator, by a person of honour / made English by Charles Cotton ...; Essais. English	Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.; Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	1700 (1700)	Wing M2481; ESTC R17025	313,571	634

seipso totus teres atque rotundus Externi nequid valeat per laeve morari In quem manca ruit semper fortuna Wise and commanding o'er his Appetite One whom nor Want nor Death nor Bonds can Fright To check his Lusts and Honours scorn so stout And in himself so round and clear throughout That no External thing can stop his course And on whom Fortune vainly tries her force such a Man is rais'd Five Hundred Fathoms above Kingdoms and Dutchies he is an Absolute Monarch in and to himself Plaut Tri. Act. 2. Sc. 2. Sapiens Pol ipse fingit fortunam sibi The Wife Man his own Fortune makes What remains for him to Covet or Desire Luc. l. 2. Nonne videmus Nil aliud sibi naturam latrare nisi ut quoi Corpore sejunctus dolor absit mente fruatur Jucundo sensu cura semotus metuque We see that Nature to no more aspires Nor to her self a greater good requires Than that whose Body is from Dolours free He should his Mind with more Serenity And a more pleasing Sense enjoy quite clear From those two grand Disturbers Grief and Fear Compare with such a one the comman Rubble of Mankind stupid and mean Spirited Servile Instable and continually floating with the Tempest of various Passions that tosses and tumbles them to and fro and all depending upon others and you will find a greater distance than betwixt Heaven and Earth and yet the blindness of common usage is such that we make little or no account of it Whereas if we consider a Peasant and a King a Noble-Man and a Villain a Magistrate and a private Man a Rich Man and a Poor there appears a vast disparity though they differ no more as a Man may say than in their Breeches In Thrace the King was distinguish'd from his People after a very pleasant manner He had a Religion by himself a God of his own and which his Subjects were not to presume to Adore which was Mercury whilst on the other side he disdain'd to have any thing to do with theirs Mars Bacchus and Diana And yet they are no other than Pictures that make no Essential Dissimilitude for as you see Actors in a Play representing the person of a Duke or an Emperour upon the Stage and immediately after in the Tiring Room return to their true and original Condition so the Emperour whose Pomp and Lustre does so dazle you in Publick Luc. l. 4. Silicet grandes viridi cum luce smaragdi Auro includuntur teriturque Thalassina vestis Assidue veneris sudorem exercita petat Great Emeralds richly are in Gold enchast To dart Green Lustre and the Sea-green vest Continually is worn and rubb'd to Frets Whilst it Imbibes the Juice that Venus Sweats do but peep behind the Curtain and you 'll see nothing more than an ordinary Man and peradventure Senec. Ep. 115. more Contemptible than the meanest of his Subjects Ille beatus introrsum est istius bracteata felicitas est True Happiness lies within the other is but a counterfeit Felicity Cowardize Irresolution Ambition Spite and Envy are as Predominant in him as in another Horace lib. 2. Ode 16. Non enim gazae neque consularis Summovet lictor miseros tumultus Mentis curas laqueata circum Tecta volantes For neither Wealth Honours nor Offices Can the wild Tumults of the Mind appease Nor chase those Cares that with unweari'd Wings Hover about the Palaces of Kings Nay Solitude and Fear attack him even in the Center of his Battalions Lucret. l. 2. Reveraque metus hominum curaeque sequaces Nec metuunt sonitus armorum nec fera tela Audacterque inter Reges rerumque potentes Versantur neque fulgorem reverentur ab auro For Fears and Cares warring with Humane Hearts Fear not the clash of Arms nor points of Darts But with great Kings and Potentates makes Bold Maugre their Purple and their Glittering Gold Do Fevers Gouts and Apoplexies spare them any more than one of us When Old Age hangs heavy upon a Princes Sholders can the Yeomen of his Guard ease him of the Burthen When he is Astonish'd with the apprehension of Death can the Gentlemen of his Bed-Chamber comfort and assure him When Jealousie or any other Capricio swims in his Brain can our Complements and Ceremonies restore him to his good Humour The Canopy Embroider'd with Pearl and Gold he ●ies under has no Vertue against a violent fit of the Stone or Cholick Idem Nec calidae citius decedunt corpore febres Textilibus si in picturis ostroque rubenti Jacteris quam si plebeia in veste cubandum est Nor sooner will a Calenture depart Although in figur'd Tissues lodg'd thou art Than if thy homely Couch were meanly spread With poorest Blankets of the coursest thred The Flatterers of Alexander the Great possest him that he was the Son of Jupiter But being one Day Wounded and observing the Blood stream from his Wound What say you now my Masters said he is not this Blood of a Crimson Colour and purely Humane This is not of the Complexion with that which Homer makes to issue from the Wounded Gods The Poet Hermedorus had Writ a Poem in Honour of Antigonus wherein he call'd him the Son of the Sun But who has the emptying of my Close-stool said Antigonus will find to the contrary He is but a Man at best and if he be Deform'd or ill Qualified from his Birth the Empire of the Universe can neither mend his Shape nor his Nature Persiu● Sat. 2. Puellae Hunc rapiant quidquid culcaverit hic rosa fiat Though Maids should Ravish him and where he goes In every step he takes should spring a Rose what of all that if he be a Fool and a Sot even Pleasure and good Fortune are not relish'd without Vigour and Understanding Ter. Hea●● Act. 1. S●● Haec perinde sunt ut illius animus qui ea possidet Qui uti scit ei bona illi qui non utitur recte mala Things to the Souls of their Possessors square Goods if well us'd if ill they Evils are Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them 'T is Fruition and not possession that renders us Happy Horace lib. 1. Epist 2. Non domus fundus non aeris acervus auri Aegroto domini deduxit corpore f●bres Non animo curas valeat possessor oportet Qui comportatis rebus bene cogitat uti Qui cupit aut metuit juvat illum sic domus aut res Ut lippum pictae Tubulae fomenta podagram Mannours or heaps of Brass and Gold afford No ease at all to their Febritick Lord For can they cure his Cares 't is requisite The Good 's Possessor know the use of it Who Fears or Covets these so help him out As Pictures Blind Folks Cataplasms the Gout He is a Sot his Taste is pall'd and flat

Prisoner to her as he accordingly did the Gentlemen of France never denying any thing to Ladies Does she not seem to be an Artist here Constantine the Son of Hellen founded the Empire of Constantinople and so many Ages after Constantine the Son of Hellen put an end to it Sometimes she is pleas'd to Emulate our Miracles We are told that King Clouis Besieging Angolesme the Walls fell down of themselves by Divine Favour And Bouchet has it from some Author that King Robert having sat down before a City and being stole away from the Siege to go keep the Feast of St. Aignan at Orleans as he was in Devotion at a certain place of the Mass the Walls of the beleagured City without any manner of Violence fell down with a sudden Ruine But she did quite contrary in our Milan War for Captain Rense laying Siege to the City Verona and having carried a Mine under a great part of the Wall the Mine being sprung the Wall was lifted from its base but dropt down again nevertheless whole and entire and so exactly upon its foundation that the Besieged suffer'd no Inconvenience by that Attempt Sometimes she plays the Physician Jason Phereus being given over by the Physicians by reason of a desperate Imposthumation in his Breast having a mind to rid himself of his Pain by Death at least in a Battel threw himself desperately into the thickest of the Enemy where he was so fortunately wounded quite through the Body that the Imposthume brake and he was perfectly cur'd Did she not also excel the painter Protogenes in his Art Who having finish'd the Picture of a Dog quite tir'd and out of breath in all the other parts excellently well to his own liking but not being able to express as he would the slaver and foam that should come out of his Mouth vext and angry at his work he took his Spunge which by cleaning his Pencils had imbib'd several sorts of Colours and threw it in a rage against the Picture with an intent utterly to deface it when Fortune guiding the Spunge to hit just upon the Mouth of the Dog it there perform'd what all his Art was not able to do Does she not sometimes direct our Counsels and correct them Isabel Queen of England being to Sail from Zealand into her own Kingdom with an Army in favour of her Son against her Husband had been lost had she come into the Port she intended being there laid wait for by the Enemy but fortune against her will threw her into another Haven where she Landed in safety And he who throwing a Stone at a Dog hit and kill'd his Mother in Law had he not reason to pronounce this Verse Menander● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By this I see Fortune does better aim than we Fortune has more Judgment than we Icetes had contracted with two Souldiers to Kill Timoleon at Adranon in Sicily These Villains took their time to do it when he was assisting at a Sacrifice who thrusting into the Crowd as they were making signs to one another that now was a fit time to do their business in steps a third who with a Sword takes one of them full drive over the Pate lays him dead upon the place and away he runs Which the other seeing and concluding himself discover'd and lost he runs to the Altar and begs for Mercy promising to discover the whole truth which as he was doing and laying open the whole Conspiracy behold the third Man who being Apprehended was as a Murtherer thrust and hal'd by the People through the Press towards Timoleon and other the most Eminent Persons of the Assembly before whom being brought he Cry'd out for Pardon pleading that he had justly Slain his Fathers Murtherer which he also proving upon the place by sufficient Witnesses which his good Fortune very opportunely supply'd him withal that his Father was really Kill'd in the City of the Leomins by that very Man on whom he had taken his Revenge he was presently Awarded Ten Attick * The old Attick Mine was 75 Drach Mines for having had the good Fortune by designing to revenge the Death of his Father to preserve the Life of the common Father of Sicily This Fortune in her Conduct surpasses all the Rules of Humane Prudence But to conclude is there not a direct Application of her Favour Bounty and Piety manifestly discover'd in this Action Ignatius the Father and Ignatius the Son being proscrib'd by the Triumvity of Rome resolv'd upon this generous Act of mutual kindness to fall by the hands of one another and by that means to frustrate and defeat the Cruelty of the Tyrants and accordingly with their Swords drawn ran full drive upon one another where Fortune so guided the points that they made two equally Mortal Wounds affording withal so much Honour to so brave a Friendship as to leave them just strength enough to draw out their Bloudy Swords that they might have liberty to embrace one another in this Dying Condition with so close and hearty an Embrace that the Executioners cut off both their Heads at once leaving the Bodies still fast link'd together in this Noble Knot and their Wounds joyn'd Mouth to Mouth affectionately sucking in the last Bloud and remainder of the Lives of one another CHAP. XXXIV Of one Defect in one Government MY Father who for a Man that had no other advantages than Experience only and his own Natural Parts was nevertheless of a very clear Judgment The project of an Office of Enquiry has formerly told me that he once had thoughts of endeavouring to introduce this Practice that there might be in every City a certain place assign'd to which such as stood in need of any thing might repair and have their Business enter'd by an Officer appointed for that purpose as for Example I enquire for a Chapman to Buy my Pearls I enquire for one that has Pearls to Sell Such a one wants Company to go to Paris such a one enquires for a Servant of such a Quality such a one for a Master such a one enquires for such an Artificer some for one thing some for another every one according to what he wants And doubtless these mutual Advertisements would be of no contemptible Advantage to the Publick Correspondency and Intelligence For there are ever more Conditions that hunt after one another and for want of knowing one anothers occasions leave Men in very great necessity I have heard to the great shame of the Age we Live in that in our very sight two most excellent Men for Learning Died so Poor that they had scarce Bread to put in their Mouths Lilius Gregorius Giraldus in Italy and Sebastianus Castalio in Germany And do believe there are a Thousand Men would have invited them into their Families with very advantageous Conditions or have reliev'd them where they were had they known their wants The World is not so generally Corrupted but that I know a Man

the Sword ever shrunk in his Neck Let us bring in the Women too Who has not heard at Paris of her that caus'd her Face to be flea'd only for the fresher Complexion of a new Skin There are who have drawn good and sound Teeth to make their Voices more soft and sweet or to place them in better Order How many Examples of the contempt of Pain have we in that Sex What can they not do What do they fear to do for never so little hopes of an Addition to their Beauty Vellere queis cura est albos à stirpe capillos Tib. lib. 1. Eleg. 9. Et faciem dempta pelle referre novam Who pluck their Gray Hairs by the Roots and try An old Head Face with young Skin to supply I have seen some of them swallow Sand Ashes and do their utmost to destroy their Stomachs to get Pale Complexions To make a fine Spanish Boy what Racks will they not endure of Tweaking and Braceing till they have Noches in their sides cut into the very quick Flesh and sometimes to Death It is an ordinary thing with several Nations at this Day to hurt themselves in good earnest to gain credit to what they profess of which our King relates notable Examples of what he has seen in Poland and done towards himself But besides this which I know to have been imitated by some in France when I came from that famous Assembly of the Estates at Blois I had a little before seen a Maid in Picardy who to manifest the Ardour of her Promises as also her Constancy give her self with a Bodkin she wore in her Hair Four or Five good lusty Stabs into the Arm till the Bloud gush'd out to some purpose The Turks make themselves great Scars in Honour of their Mistresses and to the end they may the longer remain they presently clap Fire to the Wound where they hold it an uncredible time to stop the Bloud and form the Cicatrice People that have been Eye-witness of it have both Writ and Sworn it to me But for Ten Aspers there are there every day Fellows to be found that will give themselves a good deep slash in the Arms or Thighs I am willing though to have the Testimonies nearest to us when we have most need of them for Christendom does furnish us with enow And after the Example of our Blessed Guide there have been many who would bear the Cross We Learn by Testimony very worthy of belief that the King St. Lewis wore a Hair-shirt till in his old Age his Confessor gave him a Dispensation to leave it off and that every Friday he caus'd his Shoulders to be drubb'd by his Priest with Six small 's Chains of Iron which were always carried about amongst his Night Accoutrements for that purpose William our last Duke of Guienne the Father of this Eleanor who has Transmitted this Dutchy into the Houses of France and England continually for Ten or Twelve Years before he Died wore a Suit of Arms under a Religious Habit by way of Penance Fulkee Count of Anjou went as far as Ierusalem there to cause himself to be Whipt by Two of his Servants with a Rope about his Neck before the Sepulchre of our Lord But do we not moreover every Good Friday in several places see great numbers of Men and Women Beat and Whip themselves till they Lacerate and Cut the Flesh to the very Bones I have often seen this and without Enchantment when it was said there were some amongst them for they go disguis'd who for Money undertook by this means to save harmless the Religion of others by a contempt of Pain so much the greater as the Incentives of Devotion are more effectual than those of Avarice Q. Maximus Buried his Son when he was a Consul and M. ●ate his when Praetor Elect and L. Paulus both his within a few Days one after another with such a Countenance as express'd no manner of Grief I said once Merrily of a certain Person that he had disappointed the Divine Justice for the Violent Death of Three grown up Children of his being one Day sent him for a severe Scourge as it is to be suppos'd he was so far from being Afflicted at the Accident that he rather took it for a particular Grace and Favour of Heaven I do not follow these Monstrous Humours though I lost Two or Three at Nurse if not without Grief at least without Repining and yet there is hardly any Accident that pierces nearer to the quick I see a great many other occasions of Sorrow that should they happen to me I should hardly feel and have despis'd some when they have befallen me to which the World has give so Terrible a Figure that I should Blush to Boast of my Constancy Ex quo intelligitur non in Natura sed in opinione esse aegritudinem By which it is understood Cicero that the Grief is not in Nature but Opinion Opinion is a Powerful Party bold and without Measure who ever so greedily hunted after Security and Repose as Alexander and Caesar did after Disturbances and Difficulties Terez the Father of Sitalces was wont to say that when he had no Wars he fansied there was no difference betwixt him and his Groom Cato the Consul to secure some Cities of Spain from Revolt only interdicting the Inhabitants from wearing Arms a great many Kill'd themselves Ferox gens nullam vitam rati sine Armis esse A Fierce People who thought there was no Life without Arms. How many do we know who have forsaken the Calms and Sweetness of a Quiet Life at Home amongst their Acquaintance to seek out the Horrour of uninhabitable Desarts and having precipitated themselves into so Abject a Condition as to become the Scorn and Contempt of the World have hug'd themselves with the Conceit even to Affectation Cardinal Barromeus who Died lately at Milan in the midst of all the Jollity that the Air of Italy his Youth Birth and great Riches invited him to kept himself in so Austere a way of Living that the same Robe he wore in Summer serv'd him for Winter too Had only Straw for his Bed and his Hours of vacancy from the Affairs of his Employment he continually spent in Study upon his Knees having a little Bread and a Glass of Water set by his Book which was all the Provision of his Repast and all the time he spent in Eating I know some who consentingly have Acquir'd both Profit and Advancement from Cuckoldry of which the bare Name only affrights so many People If the Sight be not the most necessary of all our Senses 't is at least the most pleasant But the most pleasant and most useful of all our Members seem to be those of Generation and yet a great many have conceiv'd a Mortal Hatred against them only for this that they were too Amiable and have depriv'd themselves of them only for their Value As much thought lie of his Eyes