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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51181	Essays of Michael, seigneur de Montaigne in three books, with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors, and an account of the author's life / new rendered into English by Charles Cotton, Esq.; Essais. English	Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	1685 (1685)	Wing M2479; ESTC R2740	998,422	2,006

were spread abroad in favour of the Emperour Charles the Fifth and to our Disadvantage especially in Italy where these foolish Prophecies were so far believ'd that great Sums of Money were laid and others ventur'd out upon return of greater when they came to pass so certain they made themselves of our Ruine that having bewail'd to those of his Acquaintance who were most intimate with him the Mischiefs that he saw would inevitably fall upon the Crown of France and the Friends he had in that Court he unhandsomely revolted and turn'd to the other side but to his own Misfortune nevertheless what Constellation soever govern'd at that time But he carried himself in this Affair like a Man agitated with divers Passions for having both Towns and Forces in his hands the Enemy's Army under Antonio de Leva close by him and we not at all suspecting his Design it had been in his Power to have done more than he did for we lost no Men by this Infidelity of his nor any Town but Fossan only and that after a long Siege and a brave Defence Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit Deus Ridetque si mortalis ultra Fas trepidat Th' eternal Mover has in Shades of Night Future Events conceal'd from humane sight And laughs when he does see the timerous Ass Tremble at what shall never come to pass ille potens sui Laetusque deget cui licet in diem Dixisse vixi cras vel atra Nube Polum pater occupato Vel sole puro He free and merrily may live can say As the day passes I have liv'd to day And for to morrow little does take Care Let the World's Ruler make it foul or fair Laetus in praesens animus quod ultra est Oderit curare A mind that 's cheerful in its present State To think of any thing beyond will hate And those who take this Sentence in a contrary Sense interpret it amiss Ista sic reciprocantur ut si Divinatio sit Dii sint si Dii sint sit Divinatio These things have that mutual Relation to one another that if there be such a thing as Divination there must be Deities and if Deities Divination much more wisely Pacuvius Nam istis qui linguam avium intelligunt Plusque ex alieno jecore sapiunt quam ex suo Magis audiendum quàm auscultandum censeo Who the Birds Language understand and who More from Brutes Livers than their own do know Are rather to be heard than hearkned to The so celebrated Art of Divination amongst the Tuscans took its Beginning thus A Labourer striking deep with his Culter into the Earth saw the Demy-God Tages to ascend with an Infantine Aspect but endued with a mature and Senile Wisdom Upon the Rumour of which all the People ran to see the sight by whom his Words and Science containing the Principles and means to attain to this Art were recorded and kept for many Ages A Birth sutable to its Progress I for my part should sooner regulate my Affairs by the chance of a Die than by such idle and vain Dreams And indeed in all Republicks a good share of the Government has ever been referr'd to chance Plato in the civil Regiment that he models according to his own Fancy leaves the Decision of several things of very great Importance wholly to it and will amongst other things that such Marriages as he reputes legitimate and good be appointed by Lot and attributing so great Vertue and adding so great a Priviledge to this accidental choice as to ordain the Children begot in such Wedlock to be brought up in the Country and those begot in any other to be thrust out as spurious and base yet so that if any of those Exiles notwithstanding should peradventure in growing up give any early hopes of future Vertue they were in a Capacity of being recall'd as those also who had been retain'd were of being exil'd in case they gave little Expectation of themselves in their greener Years I see some who are mightily given to Study pore and comment upon their Almanacks and produce them for Authority when any thing has fall'n out pat though it is hardly possible but that these well-Wishers to the Mathematicks in saying so much must sometimes stumble upon some Truths amongst an infinite Number of Lies Quis est enim qui totum diem jaculans non aliquando contineet For who shoots all day at Buts that does not sometimes hit the White I think never the better of them for some accidental Hits There would be more certainty in it if there were a Rule and a Truth of always lying Besides no Body records their Flim-flams and false Prognosticks forasmuch as they are infinite and common but if they chop upon one Truth that carries a mighty Report as being rare incredible and prodigious So Diogenes surnam'd the Atheist answer'd him in Samothrace who shewing him in the Temple the several Offerings and Stories in Painting of those who had escap'd Shipwrack said to him Look you said he you who think the Gods have no care of humane things what do you say by so many Persons preserv'd from Death by their especial Favour Why I say answer'd he that their Pictures are not here who were cast away which were by much the greater number Cicero observes that of all the Philosophers who have acknowledg'd a Deity Xenophanes only has endeavour'd to eradicate all manner of Divination which makes it the less a Wonder if we have sometimes seen some of our Princes to their own cost relye too much upon these Fopperies I wish I had given any thing that I had with my own Eyes seen those two great Rarities the Book of Joachim the Calabrian Abbot which foretold all the future Popes their Names and Figures and that of the Emperour Leo which prophecied of all the Emperours and Patriarchs of Greece This I have been an Eye-witness of that in publick Confusions men astonish'd at their Fortune have abandoned their own Reason superstitiously to seek out in the Stars the ancient Causes and Menaces of their present mishaps and in my time have been so strangely successful in it as to make men believe that this Study being proper to fix and settle piercing and volatile Wits those who have been any thing vers'd in this knack of unfolding and untying Riddles are capable in any sort of Writing to find out what they desire But above all that which gives them the greatest Room to play in is the obscure ambiguous and fantastick Gibberish of their prophetick Canting where their Authors deliver nothing of clear Sense but shroud all in Riddle to the end that Posterity may interpret and apply it according to their own Fancy Socrates his Daemon or Familiar might perhaps be no other but a certain Impulsion of the Will which obtruded it self upon him without the advice or consent of his Judgment and in a Soul so