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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

Breath 531 Switzer Woman 417 Swords the best Weapons 492 T TAble talk 301 Tables distinguished by the Names of the Guests 468 Teachers how should be paid 201 Temerity in the understanding 282 Terence ' s Comedies 393 Terror Panick 87 Testimony of Adrianus Turnebus 203 Things present don't satiate Men. 524 Thirst immoderate after Knowledge Brutifies 25 Thracian King how distinguished from his People 444 Threatnings of an approaching Death 332 Timoleon ' s Tears 371 Timon Man-hater 515 Title of Books 401 Travailing very instructive to Youth 227 Troubles of this Life 374 Trees buried in Winter 358 Turks make themselves scars in honour of their Mistresses 420 Tutor 222 Tyrant 452 V VAlour of three French Gentlemen 2 Valour and its Bounds 72 Value of a Man consists in the Heart 333 Vertue aims at Pleasure 93 Vertue inabled by difficulties Ibid. Vertue 's great Benefit 94 Vertue taught by the Persians as Letters by other Nations 207 Vertue seated in a Plain 245 Vertue Enemy to Anxiety and Sorrow 246 Vertue 's Value 247 Vertue the nursing Mother of all Human Pleasures Ibid. Vertue satisfied with her self 378 Vertue her proper and peculiar office 248 Vertue embraced with two violent desire becomes Vicious 308 Vertue greedy of Danger 413 Vertue of the Loadstone 364 Vices derive their Propensity from Infancy 146 Victory ought not to be Stolen 38 Victory obtained by the Lacedaemonians Flying 66 Victory chief aim of a General and of every private Soldier 465 Victory puts an End to the War 477 Victory not allowed to him that did ask for a Dead Body 19 Victory in what consists 332 Victories fairly gotten 333 Virgins forc'd to their Husbands Bed 368 Vncertainty and Immutability of Humane Things 88 Vncertainty of this Life 426 Vnderstanding rules and Reigns 226 Vnderstandings of severel Sorts 529 Vrine of Horse drunk 497 Vse of the understanding 410 W WArs of Sylla and Marius 478 Wars amongst the Barbarians 32 Wars proclaimed by the Tolling of a Bell. 33 Warlike Women 156 Water-mens Faro 509 Way of speaking of the Athenians Lacedaemonians and retians 267 Weapons formerly used in War 493 Will our the effects thereof not always in our Power 40 Will Irregular and disobedient 134 Will judges of Actions 361 Wine cut with Hatchets in Winter time 357 Wine dash'd 510 Writings of the Counts of Foix. 221 Wise mans Country 237 Wise man may live every where content 373 Wise men ought to do every thing for themselves 516 Wisdom's Acquiescency 15 Wisdom and Brutality 528 Wits ought not to be idle 41 Wits of several degrees 440 Wool perfumed made use of 506 Woman turned into a Man 124 Woman that goes to Bed to a Man must put off her Modesty with her Petticoat 131 Woman fancying she had Swallowed a Pin. 136 Woman causes her Face to be flead 419 Women bitten by Lice 154 Women uncapable of a perfect Love 290 Women buried alive with the Corps of their Husbands 405 Women Succeeding to Peerages 438 Women mask'd and Painted 517 Women and Children excluded from inquiring into the Laws 543 Words the only Tye of Men. 49 Words obliging 398 Words finely Spoken 264 Words affected 266 World a Looking-Glass and a Book 238 X XEnophon a great Captain and a Philosopher 37 Xerxes considering his Forces was siezed with joy and Sorrow 370 Y YOuth must be accustom'd to labour 229 Youth's debauchery and Excess 256 Z ZEal of the Jews to their Belief 408 Zeal immoderate 308 Zeal govern'd with Moderation and Prudence 543 Ze eu●us's Laws against Women's Sumptuousness 459 Zeno's Disciples 267

have no business with any one but a man's self Hor. l. 2. Od. 16. Quid brevi fortes jaculamur aevo Multa Why cut'st thou out such mighty Work vain man Whose Life 's short date 's compriz'd in one poor span For we shall there find work enough to do without any need of Addition One complains more than of Death than he is thereby prevented of a glorious Victory another that he must die before he has married his Daughter or settled and provided for his Children a third seems only troubled that he must lose the society of his beloved Wife a fourth the conversation of his Son as the principal concerns of his Being For my part I am thanks be to God at this instant in such a condition that I am ready to dislodge whenever it shall please him without any manner of regret I disengage my self throughout from all Worldly Relations my leave is soon taken of all but my self Never did any one prepare to bid adieu to the World more absolutely and purely and to shake hands with all manner of Interest in it than I expect to do The deadest Deaths are the best Lucret. l. 3. miser O miser aiunt omnia ademit Una dies infesta mihi tot praemia vitae Wretch that I am they cry one fatal day So many joys of Life has snatch'd away And the Builder Aeneid l. 4. manent dit il opera interrupta minaeque Murorum ingentes aequataque machina Coelo Stupendious Piles say he neglected lie And Tow'rs whose Pinacles do pierce the Sky A man must design nothing that will require so much time to the finishing or at least with no such passionate desire to see it brought to Perfection We are born to action Ovid. Amor. lib. 2. Eleg. 10. Cum moriar medium solvar inter opus When Death shall come he me will doubtless find Doing of something that I had design'd I would always have a man to be doing and as much as in him lies to extend and spin out the Offices of life and then let Death take me planting Cabbages but without any careful thought of him and much less of my Garden 's not being finished I saw one die who at his last gasp seem'd to be concern'd at nothing so much as that Destiny was about to cut the thread of a Chronicle History he was then compiling when he was gone no farther than the fifteenth or sixteenth of our Kings Lucret. l. 3. Illud in his rebus non addunt nec tibi earum J am desiderium rerum superinsidet una They tell us not that dying we 've no more The same desires and thoughts that heretosore We are to discharge our selves from these vulgar and hurtful Humours and Concerns To this purpose it was that men first appointed the places of Sepulture and Dormitories of the dead near adjoyning to the Churches and in the most frequent places of the City to accustom says Lycurgus the common People Women and Children that they should not be startled at the sight of a dead Corps and to the end that the continual Objects of Bones Graves Monuments and Funeral Obsequies should put us in Mind of our frail condition Silius Ita●icus l. 11. Quinetiam exhilarare viris convivia caede Mos olim miscere epulis spectacula dira Certatum ferro saepe super ipsa cadentum Pocula respersis non parco sanguine mensis 'T was therefore that the Ancients at their Feasts With tragick Objects us'd to treat their Guests Making their Fencers with their utmost spite Skill Force and Fury in their presence fight Till streams of Blood of those at last must fall Dash'd o'er their Tables Dishes Cups and all And as the Egyptians after their Feasts were wont to present the Company with a great Image of Death by one that cry'd out to them Drink and be merry for such shalt thou be when thou art dead so it is my Custom to have Death not only in my Imagination but continually in my Mouth neither is there any thing of which I am so inquisitive and delight to inform my self as the manner of mens Deaths their Words Looks and Gestures nor any places in History I am so intent upon and it is manifest enough by my crowding in Examples of this kind that I have a particular fancy for that Subject If I were a Writer of Books I would compile a Register with a Comment of the various Deaths of men and it could not but be useful for who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live D●cearchus made one to which he gave that Title but it was design●d for another and less profitable end Peradventure some one may object and say that the pain and terror of dying indeed does so infinitely exceed all manner of imagination that the best Fencer will be quite out of his Play when it comes to the Push but let them say what they will to premeditate is doubtless a very great Advantage and besides is it nothing to come so far at least without any visible Disturbance or Alteration But moreover Nature her self does assist and encourage us If the Death be sudden and violent we have not leisure to fear if otherwise I find that as I engage further in my Disease I naturally enter into a certain loathing and disdain of Life I find I have much more ado to digest this Resolution of dying when I am well in Health than when sick languishing of a Fever and by how much I have less to do with the Commodities of Life by reason I even begin to lose the use and Pleasure of them by so much I look upon Death with less Terror and Amazement which makes me hope that the further I remove from the first and the nearer I approach to the latter I shall sooner strike a bargain and with less Unwillingness exchange the one for the other And as I have experimented in other Occurrences that as Caesar says things often appear greater to us at distance than near at hand I have found that being well I have had Diseases in much greater Horror than when really afflicted with them The Vigour wherein I now am and the Jollity and Delight wherein I now live make the contrary Estat● appear in so great a disproportion to my present condition that by Imagination I magnifie and make those inconveniences twice greater than they are and apprehend them to be much more troublesome than I find them really to be when they lie the most heavy upon me and I hope to find Death the same Let us but observe in the ordinary changes and Declinations our Constitutions daily suffer how Nature deprives us of all sight and sense of our bodily decay What remains to an old man of the vigour of his Youth and better days Corn. Galli vel potius Maximian Eleg. 1. He is senibus vitae portio quanta manet Alas to men