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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35532	Selēnarhia, or, The government of the world in the moon a comical history / written by that famous wit and caveleer of France, Monsieur Cyrano Bergerac ; and done into English by Tho. St Serf, Gent.; Histoire comique des états et empires de la lune. English	Cyrano de Bergerac, 1619-1655.; St. Serfe, Thomas, Sir, fl. 1668.	1659 (1659)	Wing C7719; ESTC R18714	59,111	189

which they all burst into a great laughter you need not ask if it were out of ignorance but in the mean time I was conducted to my Cage But other Wits more transported then these who were advertised that I durst say the Moon from whence I came was a World and that their World was a Moon did beleeve that this would furnish them with pretext enough to condemn me to the water which is their manner of exterminating people that are so impious Wherefore they in a body went to make their complaint to the King who promised them justice and ordered me to be brought again before the Court I was then uncaged the third time and the most Ancient began to plead against me I doe not well remember his Speech because I was too much frighted to receive the notes of his Voice without disorder as also because he made use of an instrument to declame with which deafn'd me it was a trumpet which he had chosen because the violence of that Martial sound should excite them to my death and so to hinder by that emotion of their Spirits that reason should not act her part as it happens in our Armies where the noise of the Drums and Trumpets hinders the Soldiers from reflecting upon the importance of their lives When he had done I rose up to defend my cause but I was delivered by an accident which will surprise you As I had just opened my mouth to speak a man who with much ado had past through the crowd of the people came and cast himself at the Kings feet and rowld himself a great while upon his back in his presence This action did not at all surprise me for I knew it was the posture they put themselves in when they would discourse in publick I onely forgot my own speech to listen the more attentively to his O ye Just said he hear me You cannot condemn this man this Ape or this Parrot for saying that the Moon from whence he comes is a World for if he be a man though he be not come from the Moon since all men are free is not he free to imagine what he pleaseth What can you constrain him not to have Visions as well as you You may force him to say the Moon is no World but not to beleeve so for to beleeve a thing there must certain possibilities present themselves to ones imagination more inclining to the Yea then to the Nay and except you furnish him with those likelihoods or that they unforced offer themselves to his Reason he may tell you that he beleeves it though he never doth Now I will demonstrate to you that you ought not to condemn him if you place him in the Catalogue of Beasts for suppose him a creature without Reason could you pretend to any your selves if you should condemn him for sinning against it He said that the Moon was a world now Beasts onely acting by instinct of Nature it is Nature says it and not he and to beleeve that wise Nature who hath made the World and the Moon should not know what it is her self and that you who derive all your knowledge from her should more certainly know it were very ridiculous But if your passion should make you deny your Principles that you should suppose that Nature did not onely guide Beasts at least blush at inquietudes which are caused in you by the capriciousness of a Beast really Sirs I beleeve if you saw a man of ripe yeers busie himself with the Politick Government of Pismires sometimes in striking one who had overthrown his companion another time in imprisoning another for the theft of a Barly-corn from his neighbour then to arraign another for quitting her eggs you would beleeve him mad to trouble himself with matters so much below him and to pretend to reduce to Reason Animals that never had any How then will you defend most Venerable Assembly the interest you take in the capriciousness of this little Animal Yee Just I have said Assoon as he had ended a certain Musical applause made the hall ring and after all their opinions had for a quarter of an hour had disputed the King pronounced That hereafter I should be censured a man and as such set at liberty and that the punishment of drowning should be reduced into an ignominious forfeit for in that Countrey there are no honourable ones by which forfeit I was obliged to unsay publickly that the Moon was a World because of the scandal it might have caused by the newness of the opinion in weak Spirits This sentence being pronounced they lifted me out of the Palace and cloathed me most richly though scornfully they carried me upon the Tribunal of a sumptuous Chariot in which I was drawn by four yoakt Princes and they made me pronounce this in all the publick places of the town People I declare to you that this Moon is not a Moon but a World and that the World below is no World but a Moon this is what the Council thinks fit you should beleeve After I had cryed this in the five great places of the City I perceived my Advocate who presented me his hand to lift me down I wondred very much to finde him when I had well weigh'd him that it was my courteous Spirit we were an hour in imbracing one another Come come to my house says he for to return to Court after a shameful sentence were to make your self be lookt upon with an ill eye and I must tell you that you had still remained amongst the Apes and Monkeys as the Spaniard doth if I had not in all Companies publisht the vigor and force of your understanding and laboured in despight of your Enemies the Protection of the great Ones for you The period of my thanks was also that of our journey for we were then entring his doors he entertained me till supper-time with all the devices he had used to force my Enemies in despight of their most specious pretexts with which they had gull'd the people to desist from so unjust a prosecution but when we were told that they had serv'd in supper he advertised me that he had invited two Professors of the Academy to keep me company I will make them fall said he upon the Philosophy which is taught in this World by which means you shall see the Son of our Landlord it is a young man as full of wit as I ever met any he would be a second Socrates if he could govern his Lights and not bury in vice the Graces with which God continually visits him for he affects a Libertining by a Chimerical ostentation to acquire the reputation of a Wit I took my lodging here to spy out the occasion of instructing him he held his tongue to leave me in my Cue the liberty of talking then he made a sign that they should disrobe me of my shameful Ornaments with which I still glistered which was no sooner effected but the