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A20028	The defence of contraries Paradoxes against common opinion, debated in forme of declamations in place of publike censure: only to exercise yong wittes in difficult matters. Wherein is no offence to Gods honour, the estate of princes, or priuate mens honest actions: but pleasant recreation to beguile the iniquity of time. Translated out of French by A.M. one of the messengers of her Maiesties Chamber.; Paradoxes, ce sont propos contre la commune opinion. English. Selections	Estienne, Charles, 1504-ca. 1564.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.; Landi, Ortensio, ca. 1512-ca. 1553. Paradossi.; Duval, Jean-Baptiste, d. 1632, attributed name.	1593 (1593)	STC 6467; ESTC S105222	52,873	110

gaine-said Beleeue mee that will but I holde as a matter doubtlesse that barrennesse is a most singular remedie against the piersing thornes of housholde life which by better meanes then this onely cannot be escaped or preuented And I beleeue for certainety that this would be a souereigne medicine against the priuate mallice of children except by good hap the diuine plant called Hermetiae could be gotten which whosoeuer vseth if Democritus be not a lyar not only shall engender honest children and well disposed but likewise very faire and gratious But I stand in doubt that this hearbe is lost for which of the skilfullest and moste dilligent herballists of our time that euer knewe it Or where is the hande that euer planted or gathered it If nothing can be found in Dioscorides in Crescentius or in Plateairus all good Apothecaries I thinke assuredly that this plant is altogither loste for our time seeing by good proofe we now beholde children so disobedient being lyars Tauerne hunters Gamesters swearers and for conclusion capitall enimies to all vertue Then doubt not but that good Democritus imagined this hearbe or dreamed on some other thing or else that he sawe and knew it after he had put out his owne eies to become therby the better Phylosopher I thus conclude then that a barren woman is much better then a fruitfull and let vs not bee carefull to haue such store of children seeing they haue doone harme to so manye persons As for my selfe I was sometime of contrary opinion but soone after I began to repent my selfe seeing that howe many children soeuer a man hath if they bee strong they are but so many seruants to princes if they be of spirite and knowe ought then make they slender account of their parents Some giue themselues to lawe and estate of Iustice others to lay holde on benefices others to followe new opinions which makes them oftentimes fall from aloft to a hotter place then willingly they would but if voluptuous pleasures once catch hold on them God knowes what honor they doe then to their linage It was my chance sometime to be in a Countrey thicke beset with barren mountaines where ordinarily was to be seene an infinite throng of Potters or drudging penny-getters whereof daily resorted to Venice a very great number so that when any child happened to be borne in that countrey the inhabitants woulde say as a common Prouerbe this is a young Asse for the Venetian If I should recite the latest comforts that children bring vs I must borrowe the words vsed in Fraunce that in their youth they befo● their fathers and mothers and when they are great they serue for nothing but to vexethem Consider what pleasure they bring to their parents when newes is heard of them that they haue beene abroad all night keeping il rule and then come home with their heades broken their armes shiuered in peeces their eares cut off Or if worde bee brought their fathers that they are in prison for some batterie or carried to the Gallies for some theft or that they haue gotten the soule discase or to make amends for their misbehauiour they haue beaten the seruants of the house broken perforce their fathers counting houses and then fledde away with all the money Then when they are returned againe if the good man but shewe himselfe agreeued answere is made he may be ashamed in so dooing I haue at the tongues ende an infinite number more of troubles to recount which issue from this goodly increase but for the present time I am content to omit them and now to vse silence to shunne offence as well of you as my selfe who with very ill will doe speake of such matters For the Exiled Declamation 9. That it is better to be banished than continue in Libertie IF such as are mightie and vertuous take no displeasure by being banished or sent into exile what need they feare that haue not so much to loose their harts not reaching so high nor their mindes addicted to so great enterprises A Philisopher a man of councell and prudence execised in affaires for the weale publique a Captaine or ruler of a Cittye may with some reason finde himselfe agreeued and sorry to bee sent away thorow report mallice or otherwise in that he exercised his authoritie to the benefite of euerie one and notwithstanding whatsoeuer paines he tooke yet he had therein delight and pleasure Neuerthelesse we finde left by the most expert and auncientest that they reputed exile to be an honour and contentment of their mindes Witnesse heereof is the honest answere of good Diogenes to him that reprooued him as with a matter ignominious because the Sinopians had banished him their countrey Quoth he this rather ought to returne far greater shame to thee that thou hast neuer byn forth of thy countrey resembling Oysters heerein that neuer dare come forth of their shelles but are continually beaten against stones and rocks As hurtfull in my opinion is the want of courage heerein and such as are ignorant of the great number of priuiledges which the banished haue in their exile whereof I will make some bre●fe recitall to deliuer yee from occasion of maruel why many of our elders with good will made choise of exile and did so patiently endure the same First of all I may say that the banished giue no cause to others of falling into the sinne of enuie and during the time of their flight or absence very fewe are so bolde as to aske them mony for interest for each one knowes wel enough that poore exiles haue rather more neede of their helpe then hinderance Wherefore they may without blushing or vsing any other conscience borrowe the more easilie importuning disquieting them they haue to deale withall for vnder this aduantage of beeing out of theyr countrey and giuen to vnderstand that their goods are confiscated they may without any other oration require the aide and succour of euery one The banished finds himselfe not troubled with lodging strangers nor is indebted or bound to making of banquets to attire himselfe sumptuouslie beare Armes day and night to goe honourably accompanied companied for the credit of his house to shew himselfe braue and magnificent But he may well vaunt if so he thinke it good that when he was in his countrey he kept a table for all commers did wonders was rich and honourablie attired and had the traine of a braue Caualier after him Beside it will bee no dishonour to the man exiled if hee keepe not alwaies his promise or make deliuerie of that hee standes bounde for at the time by him prefixed And so it happens that many seeme satisfied by acknowledging their good turnes or promise of paiyng all if euer they may returne into their long desired Countrey And doubt not but many desire to pertake with this goodly priuiledge for sparing of expences and to deliuer themselues from very great troubles For the banished are not bound to keepe a

the incertitude and variety of opinions That it is so the Agath which now is of so slender prize was of olde had in great reputation with Pyrrhus who kept one as most deere and pretious The Saphire because it resembled the faire colour of Heauen was wont to bee in very high account nowe it is of little esteeme and helde as a slender iewell The Diamond was neuer by our elders greatly prized now ye see howe it is reckoned and valued The Topaze was in good credit with Ladies but now at this present for what occasion I know not it is reputed the simplest iewell one can weare And who knowes not in what dignitie the Emerald should be Now ye see how it lies complaining on Fortune Thou wilt tell me that it were good for one to be rich that he may bee decked in faire and sumptuous garments finely cut and framed after diuers fashions Thou art very sottish and simple if thou perceiuest not that such braueries bring thee perpetuall sollytude and molestation for hauing gotten garmentes of these sorts thou must so often rubbe wipe brush fold vnfolde alter amend ayre and such like quallitie else beside to keepe them from spots moaths wherein thou maiest apparantly note and expresse deepe vanity that thou wilt couer thy body which is made of nothing but dirt and slime with purple silke gold and other curiosities Some good drinker would desire money to see his sellers full of the best and most delicate wines as of Balme Arbois wine of Orleance Rosetta Muscadels Bastardes Malmesies Corsa Greeke wine Vernacula Romania and others which are not heer to be nominated These were good for thee were it not that thou forgettest the discommodities which drinke bringeth and to be drunke For wine according as Plato holdeth was in manner sent down here beneath by the Gods to inflict punishments vppon men and to take vengeance on their offenses making them after they be become drunke to kill murther one another For this cause Androcides aduertised Alexander that wine was the bloud of the earth and he ought to guard himselfe well in the vse thereof This counsell beeing not well obserued by that great Emperour in his intemperance he slewe his most deere Clitus burned the Citty of Persepolis stabbed his Phisitian committing many other filthie and infamous deedes of excesse Wherefore was it but for this that the Carthaginians forbad wine to theyr souldiors and houshold seruants and to such likewise as held any estate of gouernment in their Common wealth especially during the time of their authoritie and office in the Citty Leotichus being desired to tel the reason wherfore the Spartanes by his commandement were so sober in drinking wine answered that he did it to deliuer them from trouble in consulting with other nations touching their owne affaires Cyneas Ambassador to Pyrrhus whose sweet tongue was so much esteemed by euery one and of so great profit to his Prince being one daye in Auara beholding the exceeding height of the countrey vines in smiling merely thus spake Good right had such a mother to be hanged on so highe a Crosse or Iibbet because she brought forth such a dangerous childe as wine was Should one wish riches to haue great troopes of fat cattell store of wooll or corne to see his court ful of fowles his doue-cotes well bred and haunted Turtle doues in cages Peacocks Phesants Turky hens with other kinds of excellent fowle choisly kept vppe I thinke that the great number of these seuerall kindes serues but for venison to the Fox or Wolfe or else their rapine that haue not the meane to compasse the like the pleasure whereof may be called somewhat beastlie because it is nourished among beasts And as for fowles what are they if not kept as a pray for foxes Cats and Weasels then are they viands for hunters the spoile of gardens and destruction of Garners Can one imagine like vexation to this beastly delight for one paultry egge what cry what cackling and noise heare we for so smal a thing albeit it were good as some doubt it is not For who knowes not by experience cheefly by the testimony of Phisitians that the new laide egge subuerteth the stomach and when it is not new it corrupteth and hurteth it What shal I say of the Turtle doue whose sorrowfull note brings such griefe to the hearer and to the eater such appetite to fleshly concupiscence What likewise shall I say of the Pigeon whose noise neuer ceaseth day or night which breakes her maysters head and beside fileth the fairest houses And as for her hoarse note I finde it nothing inferiour to that of the Peacock in matter of annoying and bad sound sauing that the Peacocks crie is more mighty in terrour euen as it were to affright the deuils I beleeue the man that brought them into this countrey had much more regard to his belly then to the quarrels and disturbing of neighbours to disgrace the couerture of houses and spoile of so many well mannured and pleasant gardens Some good supposer may say that riches serue for a pleasant recreatiue life Because if I haue wealth I can make good cheere I can behaue my selfe merilie and entertaine companies of most excellent Musitians that shall make me pastime and take from me all offending irkesomnesse Let mee aduertise thee that in musicke is not to be receiued one onely good or honest pleasure because it is naturally vaine and dissolute That it is so Saint Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria a man of very profounde knowledge to the reading of whose bookes Saint Ierom moste instantlie exhorteth vs chased musicke foorth of the christian Church because it too much weakned and softned mens spirits making them inclined and disposed to all worldlie pleasures and lasciuiousnes beside this it increased melancholie in him that was first by nature surprized therewith Saint Augustine had neuer any will at all to proue it the Egyptians blamed it not so much for being vnprofitable as dangerous and damnable Aristotle most highly hated it when it hapned him to say that Iupiter neuer could sing or play on the harpe Phillip of Macedon very much blamed his sonne Alexander because he saw him giuen too much to musicke and sawe him one time among other take too great pleasure in singing melodiously who would then wishe great store of goods to employ them in such a fantasticall studie Who would desire riches for the pastime of hunting hawking and other manner of chasing sportes the chase is no recreation at all that a studious or a vertuous spirit should followe for whosoeuer will well resolue himselfe thereof shall finde it an exercise of crueltie a sport for desperate people and if I durst say so for mad men This pastime was first inuented by the Thebanes a nation beyond other most cruell and beastlie nor was it had in any vse but among the most barbarous such as were the Idumaeans Ismaelites and Philistines For the truth

house garnished with all prouisions they are ridde of continual keeping companie with their wiues who cease not to storme strike and fight first with one then with an other according to the quallity of most house keepers They heare not so often their young children brawle murmure or be peeuish demaunding firste one thing then another neyther see they the priuie hidings of their men seruants and maides which is such an euill as the subtillest in the house sometimes knowes not how to defend This the good Anasangris of Sparta well knowing and that exile was not a matter so offensiue in regard of the priuiledges before named sent an answere in writing to one of his friends that he tooke it in no ill part to be sent foorth of his Countrey But rather quoth he I ought to greeue the abandoning of iustice reason and societie of all good thinges then the countrey which thou so deerely esteemest The parting wherewith should be the lesse yrkesome to thee because when thou leauest it thou forsakest likewise infinite greefes tribulations which it bringeth to such as are besotted therewith And in sooth lesse greeuous and troublesome to vs are the calamities of our countrey when wee are farre off then when we are neere at hand Nor is the report of the death or hurt of a friend so offensiue as the sight Beeing farre from ciuill discordes and sadnesse of Magistrates we take no care for beeing called to councell nor whether the officers of the Cittie doe their dutie or keepe their accounts euen We shall not heare the difference of our Countrey-men among themselues stand croutching to borrow nor listen to the quarrels and strifes betweene neighbors But contrariwise we shall see ourselues free from all molestations and oftentimes meet in the fields with better fortunes then wee coulde haue doone in the Citty I haue knowne some that haue liued more commodiouslie and pleasantly out of their houses then if they had continued in them for there they could not make a little cheere without Saint Iulians Pater Noster or being half-crucified Abroad is daily found some one who hath pittie on the straunger and one would not imagine what kindenesse and tendernes of hart poore needie widdowes shewe to the bannished Agamemnon returning from the expedition of Troy threatned by his father Telamon to be thrust from his countrey into exile I knowe not father quoth he any other countrey to be affected then that whereinto a man is best welcome If exile had beene reputed a thing euill and hatefull by the wisest and most prudent persons of times past as many for want of other matter woulde gladly alleadge should we then finde so many vertuous people that so voluntarily and cheerefully embraced it as didde Metellus Numidicus and manye other of great renowme Calaster commanded to exile by the Athenians receiued his banishment for so great a blessing as at his departure he would not haue any thing knowne thereof to his very deerest freendes and for feare by them he should be againe reuoked to his countrey he very strictlie forbad them by his letters not to trauaile anye iote for his returne accounting it much better to ende his daies in poore tranquillitie out of his countrey then among riches full of tribulation and businesse of the Citty to languish in the place of his birth Demetrius Phalerean sent in exile to Thebes was most highlie displeased with his fortune and durst not shew it to Crates the Phylosopher because according to the maner of Ciniques he liued very poorly and obscurely Within a while after the Philosopher Crates came to visite him whom when hee had saluted hee reuealed to him so good a discourse in praise and commendation of exile as Demetrius suddenly recouering his better sences began to account it for a great glorie that he had byn banished So soone afterward as he came home againe hee blamed very much the opinion and forgetfull iudgementhe had before and the troublesome state of his affaires which had so long held and detained him from ioying in a life so excellent as banishment was We shall find few men of valour or worth that haue escaped this fortune and if he wee would confesse the truth this harme if harme it may be called hath more commonly and ordinarily fallen on menne of vertue then on any other For proofe thereof Hanniball after hee had endured so many trauailes in seruice of his ingratefull cōmon weale was he not banished by the Carthagenians was hee not depriued of his so deere belooued Citty by the Athenians Noble Theseus who hadde done so many memorable thinges worthy of eternal honour and praise only by meanes of his vertue was he not chased forth of his Countrey which hee had so amplified and enlarged The like was doone to Solon by the Athenians whom in recompence of ordering their lawes and manner of life they made to ende his latest daies in the Isle of Cyprus The vertuous and puissant Miltiades by whose meanes were vanquished about thirtie thousand Persians dyed in this blessed state of exile Like happened as a reward to valliant Camillus after he had so often giuen succour to his noble countrey Traian the iust when hee was chosen Emperour was in exile Banished was the learned Aristotle and worthie Themistocles constrained to gette him gone from his Countrey the like befell to Alcibiades VVhat regard had the Ephesians to the vertues of Hermodorus when they banished him out of their Countrey Rutillius could not resist like fortune nor poore Cicero on whom the Romaines bestowed this fauour of exile for a recompence because he had preserued their publique estate beside manye other innumerable good turnes Now what is he that in heart woulde not wish to be in perpetuall exile with so many good and honourable companions Perhaps it may bee some coward hart-lesse strength-lesse courage-lesse or councel-lesse creature I should be ouer-long in shewing ye by diuers waies and examples that exile is a thing neyther euil nor hurtfull but at this present I am forced to forbeare not so much for feare of offending your delicate eares but because I remember that the moste elloquent Maister Iohn Boccace writing to a Florentine friend of his hath already discoursed very amply on this argument Wherfore I will heere conclude this matter after I haue intreated your good willes by that which heertofore hath beene said to combine the sundry profits issuing from exile and banishmēt with the small greese or harme which a heart not ouer-weake and slothfull may receiue thereby The rather because by reason it is more to be desired or at the least liberally endured and supported before yrkesome licence and libertie that by testimonie of the olde Comick Poet makes vs ordinarily more wicked and giuen to all kinde of vices neuer eleuating or exercising so much the spirites of men well borne and enstructed in all vertues as doth the pretious state of banishment For infirmitie of the Bodie Declamation 10.

thinke we may be the plentie of one or two yeeares when wee giue our selues to so great feasting but euen an earnest of the dearth in them that may or will followe soone after The interpretatiō that iust Ioseph made of Pharaohs dream may serue for witnesse heereof What is it that better giues knowledge of the price of any thing bee it neuer so excellent then the Dearth or scarsity therof In the East Countreys among the Sauages no more esteeme is made of golde or pretious stones then we in these partes doo make of yron lead or brasse In Madera Cyprus and other Islandes where the Sugars doe grow they giue them to their Swine to eate as we in the Countreyes neerer hande giue them great aboundance of fruites And wherefore doe they thus Euen because exceeding plenty maketh the contempt of most excellent things For experience when times fall out according to our owne wish how many is there among vs that remembers God therby and giues him thanks with a good hart but onely in a manner by waye of countenance But when times come that wee like not of then is it that we turne vnto him and cry him mercie then confesse we only his diuine incomparable bountie greatnesse and excellence Infalliblie the value of bread and wine which are things needfull for nourishing the body and to preserue the soule therein is neuer knowne in the time of aboundance when we make spoile thereof cast it at our feete and giue it to feede filthie beastes Nor may I forget howe in some Countreyes stored with Vineyardes when one plentifull yeere comes among other they will bee so insolent as to make waste thereof at euery street corner But when they haue little store of wine and graine then they taste sauour so well and vse them in so small quantities as nothing at all is lost We thinke on God praise him and giue him thankes but then we doe it best when we giue our selues to know his great vertues Then our bodies are most healthfull and actiue because our wine is well tempered and we eate our wheate so pure as they both togither may ingender the opilations of faith and not of other matters And as for the viuacitie of the spirit I say that euen as in the time of fast or diet the spirits work best and greatest causes so in the time of searsitie they engender not such huge numbers of smokes as hinder them from dooing their diuine operations For this especiallie among other causes at first were the fastes and Lent time instituted in good season and time of flowing plentie after wine good corne a thousand disagreements a thousand batteries a thousand lawe-strifes and contentions When a poore labouring man had his halfe-peny towards a pinte of wine then could hee make mery with his fellowes so long as to driue away yrkesome wearinesse Then were none so simple but sate at the table with the house-mayster and fed as at a franke marriage feast and when the belly was full then to dauncing Let vs now make some little discourse of Countryes fertile and abounding in all goods comparing them with such as are barren and vnfruitfull and let vs see if their inhabitants are better natured or disposed then they that dwell in the desarts or regions neuer tilled and not fertile First of all in Hircania if it be true which that most faithfull Greeke hath written in his historie one only stocke of a Vine yeeldeth about a Tunne of wine and euery foote of a figge tree filleth wel neer forty frailes with that fruit The wheat although it naturallie fall to the ground from the eare on the stalke yet without any industry or humane labour it increaseth euery yeare in mightie aboundance The Bees doe naturallie work their honny on the trees from whence euen as Manna from Heauen it droppeth continually down on the earth and there are none will take the paines to gather it All this notwithstanding the people of that countrey are accounted the most cruell fierce and wickedst Nation in all the world In the Indian Countryes the Earth beareth twise a yeere and they haue two seasons for gathering their fruites neuerthelesse if yee knew the people of the Countrey ye shall finde them fantasticall lyers and deceiuers to the vttermost In Babilon euery little corne of wheat bringeth foorth two hundreth other for it beside this the millet and other bread graine thorow the strange and wonderfull nature of the soile stretcheth vppe in such height as do the trees Yet notwithstanding all these thinges the inhabitants of the Countrey are more abounding in vile life and villanies then all other nations are beside In Tacapa a great Citty of Africa is to be founde such store and aboundance of whatsoeuer can bee desired for the nourishment and life of man al things at so small a rate or price as they scantlye make any reckoning thereof in like manner is there to bee found the verie plentifullest store that can be named of theeues adulterers treasons and infidelities Now let vs conferre heerewith the other part the barren regions or lesse fertile in goods and let vs see if they be not altogither industrious freends to vertue and greatly hardened for paines and bodily labours In the firste place lette vs consider what the Countrey of Denmarke is and what the Franconians and Danes haue beene that thence issued Let vs remember withall the Scythians that liue at this day in trauaile without any certaine habitation now in one place then in another What and how many braue warriours haue come from this people Euen as in our times we haue seene issued from the Isles of Ireland Swethen and Countries vnfruitfull colde and partlie neighbors to Scotland Yet in these countries is found for nourriture of the inhabitantes nothing more then milke and fish but for softnesse and delicatenesse none else like them But let vs leaue strangers and onely make discouerie of ourselues How many men of wisedome and authoritie thinke ye in time of our memorie hath issued from the vntilled and mountaine countreyes of Sauoye Daulphine Auuergne Gascoigne Limosine and Perigueulx Imagine ye that the Rabulanes Onions and Beanes of these seuerall soiles could in ought diminish their goodnesse of spirit Thinke ye for these they owe ought to our minions of the Court elsewhere who are nourished and brought vppe with all wanton and lickerish thinges How many Chancellors Presidents Councellors Knights captaines and such like haue ye seene and daily doe beholde in honour of these quarters more then any other yet their countries are of such nature as their Coleworts Mullets Turneps and Chesenuts doth there giue them better nourishment then will the moste pretious wheat or graine in the worlde This inferreth and prooueth well vnto yee that without this scant and frugall arsimonie which to them is naturall neuer would they haue beene such as now they are I agree very well with yee that after they haue once