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A68475	Essays vvritten in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne, Knight of the Order of S. Michael, gentleman of the French Kings chamber: done into English, according to the last French edition, by Iohn Florio reader of the Italian tongue vnto the Soueraigne Maiestie of Anna, Queene of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c. And one of the gentlemen of hir royall priuie chamber; Essais. English	Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.; Florio, John, 1553?-1625.; Hole, William, d. 1624, engraver.	1613 (1613)	STC 18042; ESTC S111840	1,002,565	644

Seas counterfait dissembling shew How quietly sometimes the flouds will go The eleventh Chapter Of the Lame or Cripple TWO or three yeares are now past since the yeere hath beene shortned tenne dayes in France Oh how many changes are like to ensue this reformation It was a right remooving of Heaven and Earth together yet nothing remooveth fromit's owne place My Neighbours finde the season of their seede and Harvest time the opportunity of their affaires their lucky and vnlucky dayes to answer just those seasons to which they had from all ages assigned them Neither was the errour heeretofore perceived nor is the reformation now discerned in our vse So much vncertainty is there in all things So grosse so obscure and so dull is our vnderstanding Some are of opinion this reformation might have bin redressed after a lesse incommodious maner substracting according to the example of Augustus for some yeares the bissextile or leape day Which in some sort is but a day of hinderance and trouble Vntill they might more exactly have satisfied the debt Which by this late reformation is not done For wee are yet some dayes in arrerages And if by such a meane we might provide for times to come appoynting that after the revolution of such or such a number of yeares that extraordinary day might for ever be eclipsed so that our misreckoning should not henceforward exceede foure and twenty houres Wee have no other computation of time but yeares The World hath vsed them so many ages And yet is it a measure we have not vntill this day perfectly established And such as wee dayly doubt what forme other Nations have diversly given the same and which was the true vse of it And what if some say that the Heavens in growing oldecompresse themselves towards vs and cast into an vncertainty of houres and dayes And as Plutarke saith of moneths that even in his dayes Astrologie could not yet limite the motion of the Moone Are not we then well holp-vp to keepe a register of things past I was even now plodding as often I doe vpon this what free and gadding instrument humane reason is I ordinarily see that men in matters proposed them doe more willingly ammuze and busie themselves in seeking out the reasons than in searching out the trueth of them They omit presuppositions but curiously examine consequences They leave things and runne to causes Oh conceited discourses The knowledge of causes doth onely concerne him who hath the conduct of things Not vs that have but the sufferance of them And who according to our neede without entering into their beginning and essence have perfectly the full and absolute vse of them Nor is wine more pleasant vnto him that knowes the first faculties of it Contrariwise both the body and the minde interrupt and alter the right which they have of the Worldes vse and of themselves commixing therewith the opinion of learning The effects concerne vs but the meanes nothing at all To determine and distribute belongeth to superiority and regency as accepting to subjection and apprentiseshippe Let vs re-assume our custome They commonly beginne thus How is such a thing done Whereas they should say Is such a thing done Our discourse is capable to frame an hundred other Worldes and finde the beginnings and contexture of them It needeth neither matter nor ground Let it but runne on It will as well build vpon emptinesse as vpon fulnesse and with inanity as with matter Dare pondus idonea fume That things which vanish straight In smoke should yet beare weight I finde that wee should say most times There is no such thing And I would often employ this answer but I dare not for they cry It is a defeature produced by ignorance and weakenesse of spirite And I must commonly juggle for company sake to treate of idle subjects and frivolous discourses which I believe nothing at all Since truely it is a rude and quarelous humour flatly to deny a proposition And few misse especially in things hard to be perswaded to affirme that they have seene it Or to alleadge such witnesses as their authoritie shall stay our contradiction According to which vse we know the foundations and meanes of a thousand things that never were And the world is in a thousand questions descanted and bandied too fro the pro and contra of which is meerly false Ita finitima sunt falsaveris vt in praecipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere Falsehood is so neere Neighbour to trueth that a wiseman should not put himselfe vpon a slipperie downefal Truth and falsehood have both alike countenances their port their taste and their proceedings semblable Wee beholde them with one same eyes I obserue that we are not onely slowe in defending ourselves from deceipt but that wee seeke and sue to embrace it Wee love to meddle and entangle ourselves with vanity as conformable vnto our being I have seene the birth of divers miracles in my dayes Although they be smoothered in their first grouth wee omit not to foresee the course they would have taken had they lived their full age The matter is to finde the end of the clue that found one may winde-off what he list And there is a further distance from nothing to the least thing in the World than betweene that and the greatest Now the first that are embrued with the beginning of strangenesse comming to publish their history finde by the oppositions made against them where the difficulty of perswasion lodgeth and goe about with some false patch to botch vppe those places Besides that Insita h●minibus libidine alendi de industria rumores Men having a natural desire to nourish reports We naturally make it a matter of conscience to restore what hath beene lent vs without some vsury and accession of our encrease A particular errour doeth first breede a publike errour And when his turne commeth A publike errour begetteth a particular errour So goeth all this vast frame from hand to hand confounding and composing it selfe in such sort that the furthest-abiding testimonie is better instructed of it then the nearest and the last informed better perswaded then the first It is naturall progresse For whosoever beleeveth any thing thinkes it a deede of charity to perswad it vnto another Which that hee may the better effect hee feareth not to adde something of his owne invention thereunto so farre as hee seeth necessary in his discourse to supply the resistance and defect hee imagine●h to bee in anothers conception My selfe who make an especiall matter of conscience to lie and care not greatly to ad credit or authority to what I say perceive nevertheles by the discourses I have in hand that being ernested either by the resistance of another or by the earnestnes of my narration I swell and amplifie my subject by my voyce motions vigor and force of wordes as also by extension and amplification not without some prejudice to the naked truth

the lasting of mountaines rivers stars and trees or any other living creature is no lesse ridiculous But nature compels vs to it Depart saith she out of this world even as you came into it The same way you came from death to life returne without passion or amazement from life to death your death is but a peece of the worlds order and but a parcell of the worlds life inter se mortales mutua vivunt Et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt Mortall men live by mutuall entercourse And yeeld their life-torch as men in a course Shal I not change this goodly contexture of things for you It is the condition of your creation death is a part of your selves you flie from your selves The being you enjoy is equally shared between life and death The first day of your birth doth aswell addresse you to-die as to live Prima quae vitam dedit hora carpsit The first houre that to men Gave life strait cropt it then Nascentes morimur finisque ab origine pendet As we are borne we die the end Doth of th' originall depend All the time you liue you steale it from death it is at her charge The continuall work of your life is to contrive death you are in death during the time you continue in life for you are after death when you are no longer living Or if you had rather have it so you are dead after life but during life you are still dying death doth more rudely touch the dying then the dead and more lively and essentially If you haue profited by life you haue also beene fed thereby depart then satisfied Cur non vt plenus vitae conviva recedis Why like a full-fed guest Depart you not to rest If you have not knowne how to make vse of it if it were vnprofitable to you what neede you care to have lost it to what end would you enioy it longer cur amplius addere quaris Rursum quod pereat malè ingratum occidat omne Why seeke you more to gaine what must againe All perish ill and passe with griefe or paine Life in it selfe is neither good nor euill it is the place of good or evill according as you prepare it for them And if you have liued one day you have seene all one day is equal to all other daies There is no other light there is no other night This Sunne this Moone these Starres and this disposition is the very same which your forefathers enjoyed and which shall also entertaine your posteritie Non alium ●id●re patres aliúmue nepotes Aspicient No other saw our Sires of old No other shall their sonnes behold And if the worst happen the distribution and varietie of all the acts of my comedie is performed in one yeare If you have observed the course of my foure seasons they containe the infancie the youth the virilitie the old age of the world He hath plaied his part he knowes no other wilinesse belonging to it but to begin againe it will ever be the same and no other Versamur ibidem atque insumus vsque We still in one place turne about Still there we are now in now out Atque inse sua per vestigia volvitur annus The yeare into it selfe is cast By those same steps that it hath past I am not purposed to devise you other new sports Nam tibi praeterea quod machiner inveniámque Quod placeat nihil est eadem sunt omnia semper Else nothing that I can devise or frame Can please thee for all things are still the same Make roome for others as others have done for you Equalitie is the chiefe ground-worke of equitie who can complaine to be comprehended where all are contained So may you live long-enough you shall never diminish any thing from the time you have to die it is bootelesse so long shall you continue in that state which you feare as if you had died being in your swathing-clothes and when you were sucking licet quot vis vivendo vincere secla Mors aeterna tamen nihil ominus illa manebit Though yeares you live as many as you will Death is eternall death remaineth still And I will so please you that you shall have no discontent In vera nescis nullum fore morte alium te Qui possit vivus tibi te lugere peremptum Stánsque iacnetem Thou know'st no there shall be not other thou When thou art dead indeede that can tell how Alive to waile thee dying Standing to waile thee lying Nor shall you wish for life which you so much desire Nec sibi enim quisquam tum se vitámque requirit Nec desiderium nostri nos afficit vllum For then none for himselfe himselfe or life requires Nor are we of our selves affected with desires Death is lesse to be feared than nothing if there were any thing lesse than nothing multo mortem minus ad nos esse putandum Si minus esse potest quám quod nihil esse videmus Death is much lesse to vs we ought esteeme If lesse may be then what doth nothing seeme Nor alive nor dead it doth concerne you nothing Alive because you are Dead because you are no more Moreover no man dies before his houre The time you leave behinde was no more yours then that which was before your birth and concerneth you no more Respice enim quàm nil ad nos anteacta vetustas Temporis aeterni fuerit For marke how all antiquitie fore-gone Of all time e're we were to vs was none Wheresoever your life endeth there is it all The profit of life consistes not in the space but rather in the vse Some man hath lived long that hath had a short life Follow it whilest you have time It consists not in number of yeeres but in your will that you have lived long enough Did you thinke you should never come to the place where you were still going There is no way but hath an end And if company may solace you doth not the whole world walke the same path Omnia te vita perfuncta sequenter Life past all things at last Shall follow thee as thou hast past Doe not all things moove as you doe or keepe your course Is there any thing grows not old togither with your selfe A thousand men a thousand beasts and a thousand other creatures die in the very instance that you die Nam nox nulla diem neque noctem aurora sequuta est Quae non audierit mistos vagitibus aegris Ploratus mortis comites funeris atri No night ensued day light no morning followed night Which heard not moaning mixt with sick-mens groaning With deaths and funerals joyned was that moaning To what end recoile you from it if you cannot goe backe You have seene many who have found good in death ending thereby many many miseries But have you seene any that hath received hurt

Light-broken when it lends best light And to turne all our defences and raisings of high walles topsie-turvie I find that want and necessitie is by diverse or different causes as ordinarily seene to accompany and follow those that are rich in goods as those that have none at all that peradventure it is somwhat lesse incommodious when it is alone then when it meeteth with riches They rather come from order then from receite Faber est suae quisque fortunae Ever man is the forger of his owne fortune And me thinkes that a rich man who is needie full of businesse carke and toyle and troubled in minde is more miserable then he that is simply poore In div●●ijs inopes quod genus egestatis gravissium est In their aboundance indigent which is the most grievous kinde of indigence The richest and greatest princes are ordinarily vrged by povertie and neede vnto extreame necessities For can any be more extreame then thereby to become Tirants and vniust vsurpers of their subiects goods My second manner of life hath beene to have mony which when I had once fingred according to my condition I sought to hoord vp some against a raignie day esteeming that it was no having vnlesse a man had-ever some what besides his ordinary expences in possession that a man should not trust that good which he must live in hope to receive and that be his hope never so likely hee may many wayes be prevented For I would say vnto my selfe what if I should be surprised by this chance o● that accident What should I do then And in pursuite of these vaine and vicious imaginations I endevoured by hooke or crooke and by wi●e or wit to provide by this superfluous sparing for all inconveniences that might happen And I could answere him that would alleadge the number of inconveniences to be ouer-infinite which if they followed not all men they accompanied some and happily the greatest number An apprehension which I did not passe with out some painefull care I kept the matter secret and I that dare say so much of myselfe would never speake of my money but falsely as others doe who being rich would seeme to be poore or beeing poore would appeare rich and dispence with their conscience never to witnesse sincerelie what they are worth Oh ridiculous and shamefull prudence Did I travell any where me thought I was never sufficiently provided and the more I had laden my selfe with coine the more I had also burthened myselfe with feare sometimes of my wayes-safetie othertimes of their trust that had the charge of my sumpters and baggage whereof as some others that I know me thought I was never throughly assured except it were still in my sight Left I my keyes or my purse behind me how many suspitions and thornie imaginations and which is worse incommunicable did vncessantly haunt-me My minde was ever on my halfepenney my thoughts ever that way The summe being rightly cast there is ever more paine in keeping then in getting of mony If I did not altogether so much as I say I at the least endevoured to do-it Of commodity I had little or nothing To have more meanes of expences is ever to have encrease of sorrow For as said Bion The hairy man doth grieve as much a● the bald if he have his haire pulld out And after you are once accustomed and have fixed your thoughts vpon a heape of money it is no longer at your service you dare not diminish-it it is a building which if you touch or take any part from-it you will thinke it will all fall Necessitie must first pinch you by the throate and touch you neere before you will lay handes on it And I should sooner pawne my clothes or sell my horse with lesse care and compulsion then make a breach into that beloved purse which I kept in store But the danger was that a man can hardly prefix any certaine limits vnto his desire they are hard to be found in things a man deemeth good and continue at one stay in sparing A man shall ever encrease this heape and augment-it from one number to another yea so long til he basely and niggardly deprive himselfe of the enioying of his owne goods and wholy fix-it on the safe-keeping of them and never vse them According to this kind of vsage those are the richest people of the world that have the charge of keeping the gates and walles of a rich Cittie Every monied man is covetous according to mine opinion Plato marshalleth this humane or corporall goods health beautie strength riches And riches saith he are not blind but cleere-seeing if they be illuminated by wisedome Dionysius the yonger plaide a notable parte who being advertised that one of his Siracusans had hidden a certayn treasure vnder the ground commanded him to bring it vnto him which he did reserving secretly one part of it vnto himselfe with which hee removed his dwelling vnto another Citie where having lost the humor of hoarding-vp of treasure beganne to live a spending and riotous kinde of life which Dionysius hearing commanded the remainder of his treasure and which he had taken from him to be restored vnto him saying That sit hence he had learned how to make vse of it hee did most willingly redeliver the same vnto him I was some yeares of the same humour I wot not what good Demon did most profitably remoove me from it like to the Siracusan and made me to neglect my sparing The pleasure I apprehended of a farre and chargeable journey having overthrowne this foolish imagination in me From which I am falne into a third kinde of life I speake what I thinke of it assuredly much more pleasing and formall which is that I measure my garment according to my cloth and let my expences goe together with my comming in sometimes the one other-whilst the other exceedes But they are never farre a sunder I live from hand to mouth from day to day and have I but to supply my present and ordinarie needes I am satisfied As for extraordinarie wants all the provisions of the world will not suffice them And it is folly to expect that fortune will ever sufficiently arme vs against her-selfe It is with our owne weapons that we must combate her Casuall armes will betray vs when we shall have most need of them If I lay vp any thing it is for the hope of some imployment at hand and not to purchase landes whereof I have no neede but pleasure and delight Non esse cupidum pecunia est non esse emacem vectigal est It is currant coine not to be covetous it is a thriftie income not to be still buying I am neither possessed with feare that my goods shall faile me nor with desire they should encrease and multiplie Divitiarum fructus est in copia copiam declarat satietas The fruite of riches is in plentie sacietie content with enough approoves that plentie And I singularly

advanced in his dominions And was exceedingly grieved that for want of a litle longer life and a substitute to manage the Warre and affaires or so troubled a state he was enforced to seeke a bloody and hazardous battell having another pure and vndoubted victory in hand He notwithstanding managed the continuance of his sicknes so miraculously that he consumed his enemy diverted him from his Sea-Fleete and Maritime places he helde along the Coaste of Affricke even vntill the last day of his life which by designe he reserved and emploied for so great and renowmed a fight He ranged his battell in a round on ev'ry side besieging the Portugals army which bending round and comming to close did not onely hinder them in the conflict which through the valour of that yong-assailant King was very furious since they were to turne their faces on all sides but also hindred them from running away after the rowte And finding all issewes seized and all passages closed they were constrained to turne vpon themselves coacervantúrque non solum caede sed etiam fug● They fall on heapes not only by slaughter but by flight And so pel-mell to heape one on anothers neck preparing a most murthrous and compleat victory to the Conquerours When he was even dying hee caused himselfe to be carryed and haled where-ever neede called for him and passing along the files hee exhorted the Captaines and animated the Souldiers one after another And seeing one wing of the fight to have the worst and in some danger no man could hold him but he would needs with his naked-sword in hand get on hors-backe striving by all possible meanes to enter the throng his men holding him some by the Bridle some by the Gowne and some by the Stirrops This toyle and straining of himselfe made an end of that litle remainder of his life Then was he laid on his bed But comming to himselfe again starting vp as out of a swowne each other faculty failing him he gave them warning to conceale his death which was the necessariest commandement he could give his servaunts lest the souldiers hearing of his death might fal into dispaire and so yeelded the Ghost holding his fore-fingers vpon his mouth an ordinary signall to impose silence What man ever lived so long and so neere death Who ever died so vpright and vndaunted The extreamest degree and most naturall couragiously to manage death is to see or front the same not only without amazement but without care the course of life continuing free even in death As Cato who ammuzed himselfe to studie and sleepe having a violent and bloudy death present in his hart and as it were holding it in his hand The two and twentieth Chapter Of running Posts or Curriers I Have beene none of the weakest in this exercise which is proper vnto men of my stature well-trust short and tough but now I have given it over It toyles vs over-much to holde out long I was even-now reading how King Cyrus that he might more speedily receave newes from all parts of his Empire which was of exceeding great length would needs have it tried how farre a horse could in a day goe out-right without baiting at which distance hee caused Stations to be set and men to have fresh horses ready for al such as came to him And some report this swift kinde of running answereth the flight of Cranes Caesar saith that Lu●ius Vibulus Rufus making haste to bring Pompey an advertisement rode day and night and to make more speed shifted many horses And himselfe as Suetonius writeth would vpon an hyred coache runne a hundred miles a day And sure he was a rancke-runner for where any river hindred his way he swam it over and never went out of his way to seeke for a bridge or foarde Tib erius Nero going to visite his brother Drusus who lay sicke in Germanie having three coaches in his companie ranne two hundred miles in foure and twenty hours In the Romane warres against King Antiochus Titus Sempronius Gracchus sai●h Titus Livius per dispositos equos propè incredibili celeritae ab Amphisa tertio dic Pellam pervenit By horse laide poste with incredible speede within three dayes he past from Amphisa to Pella And viewing the place it seemeth they were set Stations for Postes and not newly appointed for that race The inuention of Cecinna in sending newes to those of his house had much more speede he carried certaine swallowes with him and having occasion to send newes home he let them flie toward their nests first marking them with some colour proper to signifie what he meant as before he had agreed vpon with his friends In the Theatres of Rome the houshold Masters carried Pigeons in their bosomes vnder whose wings they fastened letters when they would send any word home which were also taught to bring back an answer D. Brutus vsed some being besieged in Mutina and otherselfe-where In Peru they went poste vpon mens backes who tooke their Masters vpon their shoulders sitting vpon certaine beares or chaires with such agilitie that in full running speede the first porters without any stay cast their loade vpon others who vpon the way waited for them and so they to others I vnderstand that the Valachians which are messengers vnto the great Turk vse extreame diligence in their businesse forasmuch as they have authoritie to dis-mount the first passenger they meete vpon the high-way and give him their tyred Horse And bicause they shall not be weary they are wont to swathe themselves hard about the bodie with a broade Swathe or Seare cloath as diverse others doe with vs I could never finde ease or good by it The three and twentieth Chapter Of bad meanes emploied to a good end THere is a woonderfull relation and correspondencie found in this vniversall pollicie of Natures workes which manifestly sheweth it is neither casuall nor directed by diverse masters The infirmities and conditions of our bodies are likewise seene in states and goverments Kingdomes and Commowealths as well as we are borne florish and fade through age We are subject vnto a repleatnesse of humours hurtfull and vnprofitable yea be it of good humours for even Phisitians feare that and because there is nothing constant in vs they say that perfection of health over joyfull and strong must by arte be abated and diminished lest our nature vnable to settle it selfe in any certaine place and for hir amendment to ascend higher should over-violently recoile backe into disorder and therefore they prescrib vnto Wrestlers purging and phlebotomie to substract that superabundance of health from them or of bad which is the ordinarie cause of sickenesse Of such like repletion are States often seene to be sicke and diverse purgations are wont to be vsed to purge them As wee have seene some to dismisse a great number of families chiefly to disburthen the Countrey which else where goe to seeke where they may at others charge seare themselves In this

and tried the passions of both sexes Venus huic erat vtraque nota Of both sortes he knew venery We haue moreouer learned by their owne mouth what tryall was made of it though in divers ages by an Emperour and an Empresse of Rome both skilfull and famous masters in lawlesse lust and vnrulye wantonnesse for hee in one night deflowred ten Sarmatian virgines that were his captiues but shee realy did in one night also answere fiue and twenty seuerall assaults changing her assailants as she found cause to supplye her neede or fitte her taste adhuc ardens rigidae tentigine vuluae Et lass●ta viris non dum satiata recessit and that vpon the controuersie happened in Catalogne betweene a wife and a husband shee complaining on his ouer violence and continuance therein not so much in my conceite because she was thereby ouerlabored for but by faith I beleeue not miracles as vnder this pretext to abridge and bridle the autority of husbands ouer their wiues which is the fundamental part of marriage And to shew that their frouning sullennesse and peeuishnesse exceede the very nuptial bed and trample vnder-foote the very beauties graces and delightes of Venus to whose complaint her husband a right churlish and rude fellow answered that euen on fasting dayes he must needes do it ten times at least was by the Queene of Aragon giuen this notable sentence by which after mature deliberation of counsel the good Queen to establish a rule and imitable example vnto al posterity for the moderation and required modesty in a lawfull marriage ordained the number of sixe times a day as a lawfull necessary and competent limit Releasing and diminishing a great part of her sexes neede and desire to establish quoth she an easie forme and consequently permanent and immutable Here vpon doctors cry out what is the appetite and lust of women when as their reason their reformation and their vertue is retailed at such a rate considering the diuers iudgement of our desires for Solon master of the lawiers schoole alloweth but three times a moneth because this matrimoniall entercourse should not decay or faile Now after we beleeued say I and preached thus much we haue for their particular portion allotted them continencie as their last and extreame penalty There is no passion more importunate then this which we would haue them only to resist Not simply as a vice in it self but as abhemination and execration and more then irreligion and parricide whilst wee our selues without blame or reproach offend in it at our pleasure Euen those amongst vs who haue earnestly labored to ouercome lust haue sufficiently vowed what difficulty or rather vn● esistable impossibility they found in it vsing nevertheles material remedies to tame to weaken and coole the body And we on the other side would haue them sound healthy strong in good liking wel-fed and chaste together that is to say both hotte and colde For marriage which we auerie should hinder them from burning affords them but small refreshing according as our manners are If they meete with a husband whose force by reason of his age is yet boyling he will take a pride to spend it else-where Sit tandem pudor aut eamus inius Multis mentula millibus redempta Non est haec tua Basse vendidisti The Philosopher Polemon was iustly called in question by his wife for sowing in a barren fielde the fruite due to the fertile But if they match with broken stuffe in ful wedlocke they are in worse case then either virgines or widowes Wee deeme them sufficiently furnished if they haue a man lie by them As the Romans reputed Clodia Laeta a vestall virgine defloured whom Caligula had touched although it was manifestly prooued hee had but approached her But on the contrary their neede or longing is thereby encreased for but the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth vp their heate which in their solytude was husht and quiet and laye as cinders raked vp in ashes And to the ende as it is likely to make by this circumstance and consideration their chastitie more meritorious Bòlestaus and Kingè his wife King and Queene of Poland lying together the first day of their mariage vowed it with mutuall consent and in despight of all wedlocke commoditie of nuptiall-delightes maintained the same Euen from their infancie wee frame them to the sportes of loue their instruction behauiour attire grace learning and all their words aimeth onely at loue respects onely affection Their nurces and their keepers imprint no other thing in them then the louelinesse of love were it but by continually presenting the same vnto them to distaste them of it My daughter all the children I have is of the age wherein the lawes excuse the forwardest to marry She is of a slowe nice and milde complexion and hath accordingly beene brought vp by hir mother in a retired and particular manner so that shee beginneth but now to put-off childish simplicitie She was one day reading a French booke before mee an obscene word came in hir way more bawdie in sound then in effect it signifieth the name of a Tree and another thing the woman that lookes to hir staid hir presently and somwhat churlishly making hir step ouer the same I let hir alone because I would not crosse their rules for I medle nothing with this government womens policie hath a misticall proceeding wee must be content to leave it to them But if I bee not deceiued the conuersation of twenty laqueis could not in six moneths have setled in hir thoughts the vnderstanding the vse and consequences of the found belonging to those filthy silables as did that good olde woman by hir checke and interdiction Motus doceri gaudet Ionicos Matura virgo et fingitur artubus I am nunc et incestos amores De tenero meditatur vngui Maides mariage-ripe straight to be taught delight Ionique daunces fram'de by arte aright In every ioynt and eu'n from their first haire Incestuous loves in meditation beare Let them somwhat dispence with ceremonies let them fall into free libertie of speach wee are but children wee are but gulles in respect of them about any such subject Heare them relate how wee sue how we wooe how we sollicite and how we entertaine them they will soone giue you to vnderstand that wee can say that we can doe and that we can bring them nothing but what they already knew and had long before disgested without vs. May it be as Plato saith because they have one time or other beene themselues wanton licentious and amorous lads Mine eares hapned one day in a place where without suspicion they might listen and steale some of their priuate lavish and bould discourses oh why is it not lawfull for me to repeate them Birlady quoth I to my selfe It is high time indeede for vs to goe studie the phrases of Amadis the metaphors of Aretine and eloquence of Boccace thereby to