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A84661	The French Lucian made English; By J.D. Esq; Nouveaux dialogues des morts. Part 1. English.	Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700, attibuted name.; Davies, John, 1625-1693, attributed name.	1693 (1693)	Wing F1412C; ESTC R202364	37,387	157

whither God does know Alone thou goest naked and all over quaking Alas what 'll become of thy pretty fooling humour Lass what 'll become of so many pleasant frolicks I can't guess Cato treated Death like a business that was too serious but you see I drolled with it and herein it is that I pretend that my Philosophy went far beyond Cato's It is not so difficult haughtily to out-brave Death as it is to joak her in a careless manner nor is it so hard a thing to receive her kindly when we call her to our aid as when she comes when we have no need of her M. of Austria Yes I grant Cato's death is not so brave as yours but as ill luck would have it I had not observed that you had made these small Verses in which the bravery of yours does consist Adrian This is the way of all the world Cato may tear out his Bowels rather than fall into the hands of his Enemy it is perhaps no such great matter if it be throughly examined yet such a feat as that makes a vast shew in History and there 's not one but is taken with it Another may die fair and quietly and be in a capacity to make drolling Verses upon his death 't is more than Cato has done but this has nothing in it that is taking and History does scarce take notice of it M. of Austria Alas nothing is truer than what you say And I my self that now speak to you I have a death that I pretend is far before yours and yet 't is less taken notice of 'T is not however a downright death but such as 't is it exceeds yours that does exceed Cato's Adrian How what do you mean M. of Austria I was an Emperor's Daughter I was contracted to a King's Son and this Prince after his father's death sent me back to mine notwithstanding the solemn promise he had mad● to marry me After this the contracted me to the Son of another King and as I was going b● Sea to this Husband my Ship w●● beaten with a terrible Tempe●● which cast my life into evide●● danger Then it was that I mad● my self this Epitaph Megg that pretty Damsel does h●●● lie Has two Husbands and yet a M●●● does die The truth is I did not die 〈…〉 but 't was not my fault Co●ceive well this kind of death yo● be satisfied with it Cato's Co●stancy is injured in one kind yo● in another mine is natural H● too high you are too drolling am reasonable Adrian What You tax me of having had too little fear of death M. of Austria I do It is not likely that a man should be in no disorder at his dying hour and I am confident you did force your self then to droll as much as Cato did to tear out his Entrails I am every moment in expectation of Shipwrack without frightning my my self and I mak my Epitaph in cold blood this is very extraordinary and if there were nothing to moderate this History there would be some reason not to believe it or to believe that I did act only by way of Rhodomantado But in the mean while I am a poor Girl twice contracted and yet have been so unlucky as to die a Maid I shew my Concern for it and that gives my History all requisite appearance of truth Your Verses mind them well carry no meaning with them there is nothing but a Gibbrish made up of ● few Childish Terms but min● have a very clear Sense and giv● content at the very first which i● a sign that Nature speaks in them much more than in yours Adrian Truly I should neve● have believed that the trouble to die a Virgin ought to have been so much ●o your Glory M. of Austria Make your sel● as pleasant with this as you please but my death if it may be terme● so has another especial advantag● over Cato's and over yours Yo● had both of you played the Philosophers so much whilst you lived that you had engaged your selve upon Honour not to be afraid o● death and if you had had the liberty to fear it I cannot tell wha● would have come on it But I a● long as the storm lasted I had a Right to tremble and make my ●ries reach Heaven without any ●ody's taking exception at it or ●aving a less esteem for me Ne●ertheless I remained quiet enough ●o make my Epitaph Adrian Betwixt you and I Was ●ot the Epitaph made on Shore M. of Astria Ah! this wrangling ●●us is ill-becoming I did not so ●y you about your Verses Adrian I yield then in good ●arnest and I grant that when ●ertue does not go beyond the ●ounds of Nature she is very ●reat The Fifth Dialogue Erasistrates Herveus Erasistrates YOU tell me wonders What the Blood circulates in th● Body the Veins carry it from th● Extremities of the Heart and go● from the Heart into the Arterie which convey it back again towards the Extremities Herveus I have shewed so m●ny Experiences of this that n●body makes any further questio● of it Arasist We deceived our selve● very much then we Physicians o● Antiquity who took the Blood t● have but one slow motion fro● the Heart towards the Extrem●ties of the Body and people are highly obliged to you for having ●bolished this ancient Error Herv So I pretend And people ●ught too to be so much the more obliged to me in that I was the first that set them in the way to make all those fine Discoveries as are now made in Anatomy Since I once found out the Circulation of the Blood 't is now who shall find a new Conduit out to convey the Blood into all parts of the Body a new Reservatory It ●ooks as though whole Man were melted down again Behold the advantages our Modern Physick ought to have above yours You made it your business to cure the Body of Man and his Body was altogether unknown to you Erasist I own that your modern Physitians are better Naturalists than we they understand Nature better but they are not better Physitians we cured the Sick as well as they cure them I could wish all these modern ones and you the very first of all had had Prince Antiochus in hand to cure of his Quartern Ague You know how I went about it and how ● discovered by the more than ordinary beating of his Pulse in the presence of Stratonice that he was enamoured with that beautifull Queen and that his whole Disease did proceed from his violent striving to hide his Passion● And yet I made so difficult and so considerable a Cure as that was without knowing that the blood did circulate and I am of opinion that notwithstanding the help you might have received from this knowledge you would have been very much puzled had you been in my place The Point then in agitation was not about new Conduits nor new Reservatories what was most considerable to be known in the Patient was the

is pretty reasonable that our Names should die too they are of no better quality then we DIALOGUES OF SOME Modern Dead The First Dialogue Anne of Britany Mary of England Anne of Britany FOR certain my death did you a great kindness you immediately upon it crossed the Sea to go and marry Lewis XII and seize upon the Throne which I left empty for you But you enjoyed it but a while and I was revenged of you by means of your youth and beauty which rendred you too too lovely in the King's eye and with overmuch facility did comfort him in his loss of me for they hastned his death and hindred you from being Queen long Mary of England Truly Royalty did but just shew it self to me and presently disappeared Anne of Brit. And after this you became Dutchess of Suffolk A fair fall For my part Heaven be thanked I have had another destiny When Charles VIII died I did not lose my place by his death and I married his Successor which is an example of a very singular happiness Mary of Engl. Would you believe me if I did tell you that I never bore you any grudge for that happiness Anne of Brit. No. I apprehend too well what it is to be Dutchess of Suffolk having first been Queen of France Mary of Engl. But I loved the Duke of Suffolk Anne of Brit. That 's nothing After one has once tasted the sweetness of Royalty is it possible to relish any other Mary of Engl. It is provided they be of love I do assure you that you ought not to wish me il● for having succeeded you If al● along I could have disposed o● my self I should have been but ● Dutchess and I made a speed● return into England to take upo● me that Title so soon as ever I wa● discharged of that of Queen Anne of Brit. Were you so lo● minded Mary of Engl. Ambition I mus● confess was of no concern to me Nature has made some plain pleasures for men such as are easie and quiet and their imagination makes them some that are intricate uncertain and hard to come by but Nature is more dexterous in creating them pleasures than they are themselves Why do not they commit that charge to her She invented Love which is very pleasing and they have invented Ambition which was needless Anne of Brit. Who tells you that men did invent Ambition Nature is no less busie in inspiring desires of elevation and commanding than she is in working an inclination in men to love Mary of Engl. Ambition may be easily known to be a work of the imagination she is the very form of it she is restless full of chymerical projects she has no sooner attained her desires but she out-goes them again She aims still at a mark she never hits Anne of Brit. And unluckily Love has a mark which he hits but too soon Mary of Engl. That which ensues hereupon is that one may oftentimes be happy through Love and one can be so but once through Ambition or if it be possible to be s● at least those kind of pleasures are made for no great number of persons and consequently Nature does not propose them to Men for her favours are always very general Consider Love 't is made for every one None but such as do seek out their happiness in a state too elevated do think that Nature has grudged them the sweet delights of Love A King who can make himself sure of an hundred thousand Arms cannot perhaps make himself sure of one heart He knows not whether that which a man does for another person be not done out of a point of Honour His Royalty deprives him of the sincerest and the sweetest pleasures Anne of Brit. You do not render Kings much the more unhappy by this inconvenience you find out in their condition When a man sees his Will not only fulfilled but prevented an infinite number of Fortunes depending upon a word which he may utter when he pleases so many cares such a multitude of designs so much eagerness such an application to please whereof he is the only object truly it is a comfort to a man not to know exactly whether he be loved for his degrees sake or for his person's sake The pleasures of Ambition say you are designed for too few what you charge them with as a fault is their greatest charm In point of good luck Exception flatters and such as reign are excepted with so much advantage from the condition of other men that though they should lose something of the pleasures which are common to all the world they would still have more than they would desire Mary of Engl. Ah! judge of their loss by the sensibility wherewith they receive those sincere and common pleasures when any present themselves Hear what a Princess of my own Blood told me here the other day who has reigned in England both very long and very happily and without an Husband too She gave her first Audience to some Dutch Ambassadors who had in their Retinue an handsome young man So soon as he saw the Queen he turned himself towards some that were near him and spoke something to them softly but with a Countenance that made her guess pretty well what he said for Women are endued with an admirable instinct Those three or four words of this young Dutch-man whieh she had not heard remained more in her mind than the whole speech of the Am●assadors and as soon as they were gone she would needs satisfie her self in what she had imagi●ed She asked those to whom this ●oung man had spoken what he had said to them They made her ●nswer with great respect that it was what they did not dare to tell ●gain to so great a Queen and ●orbore telling it a long time In ●ine when she made use of her ●bsolute Authority she was told ●hat the Dutch-man had said in a low voice Ah! this is an handsome Woman and had added some grosser expression but brisk to shew that he liked her They made the relation hereof with great apprehension however nothing happened upon it saving only that when she dismissed the Ambassadors she made a considerable Present to the young Dutch-man See how among all these pleasures of Greatness and Royalty this of being thought handsom● did touch her to the quick Anne of Brit. But in fine she would not have purchased it with the loss of the other Any thing that is too downright is not fo● Man's turn It is not sufficient th● pleasures do take with sweetness they must agitate and transport ● man How comes it to pass tha● the Pastoral life such as the Poet● describe it had never any Being but in their works and would not be liked of if put in practice It is too sweet and too too plain Mary of Engl. I confess men have spoiled all But how happens it that the sight of the most Majestical and most pompous Court in the World