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A33864	A collection of select discourses out of the most eminent wits of France and Italy	Sarasin, Jean-François, 1614-1654. Conspiration de Walstein. English.; Voiture, Monsieur de (Vincent), 1597-1648. Histoire d'Alcidalis et de Zelide. English.; Mascardi, Agostino, 1591-1640. Congiura del conte Gio. Luigi de Fiéschi. English.; Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693. Discours sur les oeuvres de M. Sarasin. English.	1678 (1678)	Wing C5191; ESTC R13475	160,025	256

those Maxims which are distasted in publick by those who practice them in private fancying for himself immoderate Grandeurs lodg'd in the Stars which he did not forbear to hope for though his Reason seem'd to set them at an infinite distance But partly awaking from this dream his mind stuff'd with vast pretentions perceiving that with his small Forces 't was not possible for him to compass his designs resolves to accommodate his means to his ends by seeking in Marriage a rich and noble Lady and gain'd by his excellent address so much on her affections that she preferr'd him to several Great persons who were ingaged before him And after she was married continued so desperately amorous and jealous that she had almost kill'd him by mixing with his drink one of those Philters which instead of winning the mind wounds it making strange havock in the body that suffers its violences A Poyson by so much the more inevitable as it stands for a mark of affection with those that give it He was scarce recovered when his Wife dies without Children leaving him her Heir and Master of a great Estate Soon after the War of the Arch-Duke Ferdinand with the Venetians breaking out in Friol he imbrac'd the occasion he had so often wish'd and thought so necessary for him believing that to able men the way of Arms was the most certain and shortest to arrive at Greatness whereas Peace might enrich many but rais'd few so levying at his own charge three hundred Horse well appointed he offer'd his own and their Service to the Duke at the Siege of Gradisk where by his liberality to his Officers and readiness to succour his Souldiers in their necessities by his conduct in War often fortunate alwaies remarkable doing actions extraordinary praising other mens silent in his own acting with vigilance and care keeping his Troops in abundance when the whole Army wanted he put himself in the reputation of one that amongst many good qualities had some extraordinary and gain'd together with the friendship of Ferdinand the charge of Colonel over the Moravia Forces The Troubles of Bohemia following and the Nobility of that Kingdom conspiring against the Emperour Walstein continued faithful though the Rebels solicited him by offers of chief employment and by the hopes and recompences of the War But he pretending no less from the Emperour and as yet preferring things certain and honest to things doubtful and tumultuary after having endeavour'd in vain to repress the Sedition of Prague when he saw that he could not keep his Moldavian Troops in their obedience and that his Countreymen had confiscated his Estate he got as much of the Publick Treasure as he could and retir'd to Vienna where all was squeez'd from him except twelve Thousand Crowns which he had conveyed away and with which he rais'd a Thousand light Horse But here I must not omit one passage which shew'd the particular care that Fortune took of this man which is that at the first of these Troubles and before the Rebels had begun the War the chief of the party enter'd in Arms and without leave into the privy Chamber of the Emperour where they made their propositions with such insolence that one of them his hand on his Sword durst say 't was that should satisfie their demands if denied In this fear and surprize of Ferdinand Walstein arriv'd by chance with a new rais'd Troop which he meant to shew the Emperour which oblig'd these bold Rebels who thought themselves betray'd and lost to throw down their Arms and to cast themselves at the Princes foot whose favour Walstein possess'd from this time to that of his revolt Whilst what he did in this War particularly his defeating six Thousand Hungarians with fifteen Troops of Horse purchas'd him an extream Fame and an extream Envy for never any could separate these two the Prince of Leistaine constituted Judge of the Bohemian Rebels and Governour of the Kingdom accused him at Vienna But he that well knew the nature of the Court where Absence is criminal if it be not defended and where Safety is alwaies found if we will buy it hastned thither with sixty Thousand Crowns and not only purchas'd an esteem for his Innocence but minding to acquire some of the Great ones that might protect and sustain his Fortunes besides that Artifice and Interest gain'd him divers he marries the Daughter of Charles of Arach chief Counsellor and Favourite to Ferdinand and by the credit of his Father in Law and the succours of Money which he lent the Emperour in his pressing necessities he obtain'd besides his light Horse two Regiments of Foot and the charge of Serjeant Major General The victories of this party and the weakness of the Revolted having in appearance ended the War Walstein who perceived how things went and knew that the Rebellion was rather dissembled than extinct and that the Leagues made all over Europe against the House of Austria might surprize it unprovided undertook a thing as memorable as extraordinary and whereof the execution might seem impossible for any Private man who had not that credit with the Souldier which his good conduct had gain'd him He offer'd the Emperour to raise an Army of thirty Thousand men at his own charge on condition he might be General and so wrought by his Industry his Friends and by ingaging his whole Estate that he in a short time accomplish'd it and succeeding to the charge of the Marquess of Montnegro who was depos'd for having unfortunately serv'd the Emperour in Transylvania he ow'd his Dignity to nothing but his Ambition and his Vertue In this high employment he added much to his Reputation He took the Town and Diocess of Alberstad Conquer'd Hall and its Bishoprick wasted the Territories of Magdeburgh enter'd into those of Anhalt fortified Dessau defy'd Mansfield and with him four Thousand Flemings the chief Force of the Danish Army After that having taken Debst and perceiving that Mansfield and Weimar with their Forces bent towards Hungary by way of Silesia to give life to the Rebellion and joyn with Bethlem Gabor he pursu'd Bethlem and Mansfield and finding them at the Siege of Novegrade vanquish'd them cut in pieces the Janizaries that were come to the succour of Transylvania and drove Mansfield out of Germany who had been its Terrour for so many years Returning into Silesia where he found Weimar dead he oblig'd half his Troops to surrender themselves and overcame the rest took in all the revolted Towns and after he had pacified the hereditary Provinces led his victorious Army strengthen'd by that of Tilly against the King of Denmark With these great Forces he defies the Marquis of Vrlach conquers the Archbishoprick of Breme and Holsace fill'd his Troops out of the new Levies that Charles of Lauemburgh had rais'd for the Enemy render'd himself Master of all that lies between the Ocean and the Baltick Sea leaving the King of Denmark nothing but Glucstad and that little corner

delightful the first of those who to shew their Wit are continually contradicting those Opinionative men who whether it be through a foolish Pride dispute against the Truth they know which is a vice unworthy of an honest man or whether it be that they can never know it being once prepossest which is alwaies a great fault or whether they sustain trifling matters unseasonably or with too much heat without complacency without discretion which is a great weakness But this is a matter without bounds wherein I am engaged I stop here and it shall be enough to say None of these weaknesses were discoverable in our Friend and whether by this or by a thousand rare qualities he pleas'd all different sorts of Spirits as if he never thought of pleasing but one of them The Ladies the Learned the Courtiers in Affairs in Pleasures whether he held a place in a regulated and serious Conversation or whether amongst his Friends and Acquaintance he was carried to those innocent debauches of mind those sage Follies wherein serious Discourses give way to the capriccio's and ends of Poetry where every thing is in season except cold and severe reason But it is time to put an end to this long Discourse wherein I fear to have taken pains for my own shame rather than for Monsieur Sarasin's honour however I have done what I chiefly desir'd to do for I have given publick marks of the Esteem I had for him may they be as immortal as his Works I may be accus'd for having said too much but when I consult the passion I have for his glory I reproach my self for not having said enough and I know well that if I had not rejected several things that came into my mind upon this rich and abundant Subject I had said much more A DIALOGUE OF LOVE Out of French BEing come to Paris to justifie my Innocence and oppose the Calumnies of mine Enemies whilst I expected answer of Letters written to the Court in my favour and was in the mean time retir'd with my intimate Friend M. P. one day after dinner M. Chappelein Trilport and Menage came to visit me These Gentlemen concern'd themselves infinitely in my disgrace and acted in my behalf with a noble heart not to be found in the Histories of Orestes and Pilades and other Friends of antiquity They sound me in the Hall where I was hearkning to an excellent Musician I believed said Mons Chappelein addressing himself to me that in this your Retirement I should rather have found you fasten'd to Seneca's Treatise which proves that a wise man is not subject to the Injuries of Fortune than pleasing your self with Musick which ordinarily does not delight any but unperplexed minds This ought not to surprize you answer'd I for first you do me wrong to esteem me of a perplexed mind seeing you know that my Conscience is very clear and though this seem strange to you you that have been accustom'd to regulate your vertue by that of the Stoicks and would have us as they encounter Misfortunes with a stubborn brow and not take off our thoughts from the Evil we are to combat till we have made a perfect conquest of it yet it is convenient for us who follow another Sect and by another biass defend our selves from Grief not to wrestle with it and to endeavour rather to forget than to vanquish it This is said M. Menage the Opinion of Epicurus who will have us dream of Pleasures to take us off from the thought of Pains and ordains that we master it by Diversion Truly we must acknowledge pursu'd he that this mans Philosophy does marvellously assist Nature and that his Opinions are very well accommodated to our weakness and I cannot enough praise our excellent Gassend whom we may call as they did Epicurus the Father of Truth or ar they called Socrates the Father of Philosophy we cannot I say praise him enough for having employ'd that profound crudition and long experience which hath got him so many Admirers to clear up what remains of the Doctrine of this Philosopher and anew to found a School whose Disciples once fill'd whole Towns in Greece I am very glad reply'd I that you have not insulted over this Author of Pleasure with the most part of the World who are deceived by this last word and who do not dream that the true Epicureans lead a life as regular as our reform'd Monks and that you may the better see I combat Grief by flying it see but the Books I read in my idle hours you will not find Boetius or Epictetus among them Hereupon M. Trilport coming to the Table found a Lucretius a Salust and the Romance of Perceforets and turning towards me The first of these Books saith he is proper for you the other is one of our old Tales but as for Salust who can make an Historian one of the Disciples of Epicurus who forbids his to meddle with the Commonwealth I am not sworn reply'd I to observe all the Rules of this Philosopher and I only follow those Opinions of his to which my Reason and Nature carry me But saith he again opening Lucretius I find you very bold to read Verse you that know 't is Verse hath done you so many bad offices 'T is true answer'd I that I owe a great deal of ill-will to the Muses but 't is to my own for I might have read all the Verses in the World if I had not made Verses It was time for me to retire for having wrot Qu'Eve ayma mieux pour s'en faire conter Prester l'oreille aux fleurettes du Diable Que d'estre femme ne pas coquetter I was so embroil'd with the Sex that I know no Elegies so lamentable nor Stanza's so flattering that could charm the wrath of our Ladies Perhaps then replied M. Chappelein you have not only bid adieu to Phoebus and the nine Sisters but also to Cupid and his Mother and do not you remember adds M. Trilport the Verse of our Country man Bertaut Que s'empescher d'aymer est dur aux belles ames I remember nothing but what follows answer'd I Qu'aymer fidellement apporte de soucy And to speak freely retiring from the Service of Ladies I rather think I have cur'd my self of a small Disease than deprived my self of a great pleasure For this time says M. Menage you shall not be alone and you see one that hath long since hung up his Chains in the Temple of Liberty Away away says M. Chappelein you are ingrateful Fellows for not to mind you of your good Fortunes do you not remember that what you have of Civility and Politeness you have learnt it of Ladies who have suffer'd you and been belov'd by you Truly replied I I could answer you that I never was happy enough to obtain that which you call Good fortune and protest to you with the Spaniard that Amador fui mas nunca fui amado However that you may not contest

of the Emperour in reputation who had scarce any left and to relieve the people in their Fears by raising a belief in them that this side wanted only a Commander and not Forces willing also to build up a great Opinion of himself he gives out Commissions to levy sixty Regiments treats with the King of Poland for twenty thousand Cossacks negotiates with the Duke of Lorain to engage him in the War sends into Italy to buy the best Arms and every where sows Reports advantagious for his Party And to the end that the success might not deceive his Attempts and that with more facility he might assemble his Troops who were to be the source of his second Greatness he chose the Territory of Znaim to form the Body of his Army in inclin'd to it by the commodious scituation on the Confines of Moravia and the Hereditary Provinces where notwithstanding the Swedish War Abundance and Peace had remain'd and where the fury of the Enemy and the Domestick mischiefs of Winter quarter had not penetrated In this place whilst he wrote civilly to the Colonels dissembling his natural Fierceness treating them with marks of Courtesy and Friendship adding largess and profusion sparing neither Care nor Coyn Souldiers flocking to him upon his Credit he rais'd in two Months an Army if not answering the Fame in number yet 't was more than could have been expected aided in this by voluntary Contributions of the principal Ministers of Vienna great for the particulars but made more considerable by the necessity supplying out of his own Money for the poorer Officers and ingaging the Richer by his address to raise Troops with theirs feeding them with hopes of recovering all out of the riches of Prey and Garrisons When he saw all was ready casting himself again within his wonted Artifices he wrote to Vienna that he had satisfied his Promise and that now he would retire that the Army was ready but he wish'd Domestick Peace that they should send a General and grant him a retirement He knew for all this that what he as'kd was impossible for having put into imployment the Captains he retain'd in his disgrace given Regiments to his Kinsmen and ancient Confidents under pretence of sparing the principal Pay and training up new Souldiers under old Commanders obliging the Colonels to hazard all they had upon the sole hopes of his Parol winning the Chief Officers by high Imployments corrupting the Souldiers by Presents and all men in general by the expectation of his Fortune he had so order'd things that this Army could not subsist without him and reduc'd the Emperour to an absolute necessity of maintaining him General When they knew at Vienna that he persisted to signifie dislike of the Service the Ministers of Spain and those of Bavaria attempted once more to take his Command from him The first who govern'd the King of Hungary by means of his Wife absolute upon his Spirit and depending wholly on their Counsels took this occasion to render that Prince Master of Arms and of Affairs The Duke of Bavaria fear'd to see the Command in the hands of him whom he had despoil'd of it They urg'd both of them that the Power confer'd on Walstein caus'd the Revolt and 't would confirm the Rebellion if it were renew'd and make those contrive to revolt who hitherto remain'd faithful that the presence of the King of Hungary would lead Princes and People back to their Allegiance who would be asham'd to bear Arms against the Son of their Sovereign and who must one day be so besides what opinion would Europe entertain of the Successour to the Empire if he should be depriv'd of this Command And what greater Argument of the weakness of the Empire than shamefully to betake themselves to a man who design'd Misfortunes to it That this was to condemn of Imprudence the last Councils and expose themselves afresh and voluntarily to dangers that under pretence of Publick good they ought not to trust Walstein nor put him in condition to revenge the Injuries he believed to have receiv'd especially since a design of Rule might be mixt with his appetite of Revenge and our Fidelities hardly defend themselves against these two that this man was proud and immoderate that he every day scatter'd new marks of his Indignation and that in his retreat at Prague he had meditated nothing but dangerous and vast designs dissimulation and revenge But these Considerations though pregnant gave way to the necessity of imploying him for the conservation of the new Army the chief support of the Imperial party Ferdinand himself calling to mind in his present calamity the formidable estate wherein this General had once plac'd him as it is ordinary for the unhappy to suffer themselves to be blinded with the weakest hopes flatter'd himself with thoughts of retrieving his former Greatness and secur'd himself of the Fears they endeavour'd to instill Besides his Council jealous of the direction of the Affairs of Germany which the Spaniards went about to usurp hoping that Walstein joyning with them might uphold their credit favour'd his Cause and declar'd that the House of Austria had need of him that 't was necessary to reserve the Emperour for last extremities and not fit to expose the welfare of his state to the Youth and Courage of his Son especially in a conjuncture wherein they could not err twice and wherein full experience of the Military Art was scarce sufficient They added that the Duke of Bavaria opposed good designs because 't is natural to hate those we have wrong'd and that he preser'd his private Enemies to the general good that he would strip the Empire of its best defence the more easily to betray it For at this time the Loyalty of this Elector became suspected and by intercepted Letters they found that he manag'd a Peace with the Swede And thus the care of the War was put upon Walstein but as all his feigned coolness was only to obtain Advantages on which he might found his Usurpation perceiving that they did not act sincerely and that the hatred of his Enemies gave way only to the despair of their Affairs ready to break out again when they could ruine him securely that the good-will of Ferdinand seem'd constrain'd and that his words were by so much the less real as they were vehement and common in fear he confirms himself in his resolution of maintaining his Authority by fraud and by force believing he could do nothing unjust against his mortal Enemies And now after many Instances having declar'd that he was ready to do what they would provided they furnish'd him with what was necessary Echamberg and the Bishop of Vienna who were return'd with ample power to grant him any thing urging him to declare what he desir'd as one that accepted of a weighty Charge and ask'd only such things as might aid him to overcome the difficulties of it with much confidence he told them that several reasons would have forbid

him accepting the Command wherein he was ingag'd if the love of his Countrey and desire to serve his Prince had not controul'd them that he had already imployed his Estate that he was ready to hazard his life also that they would have him add his Honour which he esteem'd above Riches or Life that he was upon the point to begin a War in which 't was rashness to hope a good success with a Great and War-like King hitherto Arbiter of Victory and Fortune against whom he should only oppose new and vanquish'd Souldiers that he could expect nothing from the weakness of the Empire the division of its Councils the falseness of its Allies that he found he was the mark of Hatred and Envy that in this condition where every thing was against him and he had nothing but his Virtue to encourage him they expected with impatience the success of his Imployment that if good men wish'd him prosperous because he labour'd for the Publick good his Enemies long'd for his ruine which they prefer'd to their cause prepar'd to accuse him as guilty if he fail'd to be happy and to impute to him as Crimes the faults of Fortune That for these Reasons it behov'd him to see that good men might not be deceiv'd that Malice might be disappointed and his Honour preserv'd and that it was but fit that those who against his mind had call'd him to such difficulties should grant him what they as well as himself must judge necessary to his present condition and without which they would ruine the Affairs of the Empire and his Reputation After this discourse which in appearance was so much the more innocent as it seem'd free and disinteressed he gave them Articles containing That they made him General of the Austrian Armies and Arbiter of Peace with an intire absolute and independent Power that the King of Hungary should never come to the Army that he might by his private Authority and without communicating with the Councils of Ferdinand or the Chamber of Spire dispose of Confiscations Permissions and Graces and that the Hereditary Countries should be appointed for the Winter quarters of his Army These Conditions were hard and Walstein to excuse them alledged That great Enterprizes were scarce ever successful but under the Conduct of one man that often the issue had been unfortunate where many were mingled in Command that the Romans when they had chas'd away their Kings were forc'd in the dangers of their Commonwealth to create Dictatours that Gustavus acting alone on weak beginnings found himself Victorious beyond his hopes that on the contrary a multitude of Masters had lost the best Souldiers of the World and brought the Empire almost to its subversion that this Example was enough to let us see how weak Power becomes when 't is divided that the fear of Shame and desire of Glory made us act vigorously so long as they touch'd none but our selves but when they were in common we neglected that reputation and that blame whereof little would come to our share He imploy'd the like Reasons for Negotiations of Peace where number hurts the secret where different Interests and divers Conducts hoodwink Prudence retarding or diverting opportunities of Treating He added that it would not be advantagious the King of Hungary should Command in the Army nor fit he should Obey that 't was not convenient Souldiers should leave the Service and go to seek Rewards of their pains at Court where their Faces were scarce known and where ordinarily forward men and Flatterers disguised Truth decry'd the best Actions and usurp'd the place of Merit that 't was necessary Rewards and Punishments should be present in Armies if we would preserve Order and gain Affection that there were no Souldiers that fight for a steril Fame that the desire of Gain and Greatness drew them to the War that their Blood was the price of their Fortune that the transport of our Passions being the cause of our Crimes the pleasure of satisfying them would turn these Crimes into Habits when not severely chastis'd that upon hopes of Impunity bad men were hardned Good men corrupted and Discipline ruin'd that he did desire permission to establish his Winter quarters in the Hereditary Provinces only to serve himself of it in extremity and to maintain his Army if he should be reduc'd to that Retreat other parts of Germany being harras'd and possest by the Enemy that he should endeavour by all ways to Winter elsewhere but if the fortune of Arms always doubtful should draw the War in length as 't was probable or if Fortune should continue lavishly to favour the worst side they ought resolve to suffer this moderated inconvenience unless they had a mind to see the Swedish Troops pillage the Provinces and the Heritage of Caesars become a prey to the Barbarous Though all this appear'd necessary and innocent yet the thoughts of Walstein aim'd further and tended to grasp a Dictatorship in the Empire that he might render Ferdinand despicable despoil'd of his Majesty and reduc'd to a perfect Idleness and also to accustome the Souldier to acknowledge him their only Master every one ordinarily fixing his Servitude to the present fear or profit and does not wonder to see the Sovereignty usurp'd by him that acts all from him that voluntarily fitting still seems to have given it away to the more worthy Now the better to cover his intentions and to shew that he did not stretch his designs beyond those of a Private man after his Propositions that regarded the Publick he made others for himself earnestly urging that the reward of what Service he should do might be assign'd him in Austria and that his restitution to the Dukedom of Meckleburgh should be compriz'd in any Treaty of Peace that might be made as if he dreamt of nothing but to joyn himself to and depend more than ever upon the House of Austria limiting his Ambition and his hopes to the bare recovery of his ancient Dignity Praying further that if they should call him off from his Service he might have six Months warning to prepare himself as he said to retire without disorder whether it were to make them believe that holding his Authority as a thing indifferent and uncertain he was far from any thoughts of keeping it by force or whether he desir'd to have this warning given him that he might be the better able to carry his designs to their ends without precipitation if he sound himself oblig'd to it After they had granted him every thing the Spaniards accommodating themselves to Affairs and according to the time feigning Joy for his re-establishment sent him their Order of the Fleece as a publick mark of Honour and good-will However that their proceeding might not be suspected of dissimulation or weakness and that they might not seem totally to abandon their Pretentions to rule in Germany they propos'd that after the recovery of Behemia the King of Hungary should remain at Prague with an