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A78009	Letters of Mounsieur de Balzac. Translated out of French into English. Now collected into one volume, with a methodicall table of all the letters. 1. 2. 3. and 4th parts. By Sr Richard Baker Knight, and others.; Correspondence. English	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1595-1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing B614; Thomason E1444_1; ESTC R209109	450,799	529

should be but one Monarch upon earth and that the Pope himself for his better accomodation doth mean to resign Rome to him and exchange it for the Arch-Bishoprick of Toledo That the Battle where the King of Sueden was slain was the last sigh of dying libertie that this Prince was no such thing as we took him to be and for those atchievements of his which we entertain'd with such wonder nothing was performed without the help of Magick by vertue onelie of some charms and characters and the assistance of the Powers of Hell which at last was found too weak against the House of Austria That to the end that the second causes and humane means might concur with the design of providence forrain affaires do seem to complie of themselves to this great change That the King of England is not so brave but that he would be contented to be a Feudatary of the King of Spain and if it goes to the worst that there will not be wanting some Gunpowder-men to make him caper in the aire with his whole Realme That the cinders of the Holy League and the remainder of the Huguenot Partie begin to flame a new in Frence by the bellowes and Libells of St. Germaine that they have bargain'd with some secret Engineers who have undertaken to fortifie Ro●b●l in one night That Duke Charles must be revenged upon Nancy and that he doth hold Paris alreadie in extremitie that if there be not a Spanish Garrison alreadie in Turin and C●sall there will be one when it shall seem good to his Catholick M●jesty and when the Dukes of Savoy and Mantua shall be received into his favour That he will have none of Venice or Amsterdam because that an Illuminatee of Madrid and a Sybille of Naples have assured him that the Sea will one day swallow up these two great Cities and the losse of his Spaniards that should be their Commanders would be a cause of great grief unto him That he had long since chastis'd the Rebels of Holland if some considerations of state had not hindered him from it But let him preserve that Land of contradiction for a Fencing-schoole for his own Subjects to keep them from idlenesse and to breath them by continual exercise That for the rest if the world will not be so easilie conquered he hath in his coffers wherewith to buy it And hereabouts this Daughter of Fame and Enceladus her Brother must raise her tone higher and out-bid her first figure or number she must with one dash of the pen make more gold then the Sun can make in a thousand years she must make the windes labor and force the Ocean to groan under the new Fleet which according to her computation must arrive everie moneth punctuallie at Lisbon and Sivil she must make a discoverie if needs be of the third Indies and finde out all the hidden mines there not those within the Demaines of Antichrist excepted and cause them to be guarded by those evil Spirits which S Augustine calls for this reason Incubones Thesauroru●● c. Behold Sir a rude draught of a work which expects from you its consummation and perfection which you might soon finish if your poetical fancie should once seize you Here is matter you see for an excellent Irony and wherewith to continue it to a hundred verses and more though the Comedy did affect you neere so little especiallie when you shall adde from and fashion to the stuffe which I present you with who am Sir Your c. Balzac 27. Nov. 1637. To Monsieur de Couurelles LET. XXVIII SIR J cannot write unto you but tumultuarilie my hands and head are so ful of businesse that being to take a journie to Paris I am bound to bid farewell to the Clergie the N●bilitie and the Commons It is now four years that I have deliberated upon this voyage and being at last resolved I am like by your favor to be accompanied then I did expect Comes facundus in via c. I think I may give this attribute to your Book after the Elogy which you vouchsafe me therein and if I had not alreadie taken part and declared my selfe for the Author of the Flandrian History who is one of my good Lords and friends I should have entered blindlie into a new faction which as it seems you do abet and patronize but Sir you will not take it amisse that I professe constancie and that this second Author hath not won my first affection This evening I shall begin to entertain him and to taste of those delicacies whereof you were pleased to make an Essay These will not be painted Cares I am sure not Pageants of good no nimble juglings and impostures practised upon the eye and imagination as most part of those things are that come from that Countrie There is no imposture so finelie contrived as to be able to cheat so cautious a judgement as yours And I will folllow you wheresoever you will please to lead me I mean still to except matters of faith and I believe you will not be offended with such an exception since the Lawes of friendship will allow it me and since I never cease to be most affectionatelie Sir Your c. Angoulesme March 8. 1636. To LET. XXIX SIR My willingnesse to relieve afflicted men deserves not the thanks which I have reapt thereby This is a passion which on my part doth but produce fruitlesse desires and which cannot by you be ●●d in any estimation but out of a superlative noblenesse in you In that I have given harbor to a man that was persecuted I did but that which the Law of Nations required of me and what I would not have denied to the misfortunes of an or a Spaniard If you take this to mind and become my debtor you do assume the interest of all mankind and acquit the honor of the whole world for my part I am twice rewarded for an act which J thought was sufficientlie rewarded in the doing and for which J expected neither honor nor acknowledgement You see Sir that I am not privie to your secrets and if you were obliged hereby it was by an innocent and blindly ignorant man For the Cavalier touching whom you aske some news J believe that he hath prevented me as being unwilling that any other then himself should be the Historian of his adventures He will no question write unto you what hath hapned unto him in the Resectory of the Fathers and the notable advantages he hath gotten over a Gladiator of the long Gown J am not troubled a whit that he hath got him some credit in so good a place and gained the reputation of a man of valor Yet I must tell you that his credit is dearer unto me then my own interest and that if he have not the mind to dispute it is not my desire he should turn for my sake He may be my friend at a cheaper rate and I can content my self with the

Now that I have got it in possession again I mean not to be disseised of it If it be possible I bid eternal farewel to all Contracts Transactions and Acquittances These are Ornaments of our language which must not in my opinion enter into your Poems You have more care of the chastity of your Damsel then to violate her with these villanous terms and this were of a Vi●gin to make a strumpet of her But I can never obtain that small favor of you or prevail so much as to see here at least the first hundred verses that do concern her I do preserve carefully all those things that you have sent and never produce them out of my Treasury but to impart them to choice wits The invention of your first Metamorphosis is ingenious Ovid had swelled up and dilated that subject which you have contracted and pressed together But the importance is that in this little you appear great and I behold you intire in every parcel The second part doth please me no lesse yet then the first and I hold that Lionness happy that hath heaven for an Amphitheater and hath been placed there by such a hand as yours You make her jarre so well and tunably and her roaring is so sweet and melodious in your Verses that there is no musick comparable Those of do not flow in such numbers Longeque pulch●ius spectaculum est dignius oculis cruditi videre nobilem illam feram quam miserum febriculesum Annaei Lucaeni Simium With the last letter I received Bembus which you sent me In truth he is not so well polished and digested as those Authors in the Library of Monsieur But all tattered and confused as it is I can assure you it likes me infinitely I never love luxury and am nothing curious for gay Cloathes The beauty of Chariclea did shine through her raggs and your Marini hath made a Sonnet wherein he tells us how he fell in love with a canting D●xie I thank you therefore for Vinus and the Graces though ill attired which I met with in your Books and remain Sir Your c. Balzac 3. July 1633. To the same LET. LV. SIR I entertain your commendations like ill gotten goods the fruition whereof is sweet although unjust It is some honor to me to have so excellent a Flatterer as you are and I suffer my self willingly and take a pleasure to be deceived by a man that can do it so neatly I think indeed that the verses which you have seen are not bad in their kind but I think withall that this is the shortest of all kinds I durst not engage my self in a wider carreere my strength serves but for a short tugg and I walk at the foot of your Parnassu● but I should want breath if I should attempt to mount the top You do indeed Sir bear the name of a great Poet and succeed equally in all sorts of Verses and though you speak with extream modesty of the last work which you sent me I doe not finde that it oweth any thing to the fairest pieces that you have shewed us There is no stanza that hath not its particular value nor no piece but is remarkable for some beauty But that which did chiefly relish with me was the Prayer which you direct to Apollo and that admirable Musick which proceeding out of the Clouds heals your malady in a trice This is not the effect of ordinary Poetry it is a fit of that divine rapture and fury which Plato hath acknowledged and which the first Poets were sometimes possessed with Send me such Presents often if you would have me rich in my poverty and have good company in my solitude But above all love me well if you would have me happy and assure your self that no man in the world is more then I am Sir Your c. Balzac 9. Aug. 1634. To the same LET. LVI SIR I know that you love me and I know that you are in health but this is not enough I must learn something more concerning it and you must tell me some newes of your brave meditations Doth the Girle wage warre or doth she keep at home in the Country with her Father Doth Charles grow soft in the embraces of the fair Agnes or doth he quit love for honor In what state are the affairs of England How doth Hire and Pothe VVhat do your Achill●s and Aj●x are you for a battle or for a siege J●m nunc minaci murmure cornuum Perstringis aures jam litui strepūt Audire magnos jam videor Duces Non indecoro pulvere sordidos c. See questions enough at once but you are not bound to answer to them punctually and provided that you satisfie me in one Article you have to deal with a man of a facile disposition who will not be rigorous for the rest I am now more a Hermit then ever and for having here a little Court but two dayes onely I had the Megrim by it for three weeks Tranquility and silence Sir are precious things and it Epicurus had some reason to complain of his very friends that they did break his head with their applause and acclamations what must be said of the bawlings and exclamations of a mans enemies of the first and second part of the Philarkes of their times Those that write are subject both to the one and the other persecution But for my part I avow to you that hitherto Complements have done me more harm then injuries I use none towards you Sir for fear you should complain of me in the same manner and I am content to tell you that I am without complement that is intirely Angoulesme 1. Sept. 1632. Your c. To Monsieur de Silhon LET. LVII SIR You shew a sort of humility that is not sufferable and though it be the proper stile of Saints to talk of their vileness and their nothingnesse yet to reject all testimonies indifferently that come from another is in my opinion rather a contempt of our Neighbor then a modest conceit of our selves I am no flatterer but I prayse or disprayse according as I am perswaded of the merit of things or their default and if I talk often of the great lights that you have whether in a sacred or prophane Learning it is because I have been dazled therewith Your three Discourses do please me infinitely and I am very well pleased that mine did not displease you But I am the more glad that you are of my opinion touching the putting down quite of all Answers Replies Defences Apologies and the like Since I have but laughed at the attempts of a Legion I do not mean to complain of the insolence of one Garbine A man were better to pick out an enemies and this here may fight all alone if it please him It is not fit to shew anger against a man that deserves pitty nor to lose patience upon an occasion so obscure that it were hard to make