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A02322	Nevv epistles of Mounsieur de Balzac. Translated out of French into English, by Sr. Richard Baker Knight. Being the second and third volumes; Correspondence. English. Selections	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.; Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645.	1638 (1638)	STC 12454; ESTC S103515	233,613	520

your custome is you will content your selfe with praising my quiet course of life yet I would have you to flatter at least my spirit though it be but with some light hope of so perfit a contentment promise me you will come and make me happy though you breake your promise I shall enjoy at least so much of good and in doing so you shal amuse me though you do not satisfie me I send you all I have of that admirable Incognito of whom there is so much talke and who hath made himself famous now these three yeares under the name of Petrus Aurelius I cannot for my life find who he is Mounsieur de Filsac told me lately at Paris that of him that brought the leaves to Printing hee could not possibly learne any more than this that he was a man who desires to serve God invisibly And in truth if you knew in what sort he carries his secrecie and with what care and cunning he hides himselfe you would confesse he takes more paines to shunne reputation then ambitious men take in running after it Farre from being a Plagiary to robbe others of their glory who refuseth that which is his own and suffers a Phantasme to receive those acclamations and praises which belong to himselfe This is no man of the common mould even in the judgement of his adversaries and his writings savour not the compositions of his age They are animated with the spirit and vigour of the former times and represent us a Church we never saw Yet it seemes in some passages he hath lesse of Saint Austins sweetnesse than of St. Hieroms choler and that he is willinger to doe that which justice onely permits him then that which charitie counsells him I could wish he had shewed a little more respect to the gray haires and rare merit of Father Sirmond or rather that hee would have laid aside his Armes and dealt with him in a gentler warre But there is no meanes to bridle a provoked valour nor to guide a great force though with a great moderation All Saints are not of one temper it is enough for Religion to cut off vices and to purifie the passions Our morall Divinitie acknowledgeth some innocent cholers and it is the beauty of Christs flocke that there be Lyons amongst the Sheepe and that as well the sublimest and strongest spirits as the basest and sweetest submit and prostrate themselves to the greatnesse of Christianitie If I had learned nothing in his booke but onely to know what respect men owe to a Character reverenced of the Angells I had not lost my time in reading him If Bishops be of such eminent authoritie shall we make any difficultie to call a Prelate My Lord and esteeme him lesse than a Grande of Spaine or then an Earle of England You will tell me more of this at your next meeting and I doubt not setting aside the interest of send it mee backe when you have read it and forget not the Chapters of honest Bernia I am more than I am able to expresse Sir Your c. At Balzac 15. Octo. 1634. To my Lord the Bishop of Nants LETTER LI. SIR I am now growne shamelesse and make no longer any conscience to be trouble some to you Yet hold on your course of goodnesse which hath from the very first beene so ready to me and freely makes me offer of that for which it ought to make me be a suitor I send you now foure leaves for Ruell and if you please to let three of your owne lines beare them company I doubt not but they will have a happy arrivall and that the skiffe will procure passage for the great vessell But because Fortune her selfe hath done one halfe of my discourse and that I have little commerce with any but Latines borne I humbly entreate you my Lord to be so good when I am fallen to helpe me to rise and not suffer me to goe astray in a Country where you are Prince I know you love your owne elections with more then naturall tendernesse and that you respect me as none of the least of your Creatures This is a cause why to keepe me in your favour and to ingage you in my interests I will not tell you to your face that you are the Chrysostome of our Church that you are privy to the most secret intentions of Saint Paul That there is neither Iew nor Gentile that hearing you speake of the greatnesse and Dignity of Christianity doth not willingly submit himselfe to follow Christ I will onely say it hath beene your will to be my Father and that I am My Lord Your c. At Balzac 8. Ianua 1630. Another to him LETTER LII SIR you have a right to all occasions of doing good I see not therefore how I can forbeare to offer you one and to the end you may alwaies be meriting of thankes why I should not alwaies be craving new courtesies The bearer of this Letter is my neere Kinsman yet our friendship is neerer then our alliance and the knot which Nature made Vertue hath tyed I humbly entreate your Lordship to let him see you slight not things whereof I make such reckoning and to doe that for my sake which you would much willinger doe for his owne sake if he were knowne unto you He is a man of mettall and spirit and hath served the King in this Province having also had the honour to be in person before him in very famous actions At this time he is troubled against all right and reason and they that have drawne him from the exercise of his charge to make a walke to Paris have nothing to say but that they doe it of purpose to vex him And therefore their manner of fight with him is by flights and retreates and they cast so many bones of difficulty betweene his Iudges and him that it is impossible they should ever come to any issue They are not able to hinder his justification at last but they are able to delay and keepe him off a long time You Sir may save him this long journey and may breake this Project of Calumny if you please but to facilitate the overture he will propose unto you obtaining for him of only one quarter of an houres audience I assure my selfe he will not be loath to heare him being able to informe him of the state of things in these parts and which he will doe faithfully You shall therefore my Lord infinitely oblige him to take him into your protection and you may be pleased to remember that it is your deere sonne that makes this request unto you one whom in the extasie of your Fatherly affection you have sometimes called your glory and the ornament of this Age who yet accounts no quality he hath so glorious as that which he will never part with whilst he lives to be My Lord Your c. From Balzac 3. Aprill 1630. FINIS A SVPPLY TO THE SECOND PART OR THE THIRD PART

I be alwayes forced to passe two Seas to fetch it when I need it I hope your justice will doe me reason and that Heaven will at last heare the most ardent of all my prayers but in the meane time whilst I stay waiting for so perfect a contentment I would be glad to have of it now and then some little taste which if it be not in your power to give mee at least lend it mee for some few dayes and come and sit as supreme President over both my French and Latin I promise you I will never appeale from you to any other onely for this once give mee leave to tell you that the word Ludovix which you blame as too new seemes to me a more Poeticall and pleasing word than either the Aloysius of the Italians or our Ludovicus and besides It savours of the Antiquitie of our Nation and of the first language of the Gaules witnesse these words Ambiorix Eporedorix Orgetorix Vercingetorix c. In which you see the Analogie to be plaine yet more than this I have an Authoritie which I am sure you will make difficultie to allow you know Monsieur Guyet is a great Master in this Art but perhaps you know not that hee hath used this very word Ludovix before I used it for I tooke it from excellent Verses of his Non tulit hoc Ludovix justa puer acer ab ira Etpatriae casum sic videamus ait For other matters Sir you may adde to that which was last alledged in the cause of Madam Gourney this passage out of the divine Jerusalem where Aladin calles Clorinda the Intercessour of Sophronia and of her lover Habbian vita Rispose libertade E Nulla a tanto Intercessor si neghi I kisse the hands of that faire creature you love and am with all my soule Sir Your c. At Balzac 20. Septemb. 1635. To my Lord the Earle of Port. LETTER X. SIR I have received a letter from you since your being in England but not being able to read the Gentlemans hand that writ it to me for want of a decipherer I have been forced to bee uncivill till now and have therefore not answered you because indeed I know not whom to answer but now that this Gentleman whose name is a mysterie in his letters is by good fortune come againe into this countrey I can by no meanes suffer him to part without some testimonie of the account I make of your favour and the desire I have to preserve it by all the possible meanes I can I will make you Sir no studied Protestations nor send complements to a man that is borne in the Countrey of good words I will onely say there are many respects that make your person dea●… unto mee and that besides the consideration of your vertue which gives mee just cause to honour you that also of the name you beare and of the ranke you hold are things that exceed the value of indifferencie I love all them that love France and wish well to our great Prince of whom in truth I have heard you speake so worthily that as often as I remember it it stirres mee up to doing my dutie and to profit by so good an example If hee had been seconded in Italy wee should have seene all we could have hoped But God himselfe saves none but such as contribute themselves to their salvation Saguntum was taken while the Senatours were deliberating and a wisedome that is too scrupulous commonly doth nothing for feare of doing ill The most part of Italians are themselves the workmen to make their owne fetters they lend the Spaniard their blood and their heares to make a slave of their countrey and are the particides of their mother of whom they might have been the redeemers But of all this wee shall talke more at Paris if you come thither this Winter as I am put in hope you will In the means time doe mee the honor to let me have your love and to believe mee there is none in the world more truely than I Sir Yours c. At Balzac 10 Sept. 1630. To my Lord the Bishop of Nantes LETTER XI MY Lord the joy I take in the recoverie of your health is not yet so pure but that it alwayes represents unto me a terrible Image of your last sicknesse The imagination of a danger thogh past gone yet makes my momorie afraid I looke upon it rather in safetie than with assurance We missed the loosing you but very narrowly and you were upon the poynt to leave us Orphans I speake it seriously and without any flattery at all all the victories we have gotten or shall get would never be able to make us amends for such a losse you would have made our conquest turne to mourning M. the Cardinall would have found something to complaine of in his great felicitie and would have watred his triumph with his teares Let it not be Gods will to lay this crosse upon our time and if it be a crosse inevitable yet let it be deferred to our posteritie It is necessarie the Pho●…nix should live out her age and that the world should be allowed time for enjoying the possession and so profitable and sweet a life as yours It is true the world is not worthy of you but my Lord the world hath need of you your vertue indeed should long since have beene crowned but that your example is still necessarie and the more happie ones there be in heaven the fewer honest ones will be left upon earth Love therefore your selfe a little for our sakes begin now at last to studie your health which hitherto you have neglected and make a difference hereafter between cold and heate betweene good and bad aire between meates that are sweet and those that are bitter Though you take no care of your health for your owne sake yet you must take care of it for the common good For I beseech you my Lord tell me what should become of the cause of the poore what of the desolation of widowes what of the innocencie of men oppressed I speak not of the hope of such as hope for preferment by you for though I write to you my Father and call you Monsieur yet I am none of that number I desire nothing from you at this time but that which you may give me without asking it of another your love and good will is the onely object of my present passion I renounce with all my heart all other things in the world so I may keepe but this and shall never complaine of my shipwracke if it leave me so solid a planke as this to rest upon Be●… pleased to doe me the honour to believe it and that I am with all my soule My Lord Your c. At Balzac 15. June 1635. To Monsieur Senne Theologall of the Church of Saints LETTER XII SIR I have been in extasie to heare of your health and that you keepe your bodie in that reasonable

false grounds and I require no better justifier than her owne conscience that accuseth mee Within a few dayes I will come my selfe in person and give you an account of all my actions and will trayne my selfe on to Paris in hope to enjoy the happinesse of your companie In the meane time be carefull to cure the maladie you tell me of which brings us forth such goodly Sonnets and makes so well agree the two greatest enemies that are in Nature I meane Passion and Judgement so I bid you Farewell and am with all my heart Your c. At Balzac 25. August 1639. To Monsieur de Coignet LETTER XLVIII SIR I am much bound unto you for your writing to me and for sending me Newes that exceedingly pleaseth mee You may well thinke I have no mind to crosse my own good and to refuse giving my consent to the Earle of Exceters request To have so illustrious an Interpreter in England is morethan a full revenge upon all the petty Scribes that oppose mee in France it is the crowning and triumph of my writings I am not therefore so a Philosopher that I place the honour he doth mee amongst things indifferent but rather to tell you plainly I have perhaps received too sensible a contentment in it and upon the poynt of falling againe into my old desire of glory of which I thought my selfe to have been fully cured I send you a word which I entreat you to deliver to him which shall witnesse for mee how deare and glorious the markes he gives mee of his love and account are unto mee Otherwise Sir I doubt not but I owe a great part of this good fortune to the good opinion you have of me which is to be seene in every lyne of your Letter and that you have confirmed the English in this Error which is so much in my favour Onely I entreat you never to seeke to free them of this errour but so to deale with them that if you convert them from other it may still be with reservation of this The truth in question is of so small importance that it deserves not any curious examination and in which to be in a wrong beliefe makes not a man to be either lesse honest or more unfortunate Never therefore make scruple to oblige me seeing you shall oblige a thankfull man and one who is Sir Your c. At Balzac 12. June 1629. To Monsieur de Neusuic LETTER XLIX SIR If I were onely blind I would try to make some answer to the good words of your Letter but the paine which my ill eyes put me to makes mee uncapable of this pleasing contention and I cannot draw from my head in the state it now is any thing else but Water and Waxe And besides the unhappie blindnesse I speake of I am in such sort overflowed with Rheumes that if it were in the time of the old Metamorphoses I thinke verily I should be turned into a Fountaine and become the subject of some new Fable I have lost as well my smelling as my taste my Nose can make no difference betweene Spanish Leather and an old Cowes hide and I sneeze so continually that all my conversation is but to say I thanke you to them that say God helpe you Being in this estate doe you not wonder I write unto you and have the boldnesse to be sending Letters In truth never complement cost me so deare as this and if I would make use of the priviledge of sicke men I might very justly require a Dispensation but I had not the power to let your servant goe away without telling you that you are a very honest Impostour and that the Perigurain you send is the most refined Frenchman that ever ranne afoote to Paris It must needs be that the people of your Village is a Colonie of the Louver that hath preserved the first puritie of their language amidst the corruption of their Neighbours There never were such fine things written upon the banke of Dordonne at least not since the death of Monsieur de Montaigne yet I esteeme them not so much because they are so fine as because they come from you whose I passionately am Sir Your c. At Balzac 25. Jan. 1633. To Madam Desloges LETTER L. MAdam I am alwayes of your minde and like not Ladies that would be Cavaliers There are certain bounds that part us and ma●… us out our several duties and conditions which neither you nor we can lawfully passe And the lawes of Decencie are so ancient that they seem to be a part of the ancient religion Moses hath extended the commandements of God even to the distinction of your apparell and ours and you know hee expresly forbids to disguise our selves in one anothers cloathes Women must be altogether women the vertues of our sex are not the vertues of theirs and the more they seeke to imitate men the more they degenerate from their owne kinde We have had some women amongst us that would ride Spanish horses would discharge Pistols and would be parties in maintaining quarrels M. the Marshall Scomberg shewed mee once a letter which he writ to a Gentleman of at the end whereof were these words I kisse the hands of this valiant and pleasing Lady that is your second in the day and your wife at night This Lady might perhaps bee valiant but to my humour she could not be pleasing If she had had abeard she could not have had a greater fault Women that are valiant are as much to blame as men that are cowards And it is as unseemly for Ladies to weare swords by their sides as for Gentlemen to have glasses hanging at their girdles I professe my selfe an enemy Madam to these usurpations of one sex upon another It strikes me with a kinde of horrour when I reade in historie of the ancient women Fencers whom the Romanes beheld with such pleasure in their Amphitheater and I account not Amazons in the number of women but of Monsters and Prodigies Sweetnesse and tendernesse are the qualities that belong to you and will your she Friend give over her claime to these that is to the succession of her mother and the priviledges of her birth will she not be as well content as you with the partition which Nature herselfe hath made I cannot conceive with what face she can goe a hunting amongst such violence tumults and how she can run hallowing all day till shee bee out of breath after a kennell of Hounds and a troope of Huntesmen God made her for the Closet and not for the Field and in truth it is a great sin to distend so handsome a mouth and to disfigure so comely a face with blowing a horne To expose such excellent things to all the boughes of the Forrest and to all the injuries of the weather and to endanger such pretious colours with winde and raine with the sunne and dust And yet Madam to see hunting without being a partie to goe in