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A70610	Essays of Michael, seigneur de Montaigne in three books : with marginal notes and quotations and an account of the author's life : with a short character of the author and translator, by a person of honour / made English by Charles Cotton ...; Essais. English	Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.; Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	1700 (1700)	Wing M2481; ESTC R17025	313,571	634

it is in use and by all good Princes as much to be desired who have reason to take it ill that the Memories of the Tyrannical and Wicked should be us'd with the same Reverence and Respect with theirs We owe 't is true Subjection and Obedience to all our Kings whether good or bad alike for that has respect unto their Office but as to Affection and Esteem those are only due to their Vertue Let it be granted that by the Rule of Government we are with Patience to endure unworthy Princes to conceal their Vices and to assist them in their indifferent Actions whilst their Authority stands in need of our Support Yet the Relation of Prince and Subject being once at an end there is no reason we should deny the Publication of our real wrongs and sufferings to our own Liberty and common Justice and to interdict good Subjects the Glory of having submissively and faithfully serv'd a Prince whose Imperfections were to them so perfectly known were to deprive Posterity of so good an Example and such as out of respect to some private Obligation shall against their own Knowledge and Conscience espouse the Quarrel and vindicate the Memory of a faulty Prince do a particular Right at the Expence and to the Prejudice of the Publick Justice Livy does very truly say That the Language of Men bred up in Courts is always sounding of vain Ostentation and that their Testimony is rarely true every one indifferently magnifying his own Master and stretching his Commendation to the utmost extent of Vertue and Sovereign Grandeur And 't is not impossible but some may condemn the freedom of those two Soldiers who so roundly answer'd Nero to his Face the one being ask'd by him Why he bore him ill Will I lov'd thee answer'd he whilst thou wert worthy of it but since thou art become a Parricide an Incendiary a Waterman a Fidler a Player and a Coachman I hate thee as thou dost deserve and the other Why he should attempt to kill him Because said he I could think of no other Remedy against thy perpetual Mischiefs But the publick and universal Testimonies that were given of him after his Death and will be to all Posterity both of him and all other wicked Princes like him his Tyrannies and abominable deportment considered who of a sound Judgment can reprove them I am scandaliz'd I confess that in so sacred a Government as that of the Lacedaemonians there should be mixt so hypocritical a Ceremony at the Enterment of their Kings Ceremony of the Lacedaemonians at the Enterment of their Kings where all their Confederates and Neighbours and all sorts and degrees of Men and Women as well as their Slaves cut and slash'd their Fore-heads in Token of Sorrow repeating in their Cries and Lamentations That that King let him have been as wicked as the Devil was the best that ever they had by this means attributing to his Quality the Praises that only belong to Merit and that of Right is properly due to the most supreme Desert though lodg'd in the lowest and most inferiour Subject Aristo●le who will still have a hand in every thing makes a Quaere upon the saying of Solon Th●● none can be said to be happy untill he be dead Whether then any one of those who have liv'd and died according to their Hearts Desire if ●e have left an ill Repute behind him and th● his Posterity be miserable can be said to be happy Whilst we have Life and Motion we convey our selves by Fancy and Preoccupation whither and to what we please but once o●● of Being we have no more any manner of Communication with what is yet in Being● and it had therefore been better said of Sol● That Man is never happy because never so till after he is no more Lucret. lib. 3. Quisquam Vix radicitus è vita se tollit ejicit Sed facit esse sui quiddam super inscius ipse Nec removet satis à projecto corpore sese Vindicat. No dying Man can truss his Baggage so But something of him he must leave below Nor from his Carcass that doth prostrate lie Himself can clear or far enough can fly Bertrand de Glesquin dying before the Castle of Rancon near unto Puy in Auvergne the Besieg'd were afterwards upon Surrender enjoyn'd to lay down the Keys of the Place upon the Corps of the dead General Bartolcmew d' Alviano the Venetian General hapning to die in the Service of the Republick in Brascia and his Corps being to be carried thorough the Territory of Verona an Enemy's Country most of the Army were of Opinion to demand safe Conduct from the Veronese supposing that upon such an occasion it would not be denied But Theodoro Trivulsio highly oppos'd the Motion rather choosing to make his way by force of Arms and to run the hazard of a Battle saying it was by no means decent and very unfit that he who in his Life was never afraid of his Enemies should seem to apprehend them when he was dead And in truth in Affairs of almost the same Nature by the Greek Laws he who made Suit to an Enemy for a Body to give it Burial did by that Act renounce his Victory and had no more Right to erect a Trophy and he to whom such Suit was made was ever whatever otherwise the Success had been reputed Victor By this means it was that Nicias lost the Advantage he had visibly obtain'd over the Corinthians and that Agesilaus on the contrary assur'd what he had before very doubtfully gain'd of the Boeotians These Proceedings might appear very odd had it not been a general Practice in all Ages not only to extend the Concern of our Persons beyond the Limits of Life but moreover to fansie that the Favour of Heaven does not only very often accompany us to the Grave but has also even after Life a Concern for our Ashes of which there are so many ancient Examples waving those of our own Observation of later date that it is not very necessary I should longer insist upon it Edward King of England and the first of that Name having in the lo●● Wars betwixt him and Robert King of Scotland had sufficient Experience of how grea● Importance his own immediate Presence wa● to the Success of his Affairs having ever be●● victorious in whatever he undertook in 〈◊〉 own Person when he came to die bound 〈◊〉 Son in a Solemn Oath that so soon as he should be dead he should boyl his Body 〈◊〉 the Flesh parted from the Bones and reser●● them to carry continually with him in his Army so often as he should be oblig'd to go against the Scots as if Destiny had inevitably grapled Victory even to those miserable Remains Jean Zisca the same who so often 〈◊〉 Vindication of Wicklisse's Heresies infested 〈◊〉 Bohemian State left order that they should flea him after his Death and of his Skin 〈◊〉 make a Drum to carry in

Contulit haud furto melior sed fortibus armis His Heart disdain'd to strike Orodes dead Or unseen basely wound him as he fled But gaining first his Front wheels round and there Bravely oppos'd himself to his Career And fighting Man to Man would let him see His Valour scorn'd both Odds and Policy CHAP. VII That the Intention is Judge of our Actions 'T is a Saying That Death discharges us of all our Obligations However I know some who have taken it in another Sence Henry the Seventh King of England articled with Don Philip Son to Maximilian the Emperour and Father to the Emperour Charles the Fifth when he had him upon English Ground that the said Philip should deliver up the Duke of Suffolk of the White Rose his mortal Enemy who was fled into the Low Countries into his Hands which Philip not knowing how to evade it accordingly promis'd to do but upon condition nevertheless that Henry should attempt nothing against the Life of the said Duke which during his own Life he perform'd but coming to die in his last Will commanded his Son to put him to Death immediately after his Decease And lately in the Tragedy that the Duke of Alva presented to us in the Persons of the two Counts Egmont and Horne at Brussels there were very remarkable Passages and one amongst the rest that the said Count Egmont upon the security of whose Word and Faith Count Horne had come and surrendred himself to the Duke of Alva earnestly entreated that he might first mount the Scaffold to the end that Death might disinage him from the Obligation he had pass'd to the other In which Case methinks Death did not acquit the former of his Promise and the second was satisfied in the good Intention of the other even though he had not died with him for we cannot be oblig'd beyond what we are able to perform by reason that the Effects and Intentions of what we promise are not at all in our Power and that indeed we are Masters of nothing but the Will in which by necessity all the Rules and whole Duty of Mankind is founded and establish'd And therefore Count ●gmont conceiving his Soul and will bound and indepted to his Promise although he had not the Power to make it good had doubtless been absolv'd of his Duty even though he had outliv'd the other but the King of England willfully and premeditately breaking his Faith was no more to be excus'd for deferring the Execution of his Infidelity till after his Death than Herodotus his Mason who having inviolably during the time of his Life kept the Secret of the treasure of the King of Aegypt his Master at his Death discover'd it to his Children I have taken notice of several in my time who convinc'd by their Consciences of unjustly detaining the Goods of another have endeavour'd to make amends by their Will and afther their Decease but they had as good do nothing as delude themselves both in taking so much time in so pressing an Affair and also in going about to repair an Injury with so little Demonstration of Resentment and Concern They owe over and above something of their own and by how much their Payment is more strict and incommodious to themselves by so much is their Restitution more perfect just and meritorious for Penitency requires Penance but they yet do worse than these who reserve the Declaration of a mortal Animofity against their Neighbour to the last Gasp having conceal'd it all the time of their Lives before wherein they declare to have little regard of their own Honour whilst they irritate the Party offended against their Memory and less to their Conscience not having the Power even out of Respect to Death it self to make their Malice die with them but extending the Life of their Hatred even beyond their own Unjust Judges who deferr Judgment to a time wherein they can have no Knowledge of the Cause For my part I shall take Care if I can that my Death discover nothing that my Life has not first openly manifested and publickly declar'd CHAP. VIII Of Idleness AS we see some Grounds that have long lain idle and untill'd when grown rank and fertile by rest to abound with and spend their Vertue in the Product of innumerable sorts of Weeds and wild Herbs that are unprofitable and of no wholesome use and that to make them perform their true Office we are to culvitate and prepare them for such Seeds as are proper for our Service And as we see Women that without the Knowledge of Men do sometimes of themselves bring forth inanimate and formless Lumps of Flesh but that to cause a natural and perfect Generation they are to be husbanded with another kind of Seed even so it is with Wits which if not applyed to some certain Study that may fix and restrain them run into a thousand Extravagancies and are eternally roving here and there in the inextricable Labyrinth of restless Imagination Aen●id l. 8. Sicut aquae tremulum labris ubi lumen ahenis Sole repercussum aut radiantis imagine Lunae Omnia pervolitat latè loca jamque sub auras Erigitur summique ferit laquearia tecti Like as the quivering Reflection Of Fountain Waters when the Morning Sun Darts on the Bason or the Moon 's pale Beam Gives Light and Colour to the Captive Stream Whips with fantastick motion round the place And Walls and Roof strikes with its trembling Rays In which wild and irregular Agitation there is no Folly nor idle Fancy they do not light upon Hor. de Arte Poetica velut aegri somnia vanae Finguntur species Like Sick mens Dreams that from a troubled Brain Phantasms create ridiculous and vain The Soul that has no establish'd Limit to circumscribe it loses it self as the Epigrammatist says Martial lib. 7. Epig. 72. Quisquis ubique habitat maxime nusquam habitat He that lives every where does no where live When I lately retir'd my self to my own House with a Resolution as much as possibly I could to avoid all manner of Concern in Affair and to spends in privacy and repose the little remainder of time I have to Live I fansi'd I could not more oblige my mind than to suffer it at full leisure to entertain and divert it self which I also now hop'd it might the better be entrusted to do as being by Time and Observation become more settled and mature but I find Lucan l. 4. variam semper dant otia mentem Even in the most retir'd Estate Leasure it self does various Thoughts create that quite contrary it is like a Horse that has broke from his Rider who voluntarily runs into a much more violent Career than any Horseman would put him to and creates me so many Chimaera's and fantastick Monsters one upon another without Order or Design that the better at leisure to contemplate their Strangeness and Absurdity I have begun to commit them to Writing hoping