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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

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

in no good sense as with us John William and Benoist In the Genealogy of Princes also there seems to be certain Names fatally affected as the Ptolemies of Aegypt the Henry's of England the Charles's of France the Baldwins of Flandert and the Williams of our Ancient Aquiraine from whence 't is said the Name of Guyenne has its derivation which would seem far fetch'd were there not as rude derivations in Plato himself 'T is a very frivolous thing in it self but nevertheless worthy to be recorded for the strangeness of it which is writ by an Eye-witness that Henry Duke of Normandy Son of Henry the Second King of England making a great Feast in France the concourse of Nobility and Gentry was so great that being for Sports sake divided into Troops according to their Names in the first Troop which consisted of Williams there were found an Hundred and Ten Knights sitting at the Table of that Name without reckoning the ordinary Gentlemen and their Servants It is as pleasant to distinguish the Tables by the Names of the Guests as it was in the Emperour Geta to distinguish the several Courses of his Meat by the first Letters of the Ments themselves where those that began with B were serv'd up together as Brawn Beef Bream Bustards and Beccaficos and so of others Now there is a saying that it is a good thing to have a good Name that is to say Credit and a good Repute But besides this it is really convenient to have such a Name as is easie of pronunciation and easie to be remembred by reason that Kings and other great Persons do by that means the more easily know and the more hardly forget us and indeed of our own Servants we more frequently call and employ those whose Names are most ready upon the Tongue I my self have seen Henry the Second when he could not for his heart hit of a Gentlemans Name of our Country of Gascony and moreover was fain to call one of the Queen's Maids of Honour by the general Name of her Family her own being so difficult to pronounce or remember And Socrates thinks it worthy a Fathers Care to give fine Names to his Children 'T is said that the Foundation of Nostre Dame la Grande at Poictiers took its original from hence That a Debauch'd Young Fellow formerly Living in that place having got to him a Whore and at her first coming in asking her Name and being answer'd that it was Mary he felt himself so suddenly darted through with the Awe of Religion and the Reverence to that Sacred Name of the Blessed Virgin that he not only immediately put his Lewd Mistress away from him but became a reformed Man and so continued the remainder of his Life And that in consideration of this Miracle there was Erected upon the place where this Young Mans House stood first a Chappel Dedicated to our Lady and afterwards the Church that we now see standing there This Auricular Reproof wrought upon the Conscience and that right into the Soul This that follows insinuated it self meerly by the sense Pythagoras being in company with some wild Young Fellows and perceiving that heated with the Feast they complotted to go Violate an Honest House commanded the Singing Wench to alter her Wanton Airs and by a Solemn Grave and Spondaick Musick gently enchanted and laid asleep their Ardour Will not Posterity say that our Modern Reformation has been wonderfully exact in having not only scuffled with and overcome Errors and Vices and fill'd the World with Devotion Humility Obedience Peace and all sorts of Vertue but to have proceeded so far as to quarrel with the Ancient Baptismal Names of Charles Lewis and Francis to fill the World with Methusalems Ezekiels and Malachies of a more Scriptural sound A Gentleman a Neighbour of mine a great Admirer of Antiquity and who was always preferring the Excellency of preceeding Times in comparison with this present Age of ours did not amongst the rest forget to Magnifie the Lofty and Magnificent sound of the Gentlemen's Names of those Days Don Grumedar Quadregan Angesilan c. which but to hear Nam'd he perceiv'd to be other kind of Men than Pierre Guillot and Michel I am mightily pleas'd with Jaques Amiot for leaving throughout a whole French Oration the Latine Names entire without varying and dissecting them to give them a French termination It seem'd a little harsh and rough at first But already Custom by the Authority of Plutarch whom he took for his Example has overcome that Novelty I have often wish'd that such as write Chronicle Histories in Latine would leave our Names as they find them and as they are and ought to be for in making Vaudemont Vallemontances and Metamorphosing Names to make them suit better with the Greek or Latine we know not where we are and with the persons of the Men lose the benefit of the Story To conclude 't is a scurvy Custom and of very ill consequence that we have in our Kingdom of France to call every one by the Name of his Mannor or Signeury and the thing in the World that does the most prejudice and confound Families and Descents A Younger Brother of a good Family having a Mannor left him by his Father by the Name of which he has been known and honour'd cannot handsomely leave it Ten Years after his Decease it falls into the hand of a stranger who does the same Do but judge whereabouts we shall be concerning the knowledge of these Men. We need look no further for Examples than our own Royal Family where every Partage creares a new Sir-name whilst in the mean time the Original of the Family is totally lost There is so great liberty taken in these Mutations that I have not in my time seen any one advanc'd by Fortune to any extraordinary condition who has not presently had Genealogick Titles added to him new and unknown to his Father and who has not been inoculated into some illustrious Stem and by good Luck the obscurest Families are the most proper for Falsification How many Gentlemen have we in France who by their own talk are of Royal Extraction More I think than who will confess they are not Was it not a pleasant passage of a Friend of mine There were a great many Gentlemen assembled together about the dispute of one Lord of a Mannor with another which other had in truth some preheminence of Titles and Alliances above the ordinary Scheme of Gentry Upon the Debate of this Priority of Place every one standing up for himself to make himself equal to him alledging one one Extraction another another one the near resemblance of Name another of Arms another an old worm-eaten Patent and the least of them Great-Granchild to some Foreign King When they came to sit down to dinner my Friend instead of taking his place amongst them retiring with most profound Congees entreated the Company to excuse him for having hitherto Liv'd with them at the

Prisoner to her as he accordingly did the Gentlemen of France never denying any thing to Ladies Does she not seem to be an Artist here Constantine the Son of Hellen founded the Empire of Constantinople and so many Ages after Constantine the Son of Hellen put an end to it Sometimes she is pleas'd to Emulate our Miracles We are told that King Clouis Besieging Angolesme the Walls fell down of themselves by Divine Favour And Bouchet has it from some Author that King Robert having sat down before a City and being stole away from the Siege to go keep the Feast of St. Aignan at Orleans as he was in Devotion at a certain place of the Mass the Walls of the beleagured City without any manner of Violence fell down with a sudden Ruine But she did quite contrary in our Milan War for Captain Rense laying Siege to the City Verona and having carried a Mine under a great part of the Wall the Mine being sprung the Wall was lifted from its base but dropt down again nevertheless whole and entire and so exactly upon its foundation that the Besieged suffer'd no Inconvenience by that Attempt Sometimes she plays the Physician Jason Phereus being given over by the Physicians by reason of a desperate Imposthumation in his Breast having a mind to rid himself of his Pain by Death at least in a Battel threw himself desperately into the thickest of the Enemy where he was so fortunately wounded quite through the Body that the Imposthume brake and he was perfectly cur'd Did she not also excel the painter Protogenes in his Art Who having finish'd the Picture of a Dog quite tir'd and out of breath in all the other parts excellently well to his own liking but not being able to express as he would the slaver and foam that should come out of his Mouth vext and angry at his work he took his Spunge which by cleaning his Pencils had imbib'd several sorts of Colours and threw it in a rage against the Picture with an intent utterly to deface it when Fortune guiding the Spunge to hit just upon the Mouth of the Dog it there perform'd what all his Art was not able to do Does she not sometimes direct our Counsels and correct them Isabel Queen of England being to Sail from Zealand into her own Kingdom with an Army in favour of her Son against her Husband had been lost had she come into the Port she intended being there laid wait for by the Enemy but fortune against her will threw her into another Haven where she Landed in safety And he who throwing a Stone at a Dog hit and kill'd his Mother in Law had he not reason to pronounce this Verse Menander● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By this I see Fortune does better aim than we Fortune has more Judgment than we Icetes had contracted with two Souldiers to Kill Timoleon at Adranon in Sicily These Villains took their time to do it when he was assisting at a Sacrifice who thrusting into the Crowd as they were making signs to one another that now was a fit time to do their business in steps a third who with a Sword takes one of them full drive over the Pate lays him dead upon the place and away he runs Which the other seeing and concluding himself discover'd and lost he runs to the Altar and begs for Mercy promising to discover the whole truth which as he was doing and laying open the whole Conspiracy behold the third Man who being Apprehended was as a Murtherer thrust and hal'd by the People through the Press towards Timoleon and other the most Eminent Persons of the Assembly before whom being brought he Cry'd out for Pardon pleading that he had justly Slain his Fathers Murtherer which he also proving upon the place by sufficient Witnesses which his good Fortune very opportunely supply'd him withal that his Father was really Kill'd in the City of the Leomins by that very Man on whom he had taken his Revenge he was presently Awarded Ten Attick * The old Attick Mine was 75 Drach Mines for having had the good Fortune by designing to revenge the Death of his Father to preserve the Life of the common Father of Sicily This Fortune in her Conduct surpasses all the Rules of Humane Prudence But to conclude is there not a direct Application of her Favour Bounty and Piety manifestly discover'd in this Action Ignatius the Father and Ignatius the Son being proscrib'd by the Triumvity of Rome resolv'd upon this generous Act of mutual kindness to fall by the hands of one another and by that means to frustrate and defeat the Cruelty of the Tyrants and accordingly with their Swords drawn ran full drive upon one another where Fortune so guided the points that they made two equally Mortal Wounds affording withal so much Honour to so brave a Friendship as to leave them just strength enough to draw out their Bloudy Swords that they might have liberty to embrace one another in this Dying Condition with so close and hearty an Embrace that the Executioners cut off both their Heads at once leaving the Bodies still fast link'd together in this Noble Knot and their Wounds joyn'd Mouth to Mouth affectionately sucking in the last Bloud and remainder of the Lives of one another CHAP. XXXIV Of one Defect in one Government MY Father who for a Man that had no other advantages than Experience only and his own Natural Parts was nevertheless of a very clear Judgment The project of an Office of Enquiry has formerly told me that he once had thoughts of endeavouring to introduce this Practice that there might be in every City a certain place assign'd to which such as stood in need of any thing might repair and have their Business enter'd by an Officer appointed for that purpose as for Example I enquire for a Chapman to Buy my Pearls I enquire for one that has Pearls to Sell Such a one wants Company to go to Paris such a one enquires for a Servant of such a Quality such a one for a Master such a one enquires for such an Artificer some for one thing some for another every one according to what he wants And doubtless these mutual Advertisements would be of no contemptible Advantage to the Publick Correspondency and Intelligence For there are ever more Conditions that hunt after one another and for want of knowing one anothers occasions leave Men in very great necessity I have heard to the great shame of the Age we Live in that in our very sight two most excellent Men for Learning Died so Poor that they had scarce Bread to put in their Mouths Lilius Gregorius Giraldus in Italy and Sebastianus Castalio in Germany And do believe there are a Thousand Men would have invited them into their Families with very advantageous Conditions or have reliev'd them where they were had they known their wants The World is not so generally Corrupted but that I know a Man

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