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A65151	Familiar and courtly letters written by Monsieur Voiture to persons of the greatest honour, wit, and quality of both sexes in the court of France ; made English by Mr. Dryden, Tho. Cheek, Esq., Mr. Dennis, Henry Cromwel, Esq., Jos. Raphson, Esq., Dr. -, &c. ; with twelve select epistles out of Aristanetus, translated from the Greek ; some select letters of Pliny, Jun and Monsieur Fontanelle, translated by Mr. Tho. Brown ; and a collection of original letters lately written on several subjects, by Mr. T. Brown ; to which is added a collection of letters of friendship, and other occasional letters, written by Mr. Dryden, Mr. Wycherly, Mr. -, Mr. Congreve, Mr. Dennis, and other hands.	Voiture, Monsieur de (Vincent), 1597-1648.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Congreve, William, 1670-1729.; Wycherley, William, 1640-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing V682; ESTC R34733	165,593	438

or his Money and sometimes for what he really had not as when a Cit that is twice dub'd Knight by the King and Cuckold by his Wife pays for his Honour and for his Children The First of which is but as it were his for it is really the King 's and the Second of which are but as it were his for they are really the Courtier 's who help'd him to his Title In the State too a Man is made to pay for something which he does or for something which he does not As a Jacobite pays so much for Swearing when he 's Drunk and so much more for not Swearing when he 's Sober But that in our Case if we would be exactly Just we should make People pay neither for what they have nor for what they have not nor for what they do nor for what they do not But should oblige them to pay only for pretending to have what they really have not or for offering to do what they are utterly incapable of doing That thus the Tax would certainly fall upon the most solvent Part of the Body For how ridiculous would it be to Tax a Man for having Poetry and Wit when they are almost always signs that he has not a Farthing to pay On the other side how absurd would it be to tax him for a bare Want of those Qualities since when a Man is Dull without Pretending 't is ten to one but he is Poor for Riches make Men vain and Vanity makes them affected But he who is not much at his ease is hardly at leisure for Affection and I have often seen that when Vanity has thrown a Fop out of Nature Necessity has brought him back again But a rich Rogue will be sure to be always Pretending Fortune takes pleasure in making those Vain whom Nature before made Impotent and both of them often conspire to finish a Coxcomb Thus I would have none pay but they who put Gravity upon us for Wisdom Visions for Politicks and Quibbles for Wit and I would have no Man at any Expence for being call'd a Poet a Wit or a Critick unless it be by himself It would be equally hard to lay a Tax upon any one for his Ill Fortune or for his Ill Nature since they are things of which no Man is Master But what A Sot cannot help his Vanity Agreed But then it makes him so much happier than he deserves to be that he may well be contented to pay for it I am your most humble Servant JOHN DENNIS To Mr. Wycherley at Cleve near Shrewsbury Sir WHile I venture to write these Lines to you I take it to be my Interest not to consider you as I hitherto always have done and as for the future I always shall viz. As Mr. Wycherley as the greatest Comick-wit that ever England bred as a Man sent purposely into the World to Charm the Ears of the wittiest Men and to ravish the Hearts of the most beautiful Women No Sir that in writing to you I may assume some Spirit I shall at present only consider you as the humble Hermit at Cleve Humble even in the full Possession of all those extraordinary Qualities the knowledge of which has made me Proud I must confess that I have no great Opinion of that which Men generally call Humility Humility in most Men is want of Heat 't is Phlegm 't is Impotence 't is a wretched Necessity of which they who lie under it vainly endeavour to make a Virtue But in a Man of Mr. Wycherley's Make 't is Choice 't is Force of Mind 't is a good 't is a generous Condescension And what Force of Mind is there not requisite to bend back a Soul by perpetual Reflection which would be always rising and eternally aspiring by virtue of its in-born Fire Yet yours notwithstanding all its Power cannot wholly depress its self nor descend in every part of it At the time that your Will vouchsafes to stoop your Understanding soars your Writings are as bold as your Conversation is modest though those are bold as this is modest with Judgment and he who would do you Justice must needs confess that you are a very ambitious Writer though a very humble Man Yet your very Ambition has oblig'd Mankind It has exalted Humane Nature in raising your own by its most noble Efforts and that without boasting Preheminence And surely it must be for this very reason that we feel a secret Pride when we but read the Discoveries which you have made Thus I cannot say what you are without Vanity for never was Man exempt from it but I can say that you have made use even of Vanity to humble you by way of Reflection and that you have avoided that dangerous Effect of it Vain-glory the Rock upon which several great Wits before you have been seen to split For you have always wisely considered that Vain-glory in the Vulgar may be supportable nay may be diverting but that in great Men it must be intollerable That whereas in the First 't is want of Discernment 't is Folly 't is the Extravagance and Blindness of Self-love in the Last 't is Crime 't is Malice 't is a secret and proud Design to Mortifie and Insult over the rest of Men over whom they have so much advantage That it is for this very reason that we so deeply resent and so severely revenge the mortal Affronts we receive from it Great Wits were by Heaven predestin'd to Rule to rule the Minds of others the noblest Empire but when they grow outwardly Vain they grow Tyrants and then their discontented Subjects rebel and then they despose those Kings as Usurpers whom before they obey'd as their lawful Monarchs But a moderate a good and a gracious Prince like you commands their Hearts as well as their Understandings and under one whom they love so well they grow as proud as they are pleas'd to obey Our violent Inclinations make us belong to you and therefore 't is the Interest even of our Pride that you should long continue in the Place which your extraordinary Desert has attain'd Did we nothing but esteem you as much as we do we should certainly envy you if we did not hate you for bare Esteem is always forc'd upon us whereas Inclination is much more voluntary Besides as a judicious French Man observes Esteem is foreign and comes from abroad and is therefore received with Grumbling but Inclination is our own and born in our Breasts and is therefore Caress'd and Cherish'd I might add That upon this account it is hard to wish well to those whom we very much esteem if they have not likewise the Skill to make themselves be belov'd because barely to esteem depresses the Spirits as much as to love very much exalts them it brings the Soul 〈◊〉 languid Temper and gives it at once 〈◊〉 horrid Views of another's Excellencies and of its own Infirmities but Affection gives it Agitation and Warmth and in the View of

without any one to support him made a shift to walk threescore Foot out-right This Re-establishment of his Health the Priests ten to one will Father upon some She or He-Saint that knows nothing of the Matter but I heard a merry Gentleman a Day or two ago Account for it otherwise As Monica said of her beloved Son St. Austin's Conversion That it was impossible for a Son of so many Tears ever to miscarry so 't is impossible crys this Gentleman that a Monarch whose Health is drank in all the Taverns in Christendom which are not Frenchify'd shou'd do otherwise then find in himself a sensible Alteration for the better and I pray to God continually that a certain Person who waits so impatiently for a certain dead Man's Spanish Slippers may go bear Foot and not have so much as a Pair of French Wooden-shooes to keep him out of the Dirt. Paris July 23. The King's Statue was lately set up here in the Place de Vandome 't is a perfect Colossus and Mons. Geriardin has made it appear That our Monarch has been drawn three times bigger than the Life not only by his Parsons his Poets and his Historiographers but by his Statuaries too The Ceremony of the Erection was very magnificent several of the Nobility the Counsellors of the Parliament and the Principals of the Citizens assisted at it in all their Formalities and if it had been the Custom of the Place the City Recorder had made a handsome Speech to the Figure Our Letters from all Parts of the Kingdom informs us that the poor Hugonots are Persecuted ten times more severely if possible than the Witches in Scotland and 't is thought deserve it as little Rome July 10. Our last Letters from hence advise that mighty Preparations are making for the ensuing Jubile most of the Charnel-houses and Tooth-drawers Shops have been disfurnished of late on purpose to provide Relicts for the great number of Votaries we expect here A Carmelite Fryer has brought a most valuable Rarity with him from the Holy-land which he presented last Week to his Holiness 'T is the Comb which belong'd to the Cock that set St. Peter a Weeping and the Pope they say designs to make a Present of it to a peculiar Favourite we are like to be over-run with Strumpets from all Parts of Christendom who flock hither partly to wipe off their old Scores and partly to begin a fresh Tick with Heaven 'T is found by a modest Computation at present that they are at least ten Harlots to one Church-man already How will they be over-power'd then when the whole Posse is got to Rome However it is hoped that we shall have a speedy Reinforcement of Brawney well-chin'd Regulars and Seculars from the North to keep the Balance more even between the Gown and the Petticoat This is the first time that a Plurality of Concubines was ever thought a Grievance at Rome Amsterdam July 30. The Magistrates of this Place lately took into their pious Considerations the reforming the Abuses of the Long Cellar and one of them proposed to have it lock'd up for which he had lik'd to have been Dewitted by the Mob for a Parsel of Saylors hearing of it gather'd in great Numbers about his House demolish'd his Windows and had proceeded farther in their Out-rage had not some of the topping Burgomasters pacified 'em by telling 'em the old Immunities and Priviledges of the Long Cellar shou'd be continued to them and their Heirs for ever It was likewise proposed in our Councel to have laid some new Penalty upon Drankenness but it being represented to 'em that it wou'd incense the People and bring down the Excise for that Reason they went no farther in it Last Week four Men and as many Women came from the Dutchy of Juliers to this Place with a Spick and Span new Religion as 't is reported the whole Contents of which may be carried in the compass of a Snuff-box They give out that it is the easiest and cheapest Religion that ever was known and have offer'd it to the States for the value of four thousand Gilders if it be rejected they design to Embark for England and see what Market they can make of their new Religion at London Two learned Criticks of the University of Leyden have had a long Contest about the right Spelling and Writing the Word Idcirco and at last have agreed to referr the Matter to Dr. B y who being a Person of singular Humanity 't is not doubted but he will do it to Satisfaction Edenburgh July 29. We have not had for these ten Years last past so favourable a Summer as now so that we don't doubt but that our Sloes will ripen and the Kirk has appointed a general Thanksgiving for it fifty two Witches are in Custody in several Prisons in this Kingdom and many terrible Things are alledg'd against 'em and some of them have been such silly Jades to own themselves guilty chusing to be burnt outright rather than live any longer like Witches The chief Discoverer of them is Mr. Sawney Cockburn who knows all the Witches Forms in the Kingdom and with his Kirk Terriers will Unearth you ten of 'em in a Morning We build great Expectations upon our new Coloney at Darien and talk of covering all the Churches in Edenburgh with Silver in a very short time but others who are not altogether so Sanguine are of Opinion that all these mighty Pretences will fall to the Ground And now I am upon this Article give me leave to tell you that I heard a Polititian talk in the Rainbow Coffee-house Yesterday upon this Matter I am confident says he that the Hand of Heaven will appear very Visible in the Chastisement of the Scots in this new Project of theirs upon America They have impudently bid Defiance to Fate and opposed the Decrees of Providence for as God Almighty from Eternity decreed the Germans to be Drunkards the French to carry Pack-sadles the Jews to be Rascals so he predestinated the Scots to be Pedlars accordingly we find the Germans to this Day get Drunk before Noon the French carry Pack-sadles to this Day and so will do in Secula Seculorum the Jews Cheat on still and the English Rebel only the Scots must kick against the Decrees of Fate and instead of Pedlars a Title their Ancestours Aquiest in for two thousand Year and upward set up for Merchants Forsooth but if ever they make any thing on 't says he and if they are not at last reduc'd to their old ancient Pedlarism I 'll forfeit my Reputation of a Prophet to you although they have cheated King William out of an Act of Parliament I believe they will find it a hard matter withal their Craft and Cunning to cheat Heaven Thus Sir I have sent you the most important Occurrences I cou'd find in the Foreign Papers But as to London which used to be an inexhaustible Magazine of News and Scandal it affords neither at present