Father-Confessors of the redoubtable Selletta would sound you out a lofty word thereupon This is not all he must haue wherewithall to passe it There bee the greifes For this effect the costs and the mulcts be another kinde of Duell another cut-throate From thence proceedes the totall ruine of houses With all these punishments there were yet some forme of respite if the roote of the mischeife were pulled vp But for a heape of glory and felicitie there he is all his life time with a quarrell vpon his armes against the kinred of him that died a mortall and irreconciliable quarrell For all this by tract of time there is some remedy For that which is the most important there is none at all The cruell torture that bursteth his soule by the continuall representation of his offence receiueth no condition What Goblins what tortures what goate what Minotaure But if such a one be puft vp with vaine-glory for that he beleeues that men doe hold him for a man of courage they shall tell him that that aduantage is very common as we haue shewed But how feeble is it how shamefull hauing regard to the foundation which is nothing Christian Notwithstanding he that would yeild some thing to his opinion a man might tell him that it is a glory dearely bought and as it were to take vp at interest a hundred for a hundred There is then the pleasure there is the profit there is the honour that he reapeth of his hazardes and vnbridled ambitions For him that is dead as hath beene said there remaineth to him no shadow of good his reputation is extinguished with his life It continueth but to be odious stinking and execrable Ah! how this is to be considered For he that dies for a faire subiect hath comfort for himselfe and leaues comfort to his posterity why because his memory hath a sweete sauour They bee more excellent and durable images then those of Phydias Oh! how precious be these old sayings oh how rare they be They say he was an honest man a vertuous man fearing God louing his Prince and the Common-wealth that he died in the bed of Honour Such a one liues in the tombe in despight of death his Vertue speakes within the dumbe silence exalts him glorifies him in the midst of forgetfulnesse euen in the cold dust They hold another manner of language of them that are lost in Duell What blindnes saith euery one what rage how impious a thing it is how detestable A notable consequence ariseth from this Discourse that is That there is some honourable death that a man ought not to shun although he could To vnderstand this we must consider the speach following in presupposing this maxime If they which fight in Duell did beleeue they should die there a man might well say they would not goe thither Imagine then that two men of great courage be in presence their weapons in their hands kindled with fury respiring nothing but blood that a man whom they both know to be an excellent Soothsayer comes in the way and saith vnto them You shall die both at this conflict and the profit that shal redound thereby is that the Common-wealth shall loose much your houses shall be desolate your memory detestable There is likelihood that they beleeuing these words would bee appeased and shake hands But if these magnanimious men were in an army neere Henry the 4. the glory of Kings and great Thunder of Warre and that he himselfe should come say vnto them My friends thinke with your selues this day must be the end of your dayes But in truth it shall bee the sauing of your Prince on whose life dependeth the conseruation of this great Estate No man doubts but that generous men would bee the more enflamed but they would bee all possessed with a laudable impatience to bee grapling to produce such an action so vertuous so glorious Moments would be ages vnto them They would be like Antheus touching the earth they would take new forces they would be all trasformed body and soule into heart and ambition and the feare of death would haue much lesse power ouer them then the desire to make themselues famous to future ages inuited forced by the consideration of this act pleasing to God and men They would thinke themselues very happy it would be Scepters and Crownes vnto them for as much as the end is holy and profitable and consequently honourable as beeing a perfect worke of Vertue They will say that there will be found no plenty of these faire soules It is true But there would bee found amongst the Nobilitie of France some that haue Horaces Scevolaes and Curtiusses as well as the auncient Rome So we conclude that there is some death very honourable that is to say That which serueth to the glory of God to the honour and profit of the Prince and of the Common-wealth Now the end of them which goe to Duell without lawfull cause is simply to satisfie their passion to reuenge their particular iniuries to content themselues It followeth that that is not onely blameable but also worthy of rigorous punishment In this the Prince should know that such combates doe absolutely derogate from his Authoritie for as much as it belongs to Him or to his Magistrates to doe reason for offences for which the violent satisfaction is not permitted to particular persons in any Common-wealth well polliced They follow these steps the mischiefe groweth insensibly and of such a fashion that in the ende all Diuine and Humane Lawes shall bee banished out of France They fight in Duell for the seeking of marriage for homages for sutes for precedence in Churches in politique Assemblies in the end for all sorts of differences This is daily seene So did in old time the Scytes so did the Tartarians people without faith without God without humanity If this continue we must speake no more of Iustice nor of Pietie All France shall be a Chaos a denne of theeues So we see a generall subuersion of all Orders No man containes himselfe in his own iurisdiction the stormes whereof hath ouerthrowne all They be so execrable before God that since they haue been tolerated there haue bin seen nothing but prodigies in France Before the Duells was there euer seen blood so horribly shed as hath been since The Sunne hid it selfe thereat the Earth mooued at it and the Sea stayed the course thereupon Was it euer heard that a great King most great most magnificent had been driuen out of his house and afterward murthered by one of them that daily preachet peace Waigh this well From the Duell they come to the contempt of Lawes and Orders from this to contemne the Soueraigne then to conspire against the Estate and after that to attempt the sacred person of the Prince The reason is because ambition accustomed to blood becomes a sauage beast which hath neither bounds nor limits hauing no other moouing but it owne extrauagant desire and
THE GHOSTS OF THE DECEASED SIEVRS de VILLEMOR and de FONTAINES A most necessarie Discourse of DVELLS Wherein is shewed the meanes to roote them out quite WITH THE DISCOVRSE of VALOVR By the Sieur de CHEVALIER To the KING The third Edition reviewed corrected and augmented in French and translated by THO. HEIGHAM Esquire Printed by Cantrell Legge Printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1624. TO MY THRICE-HONOVRED KINSMEN THE TWO WORTHY KNIGHTS Sir WILLIAM HARVY of Ickworth and Sir EDVVARD SVLYARD of 6Hauley NOBLE Knights When I had read ouer this Discourse and waighed the sincerity of the Author and how iustly in taxing his owne Country he hath laid open the errours of Ours and not onely searched the bottome of our corruptions but prescribed a dyet and a remedy both to preuent and cure their contagions And seeing how custome and euill example hath misled all sorts euen of the most peaceable natures to such impatience that almost euery man thinkes himselfe out of fashion if he be not incompatible I thought I could not better employ my idle houres for the generall good then to make this Directory of Honour and Well-liuing a free-denizon and to speake our Countrey Dialect If I vndergoe the censure of a Foole in Print I care not my intent is honest I tooke the paines partly to please my selfe and to auoid worse occupations And I am sure that all vertuous and good dispositions will make true vse of it For the rest none can wish them more good then they will worke themselues hurt Now hoping my most entirely honoured Knights that you are both of this first and best Ranke as also true votaries to all other noblenesse of mind I thought it fitting in many respects to addresse it to you And among other good causes for that you are both Linguists and can iudge of my indeauours you are in an age and of an age fitting to run or be throwne vpon these disastrous rockes you liue at ease with plenty and pleasure which may produce effects of hot blood Be pleased to behold from the Port of your felicities the stormes shipwracks torments and precipitations of them that had more false courage then good conscience and I doubt not but it will make you both good husbands of your Honours Liues and Soules which I thought my selfe obliged to aduertise you of as a testimony of the seruiceable and sincere good wishes of Your most affectionate kinsman and seruant Thomas Heigham To the Generous and Wel-disposed Reader GEntle Reader the greatest Commaund or Soueraigntie that a man can haue is to be Monarch of his owne Minde And he that is not so runs from errour to obstinacie to ruine and to destruction This Author hath not done like him who seeing his friends house on a fire because he would not be the messenger of euill newes let the house burne downe but doth as you may see ingenuously and ingeniously piously and passionately without feare or flattery reprooue and instruct both the King and Nobilitie By which also all that are wise and honest and haue any propension to gaine this power ouer themselues may attaine vnto it by learning in this Booke what true Honour Valour Magnanimity and Martyrdome is You may perceiue that ignorance enuy pride and ambition which are all off-springs of idlenes were the absolute motiues to all these murthers And some will thinke that God by the Kings bloody ende did shew his anger against him for his remisnesse in these preuentions Giue me leaue then out of my affection to all that would doe well to admonish them to shunne by all meanes this deuouring monster Idlenesse so odious to God and good men It was one of the sinnes of Sodome it is the mother and nurse of all sinnes and iniquities No man can expresse the infinite mischiefes that it hath produced But because I thinke the false opinions of many who hold all employments vnworthy a Gentleman but gaming and sporting doe much hurt I will set you downe examples and reasons to the contrary I haue read of a Noble-man that did so much hate Idlenes that when he had nothing to doe of greater moment he would make Butchers-pricks saying they might happily be vsefull to some at the least saith he they will in the making with-draw me from vain thoughts idle words and wicked actions There was a Baron of this Realme a very excellent Gold-smith my selfe haue scene a faire siluer standish of his making A Knight I knew of an auncient family that made it his daily exercise to make nets Some worthy Gentlemen there are that are excellent Painters some grauers some perfumers and the like all expressing generous spirits and diuine dispositions For the soule of man is alwaies in action still imagining or contriuing good or euill and euery action that is honest is profitable and laudable and farre from basenes or dishonour There is no man so noble or free borne but ought to doe somewhat to the seruice of God his Prince or Countrey and he that can make that his pastime pleasure and delight is infinitely more blessed then other men These considerations did pricke me forward to translate this Booke who being not bred nor aduanced to any vocation of doing good nor naturally inclined to the faculties aboue mentioned or the like did thinke this my best remedie against that contagious disease of Idlenesse It may be that Critticks as wel as Christians will reade this Booke and as they doe the holiest bookes of all will deride and traduce both that and the Author But Salomon saith It is no sinne but a glory for a man to suffer iniurie and that such are to be answered with silence I doe publish it for the good of others to serue as a Pilot to conduct honest men with honour and safety to their iourneyes end as also vpon the importunitie of some especiall friends of mine And if I may find that it doth passe with good acceptance I shall bee encouraged to make further triall hereafter If not I will make my future endeauours onely to content my selfe and remaine Your wel-wishing friend THO. HEIGHAM ⧠TO MY LORD DE SVLLY Duke and Peere of FRANCE c. My Lord THis Treatise of Duells is not dedicated to your Fortune but to yourVertue which is the principall cause thereof The most part doe runne after prosperitie I am none of the great number My eies are onely set vpon your rare merit by which you shine by which you gouerne It is accompanied with felicitie and fauour For this regard the present Discourse made for the Publique hath neede of your Fortune Seeing that the King testifieth so expressely that he esteemeth your Prudence and Probity ornaments so knowne so admired you may make it of Validity Your humour is wholly carried thereunto by the knowledge by the sensible apprehension of so great a mischiefe It shall be a Christian worke worthy of your zeale to the seruice of his Maiestie and good of the
cunning among these people that they make subtill shewes but it falls out commonly that they are countermined by a iust iudgement of God Let a man well and wisely weigh the quarrells of these times he shall see that pride and vanity are the two great supporters thereof Are not these excellent markes of a magnanimious courage The most part doe avowe that that which they doe is to aduantage themselues at an other mans cost a weaknes of iudgement for if they whom they offend be not in reputation there is no glory If they be naughty fellowes as they say a man incurres a danger to continue in it After death there is no more speach of that action if a man liues the aduantage is not very great as we will shew hereafter They are of opinion that if they escape they shall be in better estimation with the Prince and with all others This false imagination is one of the mortall poysons which venometh which bewitcheth their soules and rauisheth them to this despaire Here is a wonderfull consideration Vanitie blindeth them and carrieth them to Iniustice feeding them most daintily with a hot throat this is vanity indeed If the Prince in the most noble assemblies would blame and despise them they would stay the torrent of their follies but it happens that in the presence of him and others of the greatest they praise such actions tell stories of them they extoll them with applause with admiration See say they how handsomely he hath challenged him how freely the other iumped with him and being hindred after they had giuen their faith not to fight an heroicall prowesse see how gallantly they broke it to goe peirce their carkasses with ioy of heart without any occasion of quarrell so they do magnifie a thousand wayes a beastly barbarisme baptizing it with the most specious names of vertue It is a winde that soundeth within these empty heads and fils them with false imaginations which takes away their wits To be esteemed of the Soueraigne Prince and of the great ones is a charming flash of lightening which doth penetrate their soules It is a magicke which surpasseth all the characters of the Cabalists which dazeleth and decayeth their eyes and iudgements and teareth a man violently from himselfe We haue called these effects Despaire and not greatnes of Courage What will you say of them which do hang themselues precipitate themselues poyson themselues runne themselues through with a rapier starue themselues Doe they it not in despight of death It cannot be denied some will answer that all this is imbecillity blindnesse rage because the punishment doth not make the Martyr but the cause of the punishment It is well said what difference put you betweene those desperate men and the others which kill one another without iust cause you cannot find any in the least appearance That it is a rage proceeding from feeblenes of iudgement it may be prooued by a thousand arguments and especially by the combate of two new Pateuine Amazones who sixe or seauen yeares since did fight in a list or place railed in for a combate Oh what an vnnaturall accident It should bee the Crysis of quarrels of this time Crysis sent from Heauen if France would make it selfe worthy of such a blessing This History is a shame for both Sexes but it is a discourse by it selfe If it be Courage it is very common beeing practised by imbecilitie it selfe if Desperation it is come by example and that example is reprooueable and punishable Yet there are found amongst the Iewes the Egyptians the Persians the Greekes the Romanes and the French women of qualitie generous bred aboue the infirmitie of the sex equall to men by the fauour of nature and of nourture But to shew how vile and abiect this desperate action is it is knowne that base Porters haue been in the field with the same ceremonies vsing like curtesie as they do that thinke themselues Samsons This doth much extenuate the glory of these actions which the ignorant doe so vnworthily exalt The Lord de la Noue in one of his discourses blames Amadis for decyphering with a loftie and as it were a magicke style a false Valour and Chymera's of Valour And some which bee neere your Maiestie and elsewhere doe put forward vpon this matter things more extravagant and fantasticall then the tales of Melusina and of the Roman of the Rose In the meane time all the dispersion falls vpon the Nobilitie which is the basis of the Estate Your Maiestie by your excellent Vertue haue saued your Kingdome raised it again and remitted it by the very same and now that it is in the harbour your Maiestie lets them suffer shipwracke who haue helped your invincible courage to take land All the rest of the Kingdome doe enioy the benefit of peace euen to the beasts It is one of the praises that Strangers doe giue with admiration to your Maiesties vertue and fortune And the Nobilitie who haue so great a share in so faire a Conquest at least the greatest number are onely depriued of this good couered with blood enwrapped in a warre more then ciuill or rather in many intestine warres There is more mischiefe and iniustice in these Combates then in ciuill warres Because that in ciuill warres they flie they saue themselues they retire into the forts in the other to shunne occasions is cowardize to seeke out the least is extraordinary Honour All is open all is sure to them that say They beare not a word but like a Caualier That which is done most commonly in ciuill warres by chance is done in these combates of set purpose likewise the ruine thereby is almost alwayes ineuitable Ciuill warres be against enemies the other against friends neighbours neere kinsfolkes brothers In briefe in ciuill warres there is alwaies some honour for the particular some profit for the generall In the other there is neither honour nor profit for one or other When there bee any quarrells all the world runnes to hinder the mischiefe the King is disquieted with it his Guard are much troubled What is all this It is a very stage-play for to hinder all these furies there needes no more but an Edict well obserued To say that they doe but counterfeit to hinder them is against experience To say likewise that the King doth not desire it is repugnant to his good nature What is it then a sencelesnesse a madnes which hath seized and transported the Frenchmen A sencelesnesse not to be mooued by the consequence of these follies a madnes to follow with so much furie that lamentable way of miserie From whence comes so great a disaster From Pardons without which all the World iudgeth that this wild-fire would soone be extinguished The birth of these Monsters and their increase bee from the exquisite workes of flatterers which hauing finely slid and as it were melted themselues into the soules of Kings since Henry the 2. haue perswaded them that it is a
shall haue taken to make good lawes seeing this holy resolution will be ashamed to sue vnto you to destroy that which you shall haue built by their owne iudgement If they do importune you they shall be worthy to be denied and that deniall shall deserue the glory due to your vertue But how would they dare to presse you to doe that within your Realme which they would not suffer in their owne houses Knowing and detesting the malediction of this custome if we could returne how happy should we be to offer our selues in sacrifice for all France and that your Maiestie would put vs to death vpon condition that that which we propound might be exactly obserued How glorious would this curse be to giue two liues to saue so great a body It would surpasse all renowned deeds both auncient and moderne But if the death of some few seem cruell we say it is reasonable that a small number should bee sacrificed for an infinite some must necessarily suffer for the publique It is to preuent a thousand inconueniences Your Nobilitie is wholly diuided by means of quarrells If your Maiestie had occasion to raise armies as it may ariue let men iudge what mischiefes would come thereby At the meeting of the friends kinsfolkes and allies of them which be daily killed with the homicides What coyles what outrages what furies would there be By this counterpoise a man might know that it would bee a very Christian pitty to cause so great a gaine by a little losse If your Maiesty do not redresse these disorders we must neuer hope for it This worke with many others is reserued for your goodnesse and good fortune Alas for so many Gentlemen as die in France there are made so many bone-fires in Spain and amongst the other enemies of the French name They set vp their Trophies with your blood they build with your ruines and make themselues great with your losses We know with all the world that you are not a Nero you haue pardoned euen those that haue attempted your owne person It is certaine that you neuer loose any one of yours but you haue great sence of it aboue all you are sensible of the losse of them that haue hazarded their liues to defend yours and to maintain your Lawes That is not enough you must not stay in so faire a way What is to be done more to make it appeare by the effects which doe speake of themselues There be certaine laughers that fight not who lets escape this saying that there is no hurt to draw blood from a body full of euill humours It is the most caniball and bleeding maxime of the world Which sauours with a full throate the Democrasie of the Switzers an impious maxime and full of ignorance Impious for it is against all Lawes diuine and humane Full of ignorance for as much as it is not onely the choler and sleame that goes out it is the good blood let vs say the best oftentimes They answer that quarrells arise commonly from the rash and insolent and that modest men who vsually are most valiant doe not begin them It is a worthy obiection Is not the world fuller of fooles then of wise men The French Nobility who accompts Valour her summum bonum is she not as ready as a flash of lightning It comes to passe then that the peaceable by beeing in company either for that they are friends kinsfolkes allies or neighbours be wrapped in these disorders not of their owne motion but by the instigation of others So the â—ood blood is mingled with the euill It were a high secret to know how to separate them No Alchimist is capable of it See how France is wounded and torne with her owne hands behold how she fills her selfe with desolations in such sort that there is not a house in this kingdome exempt from one of these two miserable scourges or from both together from suite or bloodshed A lamentable thing worthy of commiseration But who craues the remedy which is denied him by an euill destiny what meanes is there to abate these fumes to temper these dog daies We haue said it so often good Lawes and well obserued to busie and content great mindes and to imploy them There be many iust occasions and faire meanes enough Let vs now consider the euent of our misery and let vs waigh the good that comes of it Ah! how remarkeable it is the faire schoole the fearefull example God hath shewed in this prodigious effect two things worthy to be noted The one that he is iust and true in that which he hath said Who killeth shall be killed Alas we had rooted out the soules of others from their bodies with an vnmercifull iron against the Law of God and we haue beene punished by our selues by the same wayes Iudges and parties executioners and criminalls infringers of mens repose and in danger to be depriued of the heauenly rest The other point remarkeable is that it must be a vowed by force that nothing is so detestable before the Maiesty of God as the Duell as it is practised in this Realm Oh iust oh admirable oh redoubtable iudgements Doe not you enter into this consideration Yes you doe Sir it penetrates all your soule Though you did not yet should you cast your eyes vpon this lamentable vessell your Nobility peirced from ribbe to rib which takes water at all sides which perisheth by little and little in all mens sight ready to make a pitifull strip wracke The heart cannot faile but the other members must be without force and all the world knowes the inuincible heart of this great Body cannot be subdued but by it selfe You are the Head you are the eies succour this noble part which beeing weakned by so many conclusions by so much losse of blood you can haue neither moouing nor light nor conduct nor vigor against the mischeifes which grow so often within the entralls of this Realme nor against them which may ariue from without Whosoeuer will narrowly marke to what a brutishnes the furies of the French are mounted he will tremble in the soule he will finde himselfe turned topsie turuy quite out of himselfe When they speake of causes which doe engage to Duell they confesse that according to God it is damnable wickednes and yet for all that they goe to it So as to practise Honour as they doe in these dayes it is iust not to be a Christian to make a glory of homicide is to loue Vertue to heape vp whole families with misery with desolation it is to be a light of men to conclude it is to be the image of all gentlenes to know well how to efface without cause from the world the image of God They that haue the dropsie of pride that are puffed vp with vanity and ignorance will say this is spoken like Diuines In the estimation of this age it is an ill argument to alleadge God or to be a Christian That is too
as Theseus and Samson hath a courage lower then the Centre of the earth and is vnworthy euer to lift vp his head and to behold the Sunne Let this wretch that shall come and play such a cowardly tricke before this great Warriour bury himselfe aliue for a iust punishment let him pull out his eies as in old time the Emperours of Constantinople did one to another or let him go and be a dead pay in Hungarie all his life pierce there the armes of those Infidels passe vpon the point of their pikes and of their swords to repaire such a fault Truely Death is a terrible and fearefull image there is no spirit so high so resolute so disdainefull of perill but doth apprehend some shadow of the graue but a man must not put himselfe to this trade if he do not know that he is of a good stampe Vertues be not naturall we haue indeede some disposition some more some lesse to receiue them Valour beeing a Vertue ought to bee considered in that manner her birth is feeble shee is not in perfection blood is not capable alone to draw this picture to the life this picture so rare so excellent so diuine The liuely colours must be taken from example and meditation If Valour were naturall all men should haue it from their birth as also the other Vertues but it is acquired by knowledge and habitude We must not finde it strange if for the punishment of pride and presumption the strongest cords of courage be sometimes loosed and men admired for this Vertue doe commit notable faults and besides men are not disposed at all times alike I will recount the memorable history of the Lord D'Aussun as it was represented vnto me by a Gentleman of Honour and Qualitie who was at the battell of Dreux because it serueth to this purpose This generous Caualier who had acquired so faire a name that in a commendation of excellency they would say The stoutnesse of d'Aussun in this battell fled with the rest returning to himselfe as a Lyon who passing through the Forrest hearing the noise of the branches flieth vntil he be out then turning his head strikes himselfe with his tayle to enter into fury and returnes to the same place from whence he came this hardie Lyon returned to the combat where in the middest of the throng he shewed that he did not beare so honourable a Title vnworthily he appeared like thunder made himselfe to be felt like a tempest that ouerthroweth all made himselfe redoubtable to his enemies and admirable to both the armies The combate being ended and he as full of honour as mad with despight extolled of his friends and enemies went to bed and resolued to die for the displeasure he tooke for his flying Monsieur de Guise that then was went to see and comfort him and attributed much glory to him in the presence of all To which hee answered How Sir you that are the most Valorous Prince that liues at this day haue you taken paines to visit the most cowardly and base that euer was borne a man vnworthy to see the light No no I am worthy of a cruell punishment and not of the praise that you giue me which I doe iustly reiect because I doe not merit it and will make another man of my selfe because I haue too well deserued it He died a while after for want of eating A man could not Christianly praise this excesse but the rest testified a soule truely vertuous and a courage without doubt magnanimious It is to be considered that in this exploit almost all the Army-royall were put to flight To retire seemed rather wisedome then cowardlinesse and if there had beene a fault in it he repaired it againe if it be true as I haue said that he returned to the Combate If not as some beleeue the contrary yet his fault was common and well accompanied He was rauished with this confused disorder and carried away by the multitude of flyers So many honest men couragious resolute and full of reputation did fall into the same inconuenience that hee might haue attributed it to the good fortune of the enemies haue supported it with patience as others did haue comforted himselfe in the representation of so many notable proofes which he had giuen of his Valour and vpon the common opinion that armes are vncertaine But his conscience serued him as a thousand witnesses his heart was the great comptroller he found he was a stranger to himselfe not hauing been accustomed to fall into such defaults This change of his courage shaken with a wind of feeble humanity which feareth death had afflicted him being one that had a sense so exquisite and so tickle in things of Honour and in actions of Vertue An Heroique spirit and iealous of it selfe who chose an extraordinary and vniust death not for any fault committed but for omitting the custome of doing well and according to the measure of that stoutnesse so much esteemed Hee would content himselfe and not an other in his manner not to the mind of others according to his owne rule not to the rule of strangers it was the feare to haue done amisse which is a pricking prouocation to doe well There haue been found some at Court who hauing giuen good proofes of their Valour in a day of battell and made others beare the markes of their courage and inuincible resolution because they escaped the businesse and did not die with their friends feared that they did ill We must avow that such persons be wel borne to Vertue which is not fed either with publique smoake or with another mans opinion but with her owne knowledge beeing balanced and knowing her selfe her waight and her price There be not amongst a hundred such faire soules Now the feare not to doe well is the first motiue that carrieth away the generous spirit and which mooueth it with more force then the crownes of Oake and the triumphes did the auncient Romanes They that goe about to content themselues first though they were in dennes in the graue if it were possible will neuer faile in their duty When they haue exploited effects admired of all they doe not rest vpon the generall voyce the common iudgement doth not fill them they beleeue assuredly that this action is not exactly accomplished Phidias for his workes was in an incredible reputation and not any thing of that he did most perfectly did content him His house beeing on a fire he cried to saue the Satyre which was an admirable peice not that he esteemed it perfect but rather imperfect in his fantasie I will say that those spirits haue Ide'as of formes and proportions which doe rauish all the rest in some scantling of their beauty But for their contentment it is not sufficient they haue remaining yet a great hunger Obstinacy also which is a terrible wilde beast that no reason can appease hath done strange things which doe approach the magnificent workes of Vertue and