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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51181	Essays of Michael, seigneur de Montaigne in three books, with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors, and an account of the author's life / new rendered into English by Charles Cotton, Esq.; Essais. English	Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	1685 (1685)	Wing M2479; ESTC R2740	998,422	2,006

MICHEL SEIGNEVR DE MONTAIGNE Printed for T. Bassett M. Gilliflower W. Hensman ESSAYS OF MICHAEL SEIGNEUR DE MONTAIGNE IN THREE BOOKS With Marginal Notes and Quotations of the cited Authors And an Account of the Author's LIFE New rendred into English By CHARLES COTTON Esq Viresque acquirit eundo Virg. lib. 4. Aen. The First Volume LONDON Printed for T. Basset at the George in Fleetstreet and M. Gilliflower and W. Hensman in Westminster-Hall 1685. To the Right Honourable GEORGE Marquess Earl and Viscount Hallifax Baron of Eland Lord Privy Seal and one of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council MY LORD IF I have set down the only opportunity I ever had of kissing your Lordships Hands amongst the happy Encounters of my Life and take this occasion so many Years after to tell you so your Lordship will not I hope think your self injur'd by such a Declaration from a Man that honours You nor condemn my Ambition when I publish to the World that I am not altogether unknown to You. Your Lordship peradventure may have forgot a Conversation so little worthy your remembrance but the memory of your Lordship's obliging fashion to me all that time can never dye with me and though my Acknowledgment arrives thus late at you I have never left it at home when I went abroad into the best Company My Lord I cannot I would not flatter you I do not think your Lordship capable of being flatter'd neither am I inclin'd to do it to those that are but I cannot forbear to say that I then receiv'd such an impression of your Vertue and Noble Nature as will stay with me for ever This will either excuse the Liberty I presume to take in this Dedication or at least make it no wonder and I am so confident in your Lordships Generosity that I assure my self you will not deny your Protection to a Man whose greatest Publick Crime is that of an ill Writer A better Book if there be a better of the kind in the Original I mean had been a Present more fitly suited to your Lordships Quality and Merit and to my Devotion I could heartily wish it such but as it is I lay it at your Lordship's Feet together with My Lord Your Lordships Most humble and most obedient Servant Charles Cotton THE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE TO THE READER MY Design in attempting this Translation was to present my Country with a true Copy of a very brave Original How far I have succeeded in that Design is left to every one to judge and I expect to be the more gently censured for having my self so modest an Opinion of my own Performance as to confess that the Author has suffered by me as well as the former Translator though I hope and dare affirm that the misinterpretations I shall be found guilty of are neither so numerous nor so gross I cannot discern my own Errours it were impardonable in me if I could and did not mend them but I can see his except when we are both mistaken and those I have corrected but am not so ill natur'd as to shew where In truth both Mr. Florio and I are to be excused where we miss of the sence of the Author whose Language is such in many Places as Grammar cannot reconcile which renders it the hardest Book to make a justifiable version of that I yet ever saw in that or any other Language I understand insomuch that though I do think and am pretty confident I understand French as well as many Men I have yet sometimes been forc'd to grope at his meaning Peradventure the greatest Critick would in some Places have found my Author abstruse enough Yet are not these Mistakes I speak of either so many or of so great importance as to cast any scandalous blemish upon the Book but such as few Readers can discover and they that do will I hope easily excuse The Errors of the Press I must in part take upon my self living at so remote a distance from it and supplying it with a slubber'd Copy from an illiterate Amanuensis the last of which is provided against in the Quires that must succeed THE LIFE OF MICHAEL SEIGNEUR DE MONTAIGNE Almost entirely taken out of his own WORKS THE Race of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne in Perigord was Noble but Noble without any great lustre till his time As to Estate he was seiz'd of above two thousand Crowns of yearly Revenue He was born to his Father the third in order of Birth of his Children and by him delivered to Gossips of the meanest Condition to be baptized with a Design rather to oblige and link him to those who were likely to stand in need of him than to such as he might stand in need of He moreover sent him from his Cradle to be brought up in a poor Village of his and there continued him all the while he was at Nurse and longer forming him to the lowest and most common manner of Living Wherein he certainly so well inur'd himself to Frugality and Austerity that they had much ado during all the time of his Infancy especially to correct the refusals he made of things that Children of his age are commonly greedy of as Sugars Sweet-meats March-panes and the like No doubt the Greek and Latin Tongues are a very Fair and a very great Advance but as he himself observes they are now a days too dear bought His Father having made all diligent inquiry that possibly could be amongst the Learned Men for an exquisite method of Education was caution'd of the inconvenience then in Use and told that the tedious time that is employ'd in the Languages of the Ancient Greeks and Romans which cost them nothing is the only reason that we cannot arrive to that grandeur of Soul and perfection of Knowledge that was in them The expedient that he found out for this was that whilst he was at Nurse and before he began to Speak he delivered him to the Care of a German who since died a famous Physician in France totally ignorant of our Language and very well vers'd in the Latin Tongue This Man that he had brought out of his own Country and entertain'd with a very great Salary for this purpose had the Child continually in his Arms to whom there were added two others more moderately Learned to attend him and to Relieve the first which three entertain'd him with no other Language but Latin As to the rest of the Family it was an inviolable Rule that neither his Father nor so much as his Mother Man or Maid spoke any Word in his hearing but such as every one had learn't only to prattle with him And 't is not to be believ'd how all of them profited by this Method his Father and Mother learn't by this means Latin enough to understand and to serve themselves withal at need as also those Servants did who were most about his Person To be short they did Latin it at such a Rate that