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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49151	Of liberty and servitude translated out of the French into the English tongue, and dedicated to Geo. Evelyn, Esquire.; De la liberté et de la servitude. English	La Mothe Le Vayer, François de, 1583-1672.; Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.	1649 (1649)	Wing L302; ESTC R1325	26,155	156

EXTRACT of the Royall Privilege BY the grace and Privilege of the King bearing date the 20th of Ianuary 1643. and signed CONRAT it is permitted unto the Sicur de la Mothe le Vayer substitut du Procurer Generall of His Majesty to cause to be printed a booke of his Composition intituled OF LIBERTY AND SERVITVDE for and during the space of ten yeares And defences unto all Printers or Book-sellers either to imprint or sell it without consent of the said Sieur de la Mothe or those unto whom he shall give leave under paine of two thousand liures of Amende as in the same Privilege more at large it is contained OF LIBERTY AND SERVITUDE Translated out of the French into the English Tongue And Dedicated to Geo Evelyn Esquire VIRG. Eclog. 1. Melib Et quae tanta fuit Roman● tibi causa videndi Tit. Libertas quae sera tamen respexit Inertem London Printed for M. Meighen and G. Bedell and are to be sold at their shop at the middle Temple-gate 1649. The Authors EPISTLE To my Lord the most eminent Cardinal MAZARIN My Lord ALthough I know sufficiently that your goodnesse moves you to accept favourably even the least Productions of Wit which are presented unto you yet am I justly so diffident of mine own that it hath suffered an extraordinary reductancy before it could resolve to offer unto you this little Treatise without the Consideration of it's subject and as I must say without the necessity of dedicating the same unto you For if one cannot but with sacrilege make use elsewhere of that which an holy Place did receive from our offerings nothing but your sacred Purple ought to gather that which another who is no more had deigned to receive into his Protection Perhaps your Eminencie may call to mind to have seen what I now dedicate unto you in the hands of the great Cardinal de Richelieu I resign it now into yours the most worthy that I know to handle all which those have touched and if it hath need of any other recōmendation to render it acceptable unto you it is Philosophy that so much in your esteeme which hath dictated it unto me I am confident MY LORD that you will not disavow an affection which retaines nothing in it but what is altogether worthy of you Philosophy is one of the most rich Presents that ever man received from Heaven it is that which elevates us unto the Contemplation of eternall things and the Science which of all others affords to Princes as well as to private men the most agreeable Divertisement Your Eminencie therefore if it please accept favourablie that which is derived from so noble a place and which an heart repleate with Zeale to your service as mine is offers with so much obligation This grace I promise to my self out of your ordinarie goodnesse and shal eternally remaine My Lord Your must humble most obedient Servant De la Mothe le Vayer The Translators Epistle to George Evelyn of Wotton in the County of Surrey Esq SIR I Make bold to present you here with a little Enchiridion or Treatise of Liberty and Servitude Which in pursuite of otber Bookes to entertain the time withall it was my chance to encounter amongst the Stationers at Paris And because it handleth a Subject which this Age I know not by what destiny waited upon doth every where seeme to pretend unto I thought most proper to nuncupate it unto you whose reall merits and known Integrity so justly challenge a part in the management of those important affaires of this Kingdome Sir Here is not any thing that I dare call mine owne save only the Translation which importeth nothing but the hazard of every mans Censure who understandeth French and my good inclinations towards you The matter is anothers and entertained by Persons of that Eminency that I dare presume no man will appeare so hardy as rashly either to condemne or prejudice it This is the first time as you well know of mine appearing upon the Theater which I shall prove to frequent but as Gentlemen who sometimes write Plaies not often But lest our little City runne out at the Gates I will here shut up this Epistle desiring only the Liberty to remain as I am SIR Your most affectionate Friend and inviolable Servitor PHILELEUTHEROS Paris March 25. 1647. To Him that reads THis free subject comming abroad in these Licentious times may happily cause the World to mistake both the Author and the Translator neither of whom by LIBERTY do understand that impious Impostoria pila so frequently of late exhibited and held forth to the People whilst in the meane time indeed it is thrown into the hands of a few private Persons By FREEDOME is here intended that which the Philosopher teacheth us Nulli rei servire nulli necessitati nullis Casibus fortunam in aequum deducere c. not that Platonique Chimaera of a State no where existant save in VTOPIA Verily there is no such thing in rerum natura as we pretend unto seeing that whilst we beare about us those spoiles of Mortality and are subject to our Passions there can be no absolute Perfection acquired in this life And of this truth we have now had the experience of more then five thousand yeeres during all which tract to this present Epoch of time never was there either heard or read of a more equal excelent form of Government than that under wch we our selves have lived during the Reign of our most gratious Soveraignes Halcion daies The sole contemplation of which makes me sometimes with the sweet Italian to sing Memoria solatu Conrammentarm ' 〈◊〉 Spesso spesso vien à rapi●mi E qualch ' istant ancor ringiouanirmi Of which the memory No sooner strikes my braine But ah transported I Methinkes wax young againe If therefore we were once the most happy of Subjects why do we thus attempt to render our selves the most miserable of Slaves God is One and better it is to obey One then Many Neque enim Libertas tutior ulla est quam DOMINO servire bo●● That is In Nobilissimi Doctissimique D. Translationem Alexandri Rosaei hexastichon Quid sit Libertas quid sit servire Tyrannis Iustruis Angligenas hic Evelyne tuos Quas pridem Authori debebat Gallia grates Has debet linguae terra Britanna tuae Ipse Author debet quem vestibus induis Anglis Ornatéque doces Anglic● verba loqui The TABLE of the CHAPTERS THe Proem CHAP. I. Of Liberty and Servitude in generall page 1 CHAP. II. In what our Liberty and Servitude consists p. 10 CHAP. III. That no man can truly affirm himselfe to be free p. 22 CHAP. IV. Of the Liberty Philosophique p. 39 CHAP. V. Of the Servitude of the Court p. 87 The Conclusion p. 128 Lemata si quaeris cui sint adscripta docebo Ut si malueris lemata sola legas Martial Enquire you why this Table 's put before