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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

to be always upright and sincere the third to conquer his Appetites and Desires and the fourth to despise all Danger 'T is a thing worthy of very great Consideration that in that excellent and in truth for its Perfection prodigious form and civil Regiment set down by Lycurgus though sollicitous of the Education of Children as a thing of the greatest Concern and even in the very Seat of the Muses he should make so little mention of Learning as if their generous Youth disdaining all other Subjection but that of Vertue only ought to be supply'd instead of Tutors to read to them Arts and Sciences with such Masters as should only instruct them in Valour Prudence and Justice An Example that Plato has followed in his Laws the manner of whose Discipline was to propound to them Questions upon the Judgment of Men and of their Actions and if they commended or condemned this or that Person or Fact they were to give a Reason for so doing by which means they at once sharp'ned their Understanding and became skillful in the Laws Mandane in Xenophon asking her Son Cyrus how he would do to learn Justice and the other Vertues amongst the Medes having left all his Masters behind him in Persia He made Answer That he had learn'd those things long since that his Master had often made him a Judge of the Differences amongst his School-Fellows and had one day whip'd him for giving a wrong Sentence and thus it was A great Boy in the School having a little short Cassock by force took a longer from another that was not so tall as he and gave him his own in exchange whereupon I being appointed Judge of the Controversie gave Judgment That I thought it best either of them should keep the Coat he had for that they both of them were better fitted with that of one another than with their own upon which my Master told me I had done ill in that I had only consider'd the Fitness and Decency of the Garments whereas I ought to have consider'd the Justice of the thing which requires that no one should have any thing forcibly taken from him that is his own But it seems poor Cyrus was whip'd for his Pains as we are in our Villages for forgetting the first Aorist of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my Pedant must make me a very learned Oration in genere demonstrativo before he can perswade me that his School is like unto that They knew how to go the readiest way to work and seeing that Science when most rightly apply'd and best understood can do no more but teach us Prudence moral Honesty and Resolution they thought fit to initiate their Children with the knowledge of Effects and to instruct them not by Hear-say and by Rote but by the Experiment of Action in lively forming and moulding them not only by Words and Precepts but chiefly Works and Examples to the end it might not be a Knowledge of the Mind only but a Complexion and a Habit and not an Acquisition but a natural Possession One asking to this Purpose Agesilaus what he thought most proper for Boys to learn What they ought to do when they come to be Men said he It is therefore no wonder if such an Institution have produc'd so admirable Effects They us'd to go 't is said in the other Cities of Greece to enquire out Rhetoricians Painters and Musick-Masters but in Lacedaemon Legislators Magistrates and Generals of Armies at Athens they learnt to speak well and here to do well there to disengage themselves from a sophistical Argument and to unravel Syllogisms here to evade the Baits and Allurements of Pleasure and with a noble Courage and Resolution to confute and conquer the menaces of Fortune and Death those cudgell'd their Brains about Words these made it their Business to enquire into things there was an eternal Babble of the Tongue here a continual Exercise of the Soul And therefore it is nothing strange if when Antipater demanded of them fifty Children for Hostages they made Answer quite contrary to what we should do That they would rather give him twice as many full grown Men so much did they value the loss of their Country's Education When Agesilaus courted Xenophon to send his Children to Sparta to be bred It is not said he there to learn Logick or Rhetorick but to be instructed in the noblest of all Sciences namely the Science to Obey and to Command It is very pleasant to see Socrates after his manner rallying Hippias who recounts to him what a World of Money he has got especially in certain little Villages of Sicily by teaching School and that he got never a Penny at Sparta What a Sottish and stupid People says Socrates are they without Sense or Understanding that make no Account either of Grammar or Poetry and only busie themselves in studying the Genealogies and Successions of their Kings the Foundations Rises and Declensions of States and such Tales of a Tub After which having made Hippias particularly to acknowledge the Excellency of their Form of Publick Administration and the Felicity and Vertue of their Private Life he leaves him to guess at the Conclusion he makes of the Inutilities of his Pedantick Arts. Examples have Demonstrated to us that in Military Affairs and all others of the like Active Nature the Study of Sciences does more soften and untemper the Courages of Men that any way fortifie and incite them The most Potent Empire that at this Day appears to be in the whole World is that of the Turks a People equally inclin'd to the Estimation of Arms and the Contempt of Letters I find Rome was more Valiant before she grew so Learned and the most Warlike Nations at this time in Being are the most ignorant of which the Scythians Parthians and the great Tamerlane may serve for sufficient Proof When the Goths over-ran Greece the only thing that preserved all the Libraries from the Fire was that some one possess'd them with an Opinion that they were to leave this kind of Furniture entire to the Enemy as being most proper to divert them from the Exercise of Arms and to fix them to a lazy and sedentary Life When our King Charles the Eighth almost without striking a Blow saw himself possess'd of the Kingdom of Naples and a considerable part of Tuscany the Nobility about him attributed this unexpected Facility of Conquest to this that the Princes and Nobles of Italy more studied to render themselves ingenious and learned than vigorous and warlike CHAP. XXV Of the Education of Children To Madam Diana of Foix Countess of Gurson I Never yet saw that Father but let his Son be never so decrepid or deform'd would notwithstanding own him nevertheless if he were not totally besotted and blinded with this Paternal Affection that he did not well enough discern his Defects but that all Defaults notwithstanding he is still his Just so do I I see better than any other that all I

Henry the Second I have seen a Man ride with both his feet upon the Saddle take off his Saddle and at his return take it up again refit and remount it riding all the while full speed having Gallopt over a Bonnet make at it very good shoots backwards with his Bow take up any thing from the ground setting one foot down and the other in the Stirrup with twenty other Apes-tricks which he got his living by There has been seen in my time at Constantinople two Men upon an Horse who in the height of his speed would throw themselves off and into the Saddle again by turn and one who Bridled and Saddled his Horse with nothing but his Teeth Another who betwixt two Horses one foot upon one Saddle and another upon the other carrying another upon his Shoulders would ride full career the other standing bolt upright upon him making very good shoots with his Bow Several who would ride full speed with their heels upwards and their Hands upon the Saddle betwixt several Scymiters with the points upward fixt in the Harness When I was a Boy the Prince of Salmona riding a rough Horse at Naples to all his Airs held Reals under his Knees and Toes as if they had been nail'd there to shew the firmness of his Seat CHAP. XLIX Of Ancient Customs I Should willingly pardon our people for admitting no other pattern or rule of perfection than their own peculiar manners and customs It being a common Vice not of the vulgar only but almost of all Men to walk in the Beaten Road their Ancestors have trod before them I am content when they see Fabritius or Lelius that they look upon their Countenance and Behaviour as Barbarous seeing they are neither Cloath'd no● Fashion'd according to our Mode But I find fault with their singularity when it arrives to that degree of indiscretion as to suffer themselves to be impos'd upon by authority of the present Usance as every Month to alter their Opinion if Custom so require and that they should so vary their judgment in their own particular concern When they wore the Belly-pieces of their Doublets up as high as their Breasts they stifly maintain'd that they were in their proper place Some Years after they were slipt down between their Thighs and then they could laugh at the former fashion as uneasie and intolerable The fashion now in use makes them absolutely condemn the other two with so great indignation and so universal contempt that a Man would think there was a certain kind of Madness crept in amongst them that infatuates their Understandings to this strange degree Now seeing that our change of Fashions is so prompt and sudden that the inventions of all the Taylors in the World cannot furnish out new Whim-whams enow to feed our vanity withal there will often be a necessity that the despised ones must again come in vogue and even those immediately after fall into the same contempt and that the same judgment must in the space of Fifteen or Twenty Years take up not only different but contrary Opinions with an incredible lightness and inconstancy There is not any of us so cautelous and discreet that suffers not himself to be gull'd with this contradiction and both in external and internal sight to be insensibly blinded I will here muster up some old Customs that I have in memory some of them the same with ours the others different to the end that bearing in mind this continual variation of humane things we may have our judgments clearer and more firmly settled The thing in use amongst us of fighting with Rapier and Cloak was in practice amongst the Romans also Sinistris sagos involvant Caesar de bello civili lib. 1. gladiosque distringunt They wrapt their Cloaks upon the Left Arm and handled the Sword with the Right says Caesar And I observe an old Vicious Custom of our Nation which continues yet amongst us which is to stop passengers we meet upon the Road to compel them to give an account who they are and to take it for an Injury and just cause of quarrel if they refuse to do it At the Baths which the Ancients made use of every Day before they went to Dinner and as frequently as we wash our Hands they at first only bath'd their Arms and Legs but afterwards and by a Custom that has continued for many Ages in most Nations of the World they bath'd stark Naked in mixt and perfum'd Waters looking upon it as a great simplicity to bath in mee● Water The most delicate and affected perfum'd themselves all over Three or Four times a Day They often caused their Hair to be pincht off as the Women of France have some time since taken up a Custom to do their Foreheads Mat. lib. 2. Epig. 62. Quod pectus quod crura tibi quod brachia vellis How dost thou twitch thy Breast thy Arms and Thighs though they had Ointments proper for that purpose Ll. lib. 6. Epi. 93. Psiloiro nitet aut arida latet abdita oreta This in Wild-vine shines or else doth calk Her rank po●es up in a dry Crust of Chalk they delighted to lie soft and pretended it for a great testimony of hardiness to lie upon a Matrice They did Eat lying upon Beds much after the manner of the Turks in this Age. Aeneid l. 2. Inde thoro pater Aeneas sic orsus ab alto Then thus Aeneas from his Bed of State Begun Troy's Woful Story to relate And 't is said of the younger Cato that after the Battel of Pharsalia being entred into a Melancholick Disposition at the ill posture of the Publick Affairs he took his repose always sitting assuming a strict and severe course of Life It was also their Custom to kiss the Hands of great Persons the more and better to Honour and Caress them And meeting with their equals they always Kist in salutation as do the Venetians Ovid. de pont li. 4. Eleg. 9. Gratatusque darem cum dulcibus oscula verbis And kindest words I would with Kisses mix In petitioning or saluting any great Man they us'd to lay their Hands upon his Knees Fasicles the Philosopher and Brother of Crates instead of laying his Hand upon the Knee laid it upon his Private Parts and being rudely repulst by him to whom he made that indecent Complement What said he is not that part your own as well as the other They us'd to Eat their Fruits as we do after Dinner They wipt their Arses let the Ladies if they please mince it smaller with a Spunge which is the reason that Spongia is a smutty Word in Latin Which Spunge was also fastned to the end of a stick as appears by the Story of him who as he was led along to be thrown to the wild Beasts in the sight of the people asking leave to do his business and having no other ways to dispatch himself forc't the Spunge and Stick down his own Throat