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A68475	Essays vvritten in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne, Knight of the Order of S. Michael, gentleman of the French Kings chamber: done into English, according to the last French edition, by Iohn Florio reader of the Italian tongue vnto the Soueraigne Maiestie of Anna, Queene of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c. And one of the gentlemen of hir royall priuie chamber; Essais. English	Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.; Florio, John, 1553?-1625.; Hole, William, d. 1624, engraver.	1613 (1613)	STC 18042; ESTC S111840	1,002,565	644

to speake that which is false but was reputed true and that the definition of the Latin word mentiri whence the French word mentir is derived which in English is to lie implieth and meaneth to go against ones conscience and by consequence it concerneth onely those who speake contrary to that which they know of whom I speake Now these either invent seale stampe and all or else they disguise and change a true ground When they disguise or change if they be often put to the repetition of one thing it is hard for them to keepe still in one path and very strange if they lose not themselves because the thing as it is having first taken vp her stand in the memory and there by the way of knowledge and witting imprinted it-selfe it were hard it should not represent itselfe to the imagination displacing and supplanting falshood which therein can have no such footing or setled fastnesse and that the circumstances of the first learning still diving into the minde should not cause it to disperse the remembrance of all false or bastardizing parts gotten together Where they altogether invent forsomuch as there is no certaine impression to front their falshood they seeme to have so much the lesser feare to mistake or forget themselves which also notwithstanding being an airie bodie and without hold-fast may easily escape the memorie except it be well assured whereof I have often to my no small pleasure seene the experience at the cost of those who professe never to frame their speech but as best shall fit the affaires they negotiate and as best shall please the great men they speake vnto For the circumstances to which they will subject their credit and conscience being subject to many changes their speech must likewise diversifie and change with them whence it followeth that of one self-same subject they speak diversly as now yellow now gray to one man thus and thus to another And if peradventure these kind of men hoard-up their so contrarie instructions what becomes of this goodly arte Who besides often most foolishly forget themselves and runne at randon For what memorie shall suffice them to remember so many different formes they have framed to one same subject I have in my daies seene divers that have envied the reputation of this woorthy kind of wisedome who perceive not that if there be a reputation there can be no effect Verily lying is an ill and detestablevice Nothing makes vs men no other meanes keeps vs bound one to another but our word knew we but the horror and waight of it we would with fire and sword pursue and hate the same and more justly than any other crime I see all men generally busied and that verie improperly to punish certaine innocent errours in children which have neither impression nor consequence and chastice and vex them for rash and fond actions Onely lying and stubbornesse somewhat more are the faults whose birth and progresse I would have severely punished and cut off for they grow and encrease with them and if the tongue have once gotten this ill habit good Lord how hard nay how impossible it is to make her leave it whereby it ensueth that we see many very honest men in other matters to be subject and enthralled to that fault I have a good lad to my tailour whom I never heard speak a truth no not when it might stand him in stead of profit If a lie had no more faces but one as truth hath we should be in farre better termes then we are For whatsoever a li●r should say we would take ●●● in a contrarie sense But the opposite of truth hath many many shapes and an vnd●●●nite field The Pythagoreans make good to be certaine and ●●nite and evill to be 〈◊〉 and vncertaine A thousand by-waies misse the marke one onely hits the-same Surely I can never assure my selfe to come to a good end to warrant an extreame and evident danger by a shamelesse and solemnelie An ancient Father saith We are better in the companie of a knowne dogge than in a mans societie whose speech is vnknowne to vs. V● externus al●ono non si● hominis vice A stranger to a stra●g 〈…〉 not ●ake a man And how much is a false speech lesse sociable than silence King Francis the first vaunted himselfe to have by this meanes brought Francis Taverna Ambassador to Francis S●orz● Duke of Millane to a non plus a man very famous for his rare eloquence and facilitie in speech who had beene dispatched to excuse his master toward his Majestie of a matter of great importance which was this The King to keepe ever some intelligence in Italy whence he had lately beene expelled but especially in the Dukedome of M●●ane thought it expedient to entertaine a Gentleman of his about the Duke in effect as his Ambassador but in apparance as a private man who should make shew to reside there about his particular affaires forsomuch as the Duke who depended much more of the Emperour chiefely then that he was treating a mariage with his niece daughter of the King of Denmarke who is at this day Dowager of Loraine could not without great prejudice vnto himselfe discover to have any correspondencie and conference with vs. For which commission and purpose a Gentleman of Millane named Merveille then serving the King in place of one of the Quiers of his Quierie was deemed ●t This man being dispached with secret letters of credence and instructions of an Ambassador together with other letters of commendation to the Duke in savour of his particular affaires as a maske and pretence of his proceedings continued so long about the Duke that the Emperour began to have some suspition of him which as we suppose was cause of what ensued which was that vnder colour of a murther committed the Duke one night caused the s●●d Merveille to be beheaded having ended his processe in two daies Master Francis b●●ng come to the Court fraught with a long counterfet deduction of this s●orie for the King had addressed himselfe to all the Princes of Christendome yea and to the Duke himselfe for justice for such an outrage committed vpon his servant had one morning audience in the Kings councell-chamber who for the foundation of his cause having established and to that end projected many goodly and colourable apparences of the fact namely that the Duke his master had never taken Merveille for other then a private gentleman and his owne subject and who was come thither about his private busines where he had never lived vnder other name protesting he had never knowne him to be one of the Kings houshold nor never heard of him much lesse taken him for his Majesties Agent But the King vrging him with divers objections and demands and charging him on every side pr●st ●im so farre with the execution done by night and as it were by stealth that the ●eely man being much entangled and suddenly surprised as if he

employ our lives if our friends stand in need of-vs But seldome shall we see a man communicate his honor share his reputation and imparte his glory vnto others Catulus Luctatius in the warres against the Cymbres having done the vtmost of his endevours to stay his souldiers that fled before their enemies put-himselfe amongest the runne-awaies and dissembled to bee a coward that so they might rather seeme to follow their Captaine then flie from the enemie This was a neglecting and leaving off his reputation to conceale the shame and reproach of other When Charles the fift passed into Provence the yeare a thousand five hundred thirty seaven some are of opnion that Anthony de Leva seeing the emperor his master resolutely obstinate to vndertake that voyage deeming it wonderfully glorious maintained neverthelesse the contrary and discouncelled him from-it to the end all the honour and glory of this counsell might be attributed vnto his Maister and that it might be said his good advise and fore-sight to have been such that contrary to al mens opinions he had atchieved so glorious an enterprise Which was to honor and magnifie him at his owne charges The Thracian Ambassadors comforting Achileonida the Mother of Brasidas for the death of hir son and highly extolling and commending him said he had not left his equall behind him She refused this private commendation and particular praise assigne-it to the publike state Do not tell me that quoth she For I knowe the Citty of Sparta hath many greater and more valiant Citizens then he was At the battaile of Creey Edward the blacke Prince of Wales being yet very yoong had the leading of the vant-gard The greatest and chiefe violence of the fight was in his quarter The Lordes and Captains that accompanied him perceiving the great danger sent vnto King Edward the princes father to come and help them which when he hard he enquired what plight his sonne was-in and how he did and hearing that he was living and on horse-backe I should quoth he offer him great wrong to goe now and deprive him of the honor of this combates victory which he already hath so long sustained what danger soever there be in-it it shall wholy be his and would neither goe nor send vnto him knowing that if he had gone or sent it would have beene said that without his ayd all had beene lost and that the advantage of this exployt would have beene ascribed vnto him Semper enim quod postremum adiectum est id rem totam videtur traxisse For ever more that which was last added seemes to have drawne on the whole matter In Rome many thought and it was commonly spoken that the chiefest glorious deeds of Scipio were partely due vnto Lalius who notwithstanding did ever advance the greatnesse further the glory and second the renowne of Scipio without any respect of his owne And Theopompus King of Sparta to one who tolde him that the common-wealth should subsist and continue still forsomuch as he could command so well No said he it is rather because the people know so well how to obey As the women that succeeded in the Peere-domes of France had notwithstanding their sex● right to assist and priviledge to plead in cases appertaining to the iuridictions of Peeres So the Ecclesiasticall Peeres notwithstanding their profession and function were bound to assist our Kings in their warres not onely with hir friends servants and tenants but in their owne person The Bishop of Beauvais being with Philip Augustus in the battell of Bovines did very couragiously take part with him in the effect but thought hee should not be partaker of the fruite and glory of that bloody and violent exercise He overcame and forced that day many of the enimies to yeeld whom he delivered vnto the first gentleman hee met withall to rifle to take them prisoners or at their pleasure to dispose of them Which he also did with William Earle of Salisbury whom he delivered vnto the Lord Iohn of Neste with a semblable subtletie of conscience vnto this other He desired to fell and strike down a man but not to wound or hurt him and therefore never sought but with a great clubbe A man in my time being accused to the King to have laide violent hands vpon a Priest denied it very stoutly forsomuch as he had onely thumped and trampled him with his feete The two and fortieth Chapter Of the inequalitie that is betweene vs. PLutarke saith in some place That he findes no such great difference betweene beast and beast as he findeth diversitie betweene man and man He speaketh of the sufficiencie of the minde and of internall qualities Verily I finde Epaminondas so farre taking him as I suppose him from some that I know I meane capable of common sense as I could finde in my heart to endeare vpon Plutarke and say there is more difference betweene such and such a man than there is diversitie betweene such a man and such a beast Hem vir viro quid praestat O Sir how much hath one An other man out-gone And that there be so many degrees of spirits as there are steps betweene heaven and earth and as innumerable But concerning the estimation of men it is marvell that except our selves no one thing is esteemed but for i'ts proper qualities We commend a horse because he is strong and nimble volucrem Sic laudamus equum facili cui plurima palma Fervet exultat rauco victoria circo We praise the horse that beares most belles with flying And triumphs most in races hoarce with crying and not for his furniture a graie-hound for his swiftnesse not for his choller a hawke for hir wing not for hir cranes or belles Why doe we not likewise esteeme a man for that which is his owne He hath a goodly traine of men following him a stately pallace to dwell in so great credit amongst men and so much rent comming in Alas all that is about him and not in him No man will buy a pig in a poke If you cheapen a horse you wil take his saddle and clothes from him you will see him bare and abroade or if he be covered as in old times they wont to present them vnto Princes to be sold it is onely his least necessary parts lest you should ammuse your selfe to consider his colour or breadth of his crupper but chiefly to view his legges his head his eyes and his foote which are the most remarkable parts and above all to be considered and required in him Regibus hic mos est vbi equos mercantur apertos Inspiciunt ne si facies vt saepe decora Molli ful●a pede est emptorem inducat hiantem Quòd pulchrae clunes breve quòd caput ardua cervix This is Kings maner when they horses buy They see them bare lest if as oft we try Faire face have soft hoofes gull'd the buyer be They buttockes round short head high crest may see

submission to move them to commiseration and pitty Nouerthelesse courage constancie and resolution meanes altogether opposite have sometimes wrought the same effect Edward the blacke Prince of Wales who so long governed our Countrie of Guienne a man whose conditions and fortune were accompanied with many notable parts of worth and magnanimity having bin grievously offended by the Limosins though he by main forcetooke entred their Citie could by no means be appeased nor by the wailefull out cries of all sorts of people as of men women and children be moved to any pittie they prostrating themselues to the common slaughter crying for mercie and humbly submitting themselues at his feete vntill such time as in triumphant manner passing through their citie he perceiued three French gentlemen who alone with an incredible vndaunted boldnes gainstood the enraged violence and made head against the furie of his victorious army The consideration and respect of so notable a vertue did first abate the dint of his wrath and from those three began to relent and shew mercie to all the other inhabitants of the said towne Scanderbeg Prince of Epirus following one of his soldiers with purpose to kill him who by all means of humilitie submisse entreatie had first assaied to pacifie him in such an vnavoidable extremity resolved at last resolutely to encounter him with his sword in his hand This resolution did immediatly stay his Captaines fury who seeing him vndertake so honorable an attempt not only forgave but received him into grace favour This example may happily of such as have not knowne the prodigious force and matchlesse valor of the said Prince admit an other interpretation The Emperor Courad●● third of that name having besieged G●elphe Duke of Bavaria what vile or base satisfaction soever was offred him would yeeld to no other milder conditions but only to suffer such gentle women as were with the Duke in the citie their honors safe to issue out of the towne a●oot with such things as they could carry about them The 〈…〉 an vnrelenting courage advised and resolved themselves neglecting all other riches or jewels to carrie their husbands their children and the Duke himselfe on their backes The Emperor perceiving the quaintnes of their devise tooke so great pleasure at it that he wept for joy forthwith converted that former inexorable rage mortall hatred he bare the Duke into so milde a relenting and gentle 〈…〉 ther of these waies might easily perswade me for I am much inclined to mercie and affected to mildnesse So it is that in mine opinion I should more naturally stoop vnto compassion than bend to estimation Yet is pitie held a vicious passion among the Stoickes They would have vs aide the afflicted but not to faint and cosuffer with them These examples seeme fittest for mee forsomuch as these mindes are seene to be assaulted and environed by these two meanes in vndauntedly suffering the one and stooping vnder the other It may peraduentvre be said that to yeelde ones heart vnto commiseration is an effect of facilitie tendernesse and meekenesse whence it proceedeth that the weakest natures as of women children and the vulgar sort are more subject vnto it But having contemned teares and wailings to yeeld vnto the onely reverence of the sacred Image of vertue is the effect of a couragious and imployable minde holding a masculine and constant vigor in honour and affection Notwithstanding amazement and admiration may in lesse generous mindes worke the like effect Witnesse the Thebanes who having accused and indited their captaines as of a capitall crime forsomuch as they had continued their charge beyond the time prescribed them absolved and quit Pelopidas of all punishment because he submissiuely yeelded vnder the burden of such objections and to save himselfe imployed no other meanes but suing-requests and demisse entreaties where on the contrary Epaminondas boldely relating the exploits atchieved by him and with a fierce and arrogant manner vpbraiding the people with them had not the heart so much as to take their lots into his hands but went his way and was freely absolved the assembly much commending the stoutnesse of his courage Dionysius the elder after long-lingering and extreame difficulties having taken the Citie of Reggio and in it the Captaine Phyton a worthy honest man who had so obstinately defended the same would needes shew a tragicall example of revenge First he tolde him how the day before he had caused his sonne and all his kinsfolkes to be drowned To whom Phy●on stoutly out-staring him answered nothing but that they were more happy than himselfe by the space of one day Afterward hee caused him to be stripped and by his executioners to be taken and dragged through the Citie most ignominiously and cruelly whipping him charging him besides with outragious and contumel●ous speeches All which notwithstanding as one no whit dismaied hee ever shewed a constant and resolute heart And with a cheerefull and bold countenance went on still lowdly recounting the honourable and glorious cause of his death which was that hee would never consent to yeeld his Countrie into the handes of a cruell tyrant menacing him with an imminent punishment of the Gods Dionysius plainely reading in his Souldiers lookes that in liew of animating them with braving his conquered enemie they in contempt of him and skorne of his triumph seemed by the astonishment of so rare a vertue to be mooved with compassion and enclined to mutinie yea and to free Phy●on from out the hands of his Sergean●s or Guard caused his torture to cease and secretly sent him to be drowned in the Sea Surely man is a wonderfull vain diuerse and wavering subject it is very hard to ground any directly-constant and vniforme judgement vpon him Behold Pompey who freely pardoned all the Citie of the Mamertines against which hee was grievously enraged for the love of the magnanimitie and considederation of the exceeding vertue of Zeno one of their fellow-citizens who tooke the publike fault wholy vpon himselfe and desired no other favor but alone to beare the punishment thereof whereas Syllaes hoste having vsed the like vertue in the Citie of Perugia obtained nothing neither for himselfe nor for others And directly against my first example the hardiest amongst men and so gracious to the vanquished Alexander the great after many strange difficulties forcing the Citie of Gaza encountred by chaunce with Betis that commanded therein of whose valour during the siege hee had felt woonderfull and strange exploites beeing then alone forsaken of all his followers his armes all-broken all-besmeared with blood and wounds fighting amongst a number of Macedonians who pell-mell laid still vpon him provoked by so deere a victorie for among other mishappes hee had newly received two hurts in his body said thus vnto him Betis thou shalt not die as thou wouldest for make account thou must indure all the torments may possibly bee devised or inflicted vpon a caitife wretch as thou art But he