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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

complaine for the Graecians might not I say that Camillus is much lesse comparable vnto Themistocles the Gracchi to Agis and Cleomenes and Numa to Lycurgus But it is follie at one glance to judge of things with so many and diverse faces When Plutarke compares them he doth not for all that equall them Who could more eloquently and with more conscience note their differences Doth he compare the victories the exploites of armes the power of the armies conducted by Pompey and his triumphs vnto those of Agesilaus I doe not believe saith he that Xenophon himselfe were he living though it were granted him to write his pleasure for the advantage of Agesilaus durst ever dare to admit any comparison betweene them Seemeth he to equall Lysander to Sylla There is no comparison saith he neither in number of victories nor in hazard of battels betweene them for Lysander onely obtained two sea-battels c. This is no derogation from the Romanes If he have but simply presented them vntothe Graecians what ever disparitie may be betweene them he hath not in any sort wronged them And Plutarke doth not directly counterpoise them In some there is none perferred before others He compareth the parts and the circumstances one after another and severally judgeth of them If therefore any would goe about to convince him of favour hee should narrowly sift out some particular judgement or in generall and plaine termes say he hath missed in sorting such a Graecian to such a Romane forasmuch as there are other more sortable and correspondent and might better be compared as having more reference one vnto another The three and thirtieth Chapter The History of Spurina PHilosophy thinketh she hath not ill employed hir meanes having yeelded the soveraine rule of our minde and the authoritie to restraine our appetites vnto reason Amongest which those who judge there is none more violent than those which love begetteth have this for their opinion that they holde both of body and soule and man is wholy possessed with them so that health it selfe depended of them and phisike is sometimes constrained to serve them insteede of a Pandership But contrariwise a man might also say that the commixture of the body doth bring abatement and weakenesse vnto them because such desires are subject to sacietie and capable of materiall remedies Many who have endevored to free and exempt their mindes from the continuall alarumes which this appetite did assaile them with have vsed incisions yea and cut-off the mooving turbulent and vnruly parts Others have alayed the force and fervency of them by frequent applications of cold things as snow and vineger The haire-cloths which our forefathers vsed to weare for this purpose wherof some made shirts and some waste-bands or girdles to torment their reignes A Prince told me not long since that being very yoong and waiting in the Court of King Francis the first vpon a solemne feastival day when all the Court endevored to be in their best clothes a humor possessed him to putte-on a shirt of haire-cloth which he yet keepeth and had beene his fathers but what devotion soever possessed him he could not possibly endure vntill night to put it off againe and was sick a long time after protesting he thought no youthly heat could be so violent but the vse of this receipt would coole and alay of which he perhappes never assayed the strongest For experience sheweth vs that such emotion doth often maintaine it selfe vnderbase rude and slovenly cloathes and haire-cloathes doe not ever make those poore that weare them Zenocrates proceeded more rigorously for his Disciples to make triall of his continencie having convayed that beauteous and famous curtizan Lais naked into his bed saving the weapons of hir beauty wanton alurements and amorous or love-procuring pocions feeling that maugre all Philosophicall discourses and strict rules his skittish body beganne to mutinie he caused those members to be burned which had listened to that rebellion Whereas the passions that are in the minde as ambition covetousnesse and others trouble reason much more for it can have no ayde but from it's owne meanes nor are those appetites capable of sacietie but rather sharpened by enjoying and augmented by possession The example alone of Iulius Caesar may suffice to shew vs the disparitie of these appetites for neuer was man more given to amorous delights The curious and exact care he had of his body is an authenticall witnesse of it forsomuch as hee vsed the most lascivious meanes that then were in vse as to have the haires of his body smeered and perfumed all over with an extreame and labored curiositie being of himselfe a goodly personage white of a tall and comely stature of a cheerfull and seemly countenance his face full and round and his eies browne lively if at least Suetonius may be believed For the statues which nowadayes are to be seene of him in Rome answer not altogether this portraiture wee speake of Besides his wiues which he changed foure times without reckoning the bies or Amours in his youth with Nicomedes King of Bythinia hee had the Maiden-head of that so farre and highly-renowmed Queene of Aegypt Cleopatra witnesse yong Caesarion whom he begotte of hir He also made love vnto E●no● Queene of Mauritania and at Rome to Posthumia wife vnto Servius Sulpitius to Lolio wife to ●abinius to Tertulla of Crassus yea vnto Mutia wife to great Pompey which as Historians say was the cause hir Husband was divorced from her Which thing Plutarke confesseth not to have knowne And the Curious both father and sonne twitted Pompey in the teeth at what time he tooke Caesars Daughter to wife that he made himselfe Sonne in law to one who had made him Cuckold and himselfe was wont to call Aegystus Besides all this number he entertained Servilia the sister of Cat● and mother to Marcus Brutus whence as divers hold proceeded that great affection he ever bare to Marcus Brutus for his Mother bare him at such a time as it was not vnlikely he might be borne of him Thus as me seemeth have I good reason to deeme him a man extreamelie addicted to all amorous licenciousnesse and of a wanton-lascivious complexion But the oother passion of ambition wherewith he was infinitely infected and much tainted when he came once to withstand the same it made him presently to give ground And touching this point when I call Mahomet to remembrance I meane him that subdued Constantinople and who brought the final extermination of the name of Graecians I know not where these two passions are more equall ballanced equally an indefatigable letcher and a never-tired souldier But when in his life they seeme to strive and concurre one with another the mutinous heate doeth ever gourmandize the amorous flame And the latter although out of naturall season did never attaine to a ful and absolute authority but when he perceived himselfe to be so aged that he was vtterly vnable longer to vndergoe the burthen of

of another Arria wife to Thrasea Paetus whose vertue was so highly renowmed during the time of Nero and by meane of his sonne-in-lawe grandmother to Fannia For the resemblance of these mens and womens names and fortunes hath made diverse to mistake them This first Arria her husband Cecinna Paetus having beene taken prisoner by the Souldiers of Claudius the Emperour after the overthrow of Scribonianus whose faction hee had followed entreated those who led him prisoner to Rome to take her into their ship where for the service of her husband shee should be of the lesse charge and incommoditie to them then a number of other persons which they must necessarily have and that she alone might supply and steade him in his chamber in his kitchin and all other offices which they vtterly refused and so hoised sailes but shee leaping into a Fishers boate that she immediately hired followed him aloofe from the further shoare of Sclavonia Being come to Rome one day in the Emperours presence Iunia the widdow of Scribonianus by reason of the neerenesse and societie of their fortunes familiarly accosted her but she rudely with these wordes thrust her away What quoth shee shall I speake to thee or shall I listen what thou saiest Thou in whose lappe Scribonianus thy husband was slaine and thou yet livest and thou breathest These words with divers other signes made her kinsfolkes and friendes perceive that shee purposed to make herselfe away as impatient to a abide her husbands fortune And Thrasea her sonne in law taking hold of her speeches beseeching her that she wold not so vnheedily spoile her selfe he thus bespake her What If I were in Cecinnaes Fortune or the like would you have my wife your daughter to doe so What else make you a question of it answered she Yes mary would I had she lived so long and in so good-agreeing sort with thee as I have done with my husband These and such-like answeres encreased the care they had of her and made them more heedfully to watch and neerely to looke vnto her One day after she had vttered these wordes to her keepers you may looke long enough to mee well may you make mee die worse but you shall never be able to keepe me from dying and therewith furiously flinging her selfe out of a chaire wherein shee fate with all the strength shee had she fiercely ranne her head against the next wall with which blowe having sore hurt her selfe and falling into a dead swowne after they had with much adoe brought her to her selfe againe Did I not tell you quoth she that if you kept me from an easie death I would choose another how hard and difficult soever The end of so admirable a vertue was this Her husband Paetus wanting the courage to doe himselfe to death vnto which the Emperors crueltie reserved him one day having first employed discourses and exhortations befitting the counsell she gave him to make himselfe away shee tooke a Dagger that her husband wore and holding it outright in her hand for the period of her exhortation Doe thus Paetus said shee and at that instant stabbing herselfe mortally to the heart and presently pulling the Dagger out againe shee reached the same vnto her husband and so yeelded vp the ghost vttering this noble generous and immortall speech Paete non dolet shee had not the leasure to pronounce other than these three wordes in substance materiall and worthy her selfe Holde Paetus it hath done me no hurt Casta suo gladium cùm traderet Arria Paeto Quem de visceribus traxerat ipsa suis Si qua fides vulnus quod feci non dolet inquit Sed quod tu facies id mihi Paete dolet Chast Arria when she gave her Paetus that sharpe sword Which from her bowells she had drawne forth bleeding new The wound I gave and have if you will trust my word Griev's not said she but that which mill be made by you It is much more lively in his owne naturall and of a richer Sense for both her husbands wound and death and her owne hurts shee was so farre from grieving to have beene the counselor and motive of them that shee rejoiced to have performed so haughtie and couragious an act onely for the behoofe of her deere husband and at the last gaspe of her life she onely regarded him and to remove all feare from him to follow her in death which Paetus beholding he immediatly wounded himselfe with the same dagger ashamed as I suppose to have had need of so deare an instruction and precious a teaching Pompea Paulina an high and noble-borne yong Roman Lady had wedded Seneca being very aged Nero his faire disciple having sent his Satellites or officers toward him to denounce the decree of his death to him which in those dayes was done after this maner When the Roman Emperors had condemned any man of qualitie to death they were wont to send their officers vnto him to chuse what death he pleased and to take it within such and such a time which according to the temper of their choller they prescribed vnto him sometimes shorter and sometimes longer giving him that time to dispose of his affaires which also by reason of some short warning they divers times tooke from him And if the condemned partie seemed in any sort to strive against their will they would often send men of purpose to execute him either cutting the v●i●s of his armes and legs or compelling him to take and swallow poison But men of honor stayed not that enforcement but to that effect vsed their own Phisitions or Surgeons Seneca with a reposed and vndanted countenance listned attentively to their charge and presently demaunded for paper and inke to make his last will and testament which the Captaine refusing him hee turned toward his friends and thus bespake them S●●h my loving friends I cannot bequeath you any other thing in remembrance or acknowledgement of what I owe you I leave you at least the richest and best portion I have that is the image of my maners and my life which I beseech you to keepe in memory which doing you may acquire the glory and purchase the name of truly sincere and absolutely-true friends And therewithall som●●mes appeasing the sharpnes of the sorow he saw them endure for his sake with mild and gentle speaches sometimes raising his voyce to chide th●m Where are said he those memorable precepts of Philosophy What is becom of those provisions which for so many yeares together we have laid vp against the brunts and accidents of Fortune Was Nero●s innated cru●ly vnknowen vnto vs What might we expect or hope-for at his hands who hath murdered his Mother and massacred his Brother but that he would also do his Tutor and Governor to death that hath fostred and brought him vp Having vttered these words to all the by-standers he turned him to his wife as she was ready to sinke downe and with the burthen of hir

good reputat on in the countrie touching his grave with the hand Where the new-yeares gifts that Kings send vnto Princes their vassals euery yeare is some fire which when it is brought all the old fire is cleane put out of which new fire all the neighbouring people are bound vpon paine laesae matestatis to fetch for their vses Where when the King which often commeth to passe wholy to give himselfe vnto devotion giveth over his charge his next successor is bound to doe like and convaieth the right of the kingdome vnto the third heire Where they diversifie the forme of policie according as their affaires seeme to require and where they depose their Kings when they thinke good and appoint them certaine ancient grave men to vndertake and wealde the kingdoms government which sometimes is also committed to the communaltie Where both men and women are equally circumcised and alike baptised Where the Souldier that in one or divers combate hath presented his King with seven enemies heads is made noble Where somelive vnder that so ra●e and vnsociable opinion of the mortalitie of soules Where women are brought a bed without paine of griefe Where women on both their legs weare greavs of Copper and if a louse bite them they are bound by duty of magnanimitie to bite it againe and no maide dare marrie except she have first made offer of her Virginitie to the King Where they salute one another laying the forefinger on the ground and then lifting it vp toward heaven where all men beare burthens vpon their head and women on their shoulders Where women pisse standing and men cowring Where in signe of true friendshippe they send one another some of their owne bloud and offer insense to men which they intend to honour as they doe to their Gods where not onely kindred and consanguinitie in the fourth degree but in any furthest off can by no meanes be tolerated in marriages where children sucke till they be foure and sometimes twelve yeares olde in which place they deme it a dismall thing to give a childe sucke the first day of his birth Where fathers have the charge to punish their male-children and mothers only maide-children and whose punishment is to hang them vp by the feete and so to smoke them Where women are circumcised where they eat all manner of hearbes without other distinction but to refuse those that have ill savour where all things are open and how faire and rich soever their houses be they have neither doores nor windowes nor any chests to locke yet are all theeves much more severely punished there than any where else where as monkies doe they kill lice with their teeth and thinke it a horrible matter to see them crusht between their na●les where men so long as they live never cut their haire nor paire their nales another place where they only paire the nailes of their right hand and those of the left are never cut but very curiously maintained where they indevour to cherish all the haire growing on the right side as long as it wil grow and very often shave away that of the left side where in some Provinces neere vnto vs some women cherish their haire before and othersome that behinde and shave the contrarie where fathers lend their children and husbands their wives to their guests so that they pay ready mony where men may lawfully get their mothers with childe where fathers may lie with their daughters and with their sonnes where in solemne assemblies and banquets without any distinction of bloud or alliance men will lend one another their children In some places men feede vpon humane flesh and in others where it is deemed an office of pietie in children to kill their fathers at a certaine age in other places fathers appoint what children shall live and be preserved and which die and be cast out whilest they are yet in their mothers wombe where old husbands lend their wives to yong men for what vse soever they please In other places where all women are common without sinne or offence yea in some places where for a badge of honour they weare as many frienged tas●els fastened to the skirt of their garment as they have laine with severall men Hath not custome also made a severall common-wealth of women hath it not taught them to manage Armes to leavie Armies to marshall men and to deliver battles And that which strickt-searching Philosophie could never perswade the wisest doth she not of her owne naturall instinct teach it to the grofest headed vulgare For we know whole nations where death is not only condemned but cherished where children of seven yeares of age without changing of countenance or shewing any ●igne of dismay endured to be whipped to death where riches and worldly pelfe was so despised and holden so contemptible that the miserablest and need est wretch of a Citie would have scorned to stoope for a pursefull of gold Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates and daintiest dishes were but bread water-cresses water Did not custome worke this wonder in Chios that during the space of seven hundred yeres it was never found or heard of that any woman or maiden had her honor or honestie called in question And to conclude there is nothing in mine opinion that either she doth not or can not and with reason doth Pindarus as I have heard say Call her the Queene and Empresse of all the world He that was met beating of his father answered It was the custome of his house that his father had so beaten his grandfather and he his great-grandfather and pointing to his sonne said this child shall also beate mee when he shall come to my age And the father whom the sonne haled and dragged through thicke and thinne in the streete commanded him to stay at a certaine doore for himselfe had dragged his father no further which were the bounds of the hereditarie and iniurious demeanours the children of that family were wont to shew their fathers By custome saith Aristotle as often as by sicknesse doe we see women tug and teare their haires bite their nailes and eate cole and earth and more by custome then by nature doe men meddle and abuse themselves with men The lawes of conscience which we say to proceede from nature rise and proceede of custome every man holding in speciall regard and inward veneration the opinions approved and customes received about him can not without remorse leave them nor without applause applie himselfe vnto them when those of Creete would informer ages curse any man they besought the Gods to engage him in some bad custome But the chiefest effect of her power is to seize vpon vs and so to entangle vs that it shall hardly lie in vs to free our selves from her holde-fast and come into our wits againe to discourse and reason of her ordinances verily

murthering of children and of parents the communication with women traffike of robbing and stealing free licence to all maner of sensualitie to conclude there is nothing so extreame and horrible but is found to be received and allowed by the custome of some nation It is credible that there be naturall lawes as may be seene in other creatures but in vs they are lost this goodly humane reason engrafting it selfe among all men to sway and command confounding and topsie-turving the visage of all things according to her inconstant vanitie and vaine inconstancie Nihil it aque amplius nostrum est quod nostrum dico art●s est Therefore nothing more is ours all that I call ours belongs to Arte. Subjects have divers lustres and severall considerations whence the diversitie of opinions is chiefly engendred One nation vieweth a subject with one visage and thereon it stayes an other with an other Nothing can be imagined so horrible as for one to eate and devoure his owne father Those people which anciently kept this custome holde it neverthelesse for a testimonie of pietie and good affection seeking by that meane to give their fathers the worthiest and most honorable sepulchre harboring their fathers bodies reliques in themselves and in their marrow in some sorte reviving and regenerating them by the transmutation made in their quicke flesh by digestion and nourishment It is easie to be considered what abhomination and crueltie it had beene in men accustomed and trained in this inhumane superstition to cast the carcasses of their parents into the corruption of the earth as foode for beasts and wormes Lycurgus wisely considered in theft the vivacitie diligence courage and nimblenesse that is required in surprising or taking any thing from ones neighbour and the commoditie which thereby redoundeth to the common-wealth that every man heedeth more curiously the keeping of that which is his owne and judged that by this two fold institution to assaile and to defend much good was drawne for military discipline which was the principall Science and chiefe vertue wherein he would enable that nation of greater respect and more consideration then was the disorder and injustice of prevailing and taking other mens goods Dionysius the tyrant offered Plato a robe made after the Persian fashion long damasked and perfumed But he refused the same saying that being borne a man he would not willingly put-on a womans garment But Aristippus tooke it with this answere that no garment could corrupt a chaste minde His Friends reproved his demissenesse in being so little offended that Dionysius had spitten in his face Tut said he Fishers suffer themselves to be washed ouer head and eares to get a gudgion Diogenes washing of coleworts for his dinner seeing him passe by said vnto him If thou couldest live with coleworts thou wouldest not cour● and faune vpon a tyrant to whom Aristippus replied If thou couldest live among men thou wouldest not wash coleworts See here how reason yeeldeth apparance to divers effects It is a pitcher with two eares which a man may take hold-on either by the right or left hand bellum ô terra hospita portas Bello armantur equi bellum haec arment a minantur Sed tamen ijdem molim curru succedere sueti Quadrupedes franaiugo concordia serre Spes est pacis O stranger-harb'ring land thou bringst vs warre Steed's serve for warre These heard's do threaten jarre Yet horses erst were wont to drawe our waines And harnest matches beare agreeing raines Hope is hereby that wee In peace shall well agree Solon being import●ned not to shed vaine and bottles teares for the death of his sonne That 's the reason answered hee I may more iustly shed them because they are bootelesse and vaine Socrates his wife exasperated her griefe by this circumstance Good Lord said she how vniustly doe these bad iudges put him to death What Wouldest thou rather they should execute me iustly replide he to her It is a fashion amongst vs to have holes bored in our ●ares the Greekes held it for a badge of bondage We hide our selves when we will enjoy our wives The Indians doe it in open view of all men The Scithians were wont to sacrifice strangers in their Temples whereas in other places Churches are Sanctuaries for them Inde furor vulgi quòd numina vicinorum Odit quisque locus cùm solos credat habendos Esse Deos quos ipse colit The vulgar hereupon doth rage because Each place doth hate their neighbours soveraigne lawes And onely Gods doth deeme Those Gods themselues esteeme I have heard it reported of a Iudge who when he met with any sharp conflict betweene Bartolus and Baldus or with any case admitting contrariety was wont to write in the margin of his booke A question for a friend which is to say that the truth was so entangled and disputable that in such a case he might favour which party he should thinke good There was no want but of spirit and sufficiency if he set not every where through his books A Question for a friend The Advocates and Iudges of our time find in all cases by ases too-too-many to fit them where they thinke good To so infinite a science depending on the authoritie of so many opinions and of so arbitrary a subject it cannot be but that an exceeding confusion of judgements must arise There are very few processes so cleere but the Lawiers advises vpon them will be found to differ What one company hath judged another will adjudge the contrary and the very same will another time change opinion Whereof wee see ordinarie examples by this licence which wonderfully blemisheth the authoritie and lustre of our Law never to stay vpon one sentence but to run from one to another Iudge to decide one same case Touching the liberty of Philosophicall opinions concerning vice and vertue it is a thing needing no great extension and wherin are found many advises which were better vnspoken then published to weake capacities Arcesilaus was wont to say that in pailliardize it was not worthy consideration where on what side and how it was done Et obs●oenas volupt at es si nat ura requirit non genere aut loco aut ordine sed forma aetate figura metiendas Epicurus putat Ne amores quidem sanctos à sapiente alienos esse arbitrantur Quaeramus ad quam vsque aet ●tem i●ven●s amandi sint Obscene pleasures if nature require them the Epicure esteemeth not to be measured by kinde place or order but by forme age and fashion Nor doth he thinke that holy loves should be strange from a wiseman Let vs then question to what yeares yoong folke may be beloved These two last Stoicke places and vpon this purpose the reproch of Diogarchus to Plato himselfe shew how many excessive licenses and out of common vse soundest Philosophie doth tolerate Lawes take their authoritie from p●ss●ssion and custome It is dangerous to reduce them to their beginning

finde this vnexpected profit by the publication of my maners that in some sort it serveth me for a rule I am sometimes surprized with this consideration not to betray the historie of my life This publike declaration bindes me to keepe my selfe within my course and not to contradict the image of my conditions commonly lesse disfigured and gaine-said then the malignitie and infirmitie of moderne judgements doth beare The vniformitie and singlenesse of my manners produceth a visage of easie interpretation but because the fashion of them is somewhat new and strange and out of vse it giveth detraction to faire play Yet is it true that to him who will goe about loyally to iniure me me thinkes I doe sufficiently affoord him matter whereby he may detract and snarle at my avowed and knowen imperfections and wherewith hee may be satisfied without vaine contending and idle skirmishing If my selfe by preoccupating his discovery and accusation hee thinkes I barre him of his snarling it is good reason hee take his right towards amplification and extension Offence hath her rights beyond justice And that the vices whereof I shew him the rootes in mee he should amplifie them to trees Let him not onely employ there unto those that possesse mee but those which but threaten mee Injurious vices both in qualitie and in number Let him beate mee that way I should willingly embrace the example of Dion the Philosopher Antigonus going about to scoffe and quip at him touching his birth and off-spring he interrupted him and tooke the word out of his mouth I am said hee the sonne of a bondslave a butcher branded for a rogue and of a whoore whom my father by reason of his base fortune tooke to wife Both were punished for some misdeede Being a childe an Orator bought me as a slave liking me for my beautie and comelinesse and dying left mee all his goods which having transported into this citie of Athens I have applied my selfe vnto Philosophie Let not Historians busie themselves in seeking newes of mee I will at large blaz on my selfe and plainely tell them the whole discourse A generous and free-minded confession doth disable a reproch and disarme an iniurie So it is that when all Cards be told me seemes that I am as oft commended as dispraised beyond reason As also me thinks that even from my infancie both in ranke and degree of honour I have had place given mee rather above and more than lesse and beneath that which appertained to mee I should better like to be in a countrie where these orders might either be reformed or contemned Amongest men after that striving or altercation for the prerogative or vpper hand in going or sitting exceedeth three replies it becommeth incivill I neither feare to yeeld and give place nor to follow and proceed vnjustly so I may avoid such irkesome and importunate contestations And never did man desire precedencie or place before me but I quitted the same without grudging Besides the profit I reape by writing of my selfe I have hoped for this other that if ever it might happen my humours should please or sympathize with some honest man he would before my death seeke to be acquainted with me or to overtake mee I have given him much ground For whatsoever a long acquaintance or continuall familiarity might have gained him in many wearisome yeares the same hath hee in three dayes fully seene in this Register and that more safely and more exactly A pleasant fantazie is this of mine many things I would bee loath to tell a particular man I vtter to the whole world And concerning my most secret thoughts and inward knowledge I send my dearest friends to a Stationers shop Excutienda damus praecordia Our very entrailes wee Lay foorth for you to see If by so good markes and tokens I had ever knowen or heard of any one man that in this humour had beene answerable to mee I would assuredly have wandred very farre to finde him out For the exceeding joy of a sortable and in one consent agreeing company cannot in mine opinion be sufficiently endeared or purchased at too high a rate Oh God! who can expresse the value or conceive the true worth of a friend How true is that ancient golden saying that the vse of a friend is more necessary and pleasing then of the elements water and fire But to returne to my former discourse There is then no great inconvenience in dying farre from home and abroad Wee esteeme it a part of duty and decencie to withdraw our selves for naturall actions lesse hideous and lesse disgracefull then this But also those that come vnto that in languishing manner to draw a long space of life should not happily wish with their miserie to trouble a whole family Therefore did the Indians of a certaine countrie deeme it just and lawfull to kill him that should fall into such necessitie And in another of their Provinces they though it meete to forsake him and as well as hee could leave him alone to seeke to save himselfe To whom at last proove they not themselves tedious and intolerable Common offices proceed not so farre Perforce you teach crueltie vnto your best friends obdurating by long vse both wife and children not to feele nor to conceive nor to moane your evils any longer The groanes and out-cries of my chollike cause no more ruth and wailing in any body And should we conceive pleasure by their conversation which seldome hapneth by reason of the disparitie of conditions which easily produceth either contempt or envy towards what man soever is it not too-too much therwith to abuse a whole age The more I should see them with a good heart to straine themselves for me the more should I bewaile their paine The law of curtesie alloweth vs to leane vpon others but not so vnmanerly to lie vpon them and vnderpropt our selves in their ruine As hee who caused little infants to be slaine that with their innocent blood he might be cured of a malady he had Or another who was continually stored with yoong teudrels or lasses to keepe his old-frozen limbs warme a nights and entermix the sweetenesse of their breath with his old-stinking and offensive vapours Decrepitude is a solitary qualitie I am sociable even vnto excesse yet doe I thinke it reasonable at last to substract my opportunity from the sight of the world and hatch it in my selfe Let me shrowd and shrugge my selfe into my shell as a tortoise and learne to see men without taking hold of them I should outrage them in so steepe a passage It is now high time to turne from the company But heere will somesay that in thesefarre journies you may peradventure fall into some miserable dog-hole or poore cottage where you shall want all needfull things To whom I answer that for things most necessary insuch cases I ever carry most of them with me And that where-ever wee are wee cannot possibly avoid fortune if she once take