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A20028	The defence of contraries Paradoxes against common opinion, debated in forme of declamations in place of publike censure: only to exercise yong wittes in difficult matters. Wherein is no offence to Gods honour, the estate of princes, or priuate mens honest actions: but pleasant recreation to beguile the iniquity of time. Translated out of French by A.M. one of the messengers of her Maiesties Chamber.; Paradoxes, ce sont propos contre la commune opinion. English. Selections	Estienne, Charles, 1504-ca. 1564.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.; Landi, Ortensio, ca. 1512-ca. 1553. Paradossi.; Duval, Jean-Baptiste, d. 1632, attributed name.	1593 (1593)	STC 6467; ESTC S105222	52,873	110

conclusion great folly in any Lord to be displeased or offended at the losse of his honors and liuings but rather with such fortunes he ought to reioice and be glad as being by so good occasion discharged of a burden so greeuous and heauy For this is my opinion that it were better for him to lose his worldly estate and dignitie then himselfe to be thereby lost and destroied for euer For Drinkers Declamation 7. That Drunkennesse is better than Sobrietie I Did heeretofore so breefely as I could deliuer vnto ye the great excellence and noble nature of wine that I might afterward inferre in what great honour reputation he ought to bee that especiallie loues it and longest continueth in delight thereof And albeit it seemeth to many a verie hard and laborious enterprise by reason of the abundance of good wordes and well conuaied language wherewith it is necessary they should bee thorowlie furnished in such a cause yet neuerthelesse will I boldly deliuer my opinion though I am vnfurnished of that diuine furie which ordinarilie worketh maruellous matters in our spirits whereof in this need might I receiue neuer so little fauour I should farre better satisfie your desires that are bent with attention to heare what I can say in this matter To proceed in our discourse I finde that the great vertue and excellence of wine hath beene of our elders so intirely known and approued that the highly esteemed Asclepiades did it so much honour as to couple the faculties and vertues thereof with them of the very cheefest Gods Which is agreeable with the consent of holy scripture whereby was autenticallie pronounced that wine was sent to men as by the especiall grace and immortall gift of God therewith oftentimes to refresh and recreate their spirites ouer much weakened and trauailed with long cares which they suffer continuallie in this worlde And heerewith altogither agreeth the opinion of good Homer in many places of his diuine Poesie And whosoeuer shal require of me greater proofe assurance I pray them to consider how that truth it selfe which is the thing that hath and yet at this day doth ouer-rule the greatest case in the world from all antiquitie holdeth principall consent with wine This is it which made place for the auncient prouerbe knowne sufficiently of euery one that in Wine is truth to be found wherein fooles children and drunken men are most accustomed to display it Wherefore I cannot sufficiently maruell at the great fault of learned Democritus who would sometimes maintaine that truth lodgeth her selfe in the bottome of a well this is greatly against the aduise and opinion of all the Greekes which euermore defended that her lodging continually was in VVine VVhereto very well consenteth Horace one of the most excellent Latine Poets who so soundly confirmed this matter in his learned verses made and composed by the helpe of this sweet liquor wherewith his stomach so plentifully abounded as hee coulde deliuer it backe againe forth at his eies To the same purpose the great Philosopher Plato would prooue and maintaine that wine was a very firme and sure foundation of mens spirites by the fauour and vertue whereof I may easilie coniecture that he founde the inuention of his goodly Ideas of his numbers and of his lawes so magnificent also that with the aide of this sweet drinke he spake so deepelie on the gratious argument of loue and likewise disposed his so well ordered Common-wealth VVithall he defended that the Muses flourished farre and neere in the very smell of Bacchus liquor and the Poet that drunke not profoundly therof could frame no verse excellent high-reaching or of good measure But leauing verse and Poesie let vs come to the kind drinkers of cleere water I would willingly demaund of them what good they can receiue in this world by vsing such an vnsauorie drinke In the first place how can a drinker of water well accomplishe housholde dutie when the naturall seede is more moist then any thing else and lesse strong for the procreation of children VVhich is the cause such people are alwaies weake feeble sicke and colour-lesse Likewise ye neuer sawe a drinker of water but was depriued of the true strength of all his members and hardie courage of hart He hath so little stomach so weake an appetite to digest his meates as commonly his life is short or else vnhealthfull For this cause it was that Saint Paule knowing Timothie albeit he was very yong in the strength of his age to take delight in drinking nothing but water admonished him to vse therewith a little wine if it were but for the onely health of his stomach and preuention of such diseases whereto by his complexion he was ouermuch subiect I await vpon this point the reply of some opiniatiue person who will tell me that such was not the aduise of Cistus Bullengerus nor yet of Nouellus Tricongius who dranke three measures of wine daily called Congii which contained three gallons and three pintes of our measure for which the Emperour Tiberius promoted him to honour and at the last made him Consull of Rome I againe replie on the contrarie that such was the opinion of the most wise and prudent king of all auncient memorie who saide in his Prouerbes that wine comforteth and refresheth the hartes of men likewise it is witnessed by the cōsent and testimonie of all Phisitians as the most singular remedy to chase greefe from the mind of man But if peraduenture some misbeleeuing humanist will not giue so much credit to the worde of so great a wise man as to the precepts of auncient Phisitians let him then consider and note well what at this day is to be found written by Hippocrates Galen Oribasus that wine serueth for a medicine to the cold and dulled sinewes giueth comfort to the weary and trauailed eies bestoweth an appetite on the tast-lesse stomach reioyceth the sad and afflicted spirites banisheth the imbecillity of the members giueth warmth to the body prouoketh vrine restraineth casting moueth sleepe taketh away ill digestion consumeth moist humors and maketh a kindly consent in the bodie Galen saith moreouer that wine greatly auaileth against wearisome complexion of age moueth the harts of men to force and prowesse recreateth naturall heate and giueth vigor to the spirits O how well did that good Lady Hecuba of whom Homer speaketh so honourablie knowe the pretious nature of wine when aboue all things she exhorted her valiant sonne Hector to cheere vp and reuiue his members wearied by continuall trauaile he endured in Armes with drinking of this diuine liquor The vertue whereof learned Pindarus knew well enough which made him a peerelesse heroycall Poet neuer could he haue accomplished his so highe and excellent Poeme by the vertue and goodnes of water but changing his stile into the great praise noble description of the vertue of wine the chiefest most notable men in the worlde made likewise such price and

estimation thereof as the more part of thē ioyned on his side and martched vnder his Ensigne For example let vs remember the holy man Noah who first planted the vine and the fauour that hee bare to wine Neither was it lesse loued by Agamemnon Marke Anthonie Lucius Cotta Demetrius Tiberius and their children Bonosus Alcibiades Homer Ennius Paccu●ius Cossus Philip Heraclides and many other who for this cause were neuer reputed the lesse wise or vertuous And if we should need to make a more ample discourse on this behalfe by such nations as were addicted to this drinke we shall finde that the Tartares greatly subiected themselues thereto and muche more the Persians whose custome was to consult of their grauest and greatest matters of importance amongst their cups and bottels of wine And so were the Germanes wont to doe according as Tacitus witnesseth making the description of their complexions The Macedonians in like manner were beyond all things else great louers of wine for whom their Emperour Alexander instituted the most braue fight of drinking with carowsing King Mithridates was greatly giuen to wine and yet for all that ceased not to warre manfullye against the Romaines for the space of forty yeares together I am very sorie that I want apte wordes and tearmes worthye whereby to expresse the singular vertue which wine of it selfe bestoweth on the harts of men I am well assured that if I could recount them all vnto ye they would driue ye into no little maruell or admiration But say now in sooth doth not wine deserue supreme praises in making a sluggard or grosse conceited person to become a sweet pleasant and affable man A Lourden or lobcock to be a man apte and skilfull Of a coward or faint harted crauen to make a man hardy bold and couragious who without this meane should finde himselfe alone and euen starke naked as it were though he be engirt with a thousande other defences Hath not Greece by the meanes of wine wunne fame and honour thorow all Europe And in like case Bohemia and Germanie what shall I say of Polonia and generally of all Dalmatia What is spoken of Italie I will referre my selfe to the report of Plinie who writes that drunkennesse raigned there in his time in such sort as they would not only drinke themselues vnderfeet but likewise compell their horses and mares to drinke wine vnmeasurably so much was drunkennes through all parts of the world praised celebrated and helde in such account and esteeme as he that would not be drunke at the least once a moneth was not reputed a friendly companion Yong Cyrus would needes be accounted worthie to rule because he especiallie vndertooke to drinke a greater quantitie of wine then any other in his kingdome yet felt he not therby any perturbation of spirit Plutarch in the life of Licurgus giues this good note to the Spartanes that it was a custome amongest them to wash their new borne childrens noses and eies with wine to make them more strong healthfull and the better able to endure all paines whatsoeuer Infinite power of wine in howe many kindes doest thou shew deliuer thy selfe helpeful to men wel hast thou acquainted them with sufficient proofe of thy vertue when the very least part of thy power can abate and vtterly destroy the strength of deadlie Hemblock Wherefore doe ye thinke good Hesiodus recommended and enioyned by his learned verses that twentie daies before the rising of the dogge starre and twentie daies after onely pure wine shoulde be drunke without tasting one drop of water If this custome had beene entertained and obserued by the greate Lycurgus of Thrace he had not beene so dishonestlie cast headlong into the Sea for putting water into his wine To this effect serues vs the opinion of Celsus a very excellent Physition who among other precepts ordained touching the gouernment of health to drinke sometimes beyond measure And to proceed a little further let vs consider how many profitable medicines bathes emplaisters are made with wine and the Hircanes would wash the bodies of their dead with wine either to purifie them or perhaps because they imagined that by the vertue of this good liquor they might be recalled or broght to life againe Maruell not then if good drinke bee pleasing to common people seeing we finde that the verie wisest and best learned haue alwaies maintained the lawe held and allowed among the Greekes in theyr meetinges and banquets which was that so soone as any one came among them during their feast time they would constrain him to drink or get him gone which yet at this day is obserued in Germanie if not of all yet at the least of the greater number I will not blab that the puissance of wine had somtime such authoritie as to make the Seneses take Armes and thereby to obtaine such victories as are worthy to be registred in perpetuall Annales Nor will I tell howe in the yeere of the foundation of Rome three hundred and eighteene Luc●us Pyrrhus was sent against the Sarmates whome by the aide of wine onely hee conquered made subiect and yeelded tributarie to the people of Rome Wine was afterward in so great reputation with our fore-fathers as Mezentius to recouer onely some quantity therof for his disease according as Varro hath left to vsin writing gaue succour to the Rutillians against the Latines And if it were lawfull in this case to produce holy Scripture doe we not finde that our Lorde at the wedding in Cana of Galile miraculouslie vouchsafed to change water being a thing lesse good and excellent into wine most delicate and pretious VVith wine were the wounds of the poore Samaritane washed And beside some say that good olde Abraham made his daily offerings to God with the best wine in his vaults I could willinglie proceed further in this matter which especially pleaseth me beyond all other were it not I haue alwaies shunned odious prolixitie wherefore I will stay my selfe in this place earnestlie entreating each one of ye to embrace this so sweete desire of wine and to forsake the simple course of sobrietie because it maketh men so melancholy and bestowes on them such slender strength and vigour courage For Sterilitie Declamation 8. That the barren woman is more happie then the Childe-bearing I Knowe not by what reason it should be maintained that barrennesse is in any sort hurtfull or offensiue considering it is the meane to make strange affected and fantasticall woman to become more pleasing benigne ready to obey hir husbād Which contrariwise is not commonly found in a fruitfull woman who neuer wanteth height of heart and such bolde hardinesse withall as is maruellous to note Nor is it without reason considering the woman beholdes so manie faire and pretty children that depend only vppon hir commandement and with so great reuerence obey her wordes or signes heereby shee is puffed vppe in such sort as she thinkes she should not be a wife or

cheekes which seemed before like roses or shining Carbuncles conteyned nothing at all of their former and naturall beawty Like act did many wise well learned Damosels and holy virgines of the Primitiue church of whom especiall memory is made among Christians at this day What say ye of our Courtezans whom God by his especiall grace hauing not giuen the gift to bee the fairest of all other howe daily they cease not to inuent newe and strange manners of paintinges to counterfeit and disguise their age and first naturall shape with false haires Spanish white Pom●des Targon distilled waters braied drugs Oyles Powders and others follies too long to be recounted Oftentimes they shaue or burne their artificiall haire and then againe rub slick chafe and washe themselues only to seeme faire yet notwithstanding looke on them at night or in the morning and ye shall finde them more deformed than before but what ensueth soone after vppon this goodly industry Sinne Death and the anger of God Now then desire this feigned faire beawty whoe will and such as best thinke themselues worthy of it for I hold most firmely that it is better to hate flie it then to wish or affect it seeing nothing procedeth thereof but pride ouer-weening and vaine-glorie as also the moste mishapen horned creatures of the world Neuer was I of any other minde since the time I had power of reason to discerne and knowe truth from falshood but that deformed people deserued more praise then the beawtifull nor is it without cause or disagreeing with best sense considering such as are hard fauoured are commonly chast humble ingenious holy and haue euer some sweete appearance of most commendable grace But for them that boast of beautie I leaue to you the consideration of their behauiour which is often times so counterfeit as nothing can be saide to agree lesse with nature You shall see them of lofty countenance inconstant demeanour wandring lookes bold pace and like language nowe iudge at your pleasure what ye conceiue of them Conclude then will I that it is much better to be fowle than faire let no aduersary party intrude himselfe to replie against my speeches for I am both stoutlie determined and sufficientlie furnished to make him answer Had I no more but the testimony of Theophrastus who hath left vs in writing that bodily beawtye is nothing else but secret deceit And he that will not heere with content himselfe to him let me produce the aduise of Theocritus that beawty is an vnknown detriment Shall we then be so vnwise and sottish that euen at the first sight wee will pursue our owne euils and misfortunes more easilie embracing most perillous and damageable beawtie then deformitie ten times more auailing and profitable Would God that foolish minde might not abide in any one but rather that we all would hate what is so vnfit for vs from which commeth no goodnes or felicitie For the ignorant Declamation 3. That ignorance is better than knowledge THe more I thinke heereon the more I resolue and rest in this opinion that it is better to haue no knowledge in letters then to be expert or skilfull therein considering that such as haue consumed the more part of their age in the study of sciences haue in the ende repented themselues thereof and haue oftentimes found very euill successe thereby Valerius the great writing of Cicero who by good right deserued to be called not only the father of eloquence but euen the fountaine of all excellent lerning saith that in his latter years he conceiued such an hatred against letters as if they had beene the cause of his so many greefes and trauailes The Emperour Licinius Valentinianus Heraclides Licianus and Philonides of Malta haue openlie tearmed the skill in letters sometime to be a publique plague sometime a common poison to men And I haue found written in many good Authors that hee which couets knowledge couets vexation that from great experience ensueth oftentimes the greatest daunger Likewise it is certaine that all heresies as well ancient as moderne came from men of knowledge cōtrariwise that in people esteemed idiots or men of little knowledge haue beene vsuallye noted expresse signes of vertuous workes and good examples I highly commend the order among the Lucanes that no one professing capacity of letters or esteemed learned may obtaine any office or sit as a Magistrate in their parlement for they stande in feare least these lettered men by their great knowledge which makes them presume so much on their persons should trouble the good order and tranquillity of their common wealth Nor may this be reckoned but to very good purpose if we would well consider their insolencie who vnder shaddow of probation in a colledge would haue euery one stand bounden or be holding to them and thinke vnder colour of their faire allegations with interpretations God wots crooked enough sometime to ouerthrow the best naturall sence in the worlde and they of dutie ought to be aboue all onely heard and listened to Some of them there be that like to Mydas confound in their obstinate opinions and stiffe-necked conceits all things whatsoeuer they take in hand I cannot imagine to what ende are auaileable these men so highly learned who in honor of their followers are called fine polished curious and ingenious wits For if they might serue to gouerne any publique cause how many nations are seene without the knowledge of lawes imperiall or of Stoical or Peripatetical philosophy so to gouerne entertaine themselues that they out-goe al auncient Cōmon weales To thinke that they may serue for the art military I dare boldly witnesse thus much vnto ye that I haue knowne more then one or two Gentlemen and captains wel lettered who by the helpe of their books haue laboured and busied themselues to point out a field leuy an armie put men in arraie and furnishe their squadrons which practise neuer returned them any honor For in truth in matter of warre we daily behold to happen incident nouelties and vnaccustomed stratagems which neuer before were registred or put in vse by the very skilfullest writers in times past Howe can wee then with reason affirme the bookes of Frontinus or Vegetius to be profitable for the art of warre In my conceit the good iudgment of a Captaine ioyned with his long vse and experience in these matters is sufficient enough for him without troubling him to turne ouer bookes of the Art militarie That these lettered people are meet to guide a house or gouerne a houshold which the Philosophers called Oeconomia howe can I agree thereto when at this day is to be noted both heere and elsewhere how many good and honest mothers of families who neuer in their liues studied in any Vniuersitie yet both haue and doe well order their houses guide their houshold yea aboue one or two hundred women for example whoe no displeasure to Aristotle or Xenophon may learnedly reade them