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A02322	Nevv epistles of Mounsieur de Balzac. Translated out of French into English, by Sr. Richard Baker Knight. Being the second and third volumes; Correspondence. English. Selections	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.; Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645.	1638 (1638)	STC 12454; ESTC S103515	233,613	520

and your excellent spirit left you it is not possible you should be unfortunate for indeed in these two parts the true Madam Desloges is all entire and whole It is I Madam that have just cause to say I am unfortunate who am never without paine never without griefe never without enemies and even at this very time I write from a house of griefe where my mother and my sister being sicke on one hand and my selfe on the other I seeme to be sicke of three sicknesses at once yet be not afraid least this I send you should be infectious as though I had a designe to poyson you with my Presents for I have not yet medled with any of the Musque fruits which I hope you shall eate I have not durst so much as to come neere them least I should chance to leave some light impression of my Feaver upon them They are originally Natives of Languedoc and have not so degenerated from the goodnesse of their auncestors but that you will find them I hope of no unpleasing taste and besides Madam rhey grow in a soyle that is not hated of Heaven where I can assure you your Name is so often rehearsed and your vertue so highly esteemed that there is not an Eccho in all our woods but knowes you for one of the perfectest things in the world and that I am Madam Your c. At Balzac 20. Septemb. 1629. To LETTER XXVII MAdam see here the first thankes I give you for you know that having never done me but displeasures I have never yet returned you but complaints but now at last you have been pleased to beginne to oblige me and after so many sentences of death which you have pronounced against me and after so many cruelties which I have suffered you have bethought your selfe ten yeares after to send me one good Newes which truly is so pleasing to me that I must confesse you had no other way to reconcile your selfe unto me and I cannot forbeare to blesse the hands that brought mee a Letter from Madam Desloges though they were dyed in my bloud and had given me a thousand wounds The sence of former injuries hath no competition with so perfect a joy and of two passions equally just the more violent is easily overcome of the more sweet You have hastened the approach of my old age and made gray one halfe of my haire you have banished mee this Kingdome and forced me to flie your tyranny by flying into another Country finally it is no thanke to you that I have not broken my owne necke and made matter for a Tragedie and yet foure lines of Madam Desloges have the force to blot out all this long story of my mis-fortunes and willingly with all my heart I forget all the displeasures I have received for this good office you now affoord me I make you this discourse in our first language that I may not disobey Monsieur de who will have me write but will not have me write in any other stile for in truth and to speake seriously now that he leaves me at libertie I must confesse unto you Madam that I am exceedingly bound unto you for the continency I have learned by being with you and for the good examples you have given me your medicines are bitter but they heale you have banished me but it is from prison and if my passions be cooled by the snow of my head I have then never a white hayre which I may not count for one of your favours I therefore recant my former complaints and confesse my selfe your Debtour of all my vertue The time I have imployed in your service hath not been so much the season of my disorderd life as it hath been an initiating me into a regular life which I meane to leade Your conversation hath been a schoole of austeritie unto me and you have taught me never to be either yours or any others but onely in our Lord Madam Your c. At Balzac 10. Octob. 1629. To Madam Desloges LETTER XXVIII MAdam my evill Fortune gives one common beginning to all my Letters I am impatient even to death to have the honour to come and see you but now that I am well the ayre is sicke and all the Countrey drowned There is no Land to be seene between this and Lymousin and the mischiefe is that there is no navigation yet found out for so dangerous a voyage This bindes me to waite till the waters be fallen and that God be pleased to remember his Covenant with Noah As soone as this shall be I will not fayle to performe my vow and to come and spend with you the happiest day of all my life In the meane time Madam give me leave to tell you that I am not yet well recovered of the extasie you put me in by writing unto me such excellent things that I could not reade them with a quiet minde nor indeed without a kinde of jealousie All Frontignon would be sufficiently paid with that you write of a dozen paltry Muske-fruits I sent you you prayse my writings with words which have no words worthy of them but your own This of one side makes me envious and of the other side interessed and if the honour I receive by your flattering Eloquence did not sweeten the griefe of being overcome it would trouble me much that I had no better defended the advantages of our sexe but should suffer it to loose an honour which the Greekes and Latines had gotten for it Yet take heed you hazard not your judgement too freely upon the uncertaintie of humane things you reckon him a Prince who is not yet borne you should have seene his Horoscope from the poynt of his conception before you should speake of him in so loftie termes But besides that nothing is lesse assured than the future and nothing apter to deceive than hope Consider Madam I beseech you that you favour an unfortunate man and that Faction oftentimes carries it away from truth It will be hard for you your selfe alone to withstand an infinite multitude of passionate men and it may be said to you as was said to those of Sparta upon occasion of the great Armic of the Persians that you can never vanquish as long as they can die Herein there is nothing to be feared but for your selfe for as for me I finde in your favour all I seeke for and having you of my side I care not what fame can doe having once your testimony I can easily flight hers and all her tongues put together can never say any thing for me that is worth the least lyne of your delicate Letter It is at this time the delight and joy of my spirit I am more in love with it than ever I was with and if shee shew you that which I write to her you shall finde I make not so much reckoning of my ancient Mistris as I do of your new messenger and that I desire all the world

Starres These heads that now have neither skinne nor flesh nor hayre These carkasses and dry bones have beene in their time the divinities and wonders of the world and was heretofore called the Dutchesse of Valentinois the Dutchesse of Beaufort the Marquis of Besides there may happen diseases which will doe old ages worke before hand and are oftentimes more gastly than death it selfe Wee are frighted sometimes to see the spoyle and ruines of Faces upon which the foote of sicknesse hath troaden and there is nothing in which wee may more observe the lamentable markes of the inconstancie of humane things From hence I conclude that beautie being a thing so frayle and tender subject to so many accidents and so hard to keepe it is fit wee should seeke after another beautie that is more firme and permament that can better withstand corruption and better defend it selfe against the force of time Above all it is not fit that women should be proud of a qualitie that is infamous for the losses and wracks of many poore Consciences and which as innocent and chast as it can be will yet be a cause to rayse in others a thousand fowle desires and a thousand unhallowed and wicked thoughts Say my Niece hath some thing in her that is pleasing some thing that is fayre and beautifull as her friends conceive yet shee ought alwayes to be afraid of such a good that is so dangerous for doing hurt to others I set before her eyes the sad Picture of that which shee shall be hereafter to the end shee may not grow proud of that which shee is now There is no hurt in meditating a little upon this poynt But allow her the libertie wee even now tooke from her yet withall put her alwayes in minde that of the foure beauties I have shewed her in my Tasso there is but one of them that will be a fit example for her to follow Shee must leave Armida and Erminia for the Gallants of the Court Clorinda is for the valourous men of Gascoigne and Perigord but shee that I propose for her Patterne is Sophronia And if shee have not courage enough to say to the Tyrant as shee sayd It is I that am the Delinquent you looke for let her at least have the other conditions that are necessary to the being her follower and imitate her in them This fayre Saint made profession of modestie and neglected her beautie shee was alwayes eyther hidden under a veile or shut up in her Chamber and all the world might suspect her to be fayre but there was scarce any at all that knew it but her mother Shee had no designe to entrappe any mans libertie and therefore layd not her snares in their way nor went to Church to see and to be seene My deare sister I cannot choose but take upon me here to be a reformer of corrupt manners and make my complaint to you of a Custome which as well as many other naughtie things the Court hath cast upon us What reason is there in the world that women should enter into holy places of purpose to draw upon them the view and attention of the Company as much as to say to trouble and disturbe the whole devotion of a Towne and to doe as bad or worse as those buyers and sellers did whom Christ whipped out of the Temple By this meanes good actions become evill and Pietie comes to have no better odour before the Altaus than Perfumes that are mustie and corrupted Women now adayes are bound to be seene to be at Church and this very desire of being seene there is the ordinary prophanation of the place where they are seene And in truth seeing this place is particularly called the House of God what is it but to vilifie God even in the highest degree to come and offend at his owne doores and as it were to his face It is even as great an Impudency as that of the first Angells who sinned in Paradise Yet herein certainly the Italian women are more pardonable than the French for they indeed have no other breathing time of their unfortunate libertie being at all other times kept up as slaves and prisoners but in France where women are not denyed the company and visits of honest men they can have nothing to say in justification of this incontinency of their eyes and of this unsufferable vanitie to seeke to part stakes with God in mens vowes and to share with him in his publike Adoration You little thought this morning to heare a Preacher and I as little thought to be one but as you see the zeale of Gods House hath brought mee to it and finding my selfe at leisure I was desirous to bestow part of it upon you The Text was given mee yesterday by the company that was here where my Nieces beautie was so much extolled that sending you Newes which are to her so glorious I thought fit to send her withall a cooling to keepe her glorying in some temper and so my deare Sister I take my leave and am with all my soule Your c. At Bolzac 3. May. 1635. Another to her LETTER LV. MY dearest sister having both of us but one passion it makes us alwayes talking of one thing My Neece is the subject of all our Letters as she is the object of all our cares For my owne part I see not a good or a bad example which I make not use of for her instruction and endevour to imploy it to her profit You remember a woman the other day who values nothing likes of nothing excuses nothing and let her be in the best most pleasing company that may be yet she is sureto put them all into dumpes and melancholy You can come on no side of her but she pricks and bites all her coasts are craggie and rockie And it was not without cause my brother sayd that if the man you wot of had married her there would certainly have nothing come of that marriage but Teeth and Nayles It is impossible to live in peace with such a savadge chastitie I make no more reckoning of it than of that of the Furies whom the ancient Poets call virgines and wonder not that women of this humour love no man seeing they hate the whole world This sad and sullen poyson taking up all the roome in their soules leaves no place at all for other passions that are sweet and pleasing They flye pleasures rather by having their mouth out of taste than by having their judgement in perfection and are so continually fretting that they have no leasure at any time to be merrie As long as they bee chaste they thinke they may lawfully bee discourteous and scratch men so they doe not kisse them They have a conceit that by wanting one vice they have presently all vertues and that for a little good fame they gaine to their husbands they may keepe them under yoake and affront all mankinde It is true the losse of a womans

oftentimes told you that you are naturally eloquent but yet I must confesse you have gotten new graces by being in Ciceroes country and the Aire of Rome seemes to have purged your spirit of all vulgar conceits Monsieur de is in this of my opinion and you have written to us such excellent things that they were able to comfort us for your absence if we loved you but a little but in truth no Copie can be so good as the Originall and if you come not backe very shortly I could finde in 〈◊〉 heart to goe as farre as Navona to have your company Your last Letter renues in me my old loves and makes me with so much pleasure remember the sweetest part of the earth that I even die with longing till I see it againe It is a long time that Italy hath had my heart and that I sigh after that happy cowardice with which the valiant reproach the wise If I could have lived as I would my selfe I had beene a citizen of Rome ever since the yeare 1620. and should now injoy that happinesse in possession which you but onely make mee see in Picture but my ill fortune would not suffer me shee keepes mee in France to be a continuall object of persecution and though it be now foure yeares since I left the world and lost the use of my tongue yet hatred and envie follow me in to the woods to trouble my silence and pursue mee even in Dennes and Caves I must therefore be 〈◊〉 to goe beyond the Alpes to seeke a s●…ctuary where I shall be sure to finde at least my old comforter who will be pleased to 〈◊〉 that I am more than any other in the world Sir Your most humble c. At Balzac 10. May. 1635. To Mounsieur de Silhon LETTER XVI SIR I have word sent mee from Paris that you make complaints against me but being well assured you have no just cause I imagine it is not done in earnest but that you take pleasure to give mee a false Alarum Yet I must confesse this cooling word I heare spoken puts me to no little paine for though it make me not doubt of the firmenesse of your affection yet it makes me challenge the malice of my Fortune I have beeue for some time so unfortunate in friendshippe that it seemes there needes nothing but pretences to ridde me of them the sweetest natures grow soure and bitter against mee and if this sit hold I shall have much adoe to keepe my owne brother of my side I would like as well to be a keeper of the Lyons as of such harsh friends for though I were more faithfull than Pylades and Acates put together yet they would finde matter of discontentment and my fidelitie should be called dissimulation I cannot beleeve that you are of this number but if you be it is time for me to go hide my self in the desarts of Thebai●… and never seeke conversation with men any more It is my griefe and indignation that write these last words for my patience is moved with the consideration of the wrong is done me and if you should deale as hardly with me as others have done It were fit I should resolve to live no longer in a world where goodnesse and innocencie are so cruelly persecuted These sixe moneths I have received from you but onely one Letter to which I made no answer because it was delivered me but in Aprill at which time you sent me word you should be in France Since therefore by your owne account you were gone from thence before the time I could write unto you would you I should have written into Italy to Mounsieu●… de Silhon that was not there And that I should have directed my Letters to a name without either hands or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 receive and reade them You are too wise to deale so unreasonably with me and I should call your former justice in question if you take it ill that I did not guesse or rather 〈◊〉 of the stay of your voyage yet af●… a 〈◊〉 examination of my conscience I can 〈◊〉 no other ground for your complaints 〈◊〉 onely this 〈◊〉 I am ashamed to charge so 〈◊〉 a spirit as yours with 〈◊〉 weake a cōceit●… I must have had a ●…will at command to send of my 〈◊〉 and to deliver you my Letters being so uncertaine 〈◊〉 of the pla●… of your 〈◊〉 and in truth if I had had such a messenger I had soo●… thanked you then I doe for your excellent 〈◊〉 and should not all thi●… while have kept within the secret of my heart the just 〈◊〉 it des●…rves It hath taugh●… mee Sir an 〈◊〉 number of good Maximes the stile pleaseth me exceedingly and I see in it both force and beauty thorough all the passages even that passage which did not so fully please me yet hath as fully satisfied me as the rest of the worke and though of my selfe I be blinde in the knowledge of holy things yet the lustre of your expressing and the facilitie of your method illuminate my ●…ight When my health shall give me leave to goe from hence I will then for your gold bring you copper and will receive your corrections and advise with as much reverence and submission as any Novice but in the meane time I cannot chuse but put my hand to my wound and require you to give a reason of your doing I know not from whence should come this coldnesse in you seeing for my selfe I am all on fire nor how you with your great wisedome should be altered and growne another than seeing I continue still the same with nothing but my common sence Great spirits are above these petty suspitions which move the vulgar and I wonder you could conceive ill of my affection knowing how well you had preserved your owne If it be the jealousse of eloquence that provokes you I am willing with all my heart to leave you all the pretensions I can have to it and if you please I will make you a Surrender before witnesse Consider me therefore rather as your ●…ower who is willing to 〈◊〉 your troope then as your rivall to strive 〈◊〉 prece●…ence Give mee leave to live a man that cannot be lost what neligence be used in keeping me and remember that the least respected of all my friends is much dearer to me than all Sciences or all Bookes Yet such is my unhappinesse that few of them returne me the like but seeme rather they would make a benefit of my paines and sorrowes Because they see I am persecuted they will make every the least courtesie they doe me to be of great value and set an excessive price upon their friendshippe because they know I stand in neede of it But I desire them and you also to take notice that my friendship was never grounded upon any interest but my love is ever without any mercenary designe or hope of benefit If they be not willing to embroile themselves in my affaires