THE
ROMAN
.
THE
CONVERSATION
OF
THE
ROMANS
AND
MAECENAS
,
In
Three
Excellent
DISCOURSES
,
Written
in
French
By
Monsieur
de
BALSAC
.
Translated
into
English
.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
T.
N.
for
J.
Holden
at
the
Anchor
in
the
New
Exchange
.
1652.
THE
STATIONER
TO
THE
READER
.
NOthing
but
great
Subjects
can
fall
from
the
pen
of
Monsieur
de
Balsac
,
who
having
formerly
ravished
the
world
with
his
immortal
Prince
,
hath
now
for
a
choice
cabinet
piece
illuminated
in
small
an
invincible
Roman
;
Neither
can
any
pen
so
powerfully
commend
his
,
as
his
own
:
Even
commending
Antiquity
he
hath
out-done
it
;
So
that
the
present
Age
may
glory
,
that
the
Vertue
of
well
speaking
is
as
high
as
ever
.
Nay
,
hee
hath
so
highly
praised
our
Predecessors
,
that
with
an
unheard
of
Rhetorick
he
forcibly
perswades
the
contrary
,
&
ravisheth
for
himself
what
he
seems
to
bestow
on
them
;
So
that
by
his
example
we
need
not
doubt
but
Posterity
is
as
capable
of
true
Nobility
.
And
that
Antiquity
it self
must
confess
,
that
in
parallel
lines
,
although
the
parallel
must
be
after
the
first
,
yet
it
may
as
wel
be
drawn
above
as
below
it
.
But
as
he
of
Hero's
,
so
we
may
say
of
Writers
,
there
is
but
one
Balsac
.
And
indeed
his
Translator
thought
it
a
bold
attempt
to
make
him
speak
English
like
himself
,
and
to
dare
copy
so
high
a
subject
after
so
illustrious
an
hand
.
And
therfore
conceals
himselfe
,
behind
the
Curtain
,
and
timerously
bids
me
enquire
of
you
whither
he
hath
don
the
Authour
right
.
If
you
are
therefore
pleas'd
,
wee
are
all
so
;
But
we
are
all
at
a
loss
,
unlesse
you
favorably
pardon
the
escapes
of
the
Presse
,
which
are
many
,
and
require
thy
judgement
as
well
as
the
help
of
this
Errata
.
ERRATA
.
PAg.
23.
line
15.
read
ever
.
p.
45
l.
6.
r.
Heroes
:
p.
48.
l.
11.
Conversation
begins
the
Paragraph
:
Id.
l.
18.
r.
Nations
:
p.
98.
l.
22.
r.
writes
:
p.
120.
l
,
11.
r.
he
never
fell
:
p.
123.
l.
ult.
r.
noblenesse
:
p.
125.
l.
19.
r.
could
:
p.
126.
l.
1.
r.
modest
:
p.
133.
l.
ult.
r.
appeas'd
:
Ib.
l.
14.
r.
it
:
p.
134.
l.
6.
r.
debated
:
p.
135.
l.
2.
r.
when
:
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136.
l.
8.
r.
even
:
p.
137.
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r.
thornes
.
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142.
l.
16.
r.
of
.
THE
ROMAN
,
TO
The
Lady
Marquess
of
RAMBOVILLET
.
Discourse
I.
WHAT
hath
been
told
you
Madam
is
most
true
,
and
if
you
desire
an
illustrious
witness
,
I
will
confirm
it
,
Caesar
shall
assure
you
in
two
or
three
places
of
his
commentaries
.
There
is
no
doubt
but
those
great
souls
of
which
we
have
so
often
discours'd
,
were
lodged
in
bodies
of
a
mean
size
;
your
Ancestors
were
Hero's
,
but
were
not
Gyants
,
and
the
most
part
of
their
enemies
had
the
advantage
,
both
in
stature
and
bulk
:
This
historical
truth
being
without
difficulty
received
,
there
can
be
nothing
more
just
,
then
the
consequences
drawn
from
thence
;
That
had
the
men
of
those
times
been
weighed
,
and
valued
by
weight
;
an
Alman
had
been
neer
upon
worth
two
Romans
.
The
Almans
were
both
longer
and
larger
;
The
Galls
were
stronger
and
more
numerous
;
The
Affricans
richer
and
craftier
;
The
Greeks
better
polished
,
and
better
skilled
in
the
excercises
of
wrestling
and
coursing
;
But
the
Romans
fitter
for
command
,
better
disciplined
,
and
more
knowing
in
war
;
And
with
this
discipline
which
some
have
called
,
the
foundation
of
the
Empire
,
the
source
of
their
Triumphs
,
they
have
subjugated
the
strength
,
the
number
,
the
wealth
,
the
subtilty
,
and
even
the
vertue
of
other
Nations
.
You
ought
not
to
doubt
but
there
was
vertue
in
the
Provinces
;
The
despising
of
death
was
common
among
the
Barbarians
:
The
love
of
liberty
,
and
the
desire
of
glory
were
not
unknown
unto
them
.
But
,
Madam
,
the
tru
use
of
al
these
things
was
to
be
found
at
Rome
:
Rome
was
the
Shop
where
the
gifts
of
Heaven
were
wrought
,
and
where
the
goods
of
Nature
were
perfected
.
It
was
she
,
who
,
first
of
all
shewed
to
the
world
juditious
Armies
,
&
wise
Wars
:
It
was
she
knew
how
to
mix
,
as
it
ought
to
be
,
Art
with
Adventure
,
Conduct
with
Fury
,
and
the
Divine
quality
of
the
Understanding
,
with
the
brutal
actions
of
the
Irascible
part
.
Whereby
it
appears
,
That
the
Soul
is
Soveraign
Artisan
,
of
all
things
,
aswel
of
Military
Actions
,
as
of
Civil
Affairs
:
The
principal
part
of
valor
depends
not
on
the
organs
of
the
Body
;
neither
is
it
a
privation
of
reason
,
and
a
simple
overflowing
of
the
Gall
,
as
the
People
fancy
it
;
'T
is
neither
the
eies
that
see
,
nor
the
eares
that
hear
,
nor
the
arms
that
move
;
'T
is
the
Soul
,
as
a
Poet
says
,
quoted
by
Aristotle
;
'T
is
the
Soul
that
doth
all
,
whithout
which
the
eies
were
blinde
,
the
ears
deaf
,
the
arms
paralitical
;
It
is
the
principle
,
and
the
author
of
all
the
operations
of
man
.
By
the
Soul
a
child
hath
cast
down
a
Giant
,
and
Bulls
are
led
in
a
string
;
By
the
Soul
an
Architect
sitting
still
,
orders
the
work
of
a
thousand
Masons
,
and
builds
Temples
and
Palaces
;
By
the
Soul
a
Pilot
without
stirring
,
workes
more
then
all
the
Slaves
at
the
oare
,
and
a
man
would
vainly
sweat
to
hoise
and
loose
the
sailes
,
did
he
not
find
his
way
by
the
Stars
;
By
the
Soul
,
Madam
,
a
Consul
having
been
commanded
to
make
war
against
a
King
,
an
Enemy
to
the
Republick
,
studied
the
way
so
well
,
and
became
so
knowing
in
a
profession
,
wherein
he
was
altogether
ignorant
;
That
going
from
the
City
a
man
of
Peace
,
he
arrived
at
the
Army
a
Great
Captain
,
and
divests
his
robes
to
gain
presently
a
battel
:
Thus
did
your
Predecessors
commence
;
Thus
did
they
manage
their
first
Armes
;
Their
Prentiship
was
a
Master-peece
.
I
am
confident
you
would
see
one
of
those
people
?
Can
we
finde
out
no
way
to
shew
you
a
Roman
Consul
?
Is
there
no
safer
and
more
innocent
means
,
then
that
of
Magick
,
to
bring
him
whole
from
the
place
where
he
is
?
For
,
without
doubt
,
you
would
see
him
,
both
in
body
and
minde
,
with
that
gravity
,
which
bred
respect
in
the
heart
of
Kings
,
and
ravished
the
people
with
admiration
;
you
would
see
him
,
with
that
visible
&
acknowledgeable
Authority
,
which
accompanied
him
to
Prison
and
banishment
,
which
dwelt
with
him
when
he
had
lost
all
,
whereof
Fortune
could
not
dispoyl
him
,
when
she
had
reduced
him
to
his
shirt
.
Here
he
is
,
Madam
,
who
comes
not
from
the
Elizian
fields
,
nor
from
a
fabulous
habitation
;
He
comes
forth
of
the
Histories
of
Polibius
or
of
some
such
like
Country
,
and
methinks
he
deserves
very
well
to
be
looked
upon
.
First
,
he
no
less
knows
how
to
obey
the
Laws
,
then
he
knows
how
to
command
men
,
and
with
an
elevation
of
spirit
,
which
sees
the
Crowns
of
Soveraigns
beneath
him
,
he
hath
a
soul
wholly
subject
to
the
power
of
the
people
;
He
reveres
the
sanctity
of
that
power
in
the
hands
of
a
Tribun
,
or
of
a
furious
Man
,
or
of
an
Enemy
,
or
perhaps
of
both
.
Beleeving
,
that
to
fail
is
the
onely
ill
that
can
happen
to
an
honest
man
;
He
beleeves
there
are
no
faults
little
,
and
making
a
religion
of
the
least
part
of
his
duty
,
he
even
thinks
he
cannot
be
negligent
thereof
without
impiety
;
He
more
esteems
a
day
imployed
in
vertue
,
then
a
long
delitious
life
;
A
moment
of
glory
,
more
,
then
an
age
of
voluptuousness
;
He
measures
time
by
success
,
and
not
by
its
durance
.
Acting
by
this
principle
,
he
is
always
prepared
to
hazardous
undertakings
;
He
is
always
ready
to
devot
himself
,
for
the
good
of
his
Citizens
,
to
take
upon
him
the
ill
fortune
of
the
Common-wealth
;
And
whether
the
Oracle
direct
him
,
or
the
Inspiration
come
from
his
own
spirit
,
he
thanks
the
Gods
,
as
the
greatest
grace
they
ever
conferred
on
him
;
for
that
it
was
their
will
he
should
be
the
General
,
which
was
to
be
killed
of
that
Army
which
should
gain
the
Victory
.
In
pursuit
of
this
,
Madam
,
there
is
nothing
but
must
be
easie
to
him
,
and
nothing
but
we
may
beleeve
of
him
;
He
knows
neither
nature
,
nor
alliance
,
nor
affection
,
where
the
interest
of
his
Country
is
concerned
;
He
hath
no
other
particular
interest
but
that
,
and
neither
loves
nor
hates
,
but
for
publick
concernments
.
A
soul
without
a
body
,
and
rid
of
matter
could
agitate
in
no
other
manner
,
nor
could
it
be
less
incommodated
with
its
passions
;
but
let
us
say
more
;
It
could
not
be
less
sensible
of
the
vain
appearance
of
humane
things
,
aswel
those
which
astonish
,
and
those
which
dazel
us
;
The
Bravadoes
of
the
day
make
no
more
impression
on
his
constancy
,
then
yesterdaies
caresses
:
Princes
are
as
weak
against
him
with
their
wild
beasts
,
as
with
their
treasures
.
And
if
he
had
never
seen
Elephants
,
and
were
it
possible
from
behind
the
tapistry
to
bring
forth
all
those
which
are
in
Affrica
,
or
in
the
Indies
,
he
would
consider
them
but
as
a
sport
,
or
the
mummeries
of
Pirrhus
,
and
not
as
a
frightful
and
threatning
thing
for
Fabritius
.
All
what
ever
is
frightful
and
terrible
,
in
the
world
,
is
not
capable
to
make
him
wink
;
All
what
is
splendid
and
pretious
cannot
afford
him
temtation
;
He
is
neither
to
be
overcome
;
Nor
to
be
wonn
.
He
is
of
those
courages
,
Madam
,
which
were
invincible
,
were
they
assaulted
onely
with
a
lively
force
,
and
were
a
man
alwayes
to
fight
,
and
alwayes
to
make
war
.
But
proposing
for
the
object
of
their
valor
,
to
overcome
what
was
most
to
be
feared
in
their
enemies
,
they
imagine
it
unnecessary
to
mistrust
the
rest
,
and
are
least
careful
in
those
things
which
they
beleeve
less
difficult
;
whence
perhaps
that
fancy
of
the
Poets
comes
,
that
the
Demy-Gods
had
a
part
about
them
which
was
subject
to
death
,
and
a
place
whereby
they
were
mortal
:
Because
according
to
my
opinion
,
there
is
always
imperfection
in
the
works
of
nature
,
and
that
she
never
takes
so
much
care
in
finishing
what
she
makes
,
but
that
she
alwaies
leaves
the
one
side
weaker
then
the
other
:
Now
,
Madam
,
it
is
not
to
be
doubted
,
but
that
this
commonly
is
the
weake
part
of
great
courages
,
and
here
their
hearts
are
of
flesh
,
which
every where
else
are
of
Diamond
.
There
needs
not
so
much
resolution
to
resist
the
violence
of
Tyrants
,
as
to
defend
ones
self
from
their
favours
;
and
the
power
which
was
given
them
to
do
ill
,
is
less
dangerous
then
the
means
they
have
whereby
to
oblige
men
.
Yet
do
all
these
means
fail
,
when
they
are
to
be
imployed
against
a
Roman
.
This
mortal
part
is
not
to
be
found
in
his
soul
;
he
is
equally
strong
on
all
sides
;
He
is
impenetrable
to
vanity
,
aswel
as
to
fear
and
avarice
;
His
severity
cannot
be
sweetned
,
not
even
with
the
complements
and
flatteries
of
the
King
of
the
Parthians
;
He
at
once
subverts
discovered
endeavours
,
and
guards
,
himself
from
hidden
artifices
;
Nothing
is
contagious
to
a
minde
naturally
so
sound
,
and
so
well
purged
by
the
discipline
of
his
Country
;
Neither
the
poyson
brought
from
far
,
nor
the
neighbouring
corrupted
air
,
nor
stranger
,
nor
citizen
have
the
power
to
change
the
goodness
of
his
constitution
.
Malecontents
lose
their
time
and
their
pains
,
if
they
think
to
make
him
relish
novelties
,
by
infusing
in
him
an
ill
opinion
of
the
present
;
How
specious
soever
the
pretences
are
they
propose
,
though
they
speake
the
publick
good
or
liberty
,
he
understands
not
the
language
;
You
were
as
good
court
a
Vestal
;
'T
is
not
a
human
enterprise
to
shake
his
immoveable
fidelity
;
A
Poet
said
the
Capitol
was
not
so
stable
,
And
that
Rome
might
sooner
change
place
;
He
would
rather
destroy
Tyranny
,
then
share
it
with
any
man
,
and
rather
declare
himself
an
Enemy
,
then
a
Colleague
with
an
Usurper
.
Can
any
thing
be
added
to
so
great
a
Title
.
This
one
thing
more
,
to
witness
the
highest
proof
of
his
vertue
:
The
Republick
,
Madam
,
cannot
lose
him
,
how
negligent
so
ever
she
be
to
preserve
him
;
He
suffers
not
onely
patiently
,
but
gladly
injuries
and
injustices
.
It
never
sunk
into
his
minde
to
revenge
himself
of
her
by
a
civil
war
,
and
he
prefers
the
name
of
an
innocent
Banditi
,
to
that
of
a
guilty
Victor
;
He
hath
been
perswaded
from
his
childhood
,
and
since
never
doubted
,
That
a
son
can
never
acquit
himself
of
all
he
owes
to
a
mother
,
though
a
wicked
mother
,
though
even
she
became
a
Stepmother
.
And
that
a
Citizen
is
for
ever
obliged
to
his
Country
,
even
to
his
ungrateful
Country
,
which
even
hath
us'd
him
like
an
Enemy
.
Behold
,
Madam
,
you
have
near
upon
sounded
the
bottome
of
our
Consuls
heart
,
and
the
root
of
those
wonderfull
things
which
you
shall
read
in
the
Histories
of
Polybius
and
Titus
Livius
.
Let
's
now
a
while
look
on
his
outside
,
on
that
part
which
is
more
expos'd
to
the
sight
of
men
.
You
may
observe
in
his
Actions
neither
a
Cowardly
or
a
heavie
Coldnesse
,
nor
a
temerous
and
precipitat
Vehemency
.
He
softly
makes
haste
,
and
advanceth
with
an
insensible
Motion
:
Without
disquieting
himself
,
he
moves
inferiour
things
neither
more
nor
lesse
,
Then
the
Intelligences
without
tiring
themselves
move
the
Celestial
Spheres
.
To
see
him
so
little
troubled
about
his
business
,
a
man
would
say
,
That
hee
were
not
the
Undertaker
,
and
there
appeares
so
much
facility
in
the
most
painful
functions
of
the
Charge
he
executes
,
That
although
hee
doth
nothing
meanly
,
Yet
he
doth
nothing
with
Violence
.
Observe
how
with
his
Eys
he
leads
the
whole
Army
?
How
a
Nod
of
his
head
keeps
all
the
World
in
their
duty
?
How
his
presence
onely
establisheth
Order
,
and
drives
away
Confusion
?
Truly
,
there
is
a
delight
even
for
Philosophers
themselves
;
and
even
for
those
who
take
no
interest
in
humane
Affaires
to
observe
him
in
those
occasions
.
The
least
Motions
of
his
body
are
accompanied
with
some
Vertue
which
renders
him
lovely
.
'T
were
hard
to
tell
,
Whether
he
be
more
necessary
to
the
Republick
,
or
more
pleasing
to
the
Citizens
.
He
Commands
well
but
it
becomes
him
well
to
command
.
His
command
,
Madam
,
is
so
gratefull
,
That
there
is
a
crowd
,
There
is
an
ambition
,
that
there
is
a
sensible
pleasure
to
obey
him
.
That
good
Grace
which
shines
in
all
hee
doth
,
being
infused
into
solid
qualities
,
and
being
joyn'd
with
Understanding
and
other
necessary
qualities
,
is
an
admirable
charm
and
enchantment
for
him
to
sweeten
the
bitternesse
of
disgustfull
Orders
;
so
that
hee
can
execute
them
without
trouble
of
Minde
,
or
repugnancy
of
will
:
It
hath
a
strange
force
to
winn
the
heart
of
the
Souldiery
,
and
draw
their
inclinations
,
were
they
harder
to
move
,
and
more
insensible
then
the
iron
and
steel
they
use
.
By
this
charm
they
binde
themselves
not
only
to
him
,
but
they
unloose
themselvs
from
all
other
things
;
They
minde
neither
Pay
,
Plunder
,
or
Recompence
;
They
neither
care
for
the
feasts
of
Rome
,
nor
for
delights
of
Italy
;
They
demand
and
desire
nothing
but
their
General
,
of
whom
they
are
so
enamor'd
,
even
so
jealous
,
that
they
apprehend
the
end
of
the
war
,
for
fear
onely
they
should
lose
him
by
a
peace
:
They
murmur
against
the
Senate
,
when
he
is
revoked
,
neither
can
they
consolate
themselves
with
a
Victory
which
ravisheth
the
Victor
from
them
.
What
an
one
,
good
God!
Must
so
passionate
a
Militia
be
;
'T
is
not
obedience
in
pursuit
of
command
;
'T
is
zeal
which
even
prevents
it
;
T
is
not
affection
which
obligeth
them
to
the
cause
of
their
Chief
;
'T
is
a
transport
which
ravisheth
them
from
themselves
,
and
makes
him
say
,
I
am
going
with
the
tenth
Legion
against
the
Enemy
,
of
which
I
am
no
less
confident
,
then
of
mine
own
person
;
I
know
it
would
pass
through
the
midst
of
flames
naked
,
did
honour
,
will
,
or
necessity
require
it
.
So
that
,
Madam
,
they
are
no
more
souldiers
of
his
army
which
march
with
him
;
They
are
as
the
members
of
his
body
,
which
move
when
he
stirs
;
They
are
as
we
may
say
,
stranger
parts
of
himself
,
which
are
more
united
to
him
then
his
natural
.
On
the
other
side
,
the
respect
they
bare
him
,
is
no
less
powerful
,
then
the
love
they
shew
him
;
at
least
its
more
powerful
,
then
the
right
of
life
and
death
,
which
he
hath
over
them
;
This
respect
governs
and
rules
all
his
troopes
;
He
drives
or
stops
them
,
as
he
needs
their
different
obedience
;
He
might
be
unto
them
insteed
of
Discipline
.
Let
no
man
think
,
that
it
is
the
laws
of
war
,
or
military
orders
,
which
hinders
the
soldiers
from
committing
offences
;
T
is
his
presence
and
his
testimony
.
When
they
fail
,
they
fear
more
least
he
should
know
it
,
then
they
fear
to
be
punished
,
and
divers
have
been
kept
in
their
duties
with
apprehension
of
displeasing
him
,
which
would
nether
have
done
it
for
fear
of
punishment
,
or
dishonor
.
That
,
Madam
,
was
the
only
thing
,
which
the
Roman
Army
fear'd
;
and
never
did
Souldiers
so
much
slight
their
Enemy
,
nor
so
much
redoubt
their
Cheif
.
There
never
was
at
once
Spirits
so
fierce
and
so
docile
,
did
overflow
the
Field
with
more
impetuosity
,
and
retire
to
their
places
in
the
Camp
with
lesse
appearance
of
having
even
gone
out
.
After
they
had
done
wonders
for
Courage
,
they
came
to
enquire
whether
they
had
done
well
or
no
;
They
came
to
render
an
accompt
of
their
Victory
,
wherof
they
were
somtimes
fain
to
justifie
themselves
,
and
for
which
they
were
somtimes
punish'd
.
This
fear
of
Piety
and
Religion
,
hath
produced
thousands
of
examples
in
pure
Antiquity
,
and
in
the
Colleges
they
past
over
them
,
they
are
so
common
,
and
so
numerous
:
But
we
must
choose
what
we
are
to
present
you
;
I
must
shew
you
,
Madam
,
a
mark
of
that
generous
fame
,
even
when
the
Empire
declined
,
when
Rome
was
no
more
then
the
sepulchre
of
Rome
;
When
Nature
according
to
my
Opinion
,
would
preserve
her
Rights
,
and
make
known
that
the
Ashes
of
things
soveraignly
excellent
are
still
rich
and
precious
.
Under
the
Empire
of
Justinian
,
a
Captain
named
Fulcar
,
inconsiderately
casting
himself
amongst
the
enemies
,
and
having
engaged
his
Troop
in
a
disadvantageous
fight
,
when
a
certain
man
in
that
extremity
,
represented
to
him
,
That
if
hee
would
hee
might
yet
retreat
with
a
good
part
of
his
men
.
'T
were
better
to
die
,
said
hee
,
For
how
shall
I
bee
able
after
this
,
to
endure
the
sight
of
Narses
.
'T
was
not
that
Narses
was
cruel
,
but
that
the
soveraign
vertue
is
redoubtable
.
'T
is
that
the
Mine
of
the
General
of
a
Roman
Army
is
frightful
to
those
who
have
it
not
from
naked
swords
,
or
assured
death
.
With
a
look
he
pierceth
the
guilty
to
the
heart
,
&
punisheth
them
with
his
sight
.
Is
not
this
,
Madam
,
an
effect
of
that
Authority
wch
comes
from
Heaven
;
of
that
Authority
inherent
in
the
person
of
him
who
hath
it
distinct
and
separate
from
that
other
authority
bred
by
the
power
given
him
by
the
Republick
,
verified
by
the
Senate
,
and
to
be
read
in
Pattents
of
Parchment
,
and
confirmed
with
Eagles
,
and
Dragons
in
picture
,
by
Rods
,
Axes
,
and
Archers
?
This
second
Authority
of
which
you
presume
I
should
say
somewhat
,
which
as
yet
was
never
said
,
Is
a
certain
light
of
glory
,
and
a
certain
character
of
greatness
,
which
heroick
vertue
imprints
in
the
countenance
of
men
.
And
this
Character
,
and
this
Light
,
corrects
the
defects
and
the
imperfections
of
nature
,
makes
little
men
appear
great
,
imbellisheth
ugly
faces
,
defends
the
solitariness
and
nakedness
of
a
person
expos'd
to
the
outrages
of
fortune
,
over-prest
under
the
ruines
of
a
destroyed
party
,
abandoned
of
his
own
wishes
,
and
of
his
own
hopes
.
This
Character
,
Madam
,
is
to
this
person
a
safeguard
from
Heaven
,
against
the
violences
of
the
Earth
;
Renders
him
inviolable
to
his
provoked
enemies
;
binds
the
hands
of
Traitors
which
com
against
him
with
ill
designs
;
findes
respect
and
tenderness
amongst
Scythes
and
Tartars
.
By
this
mark
the
Roman
Princes
were
known
by
their
enemies
in
the
Wars
,
although
they
disguised
themselves
,
although
they
were
mixt
in
a
croud
of
soldiers
,
although
they
had
never
been
seen
before
.
Nothing
is
able
to
blot
out
this
character
,
nor
to
obscure
this
light
,
not
even
disgraces
,
imprisonment
,
and
the
chains
of
a
poor
Captive
.
The
Executioner
falls
backwards
at
sight
of
his
patient
,
and
can
scarce
forbear
to
beg
his
life
of
him
.
Hee
fancies
that
a
great
flame
issues
out
of
his
eyes
,
which
enlightens
the
Dungeon
,
and
that
he
hears
a
hideous
voice
which
cries
out
,
Who
art
thou
unhappy
man
,
who
darest
lay
thy
hand
en
Cajus
Marius
.
Are
not
these
,
Madam
,
give
me
leave
once
more
to
ask
you
,
are
not
these
the
highest
and
the
dearest
favours
which
can
be
received
from
the
Supream
vertue
.
And
this
second
Authority
which
survives
the
first
;
This
Authority
which
preserves
it self
in
the
ruines
of
power
,
which
consecrates
misfortunes
,
chains
,
and
dungeons
,
which
renders
affliction
holy
and
venerable
.
Is
it
not
far
a
more
noble
thing
then
the
unworthy
prosperity
of
the
happy
?
Then
all
the
Scepters
,
all
the
Diadems
,
and
all
the
Magnificence
of
idle
Kings
.
Questionless
,
Authority
is
far
more
noble
then
power
,
and
that
which
is
formed
from
the
reverence
of
vertue
,
far
more
worthy
then
that
which
is
established
by
the
terror
of
punishments
.
The
pure
and
innocent
triumph
of
an
infinite
many
subjected
hearts
,
is
far
a
more
illustrious
and
glorious
sight
,
then
the
bloudy
and
miserable
trophies
of
some
cast-down
heads
.
I
mean
cast
away
without
any
extream
necessity
,
and
for
a
shew
only
of
a
tyrannical
and
savage
power
,
and
if
the
Poets
Fables
are
the
Philosophers
mysteries
.
Mee
thinks
,
Madam
,
that
their
Jupiter
did
an
action
far
more
admirable
and
more
worthy
the
Father
of
the
Gods
,
and
the
King
of
Men
,
when
he
removed
all
things
with
one
of
his
eye-browes
,
and
shaking
his
head
caused
Olympus
to
tremble
,
then
when
by
force
of
thunder
and
tempest
,
he
tears
up
Trees
,
and
breakes
downe
Roofs
.
Power
is
a
heavy
and
material
thing
,
which
draws
after
it
a
long
Train
of
humane
means
,
without
which
it
would
remain
immoveable
.
It
acts
only
with
Land
and
Sea
Armies
.
Upon
a
march
it
must
have
a
thousand
springs
,
a
thousand
wheels
,
and
a
thousand
Machines
.
It
commits
a
violence
in
fetching
a
step
.
Authority
on
the
contrary
,
which
holds
from
the
Nobility
of
its
Origine
,
and
from
the
vertue
of
divine
things
,
quietly
works
its
wonders
,
Needs
neither
instruments
nor
materials
,
nor
even
time
to
set
them
on
work
.
It
s
all
wrapt
up
in
the
person
of
who
exerciseth
it
,
without
seeking
aid
,
or
demanding
a
second
.
It
s
strong
,
though
naked
;
and
alone
fights
,
though
it
bee
disarmed
.
Authority
needs
but
one
word
to
perswade
;
Three
of
its
syllables
,
Madam
,
humbles
the
bold
,
makes
the
rebel
repent
,
stops
the
impetuosity
,
of
mutinous
Legions
,
stifles
sedition
at
its
birth
,
and
those
whom
the
General
was
wont
to
cal
my
companions
,
cannot
endure
that
he
should
name
them
either
my
Friends
,
or
Sirs
,
Gentlemen
of
Rome
,
or
how
you
please
to
render
Quirites
.
They
fancy
that
that
very
word
hath
already
degraded
them
,
That
those
three
syllables
have
torn
their
belts
and
swords
from
them
,
that
it
hath
put
them
amongst
the
scum
of
the
most
unclean
,
and
most
vile
populacy
.
I
would
but
ask
you
the
question
,
Madam
,
whether
the
name
of
Quirites
,
coming
out
of
any
other
mouth
,
but
that
of
Caesar
,
would
have
entred
so
far
into
the
hearts
of
the
Legions
,
and
would
have
had
the
same
power
over
their
minds
.
For
my
part
I
should
hardly
believe
it
.
I
know
the
height
of
Rhetorick
,
and
understand
the
vertue
of
the
best
pronounced
words
.
But
it
reacheth
not
so
far
.
Authority
is
incomparably
more
perswasive
,
then
Eloquence
.
The
soldiers
would
have
mocked
a
dozen
of
Ciceroes
Orations
,
and
yet
yeild
themselves
at
one
of
Caesars
words
.
Nay
,
I
doe
verily
believe
they
would
have
yeilded
to
his
silence
,
had
he
been
content
to
have
given
them
but
a
sign
of
leaving
the
Camp
,
without
having
taken
the
pains
to
have
spoken
to
them
.
By
this
dumb
condemnation
,
treating
them
as
accursed
,
and
excommunicated
by
their
Country
,
&
declaring
them
unworthy
of
any
kinde
of
society
with
their
General
,
beyond
that
of
complaints
and
reproaches
which
hee
might
have
made
them
.
Such
a
scorn
would
have
so
griev'd
them
,
that
they
would
have
begged
death
for
a
favour
,
&
would
have
cast
themselvs
at
his
feet
to
pray
him
that
he
would
handsomely
dispatch
them
.
But
I
am
vext
that
so
great
a
word
which
was
so
great
an
action
,
was
not
of
som
Roman
in
the
good
and
healthful
time
of
the
Republick
,
that
I
might
not
alledge
a
doubtfull
vertue
,
whose
cause
was
undecided
,
as
was
that
of
Caesar
.
I
would
,
Madam
,
that
this
example
of
Military
Authority
were
either
of
Scipio
,
or
of
Fabritius
,
that
I
might
justly
join
it
with
that
other
example
of
Civil
Authority
,
after
which
you
will
give
mee
leave
to
conclude
.
You
know
well
that
honest
Man
Appius
Claudius
,
look
upon
him
I
beseech
you
,
burthened
with
years
and
diseases
,
who
so
long
time
never
stirred
out
of
his
chamber
,
and
can
scarce
get
himselfe
from
his
bed
to
his
chimney
.
Yet
in
that
condition
,
hee
resolves
to
be
carried
to
the
Senate
,
to
quarrel
with
all
the
Senators
single
,
and
to
oppose
himself
to
the
shameful
peace
they
were
about
to
conclude
.
'T
is
to
bee
believed
,
Madam
,
that
they
were
no
lesse
frighted
to
see
that
hideous
old
man
,
then
if
it
had
been
a
ghost
,
which
entred
the
Councel
Chamber
,
and
in
my
thought
,
they
did
not
at
first
take
him
for
Appius
Claudius
,
They
took
him
for
his
shadow
,
or
his
fantasme
,
which
came
from
the
other
world
to
give
them
Lessons
,
and
make
them
Remonstrances
.
Who
came
to
tell
them
with
a
tone
of
command
,
and
a
strong
voice
,
which
his
anger
raised
in
the
weakness
of
his
confiscate
body
.
Who
ever
was
the
Author
of
so
filthy
a
Proposition
,
is
no
true
nor
legitimate
Roman
.
He
must
either
bee
a
Forainer
or
a
Bastard
.
He
must
be
the
son
of
one
of
our
slaves
,
or
he
hath
not
a
drop
of
bloud
left
of
our
fathers
,
which
his
basenesse
hath
not
corrupted
.
What
would
not
this
angry
old
man
have
done
had
he
had
his
eyes
,
and
the
rest
of
his
body
at
liberty
?
Would
hee
not
have
beaten
those
which
hee
was
content
to
chide
onely
?
Would
he
not
have
deposed
Pyrrhus
,
and
interdicted
him
his
Kingdome
far
from
relinquishing
by
Treaty
an
inch
of
Land
in
Italy
?
I
know
not
what
hee
could
have
done
.
But
I
know
very
well
,
Madam
,
that
he
did
very
much
.
Rome
and
Pyrrhus
were
agreed
upon
conditions
for
a
Treaty
of
Peace
.
Claudius
opposeth
it
,
and
at
the
conclusion
,
comes
and
breaks
it
off
.
So
that
hee
proves
stronger
then
Rome
and
Pyrrhus
both
together
,
and
carries
it
away
from
either
of
them
.
When
so
strange
a
Newes
was
told
Cyneas
,
its
likely
he
cryed
out
,
Behold
,
a
greater
thing
then
I
have
yet
admired
in
Rome
.
I
have
there
seen
a
multitude
of
Kings
,
but
as
yet
I
had
not
seen
their
Tutor
.
'T
is
this
blind
Man
who
is
the
light
of
the
Commonwealth
.
'T
is
this
sick
Man
,
who
warres
against
us
.
'T
is
this
good
Man
,
who
was
unable
to
stir
from
his
bed
,
who
drives
us
out
of
Italy
.
'T
is
this
Chair
which
bore
him
to
the
Senate
,
which
is
more
to
bee
feared
,
then
our
Towres
full
of
soldiers
,
then
our
Elephants
,
then
our
Machins
.
A
Discourse
of
the
Conversation
of
the
Romans
.
TO
The
Lady
Marquess
of
RAMBOVILLET
.
Discourse
II.
But
this
was
while
your
Ancestors
of
old
For
vertue
with
the
Gods
their
names
inroll'd
.
Nature
in
wonders
fruitful
was
,
&
yong
,
The
world
with
Hero's
peopl'd
stout
as
strong
,
Our
ages
vigor
now
,
alas
,
was
spent
,
The
languors
o●
old
age
it
doth
resent
,
Your
Rome
is
d●●●
,
&
all
its
glory
gone
,
The
supream
vertue
is
in
Hist'ry
alone
.
Let
's
be
content
their
active
strife
t'
admire
,
Which
made
that
fatal
place
'bove
all
aspire
Th'
example
of
those
Grandies
let
's
adore
,
With
incense
let
's
your
sought
for
temples
store
.
T
Is
near
the
matter
,
Madam
,
What
I
yesterday
answered
you
in
our
common
Discourse
,
when
I
took
my
leave
.
I
have
since
found
the
sense
of
my
prose
in
the
Verses
of
a
Poet
,
who
never
made
any
but
those
.
And
I
conceived
it
was
not
amisse
after
that
manner
to
enter
upon
this
days
Conference
,
and
to
binde
with
a
knot
,
which
perhaps
will
not
displease
you
,
the
things
I
told
,
with
those
which
you
would
have
me
write
unto
you
.
Let
's
again
,
Madam
,
confess
it
.
It
s
certain
,
that
at
the
beginning
,
God
dispensed
great
largesses
,
and
although
his
arm
is
no
shorter
then
it
was
,
yet
are
his
hands
less
open
then
they
were
.
Besides
,
birth-right
,
which
Antiquity
hath
over
the
latter
times
,
it
hath
had
other
advantages
which
ended
with
it
,
and
are
not
to
be
found
in
the
succession
.
It
hath
had
vertues
which
our
age
is
not
capable
of
.
It
belongs
not
to
us
to
be
Camillas
,
and
Catoes
,
we
want
the
vigour
of
such
Men
as
those
instead
to
provoke
our
courages
,
they
make
our
ambition
despair
.
They
have
rather
braved
us
then
instructed
us
by
their
actions
.
By
giving
us
examples
,
they
have
obliged
us
to
an
uprofitable
trouble
.
They
have
given
us
what
we
cannot
take
.
These
examples
being
of
that
height
that
there
is
no
way
to
attain
unto
them
.
I
do
not
say
,
Madam
,
that
in
the
most
miserable
times
,
God
cannot
send
some
chosen
Soul
to
make
us
remember
his
first
Magnificence
.
I
will
not
deny
but
that
hee
may
take
a
particular
care
of
that
soul
,
and
but
that
hee
hath
meanes
to
preserve
it
from
the
vices
of
the
Court
,
and
the
contagion
of
Custom
.
In
the
most
general
stupidity
of
the
world
,
there
is
some
one
found
to
awakē
the
rest
,
who
breaks
the
bounds
of
the
age
,
who
is
capable
to
conceiv
the
Idea
of
ancient
vertue
,
and
to
shew
us
that
the
miracles
of
History
are
still
possible
things
.
It
s
true
,
Madam
,
there
is
such
an
one
:
But
this
one
makes
no
number
;
he
marks
even
sterility
,
neither
doth
hee
hinder
this
solitude
.
Is
there
a
priviledged
soul
,
an
extraordinary
person
,
an
Hero
or
two
in
all
the
world
.
Yet
is
there
not
a
multitude
of
Heroes
.
There
is
no
people
of
extraordinary
persons
.
There
is
no
more
a
Rome
,
nor
Romans
.
We
must
seek
them
under
ruines
,
and
in
their
Monuments
.
We
must
adore
their
Reliques
in
the
Books
I
have
told
you
of
,
and
in
the
places
I
have
desired
you
to
observe
.
I
at
first
thought
to
be
quit
,
having
marked
those
places
,
and
chosen
you
those
Books
.
Yet
are
you
not
satisfied
therewith
,
and
it
seems
you
pretend
that
I
should
adde
what
is
wanting
to
those
Books
.
The
glories
and
triumphs
of
Rome
,
satisfie
not
your
curiosity
.
It
enquires
of
me
some
things
more
particular
and
less
known
.
You
would
desire
,
Madam
,
that
I
should
shew
you
the
Romans
,
when
they
hid
themselves
,
and
that
I
should
open
to
you
the
door
of
their
Cabinets
.
After
having
seen
them
out
of
ceremony
,
you
would
be
acquainted
with
their
conversation
,
and
know
from
me
if
so
direct
and
elevated
a
greatness
,
could
stoop
to
the
use
of
a
common
life
,
could
descend
from
affairs
and
employments
even
to
sports
and
divertisements
.
I
doubt
it
not
,
Madam
,
all
the
houres
of
wise
mens
lives
are
not
equally
serious
.
Their
souls
are
not
always
extended
,
nor
always
contracted
,
&
yet
in
the
same
vigor
,
though
not
the
same
action
.
Does
any
man
believe
that
the
Sibarites
only
loved
Feasts
,
and
that
they
alone
rejoiced
.
The
Romans
did
it
also
:
But
they
did
it
in
another
manner
,
&
loved
other
manner
of
Feasts
.
A
voluptuousnesse
which
riseth
higher
then
sense
,
which
seeks
the
superiour
part
,
and
fills
it
with
images
:
That
holy
,
chast
,
and
altogether
innocent
pleasure
,
which
acts
on
the
mind
without
changing
it
,
or
moves
it
with
so
much
sweetnesse
,
that
it
stirs
not
out
of
its
place
,
or
with
so
much
addresse
,
that
it
removes
it
to
a
better
place
then
it
had
.
This
pleasure
,
Madam
,
was
not
a
passion
unworthy
of
your
Romans
,
Scipio
and
Laelius
,
used
it
without
scruple
.
Augustus
and
his
friends
were
of
those
honest
voluptuous
persons
.
The
Senate
and
the
Field
,
Civil
affairs
and
Military
actions
,
had
their
seasons
conversation
.
The
Theatre
and
Verse
had
theirs
.
The
pleasures
of
the
mind
were
never
better
tasted
,
then
by
them
,
and
with
the
same
hands
with
which
they
gain'd
Victories
,
and
signed
the
fate
of
Nariaeis
,
they
wrote
Comedies
,
or
applauded
those
who
acted
them
before
them
.
There
is
not
every
day
Hannibals
to
bee
conquered
,
nor
an
Africa
to
bee
subjugated
.
Antony
and
the
sonnes
of
Pompey
died
but
every
one
once
.
And
then
came
the
general
Calm
in
which
the
most
turbulent
were
at
leisure
,
and
the
world
suffered
it self
to
be
as
peaceably
governed
,
as
if
it
had
been
but
one
family
.
So
that
they
have
sometimes
wanted
enemies
,
&
sometimes
rested
in
peace
.
And
in
this
State
,
Madam
,
why
should
they
have
made
wars
against
themselves
?
why
should
they
have
sought
enemies
in
their
owne
bowels
?
why
should
they
give
themselves
a
prey
to
a
distemper
worse
then
Hannibal
,
and
more
cruel
then
Africa
?
Why
should
they
bee
afraid
to
rejoice
,
there
being
no body
to
disturb
their
joy
.
The
Sicilian
Sea
being
scoured
,
and
Aegypt
reduced
into
a
Province
,
Sixius
Pompey
,
and
Mark
Antony
,
being
onely
names
and
phantasmes
.
I
must
confesse
,
Madam
,
the
desire
of
glory
was
a
ruling
passion
:
But
Tyrants
themselves
doe
not
always
reigne
tyrannically
.
'T
was
the
feavour
of
their
minds
,
but
this
feavour
did
not
always
burne
them
with
an
equall
ardour
,
it
had
as
well
its
releases
,
as
its
doubles
.
And
do
you
not
believ
Scipio
was
out
of
his
high
fit
,
when
he
gathered
Cockles
on
the
Sea
shoar
with
his
friend
,
or
when
he
lent
his
words
to
Cremes
and
Micio
in
the
Fables
of
Terence
.
I
undertake
not
here
to
decide
whether
he
&
his
friend
were
the
true
Authours
of
those
Fables
.
It
sufficeth
me
to
say
,
That
probably
they
were
the
first
approvers
,
and
that
they
loved
them
,
if
they
did
not
make
them
.
And
it
may
even
be
,
That
the
Poet
changed
the
disposition
of
some
scenes
by
their
advice
,
and
that
some
half
verses
of
theirs
may
be
there
.
And
what
we
finde
finest
and
best
aju●ed
,
was
not
so
much
what
hee
borrowed
from
the
works
of
Menander
,
as
what
he
h●d
learnt
from
the
conversation
of
Scipio
.
As
for
the
Emperour
Augustus
,
in
whose
person
I
consider
the
end
of
their
good
days
,
as
I
doe
the
flower
of
them
in
that
of
Scipio
.
It
s
most
true
,
Madam
,
that
hee
hath
judged
most
wholesomly
of
the
value
and
merit
of
every
thing
,
and
that
he
loved
Glory
,
but
that
he
hated
not
Pleasure
.
I
speak
of
Pleasure
in
general
,
because
hee
tasted
of
all
,
and
having
afforded
his
senses
very
much
,
he
refused
his
Mind
nothing
.
He
discerned
good
and
fair
in
all
the
subjects
wherein
it
was
to
be
found
;
and
for
that
enquiry
,
he
employ'd
the
best
skilled
,
and
most
curious
spies
,
so
that
they
left
nothing
for
the
succeeding
ages
to
discover
.
I
dare
not
say
,
as
one
hath
already
said
,
that
the
Muses
were
his
Buffoons
and
Iesters
;
't
is
an
injurious
and
an
uncivil
word
;
I
shall
onely
say
,
they
had
the
honour
to
bee
his
familiars
and
his
domesticks
,
and
at
that
time
they
were
of
his
Court
and
Cabinet
.
They
were
at
least
call'd
at
houres
of
conversation
,
if
not
to
the
deliberation
of
affaires
;
and
if
it
bee
too
much
to
say
,
that
Virgil
was
the
Fourth
of
the
Councel
held
between
Augustus
and
his
two
friends
,
To
know
whether
he
should
Maintain
the
Empire
,
or
Restore
Liberty
.
I
somewhat
suspect
the
History
of
that
Councel
,
and
I
can
scarce
perswade
my selfe
,
that
the
gallant
spirits
of
those
times
were
so
much
the
Emperours
confidents
that
he
should
communicate
with
them
affairs
of
that
nature
.
I
am
satisfied
to
believe
that
they
intended
his
vertuous
pleasures
without
aspiring
to
a
more
important
direction
;
and
that
hee
caused
the
Palace
gates
to
bee
open
for
them
,
when
they
were
shut
to
Supplicants
and
Petitioners
.
But
when
in
farre
distant
Countries
;
nay
,
in
the
midst
of
the
Palaces
clouds
did
rise
,
wch
obscur'd
the
Calm
I
spake
of
;
It
was
then
,
Madam
,
when
the
Muses
were
no
lesse
necessary
,
then
they
had
formerly
been
agreeable
:
'T
was
then
they
did
him
service
,
&
helped
Livia
to
uphold
her
husband
;
who
began
already
to
stoop
with
cares
and
under
affairs
.
During
this
diseased
and
impatient
season
,
they
were
only
imploied
to
seek
pleasures
&
divertisements
for
him
:
They
did
strive
onely
to
charm
his
paines
with
their
songs
;
they
studied
to
appease
and
set
at
rest
that
impaatient
part
of
his
soul
which
incessantly
watched
&
tormented
it self
,
To
estrange
his
fancy
only
from
the
debauches
of
his
daughter
,
and
from
the
defeat
of
his
Legions
;
To
take
away
the
sight
of
troublesome
subjects
by
the
interposition
of
pleasing
ones
.
Now
,
Madam
,
as
it
was
no
smal
matter
of
merit
for
human
Men
sometimes
to
make
Augustus
sleep
,
&
somtimes
to
chear
him
,
the
good
Goddesses
thereby
justified
themselves
from
the
calumny
of
the
Barbarians
,
who
accused
them
as
useless
to
the
Republick
,
&
as
fit
to
have
no
rank
in
the
world
.
This
good
Prince
suffering
them
also
to
extend
the
too
large
violence
of
his
thoughts
,
&
by
taking
some
intervals
of
release
in
those
spectacles
which
they
took
care
to
provide
for
him
at
the
same
time
they
did
divers
good
acts
.
For
besides
that
they
avowed
themselves
to
be
his
.
They
protected
the
innocent
against
the
Licence
of
the
old
soldiers
,
&
the
cruelty
of
the
civil
victory
.
He
got
pratlers
which
use
to
be
heard
in
all
ages
;
and
honouring
them
with
familiarity
,
he
rendred
them
triburary
to
his
glory
.
But
chiefly
,
Madam
,
he
followed
the
Councel
of
Nature
,
which
will
have
all
who
work
,
rest
;
which
entertains
its
durance
by
moderation
,
&
threatens
violence
with
an
end
.
I
know
well
that
this
Soveraign
Understanding
which
was
given
to
Princes
for
the
Conduct
of
human
things
,
is
incapable
of
being
tired
,
and
would
agitate
continually
,
could
it
be
alone
.
But
being
ingaged
with
the
body
,
and
having
Organs
which
are
extreamly
frail
and
delicate
,
it
must
manage
them
for
their
benefit
,
and
in
spight
of
it self
,
fit
it self
,
to
the
necessities
of
a
society
,
with
which
it
is
ingaged
.
Princes
cannot
always
be
Angels
,
divorced
from
sense
,
and
enjoy
the
purity
of
a
simple
beeing
;
They
must
sometimes
be
Men
mixt
with
Matter
and
Subject
to
the
changes
of
things
composed
.
There
must
,
Madam
,
after
the
Tempests
of
Affairs
,
and
the
anxious
Objects
of
the
ills
they
are
to
combat
,
be
a
care
taken
to
finde
them
pleasures
.
Ports
to
divert
and
refresh
their
Minds
,
and
attracting
Perspectives
which
may
untire
and
rejoice
their
eyes
.
They
are
the
needs
of
human
life
,
how
rich
and
sufficient
so
ever
it
may
otherwise
bee
of
it selfe
.
Labour
would
weaken
the
strongest
Mindes
,
had
they
not
their
helps
and
stayes
to
support
them
.
Melancholy
would
suffocate
them
,
did
they
not
thus
respire
.
To
speak
properly
they
are
the
voluptuousness
of
reason
,
and
the
delights
of
the
understanding
.
And
he
who
hath
discovered
all
the
Truths
under
Heaven
,
and
was
ignorant
of
nothing
which
could
be
known
without
Revelation
,
made
so
particular
an
esteem
of
it
in
the
Fourth
Book
of
his
Ethicks
,
that
he
was
not
afraid
to
say
,
That
sport
and
divertisement
were
no
lesse
necessary
to
life
,
then
rest
and
nourishment
.
It
s
true
,
he
makes
a
difference
as
well
as
we
of
playes
and
divertisements
.
Hee
is
not
a
Councellor
of
all
kinds
of
debauches
;
neither
will
hee
have
wise
men
pass
their
time
as
the
Vulgar
do
.
Hee
hath
discovered
a
Mean
approved
by
reason
betwixt
an
ill
humour
,
and
a
buffoone
in
which
the
soul
dilates
itself
by
a
moderate
motion
,
and
doth
not
enervate
it self
by
a
violent
dissolution
.
And
of
this
Mean
,
Madam
,
he
hath
made
a
Moral
vertue
,
wch
respects
the
good
of
company
,
in
pursuit
of
two
others
,
which
he
proposeth
to
us
in
the
same
Chapter
,
for
the
same
end
.
The
first
of
these
three
Vertues
is
a
certaine
sweetness
&
facility
of
Manners
,
which
can
accommodate
it self
without
servility
,
and
approves
not
all
that
is
said
without
choice
;
neither
by
distaste
doth
hee
disapprove
it
.
The
second
is
a
cleare
freedome
,
and
a
custome
to
speak
the
Truth
even
in
indifferent
things
,
in
as
far
a
degree
estranged
from
vain
ostentation
,
and
an
affected
restraint
.
I
intimated
before
what
the
third
was
,
and
their
three
vertuous
habits
,
according
to
the
opinion
of
Aristotle
,
rule
all
the
commerce
of
words
,
and
extend
themselves
to
all
the
entertainements
which
Men
have
of
one
another
,
whether
wee
hold
pleasing
or
distastfull
disputes
,
whether
true
or
false
,
whether
sad
or
joyful
.
So
that
,
Madam
,
without
the
first
of
these
three
Vertues
,
the
Assemblies
of
Men
would
bee
but
Troops
of
Enemies
mixt
together
,
who
would
scratch
&
fly
in
one
anothers
faces
,
or
Circles
of
Lovers
,
who
would
adore
their
owne
defects
,
&
esteem
their
wrinkles
fair
.
Without
the
second
,
they
would
but
be
the
schools
of
Dissemblers
,
who
would
scarce
tell
us
what
of
the
clock
it
were
,
or
that
it
were
day
at
Noon
,
so
feareful
are
they
of
mistaking
.
Or
Theaters
for
Captains
,
who
say
more
then
they
know
,
or
then
they
have
done
,
or
then
indeed
could
have
been
done
.
In
fine
,
without
the
Third
,
of
which
we
have
spoken
,
the
Assemblies
of
Men
being
too
sad
or
too
merry
,
would
seem
either
as
the
Convoyes
of
afflicted
persons
,
and
the
representation
of
a
publique
grief
,
or
spectacles
of
naked
persons
and
the
image
of
those
licentious
Feasts
,
which
durst
not
appear
before
Cato
.
The
Mean
betwixt
these
two
is
a
Vertue
of
a
truth
,
neither
so
splendent
nor
so
high
as
Wisdom
and
Magnanimity
;
yet
it
s
a
Vertue
allowed
by
the
Philosophers
,
even
by
the
Philosophy
of
Cato
.
And
should
we
banish
it
out
of
our
Morals
,
the
communication
wee
have
with
one
another
,
would
have
bin
but
dry
and
thorny
.
Our
Discourse
would
rather
have
been
a
toile
and
a
labour
of
the
Tongue
,
then
an
ease
and
a
discharge
of
the
heart
:
and
Society
if
we
had
permission
onely
to
dispute
and
to
contradict
,
would
trouble
us
far
more
then
Solitariness
,
wherein
wee
at
least
may
laugh
out
of
memory
,
and
rejoice
in
our
own
thoughts
.
I
cannot
assure
you
,
Madam
,
that
the
Romans
were
acquainted
with
so
praise-worthy
a
quality
in
the
Infancy
of
the
Republick
;
and
although
one
of
their
Poets
reports
well
of
King
Numa
,
and
of
the
Nymph
of
Egeria
,
the
Conferences
which
they
had
together
,
passing
without
witness
,
they
could
speak
of
them
but
by
conjecture
.
These
Victorious
Peasants
knowing
nothing
but
husbandry
and
fighting
,
were
sensible
onely
of
gross
pleasures
proportionable
to
the
hardship
of
their
births
;
there
is
no
great
likelihood
that
they
did
possess
a
Vertue
directly
opposite
to
the
rudeness
they
made
profession
of
,
and
which
seldome
accompanies
poverty
,
which
is
almost
alwayes
followed
with
an
ill
humour
.
So
long
as
their
Eloquence
,
to
use
the
termes
of
Varro
,
smelt
of
Garlick
and
Onions
,
we
could
expect
nothing
very
exquisite
,
and
it
was
hard
for
so
sad
an
austerity
as
theirs
to
hearken
to
raillery
,
and
to
be
toucht
with
joy
.
First
,
then
they
were
without
weakning
to
soften
themselves
;
They
must
sweeten
their
courages
,
and
unrust
their
Manners
,
That
at
last
they
might
advise
to
cultivate
themselves
,
as
they
did
their
Gardens
and
their
Lands
.
They
indeed
did
it
with
so
much
success
,
and
found
so
happy
a
foundation
,
That
presently
the
good
Genius
was
amongst
them
a
popular
thing
.
This
politeness
past
from
the
Senate
to
inferiour
degrees
,
even
to
the
lowest
form
of
the
meaner
people
.
And
if
in
their
cause
their
own
witness
is
to
be
believ'd
,
they
have
blotted
out
all
the
Graces
,
and
all
the
Vertues
of
Greece
,
and
have
left
the
Atticism
thereof
far
short
of
their
Urbanity
.
It
s
that
,
Madam
,
which
they
call'd
that
lovely
Vertue
of
Society
,
after
having
practised
it
many
years
without
having
given
it
a
Name
,
and
should
use
have
ripened
amongst
us
a
word
of
so
ill
a
savour
,
and
have
corrected
the
bitternesse
which
might
have
been
found
in
it
.
Wee
might
accustome
our selves
thereunto
,
as
to
others
,
which
wee
borrowed
from
the
same
language
.
Now
whether
that
word
expresseth
in
Ours
a
certain
Air
of
the
great
World
,
and
a
colour
and
tincture
of
the
Court
,
which
not
only
marks
words
and
opinions
,
but
even
the
tone
of
the
voice
,
and
the
motion
of
the
body
.
Or
whether
it
signifie
a
lesse
perceptible
motion
which
is
known
but
by
chance
,
which
hath
nothing
but
is
noble
&
high
,
and
nothing
which
appears
studied
or
learnt
;
which
is
felt
,
and
is
not
seen
,
and
inspires
,
a
secret
Genius
,
which
we
lose
in
seeking
it
.
Or
whether
in
a
farther
stretched
signification
,
it
means
the
Science
of
Conversation
,
and
the
gift
to
please
in
good
company
:
Or
restraining
of
it
,
it
be
taken
for
an
addresse
to
touch
the
Spirit
with
I
know
not
what
kind
of
pricking
,
yet
whose
pungency
is
pleasing
to
who
receives
it
,
because
it
tickles
,
and
hurts
not
,
because
it
leaves
a
wound
without
grief
,
and
awakens
only
that
part
which
malice
offends
.
To
conclude
,
Madam
,
according
to
the
judgment
of
a
good
Judge
in
such
cases
,
It
was
a
knowledge
abused
by
the
Greeks
,
which
other
people
were
ignorant
of
,
and
from
whom
the
Romans
only
learnt
the
true
and
lawful
use
.
Being
so
fit
for
them
,
and
so
incommunicable
to
their
nearest
neighbours
,
that
those
even
of
Italy
;
could
not
acquire
it
without
some
failings
,
nor
so
nicely
counterfeit
it
,
that
the
resemblance
should
not
mark
the
diversity
.
It
was
then
according
to
this
accompt
,
a
domestick
plant
which
could
grow
up
but
on
the
shore
of
the
Tiber
,
or
on
the
Mount
Palatin
,
or
at
the
foot
of
the
Capitol
,
or
near
the
Camp
of
Mars
,
and
near
some
other
quarter
of
that
Capitall
City
of
the
world
.
Is
it
possible
that
the
Heaven
and
the
Sun
of
Rome
,
should
have
so
much
force
and
so
much
vertue
?
Did
they
so
sensibly
agitate
on
the
spirits
of
men
?
Were
they
so
absolutely
necessary
to
make
them
good
company
?
I
fear
not
of
my self
to
say
it
,
not
to
wrong
the
rest
of
Italy
,
and
the
rest
of
the
civilized
Provinces
.
But
to
speak
in
general
,
its
certain
,
Madam
,
that
the
Citizens
of
Rome
,
had
great
advantages
in
the
world
,
owed
much
to
their
Mothers
,
and
to
their
Breeding
,
and
knew
many
things
which
no body
taught
them
:
there
is
no
doubt
but
in
their
most
familiar
entertainment
,
some
graces
were
neglected
,
some
ornaments
without
art
,
which
the
Doctors
are
ignorant
of
,
and
which
are
above
rules
and
precepts
.
I
doubted
not
but
when
I
had
seen
it
Thunder
,
and
Heaven
and
Earth
mix
in
the
O●ations
of
the
Tribunals
,
but
it
was
a
change
most
agreeably
pleasing
,
to
consider
them
under
more
then
an
humane
appearance
,
disarmed
of
their
Enthymemes
,
and
of
their
figures
,
having
left
their
feigned
exclamations
,
and
artificial
angers
,
appearing
in
a
condition
wherein
one
might
say
,
They
were
truly
themselves
.
'T
was
there
,
Madam
,
for
example
,
where
Cicero
was
neither
Sophist
,
nor
Rhetorician
,
neither
Idolater
of
this
man
,
nor
furious
against
that
;
neither
of
this
,
nor
of
that
party
:
There
hee
was
the
true
Cicero
,
and
after
mocked
himself
privately
of
what
he
had
adored
publickly
.
'T
was
there
he
defin'd
Men
,
&
painted
them
not
,
where
he
spoke
of
Cato
as
of
a
Pedant
of
the
Portico
,
or
at
most
but
as
of
a
Citizen
of
Plato's
Republick
,
where
he
said
,
That
the
purple
of
the
Senate
was
finer
,
but
the
steele
of
the
Rebels
was
better
,
where
he
confest
Caesar
was
the
Contriver
of
his
own
Fortune
,
and
that
Pompey
was
but
the
work
of
his
.
These
sentiments
which
parted
from
the
heart
,
were
hidden
in
great
Assemblies
,
and
were
discovered
but
between
two
or
three
friends
,
and
as
many
faithful
domesticks
,
and
with
whom
hee
communicated
this
secret
felicity
.
And
if
some
of
them
have
said
that
they
reign'd
all
the
time
they
Oration'd
,
so
soveraign
was
the
power
they
exercised
over
mens
mindes
;
we
may
speak
even
of
those
which
in
their
conversation
restored
the
liberty
which
they
had
taken
away
in
their
Orations
,
That
they
set
at
large
and
at
ease
the
minds
of
those
they
opprest
and
tormented
;
and
that
they
drew
them
from
that
admiration
which
had
agitated
them
with
violence
,
to
make
them
sensible
of
a
sweeter
transport
,
and
ravish
them
with
less
force
.
I
have
seen
a
great
Prince
in
the
low
countries
,
who
in
that
envied
the
fortune
of
their
free
men
,
and
of
those
inferior
friends
,
and
of
the
meaner
sort
,
which
they
had
brought
out
of
slavery
,
to
choose
them
their
confidents
;
and
in
effect
,
it
was
a
wonderful
contentment
to
be
a
witness
of
their
interiour
lives
,
and
to
be
private
to
the
more
particular
houres
of
their
leisure
.
And
it
were
an
incomparable
satisfactiō
to
know
those
good
things
which
have
been
said
of
Scipio
and
Laelius
Atticus
and
Cicero
,
and
other
honest
people
of
every
age
,
To
have
the
History
of
their
conversation
and
Cabinets
to
adde
to
those
of
Affairs
&
State
.
Being
born
in
the
Empire
,
and
bred
up
in
Triumphs
,
all
what
proceeded
from
them
bore
the
Character
of
Nobleness
,
which
distinguished
thē
from
Subjects
.
All
of
them
were
sensible
of
Command
and
Authority
,
though
government
and
conduct
were
not
in
question
;
all
was
remarkable
and
exemplary
,
even
their
Secrets
and
Solitude
.
Having
from
their
infancy
seene
Kings
led
Captives
through
the
streets
,
and
other
Kings
Petitioners
and
Solicitors
come
in
person
to
demand
Justice
,
and
expect
at
the
doore
of
the
Senate
their
good
or
ill
success
.
They
could
retain
nothing
that
was
low
in
such
rais'd
and
purg'd
spirits
from
such
spectacles
.
The
very
lees
of
such
a
people
were
precious
:
and
if
by
mischance
some
Gentlemen
were
found
who
had
vulgar
spirits
,
it
s
to
be
believed
that
such
great
objects
would
presently
have
raised
them
.
It
s
likely
,
that
being
not
onely
covered
and
invironed
,
but
penetrated
,
even
filled
with
so
much
light
which
resplended
even
on
their
least
actions
,
which
they
could
not
lessen
nor
hide
so
well
,
but
that
they
always
were
strong
and
illustrious
.
I
speak
as
I
believe
,
and
you
know
well
the
dead
have
no
flatterers
.
'T
was
impossible
for
them
wholly
to
devest
themselves
of
their
greatnesse
,
because
it
was
in
their
hearts
and
in
their
mindes
,
because
it
was
rooted
in
them
,
and
was
not
applyed
to
their
fortunes
.
No
gesture
,
nor
outward
motion
of
theirs
was
unworthy
the
Soveraignty
of
the
world
:
Even
they
laughed
and
sported
with
some
kind
of
dignity
.
'T
is
what
I
fear
not
Madam
,
to
present
unto
you
,
who
descend
not
onely
from
the
same
Origine
and
from
the
same
bloud
,
but
who
beyond
all
this
,
are
the
daughter
of
their
discipline
and
spirit
,
and
retain
no
lesse
a
share
of
the
Magnanimity
of
the
Caesars
,
and
of
the
Scipios
,
thē
of
the
honesty
of
the
Lelia's
,
and
of
the
Comelia's
.
Your
Ancestors
were
great
even
in
the
least
things
.
And
since
formerly
a
Sect
did
believe
,
That
a
wise
man
sleeping
,
was
like
himself
;
neither
did
he
then
forbear
to
be
wise
,
(
It
was
an
Idol
and
a
Wise
man
form'd
at
pleasure
)
since
that
Sect
hath
left
it
for
a
dogma
,
That
the
dreams
of
this
imaginary
Wise
man
were
reasonable
and
judicious
.
We
may
have
leave
to
believe
,
That
truly
Wise
men
might
rule
with
gravity
by
their
reason
,
and
conduct
one
part
of
their
lives
,
which
is
more
capable
of
either
then
sleeping
,
and
that
their
lesse
violent
and
lesse
serious
actions
were
animated
with
vigour
and
the
Majesty
of
the
Republick
.
Would
you
have
me
verifie
what
I
tell
you
,
and
raise
my self
higher
then
Scipio's
time
,
To
shew
you
that
their
was
always
wit
in
Rome
;
But
that
there
was
alwayes
Authority
and
Greatnesse
mixt
with
this
wit
:
It
shall
be
onely
the
good
Fabritius
,
whose
Letter
you
saw
to
Pyrrhus
,
which
will
furnish
the
example
we
seek
.
And
I
pray
consider
it
,
Madam
,
in
that
celebrous
conversation
which
hee
had
with
the
same
Pyrrhus
,
and
with
Cyneas
the
head
of
his
Councel
.
Cyneas
having
made
a
long
Discourse
in
praise
of
a
Contemplative
life
,
and
amongst
other
things
having
said
,
That
there
was
a
great
person
at
Athens
named
Epicurus
,
who
preached
Rest
and
Voluptuousnesse
,
and
held
the
Government
of
States
unworthy
the
employment
of
the
Wise
,
Because
Wise
men
ought
not
to
disturb
themselvs
for
fools
,
for
ungrateful
persons
,
for
men
.
Fabritius
had
the
patience
to
hear
the
vanity
of
the
Grecians
,
although
hee
approved
them
not
:
Yet
with
a
disdainful
smile
which
hee
addrest
to
him
who
brought
them
forth
.
O
said
he
,
How
soon
would
the
Romans
have
done
,
if
all
the
world
would
be
but
Epicurian
.
Do
you
not
beleive
,
Madam
,
that
Cyneas
was
surprised
with
so
unexpected
an
answer
,
and
so
far
from
the
admiration
hee
looked
for
from
so
unlettered
a
Man
,
whom
he
thought
he
had
ravished
with
his
Eloquence
.
That
little
saying
at
one
blow
overthrew
the
opinions
of
that
great
man
of
Athens
,
and
the
Eloquence
of
that
brave
Orator
.
And
a
regular
refutation
of
Epicurian
Philosophy
undertaken
by
a
Stoick
prepared
for
the
businesse
,
would
not
have
had
the
force
which
this
exclamation
of
one
line
had
,
wch
rendred
Epicurus
ridiculous
,
which
confounded
Cyneas
,
and
astonished
Pyrrhus
.
Yet
Fabritius
,
Madam
,
did
use
to
astonish
Pyrrhus
with
his
answers
;
hee
usually
laughed
at
the
Propositions
which
the
King
seriously
made
;
And
when
he
once
offered
him
the
first
place
next
to
him
in
his
Kingdome
,
supposing
that
hee
would
not
dispute
so
advantageous
a
grant
,
and
that
without
difficulty
he
would
change
poverty
for
riches
:
The
poor
Citizen
answerd
the
rich
Prince
in
these
words
,
which
I
have
drawne
from
a
Greek
Manu
script
:
I
love
you
Pyrrhus
too
well
,
to
accept
the
conditions
you
offer
.
If
to
day
I
were
your
Favorite
,
who
could
assure
you
but
that
to
morrow
I
might
be
your
Master
?
Of
a
truth
you
are
worth
much
,
yet
you
cost
more
;
And
doe
you
not
believe
,
That
did
your
subjects
know
mee
,
but
that
they
would
rather
receive
exemptions
from
me
with
the
security
of
all
they
have
,
then
to
pay
Tribute
to
you
,
and
have
nothing
they
can
call
their
own
:
Make
me
therefore
no
more
of
these
offers
,
which
might
ruine
you
if
I
took
you
at
your
word
;
and
never
promise
me
what
you
cannot
keep
without
the
losse
of
your
Crown
.
A
●ough
Commonwealths
man
born
with
the
hatred
of
Monarchy
,
would
have
answered
rudely
,
that
he
would
have
nothing
to
do
with
a
King
nor
to
be
Lieutenant
General
of
the
Kingdome
.
But
,
Fabritius
,
who
was
harsh
in
fight
onely
,
and
knew
onely
how
to
offend
armed
Kings
,
being
unwilling
to
receive
what
was
offered
,
yet
would
hee
refuse
with
a
good
grace
:
He
would
by
that
gallant
and
ingenious
refusal
,
once
more
make
himself
to
be
desired
by
Pyrrhus
,
and
shew
him
that
he
was
not
onely
a
man
of
very
great
use
,
but
also
a
man
of
good
Conversation
.
These
,
Madam
,
are
the
first
essays
of
Politenesse
,
and
as
it
were
the
designe
of
Urbanity
in
a
Republick
of
Brasse
and
Iron
amongst
simple
and
innocent
Citizens
;
but
simple
and
innocent
in
such
a
way
,
that
we
cannot
say
their
simplicity
was
smooth
,
&
their
innocency
spiritual
:
The
Consuls
and
the
Dictators
laughed
after
this
manner
.
Thus
they
spake
when
they
did
not
speake
seriously
;
and
the
seriousnesse
of
the
Grecians
was
worth
nothing
to
the
rude
and
imperious
raillery
of
the
Romans
.
Even
the
Censors
,
Madam
,
although
Grief
seemed
to
be
one
of
the
functions
of
their
charge
,
did
not
absolutely
renounce
all
kind
of
raillery
:
They
did
not
opinion
at
themselvs
to
an
eternal
severity
;
And
that
hasty
and
insufferable
honest
man
,
I
mean
the
first
Cato
,
did
somtimes
forbear
to
be
angry
and
insupportable
;
He
had
raies
of
joy
,
and
the
intervals
of
a
good
humor
;
Sayings
have
escaped
him
which
were
nothing
ungrateful
;
And
if
you
please
,
Madam
,
you
may
judge
of
others
by
this
.
He
married
a
well
fashioned
woman
;
and
Histories
observe
,
that
she
extreamly
feared
thunder
,
as
shee
did
extreamly
love
her
husband
;
these
two
passions
counselled
her
the
same
thing
;
She
ever
chose
her
husband
for
her
shelter
against
thunder
,
and
cast
her self
into
his
arms
;
at
the
first
murmure
,
shee
imagined
shee
heard
from
Heaven
Cato
,
who
was
pleased
with
the
storm
,
&
who
was
not
angry
to
be
carressed
more
then
ordinary
,
could
not
retaine
the
joy
of
his
heart
.
Hee
reveales
this
domestick
secret
to
his
friends
,
and
tels
them
,
speaking
of
his
wife
,
That
she
had
found
out
a
way
to
make
him
wish
for
ill
weather
;
and
that
hee
was
never
so
happy
,
as
when
Jupiter
was
angry
.
Severity
it self
rejoiced
in
this
manner
:
It
was
extream
rigidnesse
:
'T
was
Soveraign
Justice
,
which
thus
laughed
;
and
indeed
,
Madam
,
although
he
and
the
rest
were
incorruptible
Judges
,
yet
must
we
not
therefore
say
,
that
their
good
dispensation
of
justice
proceeded
from
their
ill
humor
:
They
knew
how
to
change
vertue
according
to
the
diversity
of
time
and
place
:
They
received
at
night
in
their
closets
,
the
favours
they
had
in
the
morning
rejected
on
the
Tribunal
.
But
the
Graces
being
at
home
with
them
,
they
were
neither
affected
,
nor
licentious
:
They
were
wise
and
modest
;
They
painted
not
Majesty
;
They
drest
her
the
least
they
could
,
and
hindred
her
onely
from
frighting
others
.
These
Graces
,
Madam
,
and
this
Majesty
,
were
at
last
separated
;
and
the
Graces
appeared
again
under
their
Emperours
:
But
they
appeared
alone
for
that
Majesty
,
I
mean
the
Majesty
of
words
was
lost
with
their
Liberty
.
Fabritius
his
style
lasted
but
till
Brutus
and
Cassius
;
and
indeed
it
s
very
observable
whether
it
bee
in
some
of
their
Letters
which
are
still
visible
,
or
in
the
Discourse
they
had
together
the
Eve
before
the
Philippi
battel
.
There
is
no
man
so
much
a
stranger
to
Antiquity
,
who
is
ignorant
of
Brutus
his
evil
Angel
,
and
who
knows
not
their
Dialogue
.
Next
day
after
their
Funeral
Conference
,
Brutus
related
it
to
Cassius
,
with
more
trouble
and
disturbance
then
he
had
when
the
Daemon
appeared
unto
him
.
But
observe
,
Madam
,
with
what
a
byass
turn'd
so
distastful
a
matter
,
and
how
he
made
it
profitable
for
the
use
of
Conversation
.
Without
appearing
an
astonished
admirer
,
or
an
incredulous
opiniator
,
hee
laughing
,
told
his
friend
,
That
the
cares
of
the
Minde
,
the
contention
of
the
spirit
,
the
weariness
of
the
body
,
and
the
darknesse
of
the
night
might
be
the
cause
of
his
vision
,
and
had
formed
unto
him
those
strange
Images
.
That
as
for
him
from
the
principles
of
Philosophy
,
which
he
profest
,
he
could
not
believe
there
were
Daemons
,
and
much
lesse
that
they
were
visible
:
Yet
neverthelesse
,
hee
wished
there
were
,
and
that
his
Philosophy
were
false
;
Forasmuch
as
apparently
those
spirits
without
bodies
ought
to
be
just
and
vertuous
.
The
action
of
the
Ides
of
March
was
so
fair
,
and
the
cause
so
honest
,
that
undoubtedly
they
would
bear
their
part
in
it
.
And
that
so
they
would
be
friends
and
allies
of
whom
he
had
not
thought
,
of
which
would
come
to
his
relief
,
and
Troops
of
reserve
,
which
at
a
need
would
fight
for
them
;
which
being
granted
,
he
ought
not
to
reckon
of
their
party
,
only
so
many
Companies
of
foot
,
so
many
Cornets
of
horse
,
so
many
Legions
,
and
so
many
Vessels
:
But
besides
that
,
there
was
an
immortal
people
,
and
a
most
happy
Militia
,
which
needed
no
pay
,
and
declared
themselves
for
the
good
cause
,
and
which
hee
never
need
feare
would
serve
Antony
against
Brutus
,
or
preferre
Tyranny
before
Liberty
.
These
words
,
Madam
,
were
the
last
words
of
the
Republick
,
which
she
uttered
before
she
gave
up
the
ghost
,
and
after
which
she
expired
:
'T
was
the
Character
of
the
spirit
of
Rome
;
It
was
the
natural
language
of
its
Majesty
:
And
doe
you
not
finde
that
Cassius
was
very
Eloquent
in
that
Tongue
?
Would
you
not
be
well
pleased
to
bee
more
particularly
acquainted
with
that
Excellent
Man
,
to
see
him
in
other
society
then
this
,
and
to
hear
him
discourse
on
lesse
ungratefull
subjects
,
and
at
another
time
then
the
Eve
of
the
Philippin
Battel
.
The
mischief
is
,
that
a
quick
voice
dies
assoon
as
it
s
brought
forth
,
and
leaves
nothing
after
it
,
forming
no
subsisting
bodies
in
the
air
:
Words
have
wings
,
you
know
its
Homers
Epithete
,
and
a
Syrian
Poet
hath
made
a
sort
of
language
amongst
birds
:
So
that
,
Madam
,
if
we
stop
not
these
Fugitives
by
Writing
,
they
easily
escape
our
Memorie
.
Even
all
that
is
written
,
is
not
sure
to
last
;
and
Books
perish
as
Tradition
is
forgot
:
Time
,
which
ends
Marble
and
Iron
,
wants
not
strength
against
frailer
subjects
.
And
the
Northern
people
who
seemed
to
come
to
hasten
time
and
precipitate
the
end
of
the
world
,
declared
so
particular
a
warre
to
written
things
,
that
it
was
not
wanting
in
them
,
but
that
even
the
Alphabet
had
been
abolished
.
Elsewhere
,
Madam
,
there
is
a
fate
of
Letters
which
loseth
and
saveth
without
choice
the
motions
of
human
intelligence
,
which
pardon
ill
verses
,
and
ill
intended
fables
,
to
suppresse
Oracles
,
and
deprive
the
world
of
the
Light
of
needful
History
.
The
Ancients
acknowledged
a
Daemon
,
who
presides
at
the
birth
of
Books
,
and
Soveraignly
disposeth
of
their
fortune
&
successe
;
whether
they
result
well
or
ill
,
whether
they
are
short
or
long-lived
,
as
it
succeeds
either
favourable
or
adverse
.
Now
its
certain
,
if
this
Daemon
were
an
ill
willer
to
the
Publick
,
and
envious
of
honest
curiosity
,
and
contrary
to
the
reputation
of
great
persons
,
it
was
principally
in
that
part
of
their
Memories
,
which
design'd
their
humour
,
which
acquainted
us
with
the
relishes
and
delicacies
of
their
Mindes
,
which
discovered
the
truth
of
their
Manners
to
posterity
,
and
the
secrets
of
their
private
lives
.
What
a
misfortune
't
is
,
Madam
,
that
wee
cannot
accost
them
by
that
accessible
part
&
proportionable
to
the
debility
of
our
strength
;
that
we
have
lost
that
easy
object
,
and
which
wee
could
better
beare
then
a
higher
elevation
of
their
glory
;
That
we
know
the
most
part
of
their
battels
,
and
order
of
their
Militia
,
and
yet
are
ignorant
of
their
calm
Conferences
,
and
of
the
Method
they
used
in
their
treaties
with
one
another
,
knowing
of
their
solemn
Feasts
,
and
great
Ceremonies
,
and
yet
have
no
share
in
their
familiarity
,
or
in
their
domestick
affairs
.
Truly
,
Madam
it
had
been
no
small
unhappinesse
,
had
it
altogether
so
befallen
us
;
yet
me thinks
wee
cannot
with
reason
deny
but
that
some
amongst
them
have
had
a
care
of
us
,
nor
justly
complain
,
that
we
have
been
frustrated
of
what
by
succession
belongs
unto
us
.
Two
or
three
by
way
of
Comedy
have
left
us
the
tract
of
four
and
twenty
howres
;
I
mean
the
representation
of
some
merily
past
day
,
and
others
have
shewed
them
us
in
their
Dialogues
,
and
in
their
Letters
.
These
Dialogues
,
and
these
Letters
are
their
immortal
entertainments
:
Conversations
which
are
still
lasting
,
whereto
wee
have
every
houre
free
admittance
;
where
that
Idea
of
vertue
is
preserved
,
of
which
Aristotle
speakes
in
the
Fourth
Book
of
his
Ethicks
,
where
the
first
Master
of
this
noble
&
Patrician
raillery
,
as
they
cal
it
,
is
to
be
found
,
which
was
so
compatible
with
the
Romane
gravity
.
These
Copies
are
more
correct
and
clearer
perhaps
then
their
first
Originals
were
;
and
if
they
have
not
the
advantage
of
a
lively
voice
and
presence
,
which
perswades
the
senses
,
and
gives
a
lustre
to
vile
things
;
they
have
that
of
attention
,
and
of
a
second
view
,
wch
polisheth
the
rude
,
and
unmixeth
the
confused
,
which
adds
what
is
commonly
wanting
to
sudden
and
carnal
actions
.
Here
is
enough
Madam
,
to
satisfie
a
Minde
possest
onely
with
languishing
passions
,
and
to
content
a
hunger
which
is
satisfied
with
a
little
nourishment
:
But
being
desirous
of
much
,
and
greedy
of
new
knowledge
,
and
lovers
of
change
;
we
must
confesse
that
there
is
no
more
then
to
whet
our
appetites
.
We
are
not
children
quite
disinherited
;
neither
are
we
heirs
extreamly
rich
:
And
the
goods
left
us
,
are
nothing
so
great
as
the
losses
we
have
made
.
My
intention
here
is
not
to
lament
the
calamities
of
Learnings
Commonwealth
;
I
wil
say
nothing
of
the
ill
fortune
of
History
,
of
its
breaches
and
ruines
.
The
name
of
Luceius
is
scarce
come
to
our
ears
;
of
that
Luceius
,
Madam
,
in
whose
Histories
Cicero
sollicited
and
begged
a
place
.
Our
Salust
is
but
a
part
of
that
Salust
which
your
Fathers
had
:
Where
is
the
second
Decad
of
Titus
Livius
?
Where
are
his
Civill
Wars
?
Where
are
those
of
Asinius
,
Pollio
and
Crematius
Cordus
,
which
were
Master-pieces
of
the
Roman
Liberty
and
Eloquence
?
All
these
Madam
,
are
no
more
;
and
if
wee
would
know
the
news
of
a
season
which
hath
so
much
relation
&
conformity
with
the
times
we
have
seen
,
we
must
enquire
of
some
stranger
of
Greece
,
who
commonly
is
what
he
knows
not
.
Neverthelesse
I
perceive
,
that
in
the
humour
wee
now
in
these
days
are
,
and
in
the
disgust
of
a
distempered
age
,
which
prefers
fawces
to
meat
,
and
its
fancie
to
health
.
'T
is
not
the
great
and
serious
amongst
the
Romans
,
which
wee
must
regret
,
and
are
most
angry
to
have
lost
;
We
might
easily
passe
over
the
Annals
of
their
wars
and
fields
,
had
we
but
a
Iournal
of
their
divertisements
and
winter
quarters
.
And
wee
should
without
much
trouble
consolate
our selves
at
the
shipwrack
of
needful
Histories
,
could
their
faire
Fables
have
escaped
.
It
were
indeed
an
excellent
consolation
to
afflicted
spirits
,
for
the
losse
of
Titus
Livius
his
Decads
,
could
we
recover
the
Comedies
of
Plautus
and
Terence
,
which
we
have
no
more
,
without
mentioning
other
Poets
of
the
Theatre
,
from
whose
wrack
there
remains
only
a
few
lame
Verses
,
and
some
halting
Sentences
.
The
Satyrs
of
Varro
,
who
was
the
Painter
of
the
Life
and
of
the
Minde
,
would
also
afford
us
very
grateful
knowledges
:
For
though
most
serious
Philosophy
were
in
those
Satyrs
,
yet
was
it
as
it
were
on
flowers
,
and
as
in
a
place
for
debauch
,
all
painted
and
perfumed
with
the
gallantry
of
those
times
.
There
wee
should
have
seen
the
Conscript
Fathers
dispatching
of
their
Clients
,
dismantled
of
their
long
robes
in
the
purity
of
their
nature
;
such
as
they
were
in
the
pleasures
of
their
jollity
,
and
in
the
liberties
they
took
after
supper
:
Such
as
you
have
asked
me
to
see
them
,
when
you
thought
I
could
say
somewhat
to
their
Books
.
Wee
should
then
have
had
Lions
whole
,
whereas
now
wee
have
but
their
claws
;
and
if
the
fate
of
Books
would
have
had
it
so
,
The
conversations
of
Brutus
and
Cassius
,
the
entertainments
of
Volumnius
and
of
Papirius
Poetus
,
would
have
been
as
long
lived
,
as
the
Controversies
of
the
Rhetoricians
,
of
Seneca
,
and
the
Declamations
of
Quintilian
.
We
should
judge
,
Madam
,
of
Urbanity
by
it selfe
,
and
in
whole
and
perfect
figures
,
instead
that
we
can
now
judge
but
by
our
suspitions
,
and
by
obscure
and
imperfect
tracts
.
Had
it
pleased
the
same
destiny
,
the
first
Caesar
would
yet
be
one
of
those
Authors
whom
I
alledged
upon
this
subject
:
He
with
care
had
gathered
what
had
been
said
,
and
what
was
every
day
most
remarkably
said
.
Tyron
also
made
a
Collection
of
all
the
good
Sayings
of
Cicero
,
and
an
ancient
Grammarian
speaketh
of
two
Books
of
Tacitus
,
the
title
of
which
was
the
Conceits
Facetiae
.
But
particularly
,
Madam
,
the
Court
of
the
second
Caesar
,
of
which
was
spoken
in
the
beginning
of
this
Discourse
.
That
gallant
and
witty
Court
which
mocked
the
conceits
of
Plautus
,
and
the
raillery
of
Antiquity
,
would
furnish
me
wherewith
to
entertain
you
whole
days
,
with
a
vertue
which
belonged
unto
them
in
property
,
and
which
from
thence
had
received
its
last
form
:
For
wee
must
confesse
with
the
leave
of
the
Republick
,
that
the
age
of
Augustus
judged
very
subtilly
of
things
,
perfectly
purified
by
reasō
,
gave
lights
to
the
Mind
which
it
had
not
before
.
It
was
the
golden
Age
of
Arts
and
Discipline
,
and
generally
of
all
fair
Literature
.
All
was
polisht
and
refined
under
his
reign
;
All
were
knowing
and
ingenious
in
that
Court
from
Augustus
even
to
his
Grooms
.
It
s
written
,
that
fire
and
lightning
came
from
his
eyes
;
whereto
I
would
add
,
Madam
,
that
they
also
issued
out
of
his
mouth
,
but
more
quick
and
glittering
then
those
,
which
dazled
the
Courtiers
of
those
times
,
which
obliged
the
one
of
them
to
complain
,
that
it
was
not
possible
to
look
him
in
the
face
:
He
composed
verses
and
supprest
them
;
and
suppressing
them
,
he
gave
out
a
word
of
the
ill
work
he
had
made
,
which
was
worth
as
much
as
the
best
work
which
could
bee
made
.
He
in
four
words
answered
the
long
Oration
of
the
Spanish
Ambassadors
;
but
those
four
words
deserved
another
Oration
longer
then
the
former
to
commend
them
.
Besides
the
Commentaries
of
his
life
,
there
was
a
long
time
in
the
world
a
volume
of
his
Letters
;
and
you
may
believe
,
Madam
,
they
were
not
alwayes
concerning
State-Affaires
nor
all
addrest
to
the
Senate
or
to
the
Legions
;
some
were
of
raillery
,
some
of
confidence
to
his
friends
;
others
of
love
,
and
of
the
gallantry
of
his
Mistresses
,
and
of
the
same
style
with
those
which
his
Unckle
writ
to
Queen
Cleopatra
,
on
tablets
of
Corinthians
and
Saphirs
.
But
I
am
coming
,
Madam
,
to
astonish
you
.
Do
you
believe
,
that
at
this
day
there
is
anywhere
any
fragments
to
bee
found
of
those
Letters
written
to
Cleopatra
?
And
that
love
,
and
the
love
letters
of
Caesar
,
surviv'd
her
hatred
,
and
her
Anti-Cato's
.
This
rarity
hath
been
preserved
in
an
old
Greek
Manuscript
,
which
happily
came
to
my
hands
,
whence
I
have
taken
what
I
have
already
told
you
of
Fabritius
,
of
Cato
,
and
of
Cassius
.
The
Author
of
this
Manuscript
is
not
unknown
,
is
not
the
Son
of
Earth
,
hee
hath
a
name
,
and
a
Countrey
,
and
bears
the
marks
of
his
Nativity
:
He
lived
under
the
Empire
of
the
Antonines
;
he
seemed
to
have
the
same
design
with
the
Sophist
Aelian
:
But
his
manner
of
writing
is
more
at
large
,
and
his
work
may
be
called
a
mixture
of
common
with
rare
things
.
Yet
truly
,
Madam
,
I
cannot
speak
so
affirmatively
of
the
truth
of
these
letters
,
but
that
you
still
have
leave
to
suspend
your
judgement
.
I
dare
not
assure
you
,
that
they
were
found
in
Cleopatra's
Cabinet
,
when
the
Inventory
of
her
goods
was
made
by
order
of
Augustus
.
Besides
,
the
Sophist
are
men
,
whom
I
trust
but
in
some
sort
:
The
Roman
Poet
teacheth
us
to
feare
the
Greeks
,
even
when
they
present
us
;
and
the
Cardinal
Historian
of
the
Church
made
use
of
his
advice
on
the
subject
of
the
donation
of
Rome
,
made
to
Pope
Silvester
by
the
Emperor
Constantin
.
Since
then
the
Largesses
which
come
from
Greece
ought
to
be
suspected
by
us
,
and
that
in
that
Countrey
there
is
a
number
of
good
willing
people
which
are
at
leisure
:
Since
the
Sophists
served
as
Secretaries
to
Falaris
and
other
Princes
;
I
know
not
how
many
ages
after
their
deaths
,
they
may
have
rendred
the
same
service
to
Caesar
upon
this
occasion
:
But
before
wee
determine
thereupon
,
it
will
not
be
amisse
to
consult
the
infallible
.
****
Their
answers
which
formerly
were
rendred
at
Delphos
,
were
not
more
certain
then
his
.
All
the
Impostors
of
Antiquity
;
All
the
Sinons
,
and
all
the
Ulisses
of
Greece
,
are
not
subtill
enough
to
make
him
take
one
for
another
:
And
hee
will
instantly
resolve
,
whether
what
we
present
him
be
legitimate
or
base
;
whether
it
be
gold
from
the
Mine
,
or
gold
of
Chymistry
.
However
it
be
,
I
believe
its
Antiquity
;
And
had
those
pieces
wch
the
Greek
Sophist
alledgeth
been
counterfeit
,
it
would
have
according
to
my
opinion
awhile
after
Caesar
,
and
perhaps
in
the
time
of
Augustus
.
We
will
in
another
observ
them
with
what
remains
concerning
that
age
;
Unlesse
you
,
Madam
,
esteem
it
as
already
done
,
and
the
Age
also
;
and
affording
me
the
favour
of
a
second
Discourse
,
you
would
spare
the
pains
of
tiring
my selfe
with
disquieting
you
.
MAECENAS
TO
The
Lady
Marquess
of
RAMBOVILLET
.
Discourse
III.
THE
last
time
I
had
the
honour
to
see
you
,
the
Emperour
Augustus
was
the
chief
subject
of
our
Discourse
.
I
brought
you
to
consider
him
in
the
beginning
,
continuance
,
and
perfection
of
his
glory
:
You
observed
how
at
nineteen
he
vyed
,
with
the
age
and
experience
of
Cicero
;
How
in
one
work
he
acted
three
or
four
different
persons
;
How
he
shewed
the
Conscript
Fathers
,
who
would
have
treated
him
like
a
young
man
;
that
although
he
had
not
studied
so
long
as
they
,
yet
he
had
learnt
more
;
And
how
he
did
with
addresse
imploy
their
Forces
to
make
his
designes
succeed
,
instead
that
he
thought
to
use
his
own
name
and
credit
to
establish
his
authority
.
I
past
as
lightly
as
I
could
that
bloudy
Act
of
the
Triumvirat
,
whereof
there
was
no
way
to
clear
his
reputation
;
and
I
wished
for
his
honour
,
that
that
part
of
his
History
were
blotted
out
of
the
memory
of
things
;
I
staid
at
the
frequent
broils
,
the
plaistered
reconcilements
,
and
the
last
rupture
betwixt
him
and
Mark
Antony
,
and
accompanied
him
even
to
Rome
,
and
even
to
the
day
of
his
triumph
,
after
the
fatal
voiage
of
Egypt
.
It
was
not
without
informing
you
by
the
way
,
that
the
dexterity
of
his
Minde
was
always
mixt
with
the
good
fortune
of
his
arms
:
And
that
having
overthrown
in
the
Philippick
plains
the
two
dear
sons
of
the
Republick
,
he
thought
he
had
done
nothing
,
could
he
not
free
himself
from
the
two
co-heirs
he
had
in
the
succession
of
his
Unckles
power
,
that
he
might
secure
what
he
had
done
.
The
Conduct
of
that
work
was
admirable
,
he
went
beyond
his
Unckle
,
and
placed
himself
in
a
better
seat
.
The
opposing
vertue
was
unhappy
;
Force
was
found
impotent
:
Hinderance
made
him
a
passage
to
arrive
thither
.
And
then
,
Madam
,
the
Romans
began
to
know
the
design
of
Providence
,
and
the
mortall
disease
of
the
old
Republick
.
At
last
they
loved
to
have
rather
an
assured
Master
,
and
a
peaceable
servitude
,
then
changes
every
day
,
and
a
perpetual
fright
of
Civil
War
.
Rest
,
which
they
did
believe
to
bee
an
essential
good
,
was
to
them
in
lieu
of
liberty
,
which
seemed
now
no
more
then
a
delight
of
the
fancy
.
Every
man
was
pleased
to
be
quiet
after
such
troublesome
affairs
,
and
the
sweetnesse
of
quietnesse
did
so
agreeably
slide
into
their
Mindes
,
that
they
even
wished
not
for
their
first
condition
,
when
Augustus
with
assurance
would
have
restored
it
;
they
were
so
weary
of
Leagues
and
Parties
,
that
they
acknowledged
him
for
a
Benefactor
,
who
would
take
frō
thē
the
trouble
of
governing
themselvs
;
&
blest
his
Usurpation
,
who
delivered
them
from
their
ill
Conduct
.
Since
he
leads
us
,
said
they
,
let
's
sleep
in
our
Vessel
with
security
;
let
's
if
we
will
debauch
our selves
;
let
's
laugh
at
Bacchus
and
Pirats
:
T
is
impossible
we
should
be
lost
,
Caesar
is
responsible
for
our
safety
.
Even
the
grandchildren
of
the
Consuls
and
Dictators
forgot
their
honour
to
follow
their
interest
,
and
forsook
a
ruinous
and
imaginary
liberty
,
to
yeild
to
an
obedience
which
was
convenient
and
full
of
effective
advantages
.
They
were
the
most
subtile
&
most
watchful
Courtiers
,
and
although
they
bore
the
names
,
which
had
made
the
Kings
of
the
Earth
tremble
,
they
cared
not
to
be
seen
in
the
crowd
amongst
those
which
give
good
morrows
,
asking
favours
at
the
door
of
one
of
their
own
Citizens
.
They
said
their
fortune
had
shewed
them
the
example
of
their
duty
,
and
the
way
to
the
Palace
of
Augustus
.
That
they
went
whether
the
Gods
were
gone
before
them
;
and
that
if
they
had
changed
party
,
the
Destin
of
things
,
and
the
Daemon
of
Rome
,
had
done
so
before
them
;
Thus
this
Soveraign
Soul
,
and
of
the
first
rank
,
which
had
a
Navual
Empire
over
all
other
Mindes
,
found
neither
contradiction
nor
resistance
:
The
proudest
submitted
to
the
yoak
,
yeilded
to
the
superiority
of
his
spirit
without
difficulty
past
under
so
elevated
an
height
,
and
submitted
humane
vertues
to
somewhat
of
divine
,
which
they
acknowledged
in
the
person
of
Augustus
.
There
was
no
fierce
courage
,
Madam
,
now
to
be
daunted
;
neither
Cato
nor
Brutus
to
resuscitate
a
dead
party
.
Mutiny
lost
even
its
breath
and
noise
,
envy
was
changed
in
to
admiration
.
Whence
I
conclude
,
if
I
remember
right
,
That
Envy
goes
not
always
so
farre
as
Vertue
.
That
Opinion
is
at
last
tired
in
following
its
constancy
,
and
that
there
is
a
degree
whereat
Desert
having
arrived
,
't
is
beyond
the
reach
of
the
ill
wishes
,
and
the
ill
will
of
Men
.
In
pursuit
whereof
,
Madam
,
an
irreproachable
Judge
as
you
may
call
Monsieur
Chappellain
,
raising
his
voice
but
a
little
more
then
ordinary
,
pronounced
this
fair
Decree
in
favour
of
Augustus
,
and
his
new
Dominion
.
Who
is
that
presumptuous
man
that
dares
complain
,
that
Heaven
is
above
him
,
that
thinks
it
strange
,
that
the
most
luminous
amongst
creatures
,
is
the
highest
,
and
that
the
worthiest
is
the
greatest
?
No
man
did
ever
appeal
from
that
Decree
Augustus
was
Crowned
by
,
the
suffrage
of
all
the
company
after
his
life
was
made
after
my
manner
in
little
.
But
because
Agrippa
and
Maecenas
were
forgot
in
that
life
,
you
witnessed
at
our
issuing
out
of
your
Cabinet
,
that
you
would
not
be
displeased
,
if
I
should
tell
you
what
I
knew
of
either
of
them
.
And
that
it
would
be
grateful
to
you
if
I
made
you
a
particular
relation
of
Moecenas
,
of
whom
so
many
have
unknowingly
spoken
.
You
shall
be
obeyed
after
my
fashion
,
and
I
wish
it
may
be
to
your
content
:
But
as
I
usually
do
,
Madam
,
I
will
give
you
the
things
you
ask
as
they
fal
into
my
mind
,
and
rather
according
to
the
liberty
of
Discourse
,
then
the
course
of
History
.
Agrippa
was
bold
and
wise
in
War
,
infatigable
in
Military
labours
,
a
religious
observer
of
Discipline
,
and
had
all
the
other
parts
of
a
good
Captain
:
But
on
the
other
side
,
he
wanted
those
sweet
and
sociable
Vertues
which
are
necessary
for
an
able
Courtier
:
He
did
better
understand
the
Science
of
the
Field
,
then
of
the
Cabinet
;
Stratagems
,
then
Intricacies
,
and
what
was
in
time
of
trouble
valour
in
him
,
became
in
time
of
rest
,
rudenesse
.
The
same
cannot
be
said
of
Moecenas
;
He
was
esteemed
the
honestest
man
of
his
time
,
and
had
nothing
in
his
person
which
nature
had
not
found
with
care
,
and
which
Letters
and
the
great
World
had
not
polished
.
Yet
Madam
,
you
may
observe
,
that
the
tincture
which
is
taken
at
this
great
Light
,
and
which
gives
a
colour
to
natural
goods
,
was
taken
from
him
with
a
reserve
,
and
advanced
not
to
the
painting
and
disguise
of
intentions
,
so
that
it
fel
from
the
total
alteration
of
Probity
.
He
had
the
graces
of
the
Court
,
but
not
the
vices
,
and
his
actions
were
even
as
direct
as
his
manner
of
acting
was
pleasing
.
Although
the
Court
may
debauch
Saints
,
and
commonly
at
first
infects
what
it
receivs
pure
,
yet
it
contaminated
not
Maecenas
.
It
made
him
shew
,
that
besides
the
use
of
preservatives
,
which
the
study
of
wisdome
furnisheth
,
there
may
be
disposition
inwardly
so
good
,
that
they
are
stronger
then
all
corruptions
from
without
.
T
was
he
that
gave
the
first
example
to
the
world
,
that
was
ever
seen
of
an
innocent
and
modest
prospering
.
Hee
preserved
in
the
Court
the
Maxims
he
brought
thither
,
and
in
a
place
where
all
is
false
and
masked
,
hee
would
appear
what
he
was
.
But
he
had
no
need
take
care
,
Madam
,
to
counterfeit
the
Liberal
and
the
Generous
:
Hee
could
not
but
have
been
much
troubled
to
have
hindred
himself
from
being
so
:
For
which
hee
needed
neither
labour
nor
fighting
;
Giving
but
way
to
the
course
of
his
own
inclination
,
he
never
fell
but
on
good
,
and
on
vertue
.
And
so
his
good
actions
flowing
from
the
spring
and
not
being
drawne
by
strength
of
arms
,
as
those
of
some
Hero's
of
this
age
,
the
easinesse
and
liberty
of
them
was
no
lesse
esteemed
then
the
Splendor
and
Magnificence
:
T
was
said
of
him
that
he
was
the
honour
of
his
Age
,
and
of
the
Roman
Empire
;
That
he
was
the
general
Good
of
the
World
;
That
the
Sun
would
sooner
cease
to
shine
,
and
the
Rivers
to
run
,
then
Maecenas
to
do
good
.
A
brave
man
of
his
time
cries
out
in
a
Poem
which
hee
addrest
to
him
,
T
is
too
much
given
,
Moecenas
,
I
am
but
too
rich
;
And
indeed
the
discretion
onely
of
those
who
received
his
benefits
,
could
make
stop
of
his
liberality
.
If
his
friends
would
have
believed
him
,
he
would
have
left
himself
nothing
.
Neither
durst
a
man
praise
at
his
house
either
a
picture
sent
for
a
rarity
from
Greece
,
or
a
statue
of
Corinthian
Brasse
,
or
a
service
of
Chrystal
Glasse
,
lest
he
presently
should
dispoil
his
Palace
of
those
precious
moveables
,
and
force
him
that
praised
them
to
accept
of
them
.
Excesse
and
Vanity
might
imitate
Moecenas
:
But
natural
goodnesse
onely
could
reach
his
height
.
But
we
must
remember
,
Madam
,
that
this
Noble
man
of
spirit
was
not
solitary
and
unaccompanied
;
All
the
Vertues
marched
in
its
Train
;
'T
was
a
strong
and
couragious
Goodnesse
,
an
able
and
an
intelligent
Goodnesse
;
and
out
of
the
same
fountain
whence
particulars
drew
favors
and
courtesies
,
the
publick
was
furnished
with
councels
and
resolutions
.
How
great
a
Doctor
he
was
in
the
Science
of
governing
;
The
fate
of
Affairs
never
deceived
him
;
He
never
was
a
false
Politician
,
neither
did
he
wander
to
appear
a
good
speaker
in
the
vast
spaces
of
verisimilies
.
Hee
always
went
right
out
to
truth
,
and
so
clearly
saw
the
sequel
of
things
in
their
first
disposition
,
That
the
most
irregular
successes
did
hardly
bely
the
conjectures
hee
made
.
Is
it
not
true
that
the
Emperor
would
have
done
wrong
to
so
excellent
a
person
,
had
he
not
honor'd
him
with
his
confidence
,
and
had
hee
not
given
him
a
share
in
the
government
of
the
world
?
Being
as
he
was
a
just
esteemer
of
men
,
and
knowing
the
value
of
every
thing
,
he
could
not
legitimately
make
twelve
to
be
worth
no
more
then
two
.
That
a
many
eminent
qualities
should
not
be
of
more
use
then
a
mean
sufficiency
.
That
the
most
powerful
in
reason
should
not
have
the
first
place
in
Affairs
.
In
a
word
Madam
,
Augustus
tould
not
but
that
Moecenas
must
have
been
Favorite
to
Augustus
;
And
although
he
was
to
give
long
and
opinionated
battels
against
the
restraints
of
so
modern
a
spirit
to
make
him
accept
what
he
deserv'd
,
and
that
he
was
much
troubled
to
overcome
him
.
Yet
was
he
worthy
of
the
Magnanimity
of
the
greatest
Prince
in
the
world
,
that
in
this
occasion
he
would
not
suffer
himself
to
be
overcome
,
and
not
give
way
.
That
his
acknowledgement
should
be
inferiour
to
the
modesty
of
one
of
his
friends
.
Hee
did
then
much
good
to
this
friend
,
but
it
was
as
you
have
already
seen
,
to
distribute
it
and
divide
it
every
way
.
To
inlighten
and
rejoyce
all
the
earth
with
the
light
of
his
riches
.
With
this
wealth
Moecenas
bought
for
Augustus
all
hearts
&
all
tongues
,
and
consequently
rendred
them
of
so
much
the
better
,
more
noble
,
and
of
the
more
durable
species
:
So
that
considering
so
new
a
commerce
,
he
who
gave
was
lesse
liberal
then
he
was
a
good
husband
;
and
who
received
from
him
was
rather
his
Factor
then
his
Favorite
.
But
,
Madam
,
what
I
am
going
to
tell
you
,
deserves
to
be
well
observed
:
He
was
ever
of
the
Religion
,
To
receiv
nothing
which
might
not
justly
be
given
,
he
would
have
nothing
wch
might
be
reproach'd
him
,
not
onely
from
the
publick
complaint
of
his
renown
,
but
also
by
the
secret
sight
of
an
interessed
particular
.
Those
who
since
had
the
same
favour
under
other
Reigns
,
used
it
not
so
.
Their
morrals
were
larger
and
more
indulgent
to
their
passions
.
They
had
none
of
those
delicacies
of
Conscience
.
When
they
died
not
soon
enough
of
a
natural
death
,
they
had
recourse
to
accusations
to
advance
the
term
of
the
account
they
made
:
They
caused
Innocents
to
be
condemned
to
make
their
Charges
vacant
,
and
in
the
sight
of
afflicted
Orphans
,
they
bore
the
marks
of
their
Fathers
fortune
which
were
not
yet
dry
of
his
bloud
.
Moecenas
his
proceedings
were
far
different
from
these
;
he
would
have
believed
himself
sullied
with
the
confiscated
goods
of
one
proscribed
,
and
as
you
may
ghesse
,
How
many
places
and
houses
hath
he
refused
,
because
hee
would
not
touch
Funeral
spoils
,
nor
take
away
the
successions
of
unhappy
men
.
I
shall
say
more
,
and
his
scruples
went
farther
;
he
hath
often
sent
back
the
presents
and
gratifications
of
the
Provinces
,
which
he
had
eased
,
fearing
lest
the
lightest
sign
of
their
gratitude
,
and
that
a
Nosegay
received
in
such
an
encounter
,
made
not
the
least
resentation
of
interest
appear
in
his
advice
.
He
oftner
set
aside
the
profitable
,
which
was
not
dishonest
to
embrace
,
what
was
honest
barren
and
unfruitful
;
He
preferred
a
simple
satisfaction
of
Minde
to
those
things
which
the
world
esteems
solid
and
essential
.
I
believe
,
Madam
,
that
so
discreet
and
limited
a
greatness
raised
no
jealousies
in
his
Prince
.
There
was
no
Treason
to
bee
feared
from
so
superstitious
an
integrity
.
How
should
he
bee
a
pensioner
to
Mark
Antony
,
had
he
not
accepted
all
kind
of
Augustus
his
favours
?
And
how
should
he
desire
new
things
to
meliorat
his
condition
,
since
he
contented
himself
with
a
little
part
of
those
advantages
,
which
the
present
offered
.
O
rare
example
for
happy
Men
!
Such
a
man
is
not
to
be
found
.
How
strong
and
solid
a
piece
he
was
in
the
foundation
of
a
growing
principality
.
Tyranny
it self
might
have
been
justified
by
the
innocency
of
this
Minister
,
as
it
might
have
been
upheld
by
the
rest
of
his
more
lively
and
more
ardent
vertues
.
Yet
would
I
not
deny
,
but
that
his
delicate
complexion
sometimes
rendred
him
lesse
fit
for
the
labours
of
his
body
,
and
for
the
toils
of
war
,
and
was
the
cause
that
ordinarily
his
Minde
could
onely
work
.
But
,
Madam
,
without
being
prest
he
did
not
forbear
to
do
much
,
and
to
render
as
useful
services
to
the
State
,
as
his
Colleague
,
although
they
were
not
followed
with
so
much
noise
and
pomp
.
The
Solitude
he
built
himselfe
in
Town
,
and
the
shadowes
of
his
Gardens
,
hid
the
half
of
his
vertue
.
His
employments
were
covered
with
an
outward
appearance
of
lazinesse
.
And
perhaps
Agrippa
,
who
appeared
was
praised
for
the
conduct
of
Moecenas
,
whilest
he
was
retired
.
The
Emperour
had
more
inclination
for
this
;
but
remembring
the
battels
gotten
in
Sicilia
and
Egypt
,
he
esteemed
the
other
more
.
The
one
he
believed
loved
him
more
,
and
the
other
had
obliged
more
.
All
these
deliberated
of
general
Affairs
:
But
sometimes
he
consulted
only
Moecenas
concerning
the
life
and
fortune
of
Agrippa
.
Witnesse
Madam
,
that
little
word
,
upon
which
one
of
Machiavels
Disciples
composed
a
great
Discourse
.
You
must
either
put
him
to
death
,
or
make
him
your
sonne
in
Law
.
That
is
to
say
,
you
must
either
lose
him
,
or
quite
gain
him
.
You
must
secure
your self
of
a
greatnesse
which
is
suspected
to
you
either
by
taking
him
out
of
the
world
,
or
planting
him
in
your
House
.
You
may
thereby
observe
that
Moecenas
regarded
onely
his
Master
:
I
speak
like
a
French
man
,
and
thought
onely
of
confirming
his
Authority
.
Agrippa
had
a
taste
of
the
lost
liberty
,
and
turned
his
head
about
from
time
to
time
towards
the
ancient
Republick
This
never
proposed
counsels
but
such
as
were
purely
honest
;
but
his
companion
wherein
concerned
the
good
of
the
State
,
would
add
profit
to
honesty
.
The
first
had
the
command
of
Armies
,
and
fought
the
Enemies
of
the
Empire
.
The
second
exercised
his
power
even
over
the
Emperours
Minde
,
and
therein
appeased
the
motions
which
rose
up
against
Reason
.
Which
he
did
Madam
,
with
so
much
liberty
,
that
the
Prince
being
once
on
the
seat
of
Justice
,
where
some
criminal
processe
was
deba●●ed
,
and
where
he
began
to
be
carried
away
with
the
deceits
and
calumnies
of
the
accusers
.
Moecenas
thereupon
arriving
,
and
being
unable
to
divide
the
croud
,
which
hindred
his
passage
to
him
,
he
handed
a
Note
to
him
,
wherein
were
these
words
:
Hangman
,
wilt
thou
not
come
away
from
them
?
Augustus
in
stead
of
taking
offence
at
the
boldnesse
of
the
word
,
and
of
so
pricking
a
familiarity
,
took
his
friends
zeal
kindly
:
And
at
the
same
time
broke
up
the
Assembly
and
descended
from
his
Tribunal
,
whom
perhaps
he
had
not
innocently
gotten
down
,
had
he
staid
longer
.
He
often
received
such
like
proofs
of
his
fidelity
.
T
was
Maecenas
who
tempered
the
heat
of
his
passions
,
and
sweetned
the
sharpnesse
of
his
spirit
;
who
healed
the
wounds
when
he
could
not
prevent
the
blows
;
who
consolated
him
,
when
he
was
not
in
a
condition
to
admit
of
joy
.
Augustus
very
well
understood
the
desert
and
value
of
this
Friendship
.
He
perceived
well
that
his
person
being
nearer
to
him
then
his
fortune
,
such
like
services
were
to
be
valued
in
his
Minde
,
more
then
the
taking
of
Towns
,
and
gaining
of
Battels
.
He
witnessed
him
also
al
the
acknowledgments
you
can
imagine
from
a
just
Prince
,
and
who
knew
how
to
distinguish
inclination
from
duty
,
and
those
who
loved
Caesar
,
onely
from
those
who
mixt
other
passions
therewith
.
Even
after
his
death
,
he
continued
to
acknowledge
it
to
his
Memory
;
and
whensoever
any
domestick
affliction
befel
him
,
or
some
outward
displeasure
,
sighing
hee
would
say
,
This
would
not
have
befaln
me
had
Moecenas
been
living
.
Hee
thought
himself
unhappy
in
possessing
the
Empire
of
the
world
,
since
he
had
lost
his
Moecenas
.
Hee
had
indeed
a
great
deal
of
reason
to
regret
a
person
so
equally
good
and
intelligent
,
who
could
neither
deceive
nor
be
deceived
;
who
could
do
ill
neither
out
of
weaknesse
,
nor
out
of
designe
.
He
had
great
cause
to
weep
the
losse
of
a
friend
,
who
was
both
so
necessary
and
so
pleasing
.
A
friend
at
all
houres
,
and
at
all
times
,
in
whom
he
found
all
he
sought
,
which
was
his
Table
and
Common
place
Book
,
the
Witnesse
and
the
Repository
of
his
thoughts
;
the
treasury
of
his
mind
,
even
his
second
soul
.
In
effect
,
Madam
,
(
to
shew
you
the
worth
of
a
faithful
friend
about
a
great
Prince
)
how
much
doe
you
think
hee
confirmed
,
fortified
,
and
augmented
the
reason
of
Augustus
?
How
many
thrones
hath
hee
drawn
out
of
those
businesses
he
hath
had
to
dispatch
?
How
many
expedients
did
he
propose
to
himself
to
facilitate
his
designes
?
How
many
platforms
hath
he
made
to
raise
his
works
?
You
need
not
doubt
but
hee
hath
often
spared
the
pains
of
his
foresight
,
and
charged
himself
with
the
cares
and
disquiets
of
the
future
,
that
he
might
leave
him
entirely
in
the
action
.
That
the
vigour
of
his
spirit
might
not
by
being
divided
,
bee
diminished
.
That
I
might
with
truth
at
this
time
say
,
That
they
divided
amongst
themselves
the
several
functions
of
the
same
duty
,
and
that
they
both
lived
but
one
life
.
The
faithful
Moecenas
divers
times
,
Madam
,
upheld
Augustus
,
when
hee
was
tired
with
the
search
of
difficult
good
,
and
presented
him
with
the
image
of
a
crowned
and
enjoyed
vertue
,
to
divert
his
sight
from
the
sad
object
of
suffering
and
labouring
vertue
,
after
a
discovered
Conspiracy
,
and
when
hee
judged
Clemency
better
then
Iustice
.
He
fancied
glory
to
him
fairer
and
more
attractive
,
then
shee
was
,
to
provoke
him
the
more
to
the
love
thereof
,
to
oblige
him
to
convert
wicked
persons
to
honest
men
.
By
changing
sentences
of
death
into
abolitions
,
to
doe
so
that
hee
preferred
the
praise
of
goodnes
,
which
lasts
as
long
as
the
families
and
races
are
preserved
,
before
vengeance
,
which
passeth
as
quickly
as
the
stroak
of
a
hatchet
can
bee
given
,
and
an
head
cut
off
.
And
after
this
you
may
if
you
please
believe
Seneca
,
who
condemns
the
style
and
eloquence
of
Moecenas
.
Me
thinks
Madam
,
that
to
obtain
such
like
graces
from
a
provoked
soul
,
a
man
should
not
want
Eloquence
.
I
speak
of
that
good
and
wise
Eloquence
,
the
Eloquence
of
Affairs
and
Action
bred
in
the
Sun
,
and
in
the
light
of
the
great
World
,
incomparably
stronger
then
the
Rhetorick
of
the
Sophists
,
although
that
can
far
better
hide
and
dissemble
its
strength
.
There
is
no
doubt
but
it
s
absolutely
necessary
to
speak
well
,
for
to
have
to
doe
with
Princes
,
who
commonly
cannot
relish
reason
if
it
be
not
delicately
prepared
.
'T
is
not
enough
that
there
bee
vertue
in
the
remedies
they
are
to
use
,
they
will
have
no
bitternesse
in
them
.
'T
is
not
sufficient
that
the
things
we
present
them
bee
good
,
if
they
are
not
as
well
good
in
their
form
,
as
in
their
matter
.
But
it
is
not
Princes
onely
who
desire
pleasing
words
,
and
who
are
offended
against
the
Reason
which
reproves
them
.
To
speak
generally
,
there
being
nothing
so
free
and
elevated
as
the
Mind
of
Man
,
it
will
bee
treated
according
to
the
noblenesse
of
its
nature
:
That
is
to
say
,
with
sweetnesse
,
method
,
and
addresse
.
Thereby
Madam
,
the
will
is
carried
away
without
much
resistance
,
and
from
the
Will
wee
come
to
the
Understanding
,
which
is
so
much
an
enemy
to
constraint
,
that
to
eschew
it
,
it
estrangeth
it self
from
its
proper
object
,
and
rejects
the
truth
when
any
one
will
cause
another
to
embrace
it
by
force
.
It
s
certain
that
the
Understanding
of
an
Art
so
necessary
to
Government
,
was
Soveraign
in
the
person
of
Moecenas
.
As
hee
was
most
clear
sighted
in
discerning
of
wits
,
he
was
full
of
addresse
in
their
conduct
;
and
was
no
lesse
subtile
in
handling
them
,
then
he
had
light
to
discover
them
.
With
this
efficacious
Eloquence
which
is
nothing
but
the
right
use
of
prudence
,
which
is
communicated
to
Men
by
speech
;
he
gained
Augustus
an
infinite
many
servants
,
and
after
he
had
perswaded
him
moderation
,
hee
perswaded
them
obedience
.
All
the
Conferences
which
were
held
in
his
Palace
,
were
sacrifices
of
praise
and
glory
for
Augustus
.
He
was
there
adored
every
day
in
Prose
and
in
Verse
.
They
began
to
reform
then
the
ancient
Language
of
the
Republick
,
and
to
swear
by
the
Genius
and
good
fortune
of
the
Prince
.
The
Temples
which
at
first
were
built
for
him
in
Spain
,
and
in
Asia
,
and
since
in
other
Povinces
of
the
Roman
world
,
were
designed
in
that
place
.
And
to
take
it
from
its
rise
,
a
man
may
say
,
Madam
,
that
Maecenas
with
his
Orators
and
his
Poets
,
was
Founder
of
all
those
Temples
,
was
the
Institutor
of
that
new
Religion
which
consecrated
a
living
man
.
Believe
me
and
all
Antiquity
rather
then
Seneca
;
That
incomparable
Favorite
left
always
I
know
not
what
sting
in
the
heart
,
which
provoked
the
courages
of
the
hardest
to
the
love
of
the
Prince
and
Country
,
to
the
study
of
vertue
and
wisdome
.
A
man
could
not
get
from
him
without
a
sweet
esmotion
able
to
awaken
the
deadnesse
of
those
who
were
not
sensible
of
the
felicity
of
the
reign
of
Augustus
,
who
never
dreamt
of
the
beauty
of
good
things
.
The
air
of
his
face
,
the
tone
of
his
voice
,
and
what
the
Rhetoricians
comprehended
under
the
eloquence
of
the
body
,
gained
the
outward
sense
in
an
instant
,
and
made
even
to
the
soul
by
the
facility
of
whose
guard
it
was
presently
taken
.
He
perswaded
even
with
the
negligence
of
the
most
familiar
entertainment
.
In
his
free
conversation
when
he
devested
the
pomp
of
the
Court
,
and
gravity
of
his
Ministry
,
when
he
forsook
what
dazled
the
people
,
he
still
had
many
ornaments
left
which
he
could
not
leave
;
he
had
unvoluntary
charms
about
him
which
hee
minded
not
,
which
every where
accompanied
him
.
These
charms
,
Madam
,
particularly
inspired
all
he
said
:
It
supplied
the
default
of
his
favour
;
and
even
when
hee
did
not
grant
requests
,
he
did
not
forbear
to
give
satisfaction
:
For
you
know
well
,
that
all
things
are
not
always
possible
,
and
that
a
man
must
sometimes
refuse
.
But
I
beseech
you
,
what
must
those
presents
be
which
enriched
so
charming
a
Mouth
,
since
the
refusals
which
issued
were
not
displeasing
,
and
that
in
speaking
he
so
much
pleased
that
with
his
words
alone
hee
could
have
paid
his
debts
.
Yet
Nero's
Tutor
will
not
have
the
Confident
of
Augustus
,
to
speak
well
.
He
reproaches
his
delicacies
and
affectednesse
,
even
the
softnesse
and
debauches
of
his
speech
,
and
as
he
says
,
he
was
the
first
corrupter
of
the
Roman
Eloquence
.
He
broached
forth
sayings
,
wch
to
him
seemed
lighter
then
they
ought
,
but
which
he
hath
cut
from
a
work
whose
matter
and
design
we
are
ignorant
of
.
And
thereupon
without
telling
us
whether
Moecenas
spoke
in
cold
bloud
,
or
whether
he
only
had
a
mind
to
laugh
,
he
declaims
against
the
liberty
of
his
style
with
all
the
sharpnesse
and
all
the
rage
of
his
.
To
tell
you
the
truth
Madam
,
I
doubt
there
was
somewhat
of
the
Philarchus
,
&
of
ill
wil
in
the
proceeding
of
Seneca
:
If
the
pieces
he
makes
at
,
were
seen
whole
,
we
should
see
that
hee
distinguisheth
not
the
two
Characters
,
and
that
he
takes
a
suit
once
used
at
a
Mask
for
the
Robes
of
a
Senator
,
wch
he
every
day
wears
to
the
councel
.
Doubtlesse
he
seems
not
to
understand
raillery
.
He
certainly
is
one
of
those
testy
Hypomies
,
who
would
have
Plays
as
serious
as
Affairs
,
and
Comedies
as
sad
as
Funeral
Orations
.
Let
's
draw
him
back
in
all
the
occasions
of
Moecenas
.
His
aversion
towards
him
is
too
visible
and
too
discovered
.
And
after
having
scratched
at
his
writings
,
hee
falls
on
his
manners
,
with
so
much
passion
,
that
a
man
may
easily
perceive
the
spirit
of
his
sect
possest
him
,
and
that
he
had
a
design
to
appear
a
reformed
Stoick
in
prejudice
of
the
honestest
Epicurian
that
ever
was
.
I
do
not
say
,
to
weaken
the
testimony
of
Seneca
,
that
hee
was
a
Doctor
of
the
Court
,
who
Philosophis'd
in
purple
,
and
with
ease
discoursed
of
vertue
.
And
that
even
perhaps
he
exclaimed
against
voluptuousnesse
,
that
he
might
wholly
enjoy
it
,
&
no
man
envy
it
in
him
.
I
onely
say
in
justification
of
Moecenas
,
that
its
impossible
the
Soul
should
give
without
enervating
it self
,
and
that
as
there
is
a
composed
and
melancholy
folly
,
there
may
be
a
free
and
jovial
wisdom
.
I
have
heard
,
Madam
,
from
our
Learned
Monsieur***
;
but
he
said
it
far
handsomer
then
I
can
repeat
it
,
that
there
is
an
Art
of
using
pleasure
innocently
;
that
this
Art
was
taught
by
Aristippus
in
Greece
;
That
since
it
was
corrupted
at
Rome
by
Petronius
and
by
Tigillin
,
who
abused
it
as
poisoners
have
Physick
.
He
added
that
the
practise
of
that
Art
was
not
defended
by
the
Laws
of
your
Country
.
That
on
the
contrary
,
they
had
created
Magistrates
expresly
to
have
a
care
of
the
pleasures
of
the
people
.
That
besides
the
Edicts
of
the
Republick
,
there
was
under
the
Emperors
spoken
of
a
Tribune
for
pleasures
.
And
that
he
had
seen
a
Science
and
a
Discipline
of
pleasure
in
the
formularies
of
Cassiodorus
.
He
concluded
,
Madam
,
that
it
was
not
just
to
accuse
the
purity
of
things
for
the
intemperance
of
men
,
and
that
it
is
not
credible
that
the
goods
of
this
life
should
have
been
made
only
for
the
wicked
.
It
is
not
credible
I
am
of
the
same
opinion
wth
this
rare
soul
,
that
God
should
have
sent
vertue
into
the
world
for
the
punishment
of
poor
men
,
and
that
it
is
not
vertue
if
it
combat
not
against
grief
,
unlesse
it
march
on
thorns
,
if
it
lodge
not
in
an
Hospital
,
if
it
even
inhabit
not
sepulchres
.
Moecenas
would
expect
till
he
was
dead
to
take
possession
of
so
displeasing
a
dwelling
;
and
if
he
were
alive
,
&
had
changed
Rome
for
Paris
,
I
am
confident
a
man
should
oftner
finde
him
in
some
place
which
I
know
,
where
there
is
nothing
which
contents
not
the
eyes
and
the
mind
,
then
in
other
places
which
I
will
not
name
,
where
there
is
nothing
opposeth
them
not
.
What
a
pleasure
you
would
take
to
learn
his
History
from
himself
?
What
a
glory
would
he
receive
to
have
som
of
your
Audiences
?
How
would
your
modest
conversation
touch
his
minde
?
You
could
not
hide
your self
,
Madam
,
he
would
discover
that
Soveraign
Understanding
,
which
you
vail
with
all
the
restraint
,
&
all
the
sweetnesse
of
your
Sexe
.
He
would
admire
you
in
despight
of
you
.
We
would
reconcile
his
enemy
with
him
at
the
first
request
you
should
make
him
,
and
even
without
a
request
,
so
confident
am
I
of
the
sweetnesse
and
facility
of
his
manners
.
The
serenity
of
his
minde
would
not
be
disturbed
by
the
fumes
and
flourishes
of
the
violent
Sophists
.
He
would
but
laugh
at
the
pettishnesse
and
paradoxes
of
Seneca
.
He
would
tell
you
onely
,
Madam
,
that
wee
must
suffer
all
from
the
race
of
Zeno
,
and
the
Nation
of
the
Stoicks
.
That
all
is
permitted
to
a
Philosopher
,
who
called
Alexander
a
fool
,
who
it
s
believed
had
a
better
Title
then
the
King
of
Persia
to
be
King
of
Kings
.
And
what
particularly
makes
for
our
subject
,
who
was
so
much
an
enemy
of
life
,
that
hee
councelled
Men
to
hang
themselves
when
they
were
never
so
little
disturbed
,
or
in
an
ill
humour
.
FINIS
.