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<HEAD>THE FRENCH LUCIAN MADE ENGLISH</HEAD>
<P>Sold by R&punc; Bentley in Couent Garden, 1693.</P>
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<P>THE French Lucian, MADE ENGLISH; By <HI>J. D.</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for R. <HI>Bentley,</HI> at the Po&s;t-Hou&s;e in <HI>Ru&s;&s;el-&s;treet,</HI> in <HI>Covent-Garden,</HI> 1693.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>To</HI> Lucian <HI>in</HI> Ely&s;ium.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Illu&s;trious Decea&s;ed,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I</HI> Should injure Ju&s;tice if that after I have a&s;&s;umed an <HI>Idea</HI> which is properly Yours, I did not thereupon ren|der you &s;ome kind of Homage. The Author that &s;upports us mo&s;t in our Writings, is the true <HI>Hero</HI> of the <HI>Dedicatory;</HI> his Prai&s;es we ought to publi&s;h with &s;incerity, and chu&s;e him for our Protector. It may perhaps be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hought, that I have been very <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">old in daring to work upon your
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Ground-plat; but it &s;eems to me that I &s;hould have been far bolder, if I had wrought upon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ground of my own Imaginati|on. I flatter my &s;elf with &s;ome hopes that the de&s;ig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> being Yours, it will mak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> way for what is mine, and thu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> much I dare tell you, that if b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> chance my <HI>Dialogues</HI> had an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o little &s;ucce&s;s, they woul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> gain You more Honour the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> your own have, &s;ince it would ap|pear that this <HI>Idea</HI> is &s;o taking that it matters not whether it b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> duly executed or no. I depen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o fully upon it, that I thought <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> part of it onely would &s;erve m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">
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turn. I have taken no notice of <HI>Pluto, Caron, Cerberus,</HI> nor of no one of the infernal Crew. How concerned am I that you have drained all tho&s;e rare mat|ters of the equality of the Dead, of their trouble at Life, of the fal&s;e con&s;tancy which <HI>Philo&s;o|phers</HI> affect to make appear at their dying hour, of the ridicu|lous misfortune of tho&s;e young people, that dye before the old|men of whom they thought to inherit, and whom they &s;o much courted. But when all is done, &s;ince you had invented this de|&s;ign, it was but just and rea&s;on|able that you &s;hould pick and
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choo&s;e what was be&s;t in it. I have at lea&s;t endeavoured to imi|tate you in the end you had propo|&s;ed to your &s;elf. All your <HI>Dia|logues</HI> include their Moral, and I make all my Dead moralize, otherwi&s;e it had not been worth while to make them &s;peak; &s;ome of the living would have &s;erved well enough to te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l frivolous things. Moreover, there is this conveniency in it, that a Man may &s;uppo&s;e the Dead to be per|&s;ons of great Reflection, as well for their experience-&s;ake, as becau&s;e of their vacant time; and one ought to believe, that they think a little more then is
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u&s;ual whil&s;t alive. They di&s;|cour&s;e of things here above bet|ter than we, becau&s;e they behold them with greater indifferency and more tranquility, and they are willing enough to di&s;cour&s;e of them, becau&s;e they &s;till pretend to &s;ome interest in them. You have made the mo&s;t part of their <HI>Dialogues</HI> &s;o &s;hort, that 'tis apparent you did not believe them to be great Talkers, and in this I can ea&s;ily agree with you. As the Dead are very witty, they ought to make a quick di&s;covery of the ending of all matters. I could believe too, that they might be ea|&s;ily enlightened as to agree with
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one another about every thing, and con&s;equently that they &s;hould &s;carce ever &s;peak; for I fancy that it belongs to us Ignorants only to di&s;pute, who do not di&s;|cover the Truth; even as it is the property only of the Blind, who &s;ee not the place they are go|ing to, to jo&s;tle one another as they go along. But here we cannot be per&s;waded that the Dead &s;hould have changed their qualities, &s;o far as not to be any longer of contrary Judgments. When we have once conceived an opinion of Per&s;ons in this World, we cannot alter it. Thus I have made it my bu&s;ine&s;s to make
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the Dead known again, at lea&s;t &s;uch as are mo&s;t eminent. You made no difficulty to &s;uppo&s;e &s;ome, and &s;ome of the Adven|tures too perhaps which you allot them; but I &s;tood in no need of that Priviledge. <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> did &s;upply me with plenty enough of real Dead, and real Adventures, to di&s;pen&s;e with my borrowing any a&s;&s;i&s;tance from Fiction. You will not be &s;urpri&s;ed, that the Dead do &s;peak of what did hap|pen a long time after them, you that do &s;ee them entertain them|&s;elves every day with the af|fairs of each other. I am &s;ure that at this very moment you
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know <HI>France,</HI> upon a multitude of Reports that have been made you, and that you know that &s;he is at this day in point of Learn|ing, what <HI>Greece</HI> was formerly. Above all, your famous Tran&s;la|tor, who has made you &s;peak our Language &s;o well, will not have failed to tell you, that <HI>Paris</HI> has had the &s;ame e&s;teem for your Works as had <HI>Rome</HI> and <HI>A|thens.</HI> Happy the Man that could follow your Style as that great Man did, and in his Expre&s;&s;ions lay hold of that fine &s;implicity, and that natural plea|&s;antne&s;s, which are &s;o proper for <HI>Dialogues!</HI> For my part, 'tis
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far from my Thoughts, to pre|tend to the glory of having imi|tated you well; I de&s;ire none but that of having well known, that a Man cannot imitate a more excellent <HI>Model</HI> than your Self.</P>
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<HEAD>The Titles and Subjects of the Dialogues contained in this Vo|lume.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>The Dialogues of the Ancient Dead.</HEAD>
<ITEM>I. ALexander, Phrinea. <HI>What Characters noi&s;e it mo&s;t.</HI> Page 1.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. Milo, Smindirides. <HI>&V;pon Nicene&s;s.</HI> p. 9.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. Dido, Stratonice. <HI>&V;pon the Intrigue which</HI> Virgil <HI>does wrongfully attribute to</HI> Di|do. p. 15.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. Anacreon, Ari&s;totle. <HI>&V;pon Philo&s;ophy.</HI> p. 21.</ITEM>
<ITEM>V. Homer, Ae&s;op. <HI>&V;pon the My&s;teries of</HI> Ho|mer<HI>'s Works.</HI> p. 29.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VI. Athenais, Ica&s;ia. <HI>&V;pon the Fanta&s;ticalne&s;s of Fortunes.</HI> p. 34.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Dialogues of the Ancient Dead, with the Modern Dead.</HEAD>
<ITEM>I. AUgu&s;tus, Peter Aretine. <HI>&V;pon Prai|&s;es.</HI> p. 40.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. Sapho, Laura. <HI>Whether it has been well or|dered, that Men &s;hould attack, and the Wo|men de&s;end them&s;elves.</HI> p. 51.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. Socrates, Montaigne. <HI>Whether the Ancients have had more Vertue than We.</HI> p. 57.</ITEM>
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IV. <HI>The Emperor</HI> Adrian, Margarite <HI>of</HI> Au&s;tria. <HI>What Deaths are the mo&s;t Generous.</HI> p. 66.</ITEM>
<ITEM>V. Era&s;i&s;trates, Herveus. <HI>Of what u&s;e are the Di&s;coveries, the Modern have made in Natural Cau&s;es, and in Phy&s;ick.</HI> p. 78.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VI. Berenice, Co&s;mus Medicis <HI>the Second. &V;p|on the Immortality of Name.</HI> p. 85.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>Dialogues of the Modern Dead.</HEAD>
<ITEM>I. ANne <HI>of</HI> Britanny, Mary <HI>of</HI> England. <HI>A Compari&s;on betwixt Ambition and Love.</HI> p. 92.</ITEM>
<ITEM>II. Charles V. Era&s;mus. <HI>If there is any thing wherein Man may glory.</HI> p. 102.</ITEM>
<ITEM>III. Elizabeth <HI>of</HI> England, <HI>The Duke of</HI> Alen|zon. <HI>Upon the little Solidity of Plea&s;ures.</HI> p. 110.</ITEM>
<ITEM>IV. William Cabe&s;tan, Albert Frederick <HI>of</HI> Brandebourg. <HI>&V;pon Folly.</HI> p. 116.</ITEM>
<ITEM>V. Agnes Sorel, Roxelana. <HI>Upon the Power of Women.</HI> p. 123.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VI. Jane I. <HI>of</HI> Naples, An&s;elm. <HI>Upon Di&s;quiet for Time to come.</HI> p. 132.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>NEW DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>The Fir&s;t Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Alexander. Phrinea.</STAGE>
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<SPEAKER>Phrinea.</SPEAKER>
<P>YOU may know it of all the <HI>Thebanes</HI> that lived in in my time. They will tell you that I offered them to rebuild at my own charges the
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Walls of <HI>Thebes;</HI> which you had beaten down, upon condition they would put this In&s;cription upon them. <HI>Alexander the Great did beat down the&s;e Walls, but Phrinea the Courti&s;an has rai&s;ed them up again.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Alex.</SPEAKER>
<P>You were afraid then that future Ages &s;hould not know what Trade you had driven?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Phrin.</SPEAKER>
<P>I tell you I had been excellent at it; and all per&s;ons that are extraordinary in any Profe&s;&s;ion whatever, are po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with this folly of Monuments and In&s;criptions.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Alex.</SPEAKER>
<P>'Tis true that <HI>Rhodopea</HI> had this humour before you. Her Beauty gained her &s;o much mo|ney, that with it &s;he built one of tho&s;e famous Pyramids in <HI>Egypt</HI> which are &s;tanding to this day; and I remember that as &s;he was &s;peaking of it the other day to
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&s;ome dead French Ladies, who pretended to have been very love|ly, the&s;e Shadows began to weep, &s;aying, that in the Age and Coun|try where they had lately lived, Beauties did not now make ad|vantages whereby to rai&s;e Pyra|mids.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Phrin.</SPEAKER>
<P>But for my part, I had that advantage above <HI>Rhodopea,</HI> that in rai&s;ing up again the Walls of <HI>Thebes,</HI> I made my &s;elf equal to you, who had been the greate&s;t Conquerour in the World, and made it appear that my Beauty was able to repair what your Va|lour had de&s;troyed.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Alex.</SPEAKER>
<P>The&s;e are two things which certainly did never enter into compari&s;on with one ano|ther. You are plea&s;ed with your &s;elf then, that you have been &s;o Gallanted.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Phrin.</SPEAKER>
<P>And you, you are very
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well &s;atisfied that you have made de&s;olate the better part of the World? Why was there not a <HI>Phrinea</HI> in each Town which you de&s;troyed! There &s;hould have remained no &s;igns of your furies.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Alex.</SPEAKER>
<P>Were I to live again, I would again be a famous Con|querour.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Phrin.</SPEAKER>
<P>And I would be a love|ly Conquerour. Beauty has a na|tural right to command Men, and Valour has but a right gained by force. Beauties have a right in all Countries, &s;o have not Kings nor Conquerours. But yet the better to convince you, <HI>Philip</HI> your Father was a very valiant man, &s;o were you too, however you would neither of you work any fear into <HI>Demo&s;thenes</HI> the O|ratour, who, whil&s;t he lived, did nothing but inveigh again&s;t you both; and another <HI>Phrinea,</HI> far
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beyond me (for the name is lucky) being likely to lo&s;e a Suit in Law of con&s;equence, her Lawyer, who in vain had &s;poken his be&s;t for her, bethought him&s;elf of putting by a great Veil, which partly co|vered her, and pre&s;ently upon the &s;ight of her beauty, the Judges who were ju&s;t going to ca&s;t her, chang'd their minds. So the noi&s;e of your Arms could not in a long run of years &s;ilence an Oratour, and the attractives of a fair Crea|ture did, in a moment, corrupt all <HI>Areopagus</HI> with its &s;everity.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Alex.</SPEAKER>
<P>Though you have called another <HI>Phrinea</HI> to your a&s;&s;i&s;tanc, I do not believe that <HI>Alexanders</HI> Party is at all the weaker. It would be very &s;ad if.....</P>
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<SPEAKER>Phrin.</SPEAKER>
<P>I know what you are going to &s;ay to me. <HI>Graecia, A&s;ia, Per&s;ia,</HI> the <HI>Indies,</HI> all the&s;e make a fine &s;hew: Yet, if I &s;hould with|draw
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from your glory, what does not belong to you upon that &s;core; if I did give to your Soul|diers, to your Captains, to Chance it &s;elf, the &s;hare belonging to them, don't you think you would be a lo&s;er by it? But a Fair Lady ne|ver &s;hares with any one the ho|nour of her Conque&s;ts, all is her own. Believe me, the condition of a pretty Woman is a pretty condition.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Alex.</SPEAKER>
<P>It has appeared that you have been &s;o per&s;waded. But do you think this part reaches &s;o far as you have pu&s;hed it?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Phrin.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, no, for I am ea&s;y of belief. I confe&s;s I have, in an high degree, injured the Chara|cter of a pretty Woman, but you hove done as much by that of a Great Man. You and I have con|quered too much. If I had been contented with two or three Gal|lantries
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at the mo&s;t, I had not been irregular, and no exceptions could have been taken; but to have been galanted to that de|gree as to have had wherewithall to rebuild the Walls of <HI>Thebes,</HI> that was indeed too too much. On the other &s;ide, if you had conquered <HI>Greece</HI> only, the neighbouring I&s;lands, and &s;ome little part too perhaps of the Le&s;&s;er <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> and made up a State of them for your &s;elf, nothing had been more rea|&s;onable; but to run on &s;till with|out knowing whither, and be al|ways taking of Towns, and know not why, and always upon execution, without de&s;ign, 'tis that that was not approved of by many judicious per&s;ons.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Alex.</SPEAKER>
<P>Let tho&s;e judicious per|&s;ons &s;ay what they will. If I had made u&s;e of my valour and good fortune with &s;o much di&s;cretion,
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there would &s;carce have been any talk of me.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Phrin.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nor of me neither, if I had been too di&s;creet in the ma|nagement of my Beauty. When one will make a noi&s;e only, tho&s;e qualities which &s;eem mo&s;t rea&s;on|able are not the fitte&s;t for that purpo&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>The Second Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Milo. Smindirides.</STAGE>
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<SPEAKER>Smindirides.</SPEAKER>
<P>THou art very proud then, <HI>Milo,</HI> of having carried an <HI>Ox</HI> on thy &s;houlders, at the Olimpick Games.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Milo.</SPEAKER>
<P>For certain it was a very brave action. All <HI>Greece</HI> did ap|plaud it, and the honour of it reached as far as the City of <HI>Cro|tona</HI> my native Country, which has afforded an infinite number of &s;tout lu&s;ty men. On the con|trary, thy City of <HI>Sibaris</HI> will be cried down to eternity becau&s;e of the effeminacy of her Inhabi|tants, who bani&s;hed all Cocks from their Town, le&s;t they &s;hould
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be wakened by them; and when they made any invitation to per|&s;ons, they invited them a year before-hand, that they might have the more lea&s;ure to make their Treat with as much dainti|ne&s;s as they would them&s;elves.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Smin.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou jeere&s;t the <HI>Sibari&s;ts;</HI> but thou gro&s;s <HI>Crotonian,</HI> do&s;t not thou think that in boa&s;ting to have carried an Ox is not to be very like them?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Milo.</SPEAKER>
<P>And thou, do&s;t thou be|lieve to have behaved thy &s;elf Man-like, when thou made&s;t thy complaint that thou had&s;t pa&s;&s;ed a night without &s;leeping, becau&s;e one of the Ro&s;es wherewith thy Bed was &s;trewed, lay folded in two under thee?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Smin.</SPEAKER>
<P>'Tis true, I was &s;o nice as that comes to; but why do&s;t thou think it &s;o &s;trange?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Milo.</SPEAKER>
<P>And how can it be but I mu&s;t think it &s;o?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Smin.</SPEAKER>
<P>What did&s;t thou never &s;ee a Lover, who being loaded with the favours of a Mi&s;tre&s;s, to whom he had rendred &s;ome re|markable &s;ervices, was troubled in the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his happine&s;s, for fear that grateful acknowledg|ment &s;hould work more in the heart of the Beauty, than her in|clination?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Milo.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, I never &s;aw any &s;uch. But what if &s;uch a thing &s;hould be?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Smin.</SPEAKER>
<P>And did&s;t thou never hear talk of &s;ome Conqueror, who, at his return from a glorious Expedition, &s;hould not be alto|gether &s;atisfied with his Triumphs, becau&s;e Fortune might have had a greater &s;hare than either his Va|lour or his Conduct, and that his de&s;igns might have taken upon fal&s;e and ill grounded Mea&s;ures?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Milo.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, I never heard &s;peak of any &s;uch. But once again, what do&s;t thou infer hereupon?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Smin.</SPEAKER>
<P>That this &s;ame Lover, and this Conqueror, and generally all men, although they &s;hould lie upon Flowers, could not &s;leep if one &s;ingle Leaf only were foulded in two. A little thing &s;poils a plea|&s;ure. Plea&s;ures are Beds of Ro&s;es, where 'tis very hard to have every Leaf remain &s;pread out, and not one to lie double; yet the fould|ing of one alone is enough to cau&s;e a great unea&s;ine&s;s.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Milo.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am not very much ver&s;|ed in the&s;e affairs; but methinks, that thou, and the Lover, and thy &s;uppo&s;ed Conqueror, and all of you together, are extreamly too blame. Why do you make your &s;elves &s;o nice?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Smin.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ah <HI>Milo!</HI> your Wits are not <HI>Crotonians,</HI> as thou art; but
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they are <HI>Sibari&s;ts,</HI> more refined yet than I was.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Milo.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;ee well enough what the matter is. Your Wits, a&s;&s;u|redly, enjoy more plea&s;ures than they need, and they let their nice|ne&s;s retrench what they have too much. They are willing to have &s;ome feeling of the lea&s;t di&s;likes, becau&s;e there are other ways de|lights enough for them; and up|on that account I find they are in the right.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Smin.</SPEAKER>
<P>There's nothing at all of that. Your Wits enjoy no more plea&s;ures than they need.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Milo.</SPEAKER>
<P>They are fools then to make them&s;elves &s;o nice.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Smin.</SPEAKER>
<P>There is the mi&s;chief of it. Nicene&s;s does become men ve|ry well: it ari&s;es from the good qualities, both of the mind, and heart: Man takes a delight to have them, and he that wants them en|deavours
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for them; in the mean time, nicene&s;s does le&s;&s;en the num|ber of plea&s;ures, and one is not overloaded with them. It makes them le&s;s &s;en&s;ible; and plea&s;ures, of them&s;elves, are not over lively. How men are to be pitied! Their natural condition &s;upplies them with few plea&s;ing things, and their rea&s;on teaches them to delight yet le&s;s in them.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="dialogue">
<PB N="15" REF="16">
<HEAD>The Third Dialogue,</HEAD>
<STAGE>Dido. Stratonice.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Dido.</SPEAKER>
<P>ALas! how wretched am I, my poor <HI>Strationice!</HI> you know how I have lived. I was &s;o exact in my fidelity to my fir&s;t Husband, that I burnt my &s;elf alive rather than I would take a &s;econd. How|ever, I could not pre&s;erve my &s;elf from being ill &s;poken of. A Poet, <HI>Virgil</HI> by name, has been plea&s;ed to change a wi&s;e Woman, &s;o &s;trict as my &s;elf, into a young Go&s;&s;ip, that lets her &s;elf be taken with the hand&s;omene&s;s of a Stranger the ve|ry fir&s;t day &s;he &s;ees him. My whole &s;tory is quite contrary. To tell the truth, as to the pile of Wood
<PB N="16" REF="17">
wherein I was con&s;umed, I had right done me. But gue&s;s why I ca&s;t my &s;elf into it? It is not out of any farther fear of being obliged to marry a &s;econd time, but be|cau&s;e I am grown de&s;perate upon this &s;tranger's leaving of me.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Stratonice.</SPEAKER>
<P>Indeed, the con&s;e|quences of this may be very dan|gerous. There will hardly be any more Women that will burn them|&s;elves out of a conjugal fidelity, if, after their death, a Poet may have the liberty to &s;ay what he will of them. May be too, your <HI>Virgil</HI> was not &s;o much in the wrong. Has he not cleared &s;ome intrigues in your life, which you hoped would not have been known? Who knows? I would not an&s;wer for you, upon the faith of your Pile.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Dido.</SPEAKER>
<P>If the Gallantry which <HI>Virgil</HI> does lay to me had any truth in it, I would be content to be &s;u&s;|pected;
<PB N="17" REF="17">
but he allots me to be a Lover of <HI>Aeneas,</HI> a man that was in his Grave three hundred years before I came into the world.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Strat.</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;ay &s;omething now. Neverthele&s;s, <HI>Aeneas</HI> and you, you &s;eemed much to be a fit match for one another: You both of you had been forced to leave your Country; you both of you &s;eeked a fortune in &s;tranger Countries; he was a Widower, you a Widow: the&s;e points agree well together. It is true, you were born three hundred years after him; but <HI>Vir|gil</HI> &s;aw &s;o many rea&s;ons to match you together, that he thought three hundred years difference betwixt you were of no con&s;e|quence.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Dido.</SPEAKER>
<P>What an Argument there is? How three hundred years are not three hundred years, and in &s;pight of that ob&s;tacle, two per|&s;ons
<PB N="18" REF="18">
may meet together, and love one another?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Strat.</SPEAKER>
<P>Oh! 'Tis in that point <HI>Virgil</HI> did mean &s;ome Cunning: Sure he was a man of the times: He would make it appear, that in matter of Love Concerns, we mu&s;t not judge upon Appearances; and that tho&s;e that have the lea&s;t, are many times the true&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Dido.</SPEAKER>
<P>What had he to do to call my Reputation in que&s;tion, by in&s;erting this &s;ine My&s;tery in his Works?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Strat.</SPEAKER>
<P>But what? has he turn'd you into ridicule? has he made you &s;peak impertinencies?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Dido.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, not at all. Here he has recited his Poem to me; and the whole piece where he makes me appear, is indeed divine, Cou|&s;in Germain to detraction. In it I am all Beauty, there I &s;peak rare things upon my pretended Pa&s;&s;ion;
<PB N="19" REF="18">
and if <HI>Virgil</HI> were obliged to own me for an hone&s;t Woman in his <HI>Aeneid,</HI> the <HI>Aeneid</HI> would be the wor&s;e for it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Strat.</SPEAKER>
<P>What do you complain of then? you have a Gallantry put upon you which you did not enjoy; a great mi&s;chance indeed! But, to make you amends again, you are &s;et out for a Beauty and a Wit, which you were not.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Dido.</SPEAKER>
<P>What a comfort!</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Strat.</SPEAKER>
<P>I know not what hu|mour you are of; but mo&s;t Wo|men, if I am not mi&s;taken, had rather have their Vertue a little que&s;tioned, than either their Wit or their Beauty: for my part, that was my humour. A Painter at the Court of the King of <HI>Syria,</HI> my Husband, was di&s;&s;atisfied with me; and out of revenge, he drew me as in the Arms of a Soldier. He expo&s;ed his Picture to view, and
<PB N="20" REF="19">
took his heels. My Subjects, zea|lous of my Glory, would have burnt this Picture publickly; but I being drawn admirably well, and full of Beauty, though the po&s;tures allotted me therein were not ad|vantagious to my Vertue, I forbad the burning of it, and recalled the Painter, whom I pardoned. If you'll believe me, you'll do the &s;ame by <HI>Virgil.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Dido.</SPEAKER>
<P>That would do well, if the fir&s;t degree of Merit in a Wo|man did con&s;i&s;t in being hand&s;om, or in being witty.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Stratonice.</SPEAKER>
<P>I do not take upon me to decide what that fir&s;t merit is; but commonly, the fir&s;t que|&s;tion one asks of a Woman one knows not, is, Is &s;he hand&s;ome? next, has &s;he any Wit? a third is &s;eldom asked.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="dialogue">
<PB N="21" REF="19">
<HEAD>The Fourth Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Anacreon, Ari&s;totle.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ari&s;totle.</SPEAKER>
<P>I Could never have thought that a petty Ballad-maker would have dared to compare him&s;elf with a Philo&s;opher of &s;o great repute as I am.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Anacreon.</SPEAKER>
<P>You make the name of <HI>Philo&s;opher</HI> &s;ound very loud; but, I wi&s;h my petty Songs, have notwith&s;tanding been called <HI>the wi&s;e Anacreon,</HI> and methinks the Title of <HI>Philo&s;opher</HI> is not &s;o good as that of <HI>Wi&s;e.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ari&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Tho&s;e who a&s;cribed you that quality, did not very well mind what they &s;aid. What had you ever done to de&s;erve it?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="22" REF="20">
<SPEAKER>Anacr.</SPEAKER>
<P>I had done nothing but drink, &s;ing, and fall in love; and the wonder is, that I had this name of <HI>Wi&s;e</HI> given me for do|ing thus, whereas you had only that of <HI>Philo&s;opher</HI> given you, which co&s;t you a world of la|bours: For how many Nights have you &s;pent in &s;ifting the in|tricate Que&s;tions of the <HI>Diale|ctick?</HI> How many great Volumes have you writ upon ob&s;cure mat|ters, which perhaps you did not very well under&s;tand your &s;elf.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ari&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>I confe&s;s you have taken a more ea&s;ie way to attain to <HI>Wi&s;dom,</HI> and you mu&s;t needs have been an able man to find out a way to purcha&s;e more glo|ry with your Lute and your Bot|tle, then the greate&s;t men have gained with their watchings and toyls.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Anacr.</SPEAKER>
<P>You think to jeer, but
<PB N="23" REF="20">
I will maintain that 'tis harder to drink and &s;ing, as I have &s;ung, and as I have drunk, than to philo&s;o|phize as you have done; to &s;ing and to drink as I have, a man's Soul &s;hould be freed from all vio|lent pa&s;&s;ions, &s;hould aim no more at what does not depend upon us, &s;hould always be in a di&s;po&s;ition to take time as it &s;hould come. In fine, there would be many little Affairs to regulate about him; and though there be no great matter of Philo&s;ophy in all this, one has trouble enough for all that to compa&s;s it. But a man may philo&s;ophize as you have done upon more rea&s;onable terms. One is not obliged to cure ones &s;elf neither of Ambition, nor of Covetou&s;ne&s;s; a man may have a favourable acce&s;s to <HI>Alexander</HI>'s Court; he may purcha&s;e Pre|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ents of five hundred thou&s;and
<PB N="24" REF="21">
Crowns, which he does not alto|gether apply in experiments of Nature, according to the intenti|on of the Donor; and in a word, this kind of Philo&s;ophy leads to things that are oppo&s;ite enough to Philo&s;ophy.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ari&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Some body here below mu&s;t needs have &s;poken ill of me to you; but when all is done, Man is not Man, but upon the ac|count of Rea&s;on, and nothing is more excellent than to teach o|thers what u&s;e they &s;hould make of &s;tudying Nature, and clearing all tho&s;e Intricacies which he pro|po&s;es unto us.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Anacr.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thus men pervert the u&s;e of every thing: Philo&s;ophy in it &s;elf is an admirable thing, and may be very &s;erviceable to them; but becau&s;e &s;he would be unea&s;ie to them, if &s;he did meddle with their Concerns, and &s;ettle her &s;elf
<PB N="25" REF="21">
among them to regulate their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;&s;ions, they have di&s;patched <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er away into the Heavens to &s;et <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he Planets in order, and mea&s;ure <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">heir motions, or el&s;e they pace <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er up and down the Earth, to make her examine all they &s;ee <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pon it. In &s;hort, they always <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mploy her as far off them&s;elves <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s 'tis po&s;&s;ible. In the mean time, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s they will be Philo&s;ophers at an <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;ie rate, they have the art how <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o extend and &s;et out this Title, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd they give it for the mo&s;t part <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o tho&s;e that dive into natural Cau&s;es.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ari&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>And how can one give <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hem a fitter Title?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Anacreon.</SPEAKER>
<P>Philo&s;ophy concerns <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er &s;elf with Men only, and not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t all with the re&s;t of the World. The A&s;tronomer mu&s;es on the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">tars and Planets, the Naturali&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">on&s;iders Nature, and the Philo|&s;opher
<PB N="26" REF="22">
thinks of him&s;elf. But wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> would have been one upon &s;uc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> hard Conditions? Alas! &s;carc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> any body. Philo&s;ophers then ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;pen&s;ed withal from being Phi+lo&s;ophers, and men are contente<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> they &s;hould be A&s;tronomers, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Naturali&s;ts. For my part, I wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> not of a temper to engage my+&s;elf into Speculations; but I'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ure, that there is le&s;s Philo&s;ophy i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> many Books, that make profe&s;&s;io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of treating of it, then in &s;ome o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> tho&s;e petty Songs which you &s;o much undervalue; for exampl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in this.</P>
<LG TYPE="song">
<L>If Gold length of life did be&s;tow,</L>
<L>Farther my ambition &s;hould not go&punc;</L>
<L>Then greedily to heap up trea&s;ure.</L>
<L>When Death to me a vi&s;it made,</L>
<L>Quickly return would I bid her to her &s;hade,</L>
<L>In giving her, what I had, without mea&s;ure.</L>
<L><PB N="27" REF="22">
But if <HI>Atropos</HI> and her Si&s;ters &s;e|vere do not of this allow,</L>
<L>Gold &s;hall no more be my care,</L>
<L>Women, Wine, and good Cheer</L>
<L>Shall my diver&s;ions make I vow.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ari&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>If you will call that Phi|lo&s;ophy only which looks into Manners, there is in my Morals that which is as good as your Song; for that ob&s;curity which I'm taxed of, and which is per|haps in &s;ome of my Books, is not to be found in my Writings upon that matter; and the whole World has owned that there was nothing finer nor more clear than what I have &s;aid concerning Pa&s;|&s;ions.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Anacr.</SPEAKER>
<P>What an abu&s;e! The que&s;tion is not to define Pa&s;&s;ions methodically, as 'tis &s;aid you have done, but to ma&s;ter them. Men willingly deliver up their Evils to
<PB N="28" REF="23">
Philo&s;ophy for her to con&s;ider them, but not to cure them; and they have found the &s;ecret of fra|ming a Moral which reaches them no nearer than A&s;tronomy does Can a man forbear laughing, to &s;ee &s;ome, that for money, preach up the contempt of riches, and Cowards that fall together by the ears about the definition of Mag|nanimous?</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="dialogue">
<PB N="29" REF="23">
<HEAD>The Fifth Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Homer. Ae&s;op.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Homer.</SPEAKER>
<P>ALL tho&s;e <HI>Fables</HI> which you have now related to me, cannot, indeed, be admired e|nough: You mu&s;t needs have been indued with a great deal of art, that you could thus di&s;gui&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n little Tales, the mo&s;t important <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;tructions of Morality, and co|ver your thoughts under the&s;e Repre&s;entations which are &s;o pro|per and &s;o familiar.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ae&s;op,</SPEAKER>
<P>'Tis very plea&s;ing to me that I am applauded by you for an Art, wherein you were &s;o care|full.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Homer,</SPEAKER>
<P>I? I did never pretend to it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="30" REF="24">
<SPEAKER>Ae&s;op,</SPEAKER>
<P>How, did you not make it your bu&s;ine&s;s to hide great my|&s;teries in your works?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Hom.</SPEAKER>
<P>Alas! not at all.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ae&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>Neverthele&s;s all the Learn|ed of my time did &s;ay as much; there was not a word in the <HI>Ili|ads,</HI> nor in the <HI>Odi&s;&s;ea,</HI> but they gave it the fine&s;t Allegories in the World. They did maintain, that all the Secrets of Divinity, of Natural and Moral Philo&s;ophy, and of the Mathematicks, were inclo&s;ed in your Writings. Truly 'twas &s;omewhat difficult to di&s;|clo&s;e them, and where one found out a Moral &s;ence, another found out a Natural &s;ence; but they agreed that you knew all, and had &s;aid all to him that right|ly under&s;tood it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Hom.</SPEAKER>
<P>Without lying, I did mi&s;tru&s;t that &s;ome &s;ort of people would conceive I had &s;ome cun|ning
<PB N="31" REF="24">
meaning, where I intended none. As there is nothing like Prophecying things afar off in ex|pectation of the event; &s;o there is nothing like putting off <HI>Fables,</HI> in expectation of the Allegory.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ae&s;op,</SPEAKER>
<P>You mu&s;t needs have been a bold man, to entru&s;t your Readers with the care of putting Allegories in your Poems. Where|abouts would you have been, if they had been taken literally?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Homer,</SPEAKER>
<P>Well then, the harm would not have been &s;o great.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ae&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>What? tho&s;e <HI>Gods who maim</HI> one another; that Thun|dering <HI>Jove,</HI> who in a Conven|tion of <HI>Deities</HI> threatens to beat Maje&s;tical <HI>Juno;</HI> That <HI>Mars,</HI> who being wounded by <HI>Diomedes,</HI> bawls, you &s;ay, like nine or ten thou&s;and men, and does not act like one alone; (for in&s;tead of routing all the <HI>Greeks,</HI> he goes and
<PB N="32" REF="25">
complains of his Wound to <HI>Ju|piter)</HI> all this would have been well without an Allegory?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Hom.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why not? You fancy that the Minds of men &s;eek for Truth altogether? Di&s;abu&s;e your &s;elf. Man's mind and fal&s;hood &s;ympathize mo&s;t &s;trangely. If you have a truth to &s;peak, you'l do very well to fold it up in <HI>Fables,</HI> 'twill be far more plea&s;ing. If you'l relate <HI>Fables,</HI> they may take without having the lea&s;t colour of truth in them. Thus Truth has need to borrow the &s;hape of Fal&s;|hood to be kindly received in the mind of man; but Fal&s;hood creeps into it well enough in its own proper &s;hape, for that is the place of its birth, and its u&s;ual place of aboad, and Truth is there a meer &s;tranger. Nay, I will tell you more than this comes to. If I &s;hould have killed my &s;elf to fan|cy
<PB N="33" REF="25">
allegorical <HI>Fables,</HI> it might ve|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y well have happened that mo&s;t people would have taken the <HI>Fable,</HI> as a thing likely enough to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ave had been &s;o, and would have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">et the Allegory alone; and in|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eed, you ought to know that my Gods, &s;uch as they are (and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll My&s;teries laid a&s;ide) have not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">een thought ridiculous.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ae&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>This makes me quake a|gain: I am terribly afraid that it will be thought that Bea&s;ts might have &s;poken as they do in my A|pologies.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Hom.</SPEAKER>
<P>A pretty fear indeed.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ae&s;op,</SPEAKER>
<P>Why what? If people have believed that the Gods could have held tho&s;e Di&s;cour&s;es you made them hold; why will they not believe that Bea&s;ts did &s;peak in the manner as I made them &s;peak?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Hom.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ah! the Ca&s;e is not the
<PB N="34" REF="26">
&s;ame; Men are willing enoug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> that the Gods &s;hould be as grea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> great Fools as they; but the are not willing that Bea&s;ts &s;hou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> be &s;o wi&s;e.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="dialogue">
<HEAD>The Sixth Dialogue&punc;</HEAD>
<STAGE>Athenais. Ica&s;ia.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ica&s;ia.</SPEAKER>
<P>SInce you will know my Fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">+tune, I will tell it you: T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Emperour under whom I live had a mind to marry; and th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> he might the better choo&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Empre&s;s, he cau&s;ed it to be pub+li&s;hed, That all Women th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> thought them&s;elves hand&s;om an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> taking enough to pretend to th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Throne, &s;hould come to <HI>Con&s;tan+tinople.</HI> God only knows what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">
<PB N="35" REF="26">
world of people there was. I went thither, and I made no doubt but with my youth, my brisk eyes, and my way, which was plea&s;ant and curious enough, I might not put in for the Empire. The day of the meeting together of &s;o many pretty Pretenders, we all of us ran over in a di&s;tracted manner the faces of each other; and I took notice with &s;atisfaction, that my Rivals did look but with an ill eye upon me. The Emperour ap|peared; at fir&s;t he pa&s;&s;ed by &s;e|veral rows of Beauties without &s;aying a word; but when he came at me, my eyes were very &s;erviceable to me, and they &s;tayed him. Indeed, quoth he, looking upon me with a countenance &s;uch as I could wi&s;h, <HI>Women are very dangerous; they may do a great deal of harm:</HI> I thought&punc; there was only a little wit to be u&s;ed in
<PB N="36" REF="27">
the ca&s;e, and then I was Empre&s;s: and in the trouble I was in, what with hope, what with joy, I &s;trove to make an an&s;wer. <HI>In recompence of that, Lord, Women may do, and &s;ometimes have done much good.</HI> This An&s;wer &s;poiled all; the Em|perour thought it &s;o godly, that he dur&s;t not marry me.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Athenais,</SPEAKER>
<P>Sure this Emperour was of a &s;trange humour, to be &s;o afraid of Wit, and 'tis to be pre&s;umed he had but little judg|ment in it, to believe that your An&s;wer did argue much; for to be free with you, 'tis no very good one, and you have no great mat|ter to lay to your own charge.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ica&s;ia,</SPEAKER>
<P>Thus go Fortunes; Wit alone made you an Empre&s;s, and an appearance only of Wit hin|dred me from being one. You were ver&s;ed to in Philo&s;ophy, which is far wor&s;e than to be witty; and
<PB N="37" REF="27">
notwith&s;tanding all this, you mar|ried the young <HI>Theodo&s;ius.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Athen.</SPEAKER>
<P>If I &s;hould have had &s;uch an example as yours before me, it would have frighted me. After my Father had made me a very learned, and a very godly La&s;s, he did di&s;inherit me; &s;o &s;ure did he make him&s;elf, that with my learn|ing and my fine wit, I could not mi&s;s of making my Fortune; and to &s;ay the truth, I believed it as well as he. But now I &s;ee I ran a great hazard, and that it was not impo&s;&s;ible but I might remain without any means, and have Phi|lo&s;ophy alone for my Portion.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ica&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>No &s;ure, but as good luck would have it for you, my adven|ture had not yet happened. It would be plea&s;ant enough that upon the like occa&s;ion as that which befel me, &s;ome other that knew my Story, and would draw
<PB N="38" REF="28">
an advantage from it, were &s;o crafty as to make no &s;hew of wit, and that people would laugh at her.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Athen.</SPEAKER>
<P>I would not be an&s;wer|able for her &s;ucce&s;s herein, in ca&s;e &s;he were upon de&s;ign; but many times one does by chance commit the happie&s;t Follies in the world. Have you not heard talk of a Painter who had &s;o well drawn &s;ome Bunches of Grapes, that &s;ome Birds were deceived in them, and came and nibled at them? Do you judge what a Repute this gave him. But the Grapes were born in the Picture by a little Country Boy; and the Painter was told, That truly they mu&s;t needs be well done, &s;ince they in|ti&s;ed the Birds to them; but that the little Country Boy mu&s;t needs be very ill done, &s;ince the Birds were not afraid of him. They
<PB N="39" REF="28">
were in the right; Yet if the Painter had not over-&s;een him|&s;elf in the little Pea&s;ant, the Grapes would not have had that prodi|gious &s;ucce&s;s as they had.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ica&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>Truly, let a man do what he will in the world, he does not know what he does; and after the adventure of this Painter, we ought to tremble even in tho&s;e Affairs, where we behave our &s;elves well, and fear le&s;t we have done no fault that might have been nece&s;&s;ary; all is uncertain. It looks as though Fortune took care to give different Succe&s;&s;es to one and the &s;ame thing, to the end &s;he may always laugh at hu|mane Rea&s;on, which is uncaple of any certain Rule.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<PB N="40" REF="29">
<HEAD>DIALOGUES OF THE <HI>Ancient Dead</HI> WITH THE <HI>Modern Dead.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="dialogue">
<HEAD>The Fir&s;t Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Augustus. Peter Aretine.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peter Aretine.</SPEAKER>
<P>YES, I was a fine Wit in my time, and I made a pretty con&s;iderable Fortune with Prin|ces.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="41" REF="29">
<SPEAKER>Augu&s;tus,</SPEAKER>
<P>You writ then many Books for them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P. Aretine,</SPEAKER>
<P>None at all; I had a Pen&s;ion from all the Princes of <HI>Europe,</HI> and that could not have been if I &s;hould have &s;ate writing of Prai&s;es. They had Wars with one another; when one had the better of the Day, the other had the better of it: it was not po&s;&s;i|ble to give them all their Prai&s;es.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Augu&s;tus,</SPEAKER>
<P>What did you then?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P. Aret.</SPEAKER>
<P>I made Ver&s;es again&s;t them: They could not be admit|ted into a <HI>Panegyrick,</HI> but into a <HI>Satyr</HI> they might. I had &s;o well &s;pread abroad the Terrous of my Name, that they allowed me Tri|bute to enable me to commit Fol|lies in &s;afety.</P>
<P>The Emperour <HI>Charles</HI> the Fifth, who you mu&s;t needs have heard &s;peak of here below, being gone very unadvi&s;edly towards
<PB N="42" REF="30">
the Coa&s;ts of <HI>Africa,</HI> to receive an Overthrow, did immediately &s;end me a Chain of Gold. I received it; and looking &s;adly upon it, <HI>Ah!</HI> &s;aid I aloud, <HI>this is but a &s;mall mat|ter, for &s;o great a folly as he has committed.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Aug.</SPEAKER>
<P>You had found a new kind of way to get money of Princes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P. Aret.</SPEAKER>
<P>Had not I cau&s;e to conceive &s;ome hopes of a wonder|ful Fortune, in &s;ettling my &s;elf a Revenue upon the follies of others? It is a good foundation, and does yield well.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Aug.</SPEAKER>
<P>Whatever you can &s;ay of it, the prai&s;ing Trade is &s;ure&s;t, and by con&s;equence the be&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P. Aret.</SPEAKER>
<P>What would you have? I was not impudent enough to prai&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Aug.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why? You were impu|dent enough to make Satyrs upon Crowned Heads.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="43" REF="30">
<SPEAKER>P. Aret.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is not the &s;ame thing to make Satyrs: it is not always nece&s;&s;ary to undervalue tho&s;e they are made of; but to give &s;ome certain unreli&s;hing prai&s;es, I fancy a man mu&s;t in &s;ome kind contemn tho&s;e very per&s;ons he prai&s;es, and think them great Cullies. With what face could <HI>Virgil</HI> tell you, that it was unknown in what qua|lity you would rank your &s;elf among the Gods; and that it was uncertain, whether you would take upon you the care of the con|cerns of the Earth, or whether you would make your &s;elf a God of the Sea, by taking to Wife a Daughter of <HI>Thetis,</HI> who would willingly have purcha&s;ed the ho|nour of your Alliance, though it had co&s;t her all her Waters; or, in fine, whether you would quar|ter your &s;elf in the Heavens, near <HI>Scorpio,</HI> who held the place of two
<PB N="44" REF="31">
Signs, and who, upon your ac|count, would have &s;traitned him|&s;elf more?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Aug.</SPEAKER>
<P>Be not &s;urpri&s;ed at <HI>Virgil</HI>'s boldne&s;s. When a man is prai&s;ed&punc; he does not take take tho&s;e prai&s;es in the &s;tricte&s;t &s;en&s;e; he helps out the Letter, and the Writer's ba&s;h|fulne&s;s receives great ea&s;e from the &s;elf-love of them to whom he ap|plies them. Many times we ima|gine we de&s;erve prai&s;es which we have not; and how &s;hall we be|lieve that we did not de&s;erve tho&s;e we have?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P. Aret.</SPEAKER>
<P>You did hope then, upon <HI>Virgil</HI>'s word, that you &s;hould marry a Sea-Nymph, or that you &s;hould have an Apartment in the <HI>Zodiac?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Aug.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, no. There is &s;ome|thing to be deducted from tho&s;e kind of prai&s;es, to reduce them to &s;ome rea&s;onable mea&s;ure; but, to
<PB N="45" REF="31">
&s;peak the truth, the abatement we make is very little, and we take them at our own rates. In &s;hort, let a man be prai&s;ed in what man|ner you will, he will always take the advantage of believing that he is above all common prai&s;es, and that his merit did reduce the prai&s;er to go beyond all bounds. Vanity has diver&s;ity of Shapes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P. Aret.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;ee well enough, there mu&s;t be no difficulty made to pu&s;h prai&s;es to the heighth of exce&s;s; but, at lea&s;t, as to &s;uch as are contrary to one another, how can one have the impudence to allow them to Princes? I will lay a wager, for example, that when you did re|venge your &s;elf of your Enemies without any &s;hew of mercy, no|thing was thought more glorious by all your Court, than to thun|der out your fury upon every thing that had the Temerity to op|po&s;e
<PB N="46" REF="32">
you; but &s;o &s;oon as you had done any action that was mild, the face of things changed, and no|thing was found in revenge, but a barbarous and inhumane Glory: one part of your life was prai&s;ed to the prejudice of the other. For my part, I &s;hould have been afraid le&s;t you would have given your &s;elf the recreation to take me at my own words, and would have &s;aid to me; <HI>Chu&s;e either Severity, or Clemency, to make the Character of an Hero: but when this is done, &s;tick to your own choice.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Aug.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, will you have one look &s;o narrowly to it? 'Tis for the advantage of great per&s;ons, that all matters &s;hould be proble|matical for flattery. Do what they will, they cannot fail to be prai&s;ed; if it be for things that are oppo&s;ite, 'tis becau&s;e they have more than one kind of merit.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="47" REF="32">
<SPEAKER>P. Aret.</SPEAKER>
<P>But what? Had you never no &s;cruple upon you about all tho&s;e Elegies which were heap|ed upon you? was there any need of &s;training a man's wit, to per|ceive that they were intended to you? Prai&s;es do not di&s;tingui&s;h Princes; Heroes have no more than others: but Po&s;terity does di&s;tingui&s;h the prai&s;es which have been given to different Princes. Some &s;he confirms, and others &s;he declares to be ba&s;e flatteries.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Aug.</SPEAKER>
<P>You will then, at lea&s;t, yield, that I did de&s;erve the prai&s;es given me, &s;ince 'tis certain that Po|&s;terity has ratified them by her Judgment. Nay, in this ca&s;e, I have &s;ome cau&s;e to complain of her; for &s;he has &s;o u&s;ed her &s;elf to look upon me as the Model of Princes, that 'tis u&s;ual to prai&s;e them, by comparing them to me, and oftentimes the compari&s;on does injure me.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="48" REF="33">
<SPEAKER>P. Aret.</SPEAKER>
<P>Comfort your &s;elf: you will be no farther troubled with this cau&s;e of complaint. To hear how all the Dead that come hither do &s;peak of <HI>Lewis</HI> the Four|teenth now reigning in <HI>France,</HI> 'tis he that will be looked upon hereafter as the Model of Princes; and I fore&s;ee, that henceforwards it will be thought that greater prai&s;es cannot be given them, than by allotting them &s;ome re&s;emblance with this great King.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Aug.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well then? Do not you believe that tho&s;e to whom &s;o great an exaggeration &s;hall be ad|dre&s;&s;ed, will hearken to it with plea&s;ure?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P. Aret.</SPEAKER>
<P>That may be. People are &s;o de&s;irous of Prai&s;es, that Equality and Truth are di&s;pen&s;ed withall; and &s;o are all requi&s;ite Properties.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="49" REF="33">
<SPEAKER>Aug.</SPEAKER>
<P>It's clear enough to be &s;een that your aim is to exterminate all prai&s;es. If none but good ones &s;hould be given, who would trouble him&s;elf to give them?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P. Aret.</SPEAKER>
<P>All that &s;hould be&s;tow them without Intere&s;t, 'tis their right alone to prai&s;e. How hap|pens it that your <HI>Virgil</HI> did prai&s;e <HI>Cato</HI> &s;o much, when he &s;aid that he did pre&s;ide in the A&s;&s;embly of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">etter &s;ort of per&s;ons, who are &s;e|parated from the others in the <HI>Eli|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ian</HI> Shades? 'Tis becau&s;e he was dead; and <HI>Virgil,</HI> that expected nothing from him, nor from his Family, be&s;towed but one Ver&s;e upon him, and made a rea&s;onable <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hought the bounds of his Elogy. How comes it that he &s;poke &s;o ill of you in &s;o many words, at the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eginning of the <HI>Georgicks?</HI> You <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">llowed him a Pen&s;ion.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="50" REF="34">
<SPEAKER>Aug.</SPEAKER>
<P>I have then flung away <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> great deal of money in prai&s;es?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>P. Aret.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am &s;orry for it. Why did not you do as one of your Suc|ce&s;&s;ors has done; who, as &s;oon a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> he had attained the Empire, did by a Declaration, expre&s;ly forbi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the making of Ver&s;es for him a any time?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Aug.</SPEAKER>
<P>Alas! He had greater rea+&s;on than I. Tho&s;e prai&s;es whic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> pre&s;ent them&s;elves to us are not th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> true ones, but tho&s;e are which w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;natch up by the by.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="dialogue">
<PB N="51" REF="34">
<HEAD>The Second Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Sapho. Laura.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Laura.</SPEAKER>
<P>IT is true, the Mu&s;es had a &s;hare in the Pa&s;&s;ions which we two have had, and they rendred them very plea&s;ant: But this difference there is, you writ the Prai&s;es of your Lovers, whereas my Gallants did all they could to extol mine.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sapho.</SPEAKER>
<P>What then? the mean|ing is, that I loved as much as I was beloved.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Laura.</SPEAKER>
<P>This does not &s;urpri&s;e me, for I know that Women com|monly are more tender hearted than Men. That which does &s;ur|pri&s;e me is, that you &s;hould let your Lovers know your inclinati|ons
<PB N="52" REF="35">
for them, and that you &s;hould in &s;ome manner work upon their heart by your Poe&s;ies. A Wo|man's part is but to defend her &s;elf.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sapho.</SPEAKER>
<P>Betwixt you and I, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> was a little troubled at it; 'tis an inju&s;tice that Men have done us: They have taken the a&s;&s;ailing part, which is far more ea&s;ie than the defen&s;ive.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Laura.</SPEAKER>
<P>Let us not complain, we have our advantages. We that defend our &s;elves, we yield when we plea&s;e; but they that attack us, they do not always overcome, though they would never &s;o fain.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sapho.</SPEAKER>
<P>But you do not con&s;ider that if the&s;e Men do attack us, they follow the inclination they have to attack us: but when we defend our &s;elves, we are not very much inclined to make a defence.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="53" REF="35">
<SPEAKER>Laura.</SPEAKER>
<P>Do you make nothing of the plea&s;ure in &s;eeing by &s;o ma|ny &s;weet A&s;&s;aults of &s;o long conti|nuance, and &s;o often redoubled, how they value the Conque&s;t of your heart?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sapho.</SPEAKER>
<P>And do you reckon as nothing the difficulty to re&s;i&s;t the&s;e &s;weet Attacks? they &s;ee with de|light the &s;ucce&s;s of them in all their proceedings with us.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Laura.</SPEAKER>
<P>But in fine, though af|ter all their diligences, they be|come Victors in a fair way, you do them a favour in acknowledging them to be &s;o. You can no longer make a defence, and they cea&s;e not to let you &s;ee the value they have for you, becau&s;e you make no far|ther defence.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sapho.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ah! this does not hinder, but that that which is a Victory for them, is always a kind of de|feat on our &s;ide. In being loved,
<PB N="54" REF="36">
they have no other delight tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> that of triumphing over the per+&s;on who loves them; and happy Lovers are not happy but becau&s;e they are Conquerors.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Laura.</SPEAKER>
<P>What? would you have had it ordered that Women &s;hould attack the Men?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sapho.</SPEAKER>
<P>And what nece&s;&s;ity is there, that the one &s;hould attack, and the others defend them&s;elves? Let both &s;ides love one another as much as the heart will allow.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Laura.</SPEAKER>
<P>Oh! things would run too fa&s;t; and Love is &s;uch a pret|ty plea&s;ing kind of Trade, that it was very well done to give it time to la&s;t as long as it was po&s;&s;ible. What would it be if one &s;hould be entertained upon the fir&s;t offers? What would become of all tho&s;e cares to plea&s;e, of all that re&s;tle&s;|ne&s;s, when we tax our &s;elves of &s;ome neglect to give &s;atisfaction,
<PB N="55" REF="36">
of all that earne&s;tne&s;s wherewith we endeavoured for one happy moment? to conclude, all that delightful mixture of plea&s;ure and pain, which is called Love? No|thing would be more in&s;ipid, if we did only exchange love for love.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sapho.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well then, if Love mu&s;t needs be, as it were, a Fight, I could rather wi&s;h that Men had been obliged to &s;tand upon the defen&s;ive. And have not you told me too, that Women were more inclined to be tender hearted than they? Upon that &s;core Women would attack them the better.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Laura.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ay, but they would de|fend them&s;elves too well. When 'tis de&s;igned that one Sex &s;hould re&s;i&s;t, 'tis intended the re&s;i&s;tance &s;hould be no more than would make the Victory better plea&s;ing to the Victor, but not &s;trong
<PB N="56" REF="37">
enough to gain it. It ought not to be &s;o weak as to yield upon the fir&s;t A&s;&s;ault, nor &s;o vigorous as not to yield at all. Here is our Cha|racter, and 'tis likely it would not be the Mens. Believe me, when we have well argued the ca&s;e of Love, or of any other matter whatever, it is found in the end, that things are well as they are, and that the pretended Reforma|tion would &s;poil all.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="dialogue">
<PB N="57" REF="37">
<HEAD>The Third Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Socrates. Montaigne.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Montaigne.</SPEAKER>
<P>IT is you then, Divine <HI>Socra|tes!</HI> How glad am I to &s;ee you! I am ju&s;t now arrived in this Country, and I was no &s;ooner come hither, but I looked up and down for you. In fine, after having filled up my Book with your Name, and with your Elo|gies, I can now entertain my &s;elf with you, and learn how you came by that Vertue, &s;o <HI>Mon|taigne</HI>'s Terms in French, down|right, which had &s;uch natural go|ings, and which could not be fit|ted with any example, even in that happy Age you lived in.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="58" REF="38">
<SPEAKER>Socrates.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am glad to &s;ee a dead per&s;on that &s;eems to me to have been a Philo&s;opher; but you be|ing lately come from above, and I not having &s;een any body here of a long time (for I am left lonely enough, and there is no great &s;triving for my Conver&s;ation) will you not be di&s;gu&s;ted if I ask you &s;ome News? How goes the World? Is it not hugely chan|ged?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mont.</SPEAKER>
<P>Extreamly: You would not know it again.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Socrat.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am glad of it at my heart. I did ever &s;u&s;pect that it would of nece&s;&s;ity become better and wi&s;er than it was in my days.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mont.</SPEAKER>
<P>What is your meaning? It is grown more fooli&s;h, and more corrupted than ever. That is the change I meant, and I ex|pected to know of you the &s;tory of the time you &s;aw, and wherein
<PB N="59" REF="38">
reigned &s;o much goodne&s;s and righteou&s;ne&s;s.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Socrat.</SPEAKER>
<P>And I, on the contra|ry, did expect to hear wonders of the Age in which you have lately lived. What? Have not the Men of the&s;e times corrected them&s;elves of the follies of Antiquity?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mont.</SPEAKER>
<P>I believe 'tis becau&s;e you are ancient your &s;elf, that you &s;peak &s;o familiarly of Antiquity; but know that there is cau&s;e enough to lament its Manners, and that daily every thing grows wor&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Socrat.</SPEAKER>
<P>Can that be? Methinks all went very cro&s;s in my days. I thought that in the end they would take a more rea&s;onable cour&s;e, and that Men would bet|ter them&s;elves by the experience of &s;o many years.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mont.</SPEAKER>
<P>And do Men try Expe|riences? They are ju&s;t like Birds,
<PB N="60" REF="39">
who let them&s;elves be caught in the &s;ame Net, in which an hundred thou&s;and Birds had been already taken. There is not a Man that does not enter into Life all raw, and the follies of Fathers are of no advantage to Children.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Socrat.</SPEAKER>
<P>But why do not they make &s;ome Experiences? I &s;hould think that the World ought to be wi&s;er, and more regular in its old days, than it had been in its youth.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mont.</SPEAKER>
<P>Men in all Ages have the &s;elf &s;ame Inclinations, over which Rea&s;on has no power at all. So in all places where there are Men, there are follies, and the &s;ame fol|lies.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Socrat.</SPEAKER>
<P>And upon that &s;core, how would you have had the Ages of Antiquity been better than this Age is?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="61" REF="39">
<SPEAKER>Mont.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ah <HI>Socrates!</HI> I knew well enough you had a &s;ingular way of arguing, and drawing &s;o dexterou&s;ly tho&s;e you had to deal with into Arguments whereof they did not fore-&s;ee the Conclu&s;ion, that you lead them whither you had a mind; and it was that which you called to be the Midwife of their thoughts, and bring them to Bed. I confe&s;s here I am brought to Bed of a Propo&s;ition quite con|trary to that which I propo&s;ed; for all that, I cannot yield yet. Sure it is, there are no more any of tho&s;e vigorous and &s;turdy Souls of Antiquity, no <HI>Ari&s;tides,</HI> no <HI>Phocions,</HI> no <HI>Pericles,</HI> nor, in &s;hort, no <HI>Socrates.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Socrat.</SPEAKER>
<P>Where does it &s;tick? Is it that Nature has exhau&s;ted her &s;elf, and has no farther &s;trength to produce tho&s;e great Souls? And why &s;hould &s;he have wa&s;ted her
<PB N="62" REF="40">
&s;elf in nothing but in rational Men? None of her Works did degenerate yet; why &s;hould men only degenerate?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mont.</SPEAKER>
<P>That is a point indeed; they do degenerate. Nature &s;eems to have &s;hewed us heretofore &s;ome patterns of great men, thereby to per&s;uade us, that &s;he could have made &s;ome if &s;he had had a mind to it, and that afterwards &s;he had made all the re&s;t with neglect enough.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Socrat.</SPEAKER>
<P>One thing mind. Antiqui|ty is an object of a particular kind, a far off, does add to it. Had you known <HI>Aristides, Phocion, Peri|cles,</HI> and my &s;elf, &s;ince you will put me in that number, you would have found in your Age &s;ome per|&s;ons that were like us. That which does u&s;ually cau&s;e this prevention in people for Antiquity, is, becau&s;e they are out of humour with their
<PB N="63" REF="40">
Age, and Antiquity takes advan|tage thereof. Men exalt the An|cients, to pull down their Con|temporaries. When we lived, we e&s;teemed our Ance&s;tors more than they de&s;erved; and now, our Po|&s;terity e&s;teem us more than is our de&s;ert: but our Ance&s;tors, and we, and our Po&s;terity, all this is equal enough; and I believe the Spectacle of the World would be very tedious to him that &s;hould look upon it with an eye of Cer|titude, for 'tis always the &s;ame.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mont.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;hould have believed that every thing was in motion, that all did change, and that the different Ages had their different Characters, as men had. And in|deed, Are not &s;ome Ages learned, and are not others ignorant? Are not &s;ome plain and downright, and others again &s;ubtil and crafty? Some are &s;erious, and &s;ome are
<PB N="64" REF="41">
toyi&s;h: &s;ome again are fine and quaint, and others are gro&s;s and dull.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Socrat.</SPEAKER>
<P>'Tis true.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mont.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why &s;hall there not be then &s;ome Ages more vertuous, and others more wicked?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Socrat.</SPEAKER>
<P>That is no con&s;equence. Cloaths change; but by that it is not meant that the Bodies change their form too: The neatne&s;s or the gro&s;&s;ne&s;s, the knowledge or the ignorance, the more or le&s;s of a certain kind of downrightne&s;s, the &s;erious or the toyi&s;h Genius; the&s;e make but the out-&s;ide of Man, and all this does change; but the heart does not change, and whole Man con&s;i&s;ts in the heart. People are ignorant in one Age, but the mode to be learned may come: People are intere&s;ted, but the mode to be di&s;-intere&s;ted will never come. Of the prodigious
<PB N="65" REF="41">
number of Men unrea&s;onable enough that are born in an hun|dred years, Nature, may be, has two or three dozen of them that are rea&s;onable, which &s;he mu&s;t di&s;per&s;e over the whole Earth; and you judge well enough, that there are never in no place &s;o many as may make a mode there of Vertue and of Righteou&s;ne&s;s.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mont.</SPEAKER>
<P>Is this di&s;tribution of ra|tional men equally made? There might have been &s;ome Ages that might have had a better &s;hare than others.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Socrat.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nature does ever act very regularly, but we do not judge as &s;he acts.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="dialogue">
<PB N="66" REF="42">
<HEAD>The Fourth Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Adrian</HI> the Emperor. <HI>Margaret</HI> of  <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>M.</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>WHat ail's you? I &s;ee you are all in an heat.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Adrian.</SPEAKER>
<P>I have ju&s;t now had a &s;trong Conte&s;t with <HI>Cato</HI> of <HI>&V;tica,</HI> about the manner how we both died. I pretended that in this la&s;t action I had &s;hewed my &s;elf more a Philo&s;opher than he had.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>M.</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>I think you ve|ry bold, that you dare que&s;tion &s;o famous a death as his. Was there any thing more glorious, than to take care that all was well &s;etled in <HI>&V;tica,</HI> &s;ecure his Friends, and
<PB N="67" REF="42">
kill him&s;elf, that he might end with the Liberty of his Country, and avoid falling into the hands of a Vanqui&s;her, who would, how|ever have &s;pared him?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Adrian.</SPEAKER>
<P>Oh! if you did nar|rowly examine that death, you would find there were &s;everal things to que&s;tion in it. In the fir&s;t place, he had been &s;o long in pre|paring him&s;elf for it, and he did prepare him&s;elf with &s;uch vi&s;ible &s;trifes, that no body in <HI>&V;tica</HI> made any que&s;tion, but that <HI>Cato</HI> would kill him&s;elf. Secondly, Before he gave him&s;elf the blow, he was fain to read often the Dialogue where <HI>Plato</HI> treats of the Immortality of the Soul. Thirdly, The de&s;ign he had laid put him &s;o out of humour, that, going to Bed, and not find|ing his Sword under his Beds-head, (for, as people rightly gue&s;&s;ed what he had a mind to do they had ta|ken
<PB N="68" REF="43">
it away) he called one of his Slaves to ask him for it, and gave him &s;o great a blow with his fi&s;t upon the face, that with it he &s;truck out his teeth: this is &s;o true, that he drew back his hand all bloody.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>M.</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>I confe&s;s, this blow with the fi&s;t does very much &s;poil this Philo&s;ophical death.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Adrian.</SPEAKER>
<P>You cannot believe what a &s;tir he made about this Sword taken away, and how he railed at his Son and at his Servants; &s;aying, that they had a mind to de|liver him up to <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> hands and feet tied together. In fine, he &s;col|ded them all in &s;uch a manner, that they were fain to go out of his Chamber, and let him kill him&s;elf.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>M.</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Indeed, indeed, things might have gone on a little more mildly. He needed but have peaceably &s;tayed till the next day to give him&s;elf his death. Nothing
<PB N="69" REF="43">
is more ea&s;ie than to die when one is bent upon it. But in all likeli|hood, the mea&s;ures he had taken upon the account of his con&s;tancy, were &s;o exact, that he could &s;tay no longer; and he had not, per|haps, killed him&s;elf, had he delay|ed a day longer.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Adrian.</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;ay right; and I &s;ee that you have skill in generous deaths.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>M.</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Yet &s;ome &s;ay, that after they had carried this Sword to <HI>Cato,</HI> and had withdrawn them|&s;elves, he fell a&s;leep, and &s;nored. That would be brave enough.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Adrian.</SPEAKER>
<P>And do you believe this? He had but done &s;colding every body, and beating his Ser|vants: a man does not &s;o ea&s;ily fall a&s;leep after &s;uch an exerci&s;e. More|over, his hand he had &s;truck his Slave with did pain him too much to let him fall a&s;leep, for he was
<PB N="70" REF="44">
not able to bear the pain he felt: and he made it be bound up by a Phy&s;ician, though he was ju&s;t go|ing to kill him&s;elf. In &s;hort, from the time his Sword was brought, till Mid-night, he read <HI>Plato</HI>'s Dia|logues twice over. Then I could prove ea&s;ily by a great Supper he made for all his friends, by a walk he took afterwards, and by all pa&s;|&s;ages that happened till he was left alone in his Chamber, that it mu&s;t be very late when that Sword was brought him: Moreover, the Dia|logue he read twice over is very long; and by con&s;equence, if he &s;lept, he &s;lept but a little while. Truly, I am much afraid he did but make as if he &s;nored, that he might have the honour of it from tho&s;e that hearkned at his Chamber door.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>M.</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>You do not play the Critick ami&s;s upon his death;
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which, however, does carry in the bottom &s;omething that is very he|roical. But which way can you pretend that yours has the better of it? For as much as I can remem|ber, you died in your Bed, in a plain and unremarkable manner.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Adrian.</SPEAKER>
<P>What? Are not tho&s;e Ver&s;es remarkable at all, which I made as I was ju&s;t giving up the Gho&s;t?
<Q><L>My little Soul, my dear Darling, Thou;</L>
<L>Going thou art, Girl; and whither, God does know.</L>
<L>Alone thou goe&s;t, naked, and all over quaking. Alas!</L>
<L>What'll become of thy pretty fooling humour, La&s;s?</L>
<L>What'll become of &s;o many plea&s;ant frolicks, I can't gue&s;s.</L></Q>
<PB N="72" REF="45">
<HI>Cato</HI> treated Death like a bu&s;ine&s;s that was too &s;erious, but you &s;ee, I drolled with it: and herein it is that I pretend that my Philo&s;ophy went far beyond <HI>Cato</HI>'s. It is not &s;o difficult haughtily to out-brave Death, as it is to joak her in a care|le&s;s manner; nor is it &s;o hard a thing to receive her kindly when we call her to our aid, as when &s;he comes when we have no need of her.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>M.</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, I grant, <HI>Ca|to</HI>'s death is not &s;o brave as yours; but, as ill luck would have it, I had not ob&s;erved that you had made the&s;e &s;mall Ver&s;es, in which the bravery of yours does con&s;i&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Adrian.</SPEAKER>
<P>This is the way of all the world. <HI>Cato</HI> may tear out his Bowels, rather than fall into the hands of his Enemy: it is, perhaps, no &s;uch great matter, if it be throughly examined; yet &s;uch a
<PB N="73" REF="45">
feat as that makes a va&s;t &s;hew in Hi&s;tory, and there's not one but is taken with it. Another may die fair and quietly, and be in a capacity to make drolling Ver|&s;es upon his death, 'tis more than <HI>Cato</HI> has done; but this has no|thing in it that is taking. and Hi|&s;tory does &s;carce take notice of it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>M.</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Alas! nothing is truer than what you &s;ay; And I my &s;elf that now &s;peak to you, I have a death that I pretend is far before yours, and yet 'tis le&s;s taken notice of. 'Tis not, however, a downright death; but &s;uch as 'tis, it exceeds yours, that does exceed <HI>Cato</HI>'s.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Adrian.</SPEAKER>
<P>How? what do you mean?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>M.</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>I was an Empe|ror's Daughter. I was contracted to a King's Son; and this Prince, after his father's death, &s;ent me
<PB N="74" REF="46" MS="y">
back to mine, notwith&s;tanding the &s;olemn promi&s;e he had mad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> to marry me. After this, the contracted me to the Son of ano+ther King; and as I was going b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Sea to this Husband, my Ship w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> beaten with a terrible Tempe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> which ca&s;t my life into evide<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> danger. Then it was that I mad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> my &s;elf this Epitaph:</P>
<Q><L><HI>Megg,</HI> that pretty Dam&s;el does h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> lie;</L>
<L>Has two Husbands, and yet a M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> does die.</L></Q>
<P>The truth is, I did not die <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">, but 'twas not my fault. Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">+ceive well this kind of death, yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> be &s;atisfied with it. <HI>Cato</HI>'s Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;tancy is injured in one kind, yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in another, mine is natural. H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> too high, you are too drolling am rea&s;onable.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="75" REF="46">
<SPEAKER>Adrian.</SPEAKER>
<P>What? You tax me of having had too little fear of death.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>M.</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>I do. It is not likely that a man &s;hould be in no di&s;order at his dying hour; and I am confident you did force your &s;elf then to droll, as much as <HI>Cato</HI> did to tear out his Entrails. I am every moment in expectation of Shipwrack without frightning my my &s;elf, and I mak my Epitaph in cold blood; this is very extraor|dinary, and if there were nothing to moderate this Hi&s;tory, there would be &s;ome rea&s;on not to be|lieve it, or to believe that I did act only by way of <HI>Rhodomantado.</HI> But in the mean while, I am a poor Girl, twice contracted, and yet have been &s;o unlucky, as to die a Maid: I &s;hew my Concern for it, and that gives my Hi&s;tory all re|qui&s;ite appearance of truth. Your Ver&s;es, mind them well, carry no
<PB N="76" REF="47">
meaning with them; there is no|thing but a <HI>Gibbri&s;h,</HI> made up of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> few Childi&s;h Terms; but min<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> have a very clear Sen&s;e, and giv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> content at the very fir&s;t: which i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a &s;ign that Nature &s;peaks in them much more than in yours.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Adrian.</SPEAKER>
<P>Truly, I &s;hould neve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> have believed, that the trouble to die a Virgin ought to have been &s;o much <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o your Glory.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>M.</HI> of <HI>Au&s;tria.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Make your &s;el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> as plea&s;ant with this as you plea&s;e but my death, if it may be terme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o, has another e&s;pecial advantag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> over <HI>Cato</HI>'s, and over yours. Yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> had both of you played the Philo|&s;ophers &s;o much whil&s;t you lived that you had engaged your &s;elve upon Honour, not to be afraid o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> death: and if you had had the li+berty to fear it, I cannot tell wha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> would have come on it. But I, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> long as the &s;torm la&s;ted, I had a
<PB N="77" REF="47">
Right to tremble, and make my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ries reach Heaven, without any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ody's taking exception at it, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">aving a le&s;s e&s;teem for me. Ne|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">erthele&s;s, I remained quiet enough <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o make my Epitaph.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Adrian.</SPEAKER>
<P>Betwixt you and I, Was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ot the Epitaph made on Shore?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>M.</HI> of <HI>A&s;tria.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Ah! this wrangling <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">us is ill-becoming: I did not &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y you, about your Ver&s;es.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Adrian.</SPEAKER>
<P>I yield then, in good <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">arne&s;t; and I grant, that when <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ertue does not go beyond the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ounds of Nature, &s;he is very <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">reat.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="dialogue">
<PB N="78" REF="48">
<HEAD>The Fifth Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Era&s;i&s;trates. Herveus.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;i&s;trates.</SPEAKER>
<P>YOU tell me wonders. What the Blood circulates in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Body? the Veins carry it from th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Extremities of the Heart, and go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> from the Heart into the Arterie which convey it back again to+wards the Extremities?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Herveus.</SPEAKER>
<P>I have &s;hewed &s;o m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">+ny Experiences of this, that n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">+body makes any further que&s;tio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ara&s;i&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>We deceived our &s;elve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> very much then, we Phy&s;icians o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Antiquity, who took the Blood t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> have but one &s;low motion fro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Heart, towards the Extrem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">+ties
<PB N="79" REF="48">
of the Body; and people are highly obliged to you, for having <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">boli&s;hed this ancient Error.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Herv.</SPEAKER>
<P>So I pretend. And people <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ught too to be &s;o much the more obliged to me, in that I was the fir&s;t that &s;et them in the way to make all tho&s;e fine Di&s;coveries, as are now made in Anatomy. Since I once found out the Circulation of the Blood, 'tis now, who &s;hall find a new Conduit out, to con|vey the Blood into all parts of the Body; a new Re&s;ervatory? It <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ooks as though whole Man were melted down again. Behold the advantages our Modern Phy&s;ick ought to have above yours. You made it your bu&s;ine&s;s to cure the Body of Man, and his Body was altogether unknown to you.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;i&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>I own that your modern Phy&s;itians are better Naturali&s;ts than we; they under&s;tand Nature
<PB N="80" REF="49">
better, but they are not better Phy&s;itians; we cured the Sick as well as they cure them. I could wi&s;h all the&s;e modern ones, and you the very fir&s;t of all, had had Prince <HI>Antiochus</HI> in hand to cure of his Quartern Ague. You know how I went about it, and how <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;covered by the more than ordi|nary beating of his Pul&s;e in the pre&s;ence of <HI>Stratonice,</HI> that he was enamoured with that beauti|full Queen, and that his whole Di&s;ea&s;e did proceed from his vio|lent &s;triving to hide his Pa&s;&s;ion<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> And yet I made &s;o difficult and &s;o con&s;iderable a Cure as that was without knowing that the blood did circulate; and I am of opini|on, that notwith&s;tanding the help you might have received from this knowledge, you would have been very much puzled had you been in my place. The Point then in a|gitation
<PB N="81" REF="49">
was not about new Con|duits, nor new Re&s;ervatories, what was mo&s;t con&s;iderable to be known in the Patient, was the heart.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Herv.</SPEAKER>
<P>The heart is not always the Point in que&s;tion, and all &s;ick people are not in love with their Mother-in-law, as <HI>Antiochus</HI> was. I make no doubt but for want of knowing that the blood does cir|culate, you have let a great many people die under your hands.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>What? you take your new di&s;coveries to be very u&s;e|ful?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Herv.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sure enough.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>An&s;wer then, if you plea&s;e a little que&s;tion, which I &s;hall put to you: What's the rea&s;on we daily &s;ee as many Dead come hi|ther as ever did come?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="82" REF="50">
<SPEAKER>Herv.</SPEAKER>
<P>Oh! if they die, 'tis their own fault; the Phy&s;icians are now no more in fault.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>But this circulation of the blood, the&s;e Conduits, the&s;e Pipes of Conveyance, the&s;e Re&s;ervato|ries; all the&s;e then are of no u&s;e to cure?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Herv.</SPEAKER>
<P>Perhaps men have not had plea&s;ure as yet, to make any u&s;e of all they have learnt of late but 'tis impo&s;&s;ible but in time they'l fee great effects thereof.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>Upon my word no hin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> will change. See you? There is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> certain mea&s;ure of u&s;eful know+ledges, which came early to men whereunto they have made lit+tle addition, and they will no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> go far beyond it, if at all. The<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> are thus much obliged to Nature that &s;he did very &s;peedily in&s;pir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> them with what knowledge they &s;tood in need of; for they ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="83" REF="50">
been undone, if &s;he had left it to the &s;lowne&s;s of their rea&s;on to find out. As for other things which are not &s;o nece&s;&s;ary, they are di&s;covered by little and little, and in a long run of years.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Herv.</SPEAKER>
<P>It would be &s;trange that having a better knowledge of man; man cannot cure him bet|ter: At that rate, why &s;hould one go about to perfectionate the knowledge of the body of man? It would be better to let all a|lone.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>There would be a lo&s;s of very plea&s;ant knowledges; but as for the utility, I think that to di&s;cover a new Conduit in man's body, or a new Star in the Sky, would come to one and the &s;ame thing. Nature will have men at &s;ome certain times &s;ucceed one another by the means of death; they have the liberty to defend
<PB N="84" REF="51">
&s;elves again&s;t her till &s;uch an ap|pointed in&s;tant; but pa&s;t that, it will be to no purpo&s;e to make new di&s;coveries in Anatomy, in vain will it be to penetrate fur|ther and further into the Secrets of the frame of man's Body; Na|ture will not be baffled, People will die after the u&s;ual manner.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="dialogue">
<PB N="85" REF="51">
<HEAD>The Sixth Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Berenice, Co&s;mus Medicis</HI> the Second.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Co&s;mus</HI> of <HI>Medicis.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>SOme learned Per&s;ons lately decea&s;ed have ju&s;t now told me &s;ome News that troubles me very much. You mu&s;t under&s;tand that <HI>Galileus,</HI> who was my Mathe|matician, had made a di&s;covery of certain Planets that turn round about <HI>Jupiter,</HI> which, in honour of me, he called the Stars of <HI>Me|dicis.</HI> But I am told that they are &s;carce known now by that Name, and that they are but plainly call'd <HI>Jupiter</HI>'s <HI>Satellits.</HI> The World
<PB N="86" REF="52">
mu&s;t needs be very wicked now, and very envious of anothers glory.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Berenice,</SPEAKER>
<P>No doubt of it, I &s;el|dom knew more remarkable ef|fects of its malignity.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>C. Medicis,</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;peak of it with little concern, after the good luck you have had. You had made a Vow that you would cut off your hair if your Hu&s;band <HI>Ptolom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> came back victorious from I can not tell&mdash;what War. He re|turned having defeated his Ene|mies; you Con&s;ecrated your hai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in the Temple of <HI>Venus,</HI> and th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> next day a Mathematician made i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;appear, and publickly decla|red, that they had been change<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> into a <HI>Con&s;tellation,</HI> which h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> called <HI>Berenices</HI> Locks. To mak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Stars pa&s;s for a Womans hair, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> was far wor&s;e than to give Prince his Name to new Planet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">
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however your hair has had &s;uc|ce&s;s, and tho&s;e poor Stars call'd <HI>Medicis,</HI> could not have the like Fortune.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Berenice,</SPEAKER>
<P>If I could give you my Cele&s;tial hair, I would give it to comfort you; and I &s;hould withal be &s;o generous as not to pretend that you &s;hould be much obliged to me for that pre&s;ent.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>C. Medicis,</SPEAKER>
<P>It would be con&s;i|derable though, and I wi&s;h my Name were as &s;ure to live as yours is.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Berenice,</SPEAKER>
<P>Alas! in ca&s;e all the Con&s;tellations &s;hould bear my Name, &s;hould I be the better for it? It would be above in the Hea|vens, and I my &s;elf, I &s;hould be &s;till here below. Men are plea&s;ant, they cannot &s;teal away from Death them&s;elves, and they &s;trive to rob her of two or three Syllables that belongs to them. This is a pretty
<PB N="88" REF="53">
Cheat they think to put upon her. Were it not better they would in an hand&s;om way con|&s;ent to die, they and their Names too?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>C. Med.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am not of your mind: People die, but as little as is po&s;&s;i|ble, and as dead as they are, they endeavour to fa&s;ten upon life &s;till, either in a piece of Marble which repre&s;ents them, by &s;tones rai&s;ed up the one upon the other; ay, by ones one Tomb. A man drowns him&s;elf, and hangs on all the&s;e Hooks.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Berenice,</SPEAKER>
<P>Ay, but tho&s;e things which &s;hould pre&s;erve our Names from death, die them&s;elves after their way. To what will you fix your immortality? A Town, an Empire it &s;elf, can hardly be re|&s;pon&s;ible to you for it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="89" REF="53">
<SPEAKER>C. Medicis,</SPEAKER>
<P>The invention of giving ones Name to Stars, is not bad; they la&s;t forever.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Berenice,</SPEAKER>
<P>Yet after the manner as I hear people talk, the Stars too are liable to fail: They &s;ay new ones come, and ancient ones go away; and you will &s;ee that at length I &s;hall not have one &s;in|gle hair perhaps remaining in the Sky. At lea&s;t that which cannot be wanting to our Names, is as I may &s;ay, a Grammatical death; &s;ome changes in the Letters does put them in a condition to be of no farther u&s;e than to intangle the Learned. It is not long &s;ince I &s;aw here below two dead per&s;ons, who had a very hot Conte&s;t with one another. I drew near, I asked who they were; and I was told that the one was the great <HI>Constan|tine,</HI> and the other a <HI>Barbarian</HI> Emperour. Their Di&s;pute was a|bout
<PB N="90" REF="54">
the preference of their pa&s;t Greatne&s;s. <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> &s;aid, he had been Emperour of <HI>Con&s;tantinople;</HI> and the <HI>Barbarian</HI> that he had been &s;o of <HI>Stambole.</HI> The fir&s;t &s;aid, to &s;et out his <HI>Con&s;tantinople,</HI> that it was &s;eated upon three Seas, up|on the <HI>Euxin,</HI> upon the <HI>Bo&s;pho|rus</HI> of <HI>Thracia,</HI> and upon the <HI>Propontides.</HI> The other replyed, that <HI>Stambole</HI> did al&s;o command three Seas, The <HI>black Sea,</HI> the <HI>&s;treight,</HI> and the <HI>Sea Marmara.</HI> This relation of <HI>Con&s;tantinople</HI> and <HI>Stambole</HI> did put <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> into a maze; but after he had exactly informed him&s;elf of the &s;ituation of <HI>Stambole,</HI> he was yet more a|mazed, to find that it was <HI>Con|&s;tantinople,</HI> which he could not know again, becau&s;e of the change of Names. <HI>Alas!</HI> &s;aid he aloud, <HI>I &s;hould have done as well to have left</HI> Con&s;tantinople <HI>her fir&s;t Name</HI>
<PB N="91" REF="54">
<HI>of</HI> Bizantium. <HI>Who'l find out the Name of</HI> Con&s;tantine <HI>in</HI> Stam|bole? <HI>He will indeed find there what he looks for.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>C. Medicis,</SPEAKER>
<P>In earne&s;t, you comfort me a little, and I am re|&s;olved to have patience. When all is done, &s;ince we could not choo&s;e but die, it is pretty rea|&s;onable that our Names &s;hould die too; they are of no better quality then we.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<PB N="92" REF="55">
<HEAD>DIALOGUES OF SOME <HI>Modern Dead.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="dialogue">
<HEAD>The Fir&s;t Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Anne</HI> of <HI>Britany. Mary</HI> of <HI>England.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Anne</HI> of <HI>Britany.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>FOR certain, my death did you a great kindne&s;s: you, immediately upon it, cro&s;&s;ed the Sea to go and marry <HI>Lewis</HI> XII. and &s;eize upon the Throne which I left empty for you. But you enjoyed it but a while, and I was revenged of you by means of your
<PB N="93" REF="55">
youth and beauty, which rendred you too too lovely in the King's eye; and, with overmuch facili|ty, did comfort him in his lo&s;s of me; for they ha&s;tned his death, and hindred you from being Queen long.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Mary</HI> of <HI>England,</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Truly, Roy|alty did but ju&s;t &s;hew it &s;elf to me, and pre&s;ently di&s;appeared.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Anne</HI> of <HI>Brit.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>And after this, you became Dutche&s;s of <HI>Suffolk.</HI> A fair fall. For my part, Heaven be thanked, I have had another de&s;tiny. When <HI>Charles</HI> VIII. died, I did not lo&s;e my place by his death, and I married his Succe&s;|&s;or; which is an example of a ve|ry &s;ingular happine&s;s.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Mary</HI> of <HI>Engl.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Would you be|lieve me, if I did tell you, that I ne|ver bore you any grudge for that happine&s;s.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="94" REF="56">
<SPEAKER><HI>Anne</HI> of <HI>Brit.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>No. I apprehend too well what it is to be Dutche&s;s of <HI>Suffolk,</HI> having fir&s;t been Queen of <HI>France.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Mary</HI> of <HI>Engl.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>But I loved the Duke of <HI>Suffolk.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Anne</HI> of <HI>Brit.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>That's nothing After one has once ta&s;ted the &s;weetne&s;s of Royalty, is it po&s;&s;ible to reli&s;h any other?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Mary</HI> of <HI>Engl.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>It is, provided they be of love. I do a&s;&s;ure you that you ought not to wi&s;h me il<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> for having &s;ucceeded you. If, al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> along, I could have di&s;po&s;ed o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> my &s;elf, I &s;hould have been but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Dutche&s;s; and I made a &s;peed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> return into <HI>England,</HI> to take upo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> me that Title, &s;o &s;oon as ever I wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;charged of that of Queen.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Anne</HI> of <HI>Brit.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Were you &s;o lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> minded?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Mary</HI> of <HI>Engl.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Ambition, I mu&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> confe&s;s, was of no concern to me
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Nature has made &s;ome plain plea|&s;ures for men, &s;uch as are ea&s;ie and quiet, and their imagination makes them &s;ome that are intricate, un|certain, and hard to come by: but Nature is more dexterous in creating them plea&s;ures, than they are them&s;elves. Why do not they commit that charge to her? She invented Love, which is very plea&s;ing; and they have invented Ambition, which was needle&s;s.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Anne</HI> of <HI>Brit.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Who tells you that men did invent Ambition? Nature is no le&s;s bu&s;ie in in&s;piring de&s;ires of elevation and command|ing, than &s;he is in working an in|clination in men to love.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Mary</HI> of <HI>Engl.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Ambition may be ea&s;ily known to be a work of the imagination; &s;he is the very form of it: &s;he is re&s;tle&s;s, full of chymerical projects; &s;he has no &s;ooner attained her de&s;ires, but &s;he
<PB N="96" REF="57">
out-goes them again. She aims &s;till at a mark &s;he never hits.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Anne of Brit.</SPEAKER>
<P>And unluckily, Love has a mark which he hits but too &s;oon.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mary of Engl.</SPEAKER>
<P>That which en|&s;ues hereupon is, that one may of|tentimes be happy through Love, and one can be &s;o but once through Ambition; or, if it be po&s;&s;ible to be &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, at lea&s;t, tho&s;e kind of plea&s;ures are made for no great number of per&s;ons; and con&s;equently, Nature does not propo&s;e them to Men, for her fa|vours are always very general. Con&s;ider Love; 'tis made for eve|ry one. None but &s;uch as do &s;eek out their happine&s;s in a &s;tate too elevated, do think that Nature has grudged them the &s;weet delights of Love. A King who can make him&s;elf &s;ure of an hundred thou|&s;and Arms, cannot, perhaps, make
<PB N="97" REF="57">
him&s;elf &s;ure of one heart. He knows not whether that which a man does for another per&s;on, be not done out of a point of Ho|nour. His Royalty deprives him of the &s;incere&s;t and the &s;weete&s;t plea&s;ures.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Anne</HI> of <HI>Brit.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>You do not ren|der Kings much the more unhap|py by this inconvenience you find out in their condition. When a man &s;ees his Will not only fulfilled, but prevented an infinite number of Fortunes depending upon a word, which he may utter when he plea&s;es; &s;o many cares, &s;uch a multitude of de&s;igns, &s;o much ea|gerne&s;s, &s;uch an application to plea&s;e, whereof he is the only ob|ject; truly it is a comfort to a man, not to know exactly, whether he be loved for his degrees &s;ake, or for his per&s;on's &s;ake. The plea|&s;ures of Ambition, &s;ay you, are
<PB N="98" REF="58">
de&s;igned for too few: what you charge them with, as a fault, is their greate&s;t charm. In point of good luck Exception flatters; and &s;uch as reign are excepted with &s;o much advantage from the conditi|on of other men, that though they &s;hould lo&s;e &s;omething of the plea|&s;ures which are common to all the world, they would &s;till have more than they would de&s;ire.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Mary</HI> of <HI>Engl.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Ah! judge of their lo&s;s by the &s;en&s;ibility where|with they receive tho&s;e &s;incere and common plea&s;ures, when any pre|&s;ent them&s;elves. Hear what a Prin|ce&s;s of my own Blood told me here, the other day, who has reigned in <HI>England,</HI> both very long, and ve|ry happily, and without an Hu&s;|band too. She gave her fir&s;t Au|dience to &s;ome <HI>Dutch</HI> Amba&s;&s;a|dors, who had in their Retinue an hand&s;ome young man. So &s;oon as he
<PB N="99" REF="58">
&s;aw the Queen, he turned him&s;elf towards &s;ome that were near him, and &s;poke &s;omething to them &s;oft|ly, but with a Countenance that made her gue&s;s pretty well what he &s;aid; for Women are endued with an admirable in&s;tinct. Tho&s;e three or four words of this young <HI>Dutch-</HI>man, whieh &s;he had not heard, remained more in her mind, than the whole &s;peech of the Am|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;&s;adors: and, as &s;oon as they were gone, &s;he would needs &s;ati&s;|fie her &s;elf in what &s;he had imagi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ed. She asked tho&s;e to whom this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oung man had &s;poken, what he had &s;aid to them? They made her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;wer, with great re&s;pect, that it was what they did not dare to tell <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">gain to &s;o great a Queen; and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">orbore telling it a long time. In <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ine, when &s;he made u&s;e of her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">b&s;olute Authority, &s;he was told, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat the <HI>Dutch-</HI>man had &s;aid in a
<PB N="100" REF="59">
low voice: <HI>Ah! this is an hand|&s;ome Woman;</HI> and had added &s;ome gro&s;&s;er expre&s;&s;ion, but brisk, to &s;hew that he liked her. They made the relation hereof with great apprehen&s;ion; however, no|thing happened upon it, &s;aving only, that when &s;he di&s;mi&s;&s;ed the Amba&s;&s;adors, &s;he made a con&s;ide|rable Pre&s;ent to the young <HI>Dutch-man.</HI> See how, among all the&s;e plea&s;ures of Greatne&s;s and Royal|ty, this of being thought hand&s;om<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> did touch her to the quick.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Anne</HI> of <HI>Brit.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>But, in fine, &s;he would not have purcha&s;ed it with the lo&s;s of the other. Any thing that is too downright, is not fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Man's turn. It is not &s;ufficient th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> plea&s;ures do take with &s;weetne&s;s&punc; they mu&s;t agitate and tran&s;port <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> man. How comes it to pa&s;s, tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Pa&s;toral life, &s;uch as the Poet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> de&s;cribe it, had never any Being
<PB N="101" REF="59">
but in their works, and would not be liked of, if put in practice? It is too &s;weet, and too too plain.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Mary</HI> of <HI>Engl.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>I confe&s;s, men have &s;poiled all. But how hap|pens it, that the &s;ight of the mo&s;t Maje&s;tical and mo&s;t pompous Court in the World has not the power to allure them, &s;o much as the <HI>Ideas</HI> do which &s;ometimes they propo&s;e to them&s;elves of this &s;ame Pa&s;toral Life? meerly becau&s;e they were made for it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Anne</HI> of <HI>Brit.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>In like manner, the &s;haring in your plain and un|di&s;turbed plea&s;ures, is but to enter into tho&s;e <HI>Chymera</HI>'s which men frame to them&s;elves.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Mary</HI> of <HI>Engl.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Not at all. If it be true that there are but few per|&s;ons that can make &s;uch a di&s;tin|ction as to begin with tho&s;e kind of plea&s;ures, people are willing, at lea&s;t, to end with them when they
<PB N="102" REF="60">
can. The Imagination has run over all fal&s;e objects, and &s;he comes back to the true ones.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="dialogue">
<HEAD>The Second Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Charles</HI> V. <HI>Era&s;mus.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;mus.</SPEAKER>
<P>MAke no que&s;tion of it: i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> there was any &s;uch thing a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> place among the Dead, I would not yield you the precedency.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Charles</HI> V.</SPEAKER>
<P>What? A Grammari|an, one of Learning; and what is yet more, a man of Wit, would pretend to be better than a Prince that has been Ma&s;ter of the better part of <HI>Europe?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="103" REF="60">
<SPEAKER>Era&s;mus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Put <HI>America</HI> to it al|&s;o, and I &s;hall not fear you a jot the more. All this greatne&s;s was, as one may &s;ay, but a compo&s;ition of many hazards; and if one &s;hould di&s;-unite all the parts that make it up, you would &s;ee plainly that it was &s;o. If <HI>Ferdinando,</HI> your Grandfather, had been a man of his word, little would have remained to you in <HI>Italy.</HI> If any other Princes but he had the wit to be|lieve that there were <HI>Antipodes, Chri&s;topher Columbus</HI> would not have applied him&s;elf to him, and <HI>America</HI> had not been in the num|ber of your States. If, after the death of the la&s;t Duke of <HI>Burgun|dy, Lewis</HI> XI. had minded what he did, <HI>Maximilian</HI> had not had the Heire&s;s of <HI>Burgundy,</HI> nor you had not had the <HI>Low-Countries.</HI> If <HI>Henry</HI> of <HI>Ca&s;tyle,</HI> Brother to your Grandmother <HI>I&s;abella,</HI> had not had
<PB N="104" REF="61">
an ill Reputation among Women, or if his Wifes Hone&s;ty had not been &s;omething que&s;tionable, <HI>Hen|ry</HI>'s Daughter had pa&s;&s;ed for her Daughter, and you would have mi&s;&s;ed the Kingdom of <HI>Ca&s;tille.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Charles</HI> V.</SPEAKER>
<P>You make me trem|ble. I fancy now at this very mo|ment, that I am lo&s;ing either <HI>Ca|&s;tille,</HI> or the <HI>Low-Countries, Ame|rica</HI> or <HI>Italy.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;mus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Mock not. You would find it a task to make the one a little more &s;olid, and the other &s;omewhat more faithful. Take all, to the very impotency of you<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Great Uncle, or the pertne&s;s of your Great A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nt, and you will find, that it will be but nece&s;&s;ary for you. See what a brittle build|ing that is, which is founded up|on &s;o many things depending up|on hazard.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="105" REF="61">
<SPEAKER><HI>Charles</HI> V.</SPEAKER>
<P>Indeed it is not po&s;|&s;ible to with&s;tand &s;o &s;trict an Exa|mination as is yours. I mu&s;t needs confe&s;s, that all my Greatne&s;s, and all my Titles do di&s;appear in your pre&s;ence.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;mus.</SPEAKER>
<P>The&s;e are the quali|ties though you pretended to adorn your &s;elf with all; I have &s;tript you of them without any trouble. Do not you remember you have heard &s;ay, that <HI>Cimon</HI> the <HI>Athenian,</HI> having taken &s;eve|ral <HI>Per&s;ians</HI> Pri&s;oners, did expo&s;e to Sale, on one &s;ide the Cloaths, and their Bodies quite naked on the other; and that whereas the Cloaths were extraordinarily rich, there was great crowding to buy them; but as to the men, no bo|dy would meddle with them. In good earne&s;t, I am apt to believe, that what did happen to the&s;e <HI>Per|&s;ians,</HI> would be the lot of many
<PB N="106" REF="62">
an one, if there &s;hould be a &s;epa|ration made of the per&s;onal Merit from that which Fortune has be|&s;towed upon them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Charles</HI> V.</SPEAKER>
<P>But what is this &s;ame per&s;onal Merit?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;mus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Is that a Que&s;tion to be asked? All that is within us. The Mind, for example, Sciences.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Charles</HI> V.</SPEAKER>
<P>And one may law|fully glory in them?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;mus.</SPEAKER>
<P>No doubt of it, the benefits of Fortune, as Gentility or Riches, are not it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Charles</HI> V.</SPEAKER>
<P>What you &s;ay, &s;ur|pri&s;es me. Does not Sciences come to the Learned, as Riches do to the mo&s;t part of &s;uch as are rich? Is it not by way of Succe&s;&s;ion? You learned men, you inherit of the Antients, as we do of our Fa|thers. If all we enjoy was be|queathed unto us, all that you know was bequeathed to you al&s;o.
<PB N="107" REF="62">
And 'tis that which makes many learned men look upon what they have received from the Ancients, with the &s;ame re&s;pect as &s;ome per|&s;ons do upon the Lands and the Hou&s;es of their Ance&s;tors, wherein they would be loth to make any alteration.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;mus.</SPEAKER>
<P>But the Great Ones are born<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Heirs to their Fathers Greatne&s;s, and the Learned were not born Heirs to the Knowledge of the Ancients. Learning is not a Succe&s;&s;ion that Man receives, it is a new Acqui&s;ition which he un|dertakes to make; or if it be a Succe&s;&s;ion, it is hard enough to come by, though it be very ho|nourable.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Charles</HI> V.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well then; &s;et the labour there is to gain the Goods of the mind, again&s;t that a man meets with to pre&s;erve the Goods of Fortune, then all is equal; for,
<PB N="108" REF="63">
in fine, if you regard difficulty alone, 'tis certain the concerns of the World have more in them, than the &s;peculations of the Cabi|net have.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;mus.</SPEAKER>
<P>But let us not talk of Learning, let us &s;tick to the mind; that advantage does no ways de|pend upon hazard.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Charles</HI> V.</SPEAKER>
<P>It does not depend upon hazard? What, does not the mind con&s;i&s;t in a certain Confor|mation of the Brain? And is Ha|zard the le&s;s to be made of, for tak|ing Birth of a well di&s;po&s;ed Brain, than if it were born of a Father that were a King? You were a great Wit; but ask all the Philo|&s;ophers, what did hinder that you were not a &s;tupified Block-head? Almo&s;t nothing, &s;ome little di&s;po|&s;ition of a Mu&s;cle-&s;tring; &s;ome|thing, in fine, that the exacte&s;t Anatomy could never di&s;cover.
<PB N="109" REF="63">
And will the&s;e Gentlemen, your Wits, dare to maintain, now, that they alone do enjoy Goods which are independent of Hazard; and they will think then, they have a Right to contemn all other men?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;mus.</SPEAKER>
<P>At your rate, to be rich, and to have Wit, is the &s;ame Merit.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Charles</HI> V.</SPEAKER>
<P>To have Wit is the more happy hazard; but, at the bottom, it is &s;till an hazard.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Era&s;mus.</SPEAKER>
<P>All is hazard then?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Charles</HI> V.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is &s;o, provided you will give that name to an unknown quality. I leave it to you to judge, if I have not &s;tript men better yet than you did: you only took from them &s;ome advantages of Birth, and I do not &s;o much as leave them tho&s;e of the mind. If before they took a vanity in any thing, they did make them&s;elves &s;ure, whe|ther they had any Right to that
<PB N="110" REF="64">
&s;ame thing, there would be but little vanity in the World.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="dialogue">
<HEAD>The Third Dialogue,</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Elizabeth</HI> of <HI>England.</HI> The Duke of <HI>Alen&ccedil;on.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Duke.</SPEAKER>
<P>BUT why have you flattered me &s;o long with the hopes of marrying you, &s;ince, in your &s;oul, you were re&s;olved to come to no conclu&s;ion?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q. <HI>Elizabeth.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>I have deceived many an one el&s;e, that was not inferior to you. I was the <HI>Pene|lope</HI> of my Age. You, the Duke of <HI>Anjou,</HI> your Brother, the Arch-Duke,
<PB N="111" REF="64">
the King of <HI>Swede,</HI> you were all my Suitors, that aimed at an I&s;land far beyond that of <HI>Ithaca,</HI> I kept you in hand &s;everal years, and in the end I laughed at you.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Duke.</SPEAKER>
<P>Here are in this place &s;ome certain Dead, that would not yield that you were altoge|ther like <HI>Penelope:</HI> but there are no compari&s;ons that are not de|fective in &s;ome kind or other.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q. <HI>Eliz.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>If you were not as great a Buzzard &s;till as ever, and that you could mind what you &s;ay&mdash;</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Duke.</SPEAKER>
<P>That is well; be &s;erious now, I advi&s;e you. Thus you have ever made your Bravado's of&mdash;Witne&s;s that great Country of <HI>America,</HI> which you made be called <HI>Virginia,</HI> in memory of a very doubtful quality. If, by good luck, that place were not in ano|ther World, the name it bears
<PB N="112" REF="65">
would be very improper: but it is no matter, this is not the bu|&s;ine&s;s in que&s;tion. Do &s;o much as give me a rea&s;on for your my&s;te|rious Conduct, and for all tho&s;e projects of Marriage, which came to nothing. Is it that the &s;ix Mar|riages of <HI>Henry</HI> VIII. your Father, did teach you not to marry; as the continual Cour&s;es of <HI>Charles</HI> V. taught <HI>Philip</HI> II. to &s;tay con&s;tant|ly in <HI>Madrid?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q. <HI>Eliz.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>I might keep to the rea&s;on which you &s;upply me with. Indeed my Father &s;pent his whole life in marrying him&s;elf, and un|marrying again; in repudiating &s;ome of his Wives, and cau&s;ing others to be beheaded. But the true &s;ecret of my Conduct is, that I found nothing more pretty than to frame De&s;igns, make Prepara|tives, and execute nothing. En|joyment of what a man does ar|dently
<PB N="113" REF="65">
de&s;ire, abates of the e&s;teem of it; and things do not pa&s;s from our imagination, to reality, with|out &s;ome lo&s;s. You come into <HI>England</HI> to marry me; then no|thing but Balls, Fea&s;ting, Rejoy|cings; nay, I go &s;o far as to give you a Ring. Hitherto every thing &s;miles as much as po&s;&s;ible; all con&s;i&s;ts but in Preparatives, and in <HI>Ideas:</HI> Be&s;ides, that which does perfect the delight of Marriage, is already exhau&s;ted. Here I &s;tick, and di&s;mi&s;s you.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Duke.</SPEAKER>
<P>To be free with you, your Maxims would not have &s;uit|ed with me; I &s;hould have de&s;ired &s;omething more than <HI>Chymeras.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q. <HI>Eliz.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Ah! if men were debar|red of <HI>Chymeras,</HI> what plea&s;ures would they have left them? I &s;ee well enough that you have had no &s;en&s;e of all the plea&s;ures which attended your life; but you are
<PB N="114" REF="66">
very unhappy indeed, that you did lo&s;e them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Duke.</SPEAKER>
<P>How? What delights were there in my life? I never &s;ped in any thing. I was like to be King four &s;everal times: fir&s;t of all <HI>Poland</HI> was the place in agi|tation, then <HI>England,</HI> and the <HI>Low-Countries;</HI> at la&s;t, <HI>France,</HI> in all appearance, was likely to fall to me: yet, for all this, I am come hither without Reign|ing.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q. <HI>Eliz.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>And this is the happi|ne&s;s you were not aware of. Al|ways imaginations, hopes; and never any reality. You did no|thing but prepare your &s;elf for Royalty all your life-time, as I did all along prepare my &s;elf for Mar|riage.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Duke.</SPEAKER>
<P>But as I believe that a real Marriage might have fitted you, I tell you truly, that a real
<PB N="115" REF="66">
Royalty would have plea&s;ed me well enough.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q. <HI>Eliz.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Plea&s;ures are not &s;o|lid enough to bear a &s;earch into their depth; they mu&s;t be but ju&s;t &s;melled unto. They are like tho&s;e boggy Grounds, which a man is obliged to run lightly over, without ever &s;ettling his foot upon them.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="dialogue">
<PB N="116" REF="67">
<HEAD>The Fourth Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>William</HI> of <HI>Cabe&s;tan. Albertus Frederick </HI> of <HI>Brandebourg.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>A. F.</HI> of <HI>Bradebourg.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>I Love you the better for hav|ing been a fool as well as my &s;elf. Tell me a little what your folly was.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cabe&s;tan.</SPEAKER>
<P>I was a Poet of <HI>Pro|vence,</HI> much &s;et by in my Age; which cau&s;ed my ruin. I fell in love with a Lady, whom I had rendred famous by my Writings. But &s;he took &s;uch a liking to my Ver&s;es, that &s;he began to fear le&s;t I &s;hould, &s;ome time or other, apply them to &s;ome other per&s;on; and, the bet|ter to &s;ecure her &s;elf of the con|&s;tancy
<PB N="117" REF="67">
of my Mu&s;e, &s;he gave me a cur&s;ed Drink that turned my Wits, and made me incapable of writing any more.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Brand.</SPEAKER>
<P>How long have you been dead?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cab.</SPEAKER>
<P>Near upon four hundred years.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Brand.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sure, Poets were ever &s;carce in your Age, &s;ince people had &s;o much e&s;teem for them, as to poy&s;on them in this manner. I am &s;orry you were not born in my time; you might have made Ver&s;es for all kind of hand&s;ome Women, without any fear of Poy|&s;on.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cab.</SPEAKER>
<P>I know it. I &s;ee none of all tho&s;e great Wits that come hi|ther, make their complaints of having had my de&s;tiny. But you, in what manner became you a fool?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="118" REF="68">
<SPEAKER>Brand.</SPEAKER>
<P>After a very rea&s;onable manner. A King turned fool, af|ter having had &s;omething appear to him in a Fore&s;t. But what I &s;aw was far more terrible.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cab.</SPEAKER>
<P>And what did you &s;ee?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Brand.</SPEAKER>
<P>In what manner my Wedding was to be kept. I did marry <HI>Mary Eleonora</HI> of <HI>Cleve;</HI> and all along this great day of re|joycing, I made &s;uch judicious re|flections upon Marriage, that they put me out of my Wits.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cab.</SPEAKER>
<P>Had you any good inter|vals in your &s;ickne&s;s?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Brand.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cab.</SPEAKER>
<P>So much the wor&s;e: and I, for my part, I was yet more unfortunate: I recovered my Wits again.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Brand.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;hould never have be|lieved that that was a mi&s;for<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">une.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cab.</SPEAKER>
<P>When a man turns Fool, he mu&s;t be an ab&s;olute one, and
<PB N="119" REF="68">
continue &s;uch an one. The&s;e Al|ternatives of Rea&s;on and Folly, and the&s;e Returns again of perfect Rea&s;on is the property of your petty Fools only, that are &s;o but by accident, and which are but incon&s;iderable in number. But behold tho&s;e which Nature does daily produce in her natural cour&s;e, and wherewith the World <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s filled; they are always Fools <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n an equal manner, and are ne|ver cured.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Brand.</SPEAKER>
<P>For my part, I &s;hould have imagined, that it were be&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o be as little Fool as one could.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cab.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ah! do you not know the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e of folly. Folly hinders a man <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rom knowing him&s;elf; for the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ght of his own &s;elf is a &s;ad one: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd, as 'tis never time to know <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nes &s;elf, &s;o folly mu&s;t not for&s;ake <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> man one &s;ingle moment.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="120" REF="69">
<SPEAKER>Brand.</SPEAKER>
<P>You may &s;ay what you will; you &s;hall not per&s;uade me that there be any other fools, than tho&s;e that are &s;o, as both of us have been. The re&s;t of men have all Rea&s;on; el&s;e the lo&s;s of a man's Wits would be no lo&s;s, and one could not di&s;tingui&s;h the Frantick from &s;uch as were in their right Sen&s;es.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cab.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Frantick are only fools of another kind. The fol|lies of all men, being of one &s;ame nature, have agreed together with &s;o much ea&s;e, that they have been in&s;trumental to the making up of the &s;tronge&s;t ties of Humane So|ciety: witne&s;s that de&s;ire of Im|mortality, that fal&s;e Glory, and &s;everal other Principles, which give a motion to all that is done in the World. And none are cal|led fools now, but &s;ome certain fools that are, as one may &s;ay, out
<PB N="121" REF="69">
of employment, and who&s;e folly could not &s;uit with that of the re&s;t, nor enter into the common deal|ings of life.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Brand.</SPEAKER>
<P>Tho&s;e that are frantick, are &s;uch great fools, that, for the mo&s;t part, they call one another fool; but your other men call them&s;elves wi&s;e per&s;ons.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cab.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ah! What is it you &s;ay? All men point at one another with their finger, and Nature has very judiciou&s;ly &s;etled that Order. The Solitary Man laughs at the Cour|tier; but to be even with him, he goes not to trouble him at Court. The Courtier laughs at the Solita|ry Man, but he lets him alone in qui|et in his retirement. If there were ever a &s;ide to be taken, that were known to be the only rea&s;onable &s;ide, every one would embrace that &s;ide, and there would be too much crowding: it is better to be
<PB N="122" REF="70">
divided into &s;everal little Troops&punc; that embroil not one another, be|cau&s;e &s;ome laugh at what the other do.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Brand.</SPEAKER>
<P>As dead as you are, I find you are a great fool with a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> your Arguments: you are not well recovered yet of the Drenc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> was given you.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cab.</SPEAKER>
<P>And this is the <HI>Idea</HI> whic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> a fool mu&s;t always conceive of another. True Wi&s;dom would too much &s;ingularize tho&s;e enjo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">+ed her: but the Opinion of Wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">+dom renders all men equal, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> does no le&s;s &s;atisfie them.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="dialogue">
<PB N="123" REF="70">
<HEAD>The Fifth Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Agnes Sorel. Roxelana.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Agnes Sorel.</SPEAKER>
<P>TO tell you the truth, I do not under&s;tand your <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Gallantry. The Beauties of the <HI>Seraglio</HI> have a Lover that need only &s;ay, <HI>My Will is &s;o;</HI> they never ta&s;te of the plea&s;ure of Re&s;i&s;tance, and they never afford him the plea&s;ure of Victory: that is to &s;ay, that the Sultans and their Sultane&s;&s;es do never enjoy the de|lights of Love.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Roxelana.</SPEAKER>
<P>What will you have? the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Emperors, who are &s;trangely jealous of their Autho|rity, have, upon Rea&s;ons of Po|licy, neglected tho&s;e &s;o refined de|lights
<PB N="124" REF="71">
of Love. They were afraid that &s;uch Beauties as did not ab|&s;olutely depend upon them, would a&s;&s;ume too great a power over their mind, and meddle too much with Affairs.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Agnes Sorel.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, well, How know they whether it would be a misfortune? Love is often good for many things: and I that &s;peak to you, if I had not been Mi&s;tre&s;s to a King of <HI>France;</HI> and if I had not had a great power over him, I know not whereabouts <HI>France</HI> would have been by this time. Have you heard in what a de&s;pe|rate condition our Affairs were in under <HI>Charles</HI> the Seventh, and in|to what a plight the whole King|dom was reduced; the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> be|ing almo&s;t Ma&s;ters of it all?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Roxelana.</SPEAKER>
<P>I have, as this Hi|&s;tory has made a great noi&s;e. I know that a certain Maid did
<PB N="125" REF="71">
pre&s;erve <HI>France:</HI> You are then the Maid? And how were you, the &s;ame time, Mi&s;tre&s;s to the King?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Agnes Sorel.</SPEAKER>
<P>You mi&s;take your &s;elf; I have no concern with the Maid you have been told of. The King, of whom I was beloved, had a mind to leave his Kingdom to Strangers that were U&s;urpers, and go and hide him&s;elf in a Country full of Mountains, whi|ther I &s;hould not have been very well contented to follow him. I be|thought my &s;elf of a Stratagem to divert him from this de&s;ign. I &s;ent for an A&s;tronomer, whom I dealt withal under-hand; and af|ter he had made a &s;hew of &s;tudy|ing my Nativity, he told me one day, in pre&s;ence of <HI>Charles</HI> the Se|venth, that all the Planets were Cheats, or I &s;hould in&s;pire a pa&s;|&s;ion of long continuance into a
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great King. I pre&s;ently &s;aid to <HI>Charles; You will not take it ill then, Sir, that I go over to the Court of</HI> England; <HI>for you will be no longer King, and you have not loved me long enough to fulfil my de&s;tiny.</HI> His fear of lo&s;ing me made him re&s;olve to be King of the <HI>French;</HI> and he began, at that very time, to re-e&s;tabli&s;h him&s;elf. Behold how much <HI>France</HI> is obliged to Love, and how gallant that Kingdom ough<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> to be, though it were but by way of acknowledgment.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Roxelana.</SPEAKER>
<P>'Tis true. But <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> mu&s;t to my Maid again: Wha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> did &s;he do then? Could Hi&s;tory be &s;o much mi&s;taken&punc; as to attri|bute to a young Country Mai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> that which did belong to a Cour<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lady, the King's Mi&s;tre&s;s?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="127" REF="72">
<SPEAKER>Agnes Sorel.</SPEAKER>
<P>If Hi&s;tory &s;hould <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;o far mi&s;taken, it would be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o great wonder. Yet 'tis mo&s;t certain, that the Maid did highly encourage the Soldiers; but I had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">efore-hand animated the King. She was a great help to this Prince, whom &s;he found ready to engage with the <HI>Engli&s;h:</HI> but, had it not been for me, &s;he would not have found him in that po|&s;ture. In &s;hort, you will no far|ther que&s;tion the &s;hare I have in that great Affair, when you &s;hall know the te&s;timony which was given in my behalf in this, by one of <HI>Charles</HI> the Seventh's Succe&s;&s;ors, in this <HI>Quatrine.</HI>
<Q><L>Gentle <HI>Agnes,</HI> more Honour is thy due,</L>
<L>The Cau&s;e being <HI>France,</HI> for to re&s;|cue.</L>
<L><PB N="128" REF="73">
Then what, in a Cloi&s;ter, can be done</L>
<L>By devout Hermit, or enclo&s;ed Nun.</L></Q>
What &s;ay you to it <HI>Roxelana?</HI> You will own, that if I had been a Sultanne&s;s; like you, and had not had a Right to threaten <HI>Charles</HI> the Seventh as I did, he had been undone.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Roxelana.</SPEAKER>
<P>I wonder at the va|nity you take in this petty Acti|on. You had no difficulty to gain very much upon the mind of a Lover, you that were free, and your own Mi&s;tre&s;s: but I, as much a Slave as I was; I did, for all that, make the Sultan &s;ubmit un|to me. You made <HI>Charles</HI> the Seventh King, almo&s;t again&s;t his Will; and I made <HI>Soliman</HI> my Hu&s;band, in &s;pight of him&s;elf.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="129" REF="73">
<SPEAKER>Agnes Sorel.</SPEAKER>
<P>But how? They &s;ay, the Sultans never marry.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Roxelana.</SPEAKER>
<P>I grant it: Howe|ver, I was re&s;olved to marry <HI>So|liman,</HI> though I could not bring him to it out of hopes of an hap|pine&s;s which he had not, as yet, obtained. I will tell you a &s;tra|tagem that goes beyond yours. I began to build Temples, and to do &s;everal other works of Piety; after which, I made &s;hew of a deep Melancholy. The Sultan asked me the rea&s;on of it a thou|&s;and and a thou&s;and times: and when I had made as much a do as was nece&s;&s;ary, I told him, that the cau&s;e of my trouble was, becau&s;e all my good Actions, as our Do|ctors had told me, did me no good; and that, as I was a Slave, I did but labour &s;or <HI>Soliman,</HI> my Lord. Hereupon <HI>Soliman</HI> made me free, to the end, that the Merit of my
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good Actions might redound to my own &s;elf. But when he had a mind to live with me as formerly, and treat me like a Beauty of the <HI>Seraglio,</HI> I made as if I were much &s;urpri&s;ed; and repre&s;ented unto him, in a very &s;erious manner, that he had no Right over the Per&s;on of a free Woman. <HI>Soliman</HI> had a tender Con&s;cience: he went to a Doctor of the Law, with whom I did deal under-hand, to con&s;ult about this Ca&s;e. His An&s;wer was, that <HI>Soliman</HI> &s;hould beware of pre|tending any thing over me, who was no more his Slave; and that, unle&s;s he did marry me, I could be no longer his. Now he is more in Love than ever. He had but one Choice to make, but a very ex|traordinary one, and dangerous to boot for a Sultan: However, he made it, and married me.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="131" REF="74">
<SPEAKER>Agnes Sorel.</SPEAKER>
<P>I mu&s;t confe&s;s, 'tis a brave thing to make tho&s;e &s;ub|mit, who do &s;o fore-arm them&s;elves again&s;t our Power.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Roxelana.</SPEAKER>
<P>Men may do as much as in them lies: when they are laid hold on by their Pa&s;&s;ions, one may lead them where one plea&s;e. Let me return to life again, and let me have the mo&s;t domineering man in the world; I will handle him as I will my &s;elf, &s;o I have a great deal of Wit, Beauty enough, and but little Love.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="dialogue">
<PB N="132" REF="75">
<HEAD>The Sixth Dialogue.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Jane</HI> the Fir&s;t of <HI>Naples. An&s;elme.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Jane</HI> of <HI>Naples.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>HOW? Can you tell me no|thing that is to come? You have not forgot all your for|mer A&s;trology?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;elme.</SPEAKER>
<P>And how is it po&s;&s;ible to put it in practice? We have neither Sky nor Stars here.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Jane</HI> of <HI>Naples.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>'Tis no matter. I will di&s;pence with you, for ob|&s;erving the Rules &s;o exactly.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;elme.</SPEAKER>
<P>It would be pretty, that a dead man &s;hould prophecy. But yet, upon what?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Jane</HI> of <HI>Naples,</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Upon me, up|on what concerns me.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="133" REF="75">
<SPEAKER>An&s;elme.</SPEAKER>
<P>That is a good one: You are dead, and will be &s;o &s;till: This is all I have to foretell of you. Is our Condition &s;uch, that our Concerns may change?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Jane</HI> of <HI>Naples.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>No. But yet, that is it which does cruelly trouble me: And though I know nothing will happen to me, if you would; for all that, fore-tell me &s;omething; it would employ me. You cannot imagine what a &s;ad thing it is, to have no time to come to look upon. Come; &s;ome little Prophe&s;ie, pray you, &s;uch as you will.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;elme.</SPEAKER>
<P>To behold your re&s;t|le&s;ne&s;s, one would think you were yet living. Thus one is too above. One cannot be what one is there, with patience: we anticipate al|ways what we &s;hall be; but here we mu&s;t be more wi&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="134" REF="76">
<SPEAKER><HI>Jane</HI> of <HI>Naples.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Ah! Have not men rea&s;on to do as they do? The time pre&s;ent is but an in|&s;tant, and it would be a pitiful ca&s;e, they &s;hould be reduced to li|mit their fore-&s;ight there: Is it not better they &s;hould extend it as far as it is po&s;&s;ible, and gain &s;ome|thing upon time to come? They po&s;&s;e&s;s them&s;elves, however, of &s;o much before-hand.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;elme.</SPEAKER>
<P>But they borrow &s;o much upon time to come, by their imaginations, and by their hopes, that, when it is pre&s;ent, they find that it is quite &s;pent, and make no u&s;e of it. In the mean time, they do not break them&s;elves of their impatience, nor of their re&s;tle&s;s humour. Mens great Lure is, <HI>Time to come</HI> &s;till; and we A&s;trologers know it better than any. We boldly tell them, that there are cold Signs
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and hot Signs; that &s;ome are Male, and &s;ome are Female; that &s;ome Planets are good, and &s;ome bad; and that there are others that, in them&s;elves, are nei|ther good nor bad; but they take upon them either of the two Qua|lities, according as they fall or light in company. And all the&s;e flames are very well accepted of, becau&s;e it is believed they lead to the knowledge of time to come.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Jane</HI> of <HI>Naples.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Why, do they not truly? I would have you that have been my A&s;tronomer, tell me &s;omething that is ill of A&s;trology.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;elme.</SPEAKER>
<P>Hear me. A dead man would not tell a lie: I did deceive you with this A&s;trology that you value &s;o.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Jane</HI> of <HI>Naples.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Oh! Herein I do not believe you your own &s;elf. How could you have fore-told me, that I &s;hould be married four
<PB N="136" REF="77">
times? Was there the lea&s;t ap|pearance, that a per&s;on that was any whit rational, would engage in Matrimony four times one after the other? You mu&s;t needs have read it in the Heavens.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;elme.</SPEAKER>
<P>I con&s;ulted them far le&s;s than I did your inclinations: but, after all, &s;ome Prophe&s;ies that fall out right, prove nothing. Shall I carry you to a dead per|&s;on, who will tell you a pretty plea&s;ant &s;tory? He was an A&s;tro|nomer, and gave no more credit to A&s;trology than I did. Never|thele&s;s, to try whether there was any thing of certainty in his Art, he did apply his whole care, one day, to ob&s;erve the Rules exact|ly; and did fore-tell &s;ome parti|cular Events in one per&s;on, harder by much to gue&s;s at, than your four Marriages. All he fore-told did come to pa&s;s: Never was he
<PB N="137" REF="77">
more &s;urpri&s;ed. He pre&s;ently looked over his A&s;trological Cal|culations, which had been the Ground of his Predictions, know you what he found? He had made a mi&s;take; and, if his Sup|putations had been right, he &s;hould have fore-told the quite contrary of what he did foretell.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Jane</HI> of <HI>Naples.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>If I did be|lieve this were true, I &s;hould be much concerned it &s;hould not be known in the World, that they might undeceive them&s;elves in A&s;tronomers.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;elme.</SPEAKER>
<P>There are other-gui&s;e &s;tories than this known, and more to their di&s;advantage; and yet their Trade holds good. People will never be di&s;-abu&s;ed in any thing that concerns <HI>Time to come;</HI> it has too powerful a Charm. Men, for example, &s;a|crifice all they have to one Hope;
<PB N="138" REF="78">
and all they had, and what they have lately purcha&s;ed, they &s;till &s;acrifice it to another Hope: and this &s;eems to be a malicious Order, e&s;tabli&s;hed in Nature, to bereave them &s;till of what they po&s;&s;e&s;s. Men do little care to be happy in the moment then pre&s;ent, they put off being &s;o to <HI>a Time to come,</HI> as though that time &s;hould be of another Make, than this that is al|ready come.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Jane</HI> of <HI>Naples.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>No, it is not of another Make; but it is good to fancy it &s;o.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;elme.</SPEAKER>
<P>And what is the Ef|fect of this fine Opinion? I know a little Fable that will inform you. I did formerly learn it at the Court of Love, it was a kind of Academy, which was held in your Country of <HI>Provence. A man was thirsty, and was &s;at down by a Fountain. He would not drink of</HI>
<PB N="139" REF="78">
<HI>the Water that was running before him, becau&s;e he hoped, that in &s;ome &s;hort time better would come.</HI> This time being pa&s;t; <HI>This is &s;till the &s;ame Water,</HI> &s;aid he, <HI>this is not that which I will drink of; I had rather tarry a little longer yet.</HI> At length; <HI>as the Water was &s;till the &s;ame, he &s;tayed &s;o, that the Spring happened to dry up, and he drank not at all.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><HI>Jane</HI> of <HI>Naples.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>As much as hap|pened to me. And I believe that, of all the Dead that are here, there is not one who was not de|prived of Life &s;ooner than he had made the u&s;e of it, he did intend. But what matters it? I reckon, the plea&s;ure of fore-&s;eeing, hoping, of fearing too, and of having be|fore one <HI>a Time to come,</HI> to be great things. A wi&s;e man, in your Opinion, would be like we Dead, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> whom the Pre&s;ent, and the
<PB N="140" REF="79">
Time to come are perfectly alike: and this wi&s;e man would, by con|quence, find it as irk&s;ome as I do.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;elme.</SPEAKER>
<P>Alas! Man's Conditi|on is pretty, if it be &s;uch as you believe it is. He is born to aim at all, and &s;o enjoy nothing; to be always going, and arrive at no place.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<TRAILER>THE END.</TRAILER>
</BODY>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
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