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THE LAST UTTERANCES OF MY FRIEND.

not, properly speaking, we who feel them, but certain senses which God has planted in us; and, what we feel for others, we feel by a certain judgment and faculty of reasoning. But I see I am going." This he said because his spirits failed him. Now being afraid that he had frighted his wife, he recovered himself and said: "I find myself inclined to sleep: good night, wife, go your ways." This was the last leave he took of her. After she was gone, Brother," said he to me, "keep close by me, if you please ;" and then either feeling the darts of death come thicker and sharper, or else the force of some hot medicine which they had made him swallow, he spoke with a stronger and more audible voice, and turned himself in bed with perfect violence, so that all the company began to have some hopes, because hitherto he had been so very weak that we despaired of him. Then, amongst other things, he begged me again and again, with the greatest affection, to make room for him, so that I was afraid he was delirious. Moreover, when I had gently remonstrated to him that he was overpowered by his distemper, and that these were not the words of a man in his right senses; he did not seem to be convinced, but repeated it still more strongly. "Brother, brother, what, won't you give me room?" insomuch that he forced me to convince him by reason, and to say to him, that since he breathed and talked he had by consequence his place. "Yes, yes," said he, “but that is not what I want; and besides, say what you will, I have no longer a being." "God will give you a better very soon," said I. "Would to God, brother," said he, "I was there now; I have longed to be gone these three days past." In this distressed state he often called to me, in order, for most part, to know whether I was near him. At length he inclined a little to rest, which confirmed us still more in our good hopes: so that I went out of his chamber to congratulate thereupon with Mademoiselle de la Boetia ; but about an hour after naming me once or twice, and then fetching a deep sigh, he gave up the ghost about three o'clock on Wednesday morning, the 18th of August, 1563, aged 32 years, 9 months, and 17 days.

LETTER VI.*

To Monseigneur Monseigneur de Montaigne.

MONSEIGNEUR,

IN obedience to your commands last year at your house at Montaigne, I have with my own hands put that great Spanish divine and philosopher Raymond de Sebonde into a French dress, and have as much

* I met with this letter by way of Dedication of Raymond Sebonde's Natural Theology, translated into French by Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, knight of the king's order, and gentleman in ordinary of his privy-chamber. Printed at Rouen by John de la Mere, an. 1641.

as lay in my power stripped him of that rough mien and unpolite aspect, which he first appeared in to you; so that, in my opinion, he is comely and complaisant enough to appear in the best of company. It is possible that some delicate curious readers may perceive, that he has a little of the Gascogne turn and bias; but they may be the more ashamed of their own negligence, in suffering a person, quite a novice and a learner, to get the start of them in this work. Now, Monseigneur, it is but reason that it should be published to the world, and have the credit of your name, because what amendment and reformation it has is all owing to you. Yet I plainly perceive, that if you should please to settle accounts with him, you will be very much his debtor, since in exchange for his excellent and most religious discourses, of his sublime, and, as it were, divine conceptions, it will appear that you have only brought him words and language, a merchandise so mean and vulgar, that he who has the greatest stock of it is peradventure the worse for it.

Monseigneur, I beg God to grant you a long and happy life.
Your most humble and most obedient son,
MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE.

N.B.-Mr. Coste has inserted a letter before this, which is addressed to
Mademoiselle de Paumier, but it is only a short one, of mere compli-

ment.

THE END.

INDEX,

ABSENCE of friends, of what utility, 777.
-ABSTINENCE of doing, generous, 815.
-ABUNDANCE distastful and disappoint-
ing, 232.-ABUSES of the world, how begot,
859.-ACCIDENTS in sickness several ways
excus'd by the physicians, 638; without
remedy, 753; worse to suffer than death,
295.-ACCOMMODATIONS of the quar-
rels of these days, shameful and false, 810.-
ACCUSATIONS answer'd with an ironical
and scoffing confession, 833.-ACKNOW-
LEDGMENT of
QUAINTANCE, 159-ACTING for re-
benefits, 769.-AC-
putation sake, 770.-ACTION animates
words, 539; desperate of a Sicilian, 300;
particular, how it ought to be consider'd,
357; private gets renown, 529.-ACTIONS,
forc'd, have neither grace nor honor, 769;
necessary, pleasant, 885; of all sorts equally
honorable to a wise man, 887; of former
ages, 187; of princes cast in the same mould
with those of commen men, 397; publick,
subject to various interpretations, 812; of
vertue rewarded for their own value, 531; of
the Phyrronians, 423; that men should not
covet to perform, 211; vertuous now un-
known, 187.-ADAGIUM HEROICUM,
373-ADMIRATION the foundation of
philosophy, 820.-ADORATION, 430; of
one God made man, 486.-ADVANTAGE
obtain'd by Dionysius over the poets, 536;
of greatness, 726; of men over other crea-
tures, 374.-ADVICE of Scribonia to her
nephew, 301; free, necessary to kings, 862.
-ADVOCATES, 479.-ESCULAPIUS
struck with thunder, 638.-ESOP his ass.
661; his dog, 851; fables and their mytho-
logy, 345.-AFFAIRS, how ought to be
govern'd, 810; domestick, very troublesome,
754; despised, 757-AFFECTATION un-
becoming a courtier, 142.-AFFECTION
loyal and vehement of a wife towards her
husband, 619; natural, of mothers very weak,
336; of a father towards his children, 116;
of Madam d'Estrissac towards her children,
324; of parents towards their children
greater than that of children towards their
parents, and why, 325; of Paulina towards
Seneca her husband, 621; of Seneca to his
wife, 623; of wives towards their husbands
till they have lost them, 618.-AFFEC-
TIONS in farewels, 702; of horses one to-
wards another, 393; towards children weak-
ened by their imperfections, 769; well tem-
per'd, 660.-AFFINITIES and conveni-
ences of the sun with the divinity, 431.-
AFFLICTION occasion'd by small things,
694.-AGE and its last effects, 280; capable
of great actions, 281; dispensing the knights
from the fatigues of the war, 281; fit for
managing an estate, 281; for marriage, 94,

never

328; of adult, 281.-AGES of the world,
485.-AGESILAUS, battel against the
Boeotians, 239; canonized by the Thracians,
446; in his travels did lodge in temples,
why, 672; mulcted by the Ephori, for in-
sinuating himself into the hearts of the
people, 606.-AGRIPPIANS living without
offensive arms, 520.-ALANTE'S
dream, 877.-ALBIGEOIS burnt alive, 209.
-ALCIBIADES'S constitution, 137-AL-
CION'S marvellous condition, 401.-AL-
EXANDER, the actions of, that may fall
under censure, 626; blam'd by Philip his
father for singing at a feast, 202; cruelty of,
19; did enjoy corporal pleasures, 885: emu-
lous of his father's victories, 814; excellent
above all the other kings and emperors, 626;
fancies of, about immortalization, 892; fol-
lowers of, carried their heads on one side,
730; greatness of, 626; his deep sleep, 237;
his horse, 250; the son of Jupiter, 230; ver-
tue of, 673-ALL things have their season,
589-ALLIANCE between pain and plea-
sure, 872.-ALMANACKS, 553.-ALTER-
ATION, whatever distempers and astonishes,
867.-AMADIS des Gaules despised, 344.-
AMBASSADOURS employment not con-
fin'd, 57; may sometimes conceal from their
masters what they think fit, 140; of Samos,
57.-AMBITION, 287; a vice of great
men, 814; daughter to presumption, 545;
enemy to society, 193; of Cæsar full of mis-
fortune to his country, 628; of Cicero and
Pliny, 201; the only ruine of Cæsar's actions,
609; unworthy, 200.-AMPHITHEATRES
rich and sumptuous, 717.-ANAXARCHUS
pounded in a
CIENTS good fellows, 291; us'd to wear
stone-mortar, 294.- AN-
their bosom open, 381.-ANDRODUS of
Dacia, 398.-ANDRON the Argian travel-
led over the sands of Lybia without drink-
ing, 864.-ANGER bridled with silence and
coldness, 601; how it ought to be manag'd
in families, 602; incorporated by concealing
it, 602; pleas'd with, and flatters its self,
600; serves for arms to vertue and valour,
605; transports men from their judgment,
598.-ANIMALS capable of discipline, 387;
of speaking, 387; choice in their amours,
394; knowing the voice of their masters,
391; male, fond of the males of their kind,
394; more regulated than men, 394; their
way of speaking, 382.-ANIMOSITY be-
twixt Cæsar and Pompey, 806.-ANSWER
of the duke of Florence to his fool, 185; of
the Indians to the offers of the Spaniards,
722; sharp, of Philotas to Alexander, 892.
ANTI-CATO'S of Cæsar, 609.-ANTI-
GONUS, the son of the sun, 230.-ANTI-
PODES, 484-APPEARANCES, contrary,
maintained in all subjects, 494: in human

INDEX.

tere way of living, 218.-BOUNTY, rare,
the most beautiful and attractive, 773; and
benefits preferred before valour, 771; and
humanity married, 667.-BOWELS of a
Lacedæmonian boy torn out by a fox, 604.
-BOWS carrying long arrows, 252.-
BREACH of faith has mischievous conse-
quences, 548; of promise when lawful, 667.
BREVITY agreeable to men of under-
standing, 127.-BRIDGE, wonderful, built
upon the Rhine by Cæsar, 612. - BRO-
THER'S name, 152.-BROTHERLY love
neglected, 152.-BRUTES subject to the
force of imagination, 80.-BUCANAN the
Scotch poet, 144.-BUFFOONS jesting at
the very moment of death, 207; to make sport
at meals, 258.-BURGERSHIP of Corinth
offered to Alexander, 798.-BURIAL much
recommended, 29.-BUSINESS, mark of
understanding in some men, 797; of most
part of men is a farce, 804.
CESAR, amours of, 608; call'd a drunkard,
610; his soldiers, fellow soldiers, 612; cle-
mency in the time of his government, 609;
towards his enemies, 610; towards pyrates,
360; commentaries commended, 350; horse,
250; much given to pleasures, 609; prompt-
ness in his expeditions, 612; severity to keep
his soldiers in awe, 612; sobriety, 60g; very
ambitious, 609; wonderful parts of, 609;
and Pompey good horsemen, 250.-CES-
TIUS whipt for despising Cicero's elo-
quence, 349.-CALISTHENES, how he lost
the favour of Alexander, 137.-CAME-
LEON, 392.-CANOPY of state allow'd but
in palaces and taverns, 269.-CAPACITY
greater in adverse than in prosperous for-
tune, 801; unfit for the management of pub-
lick affairs, 789; CARE and foresight of the
future, 24.-CARRIAGE, ridiculous, of a
gentleman in his own house, 756; and be-
haviour proceeding from natural inclinations,
534.-CATO, a great drunkard, 290; a true
pattern of human vertue, 189; age of, when
he kill'd himself, 280; parsimony of, 266;
praise of, 189; sound sleep of, 188; the
younger, his death, 188.-CATULLUS, 345
-CAUSE, original, of all diseases, 640.
-CAUSES fortuitous and voluntary, 594;
of events in the prescience of God, 594-
CAUSEY, magnificent, betwixt Quito and
Cusco, 726-CAUTION of ants, 394.-
CENSURE of Cicero, 347; of Guicciardin's
writings, 352; of Plato, 348; of Virgil, 345--
CEREMONIES,troublesome, 684.-CERE-
MONY follow'd by most part of men, 533;
of the Lacedæmonians at the interment of
their kings, 25; used at the interview of
princes, 52.-CHABRIAS lost the fruits of
a victory, to take care of the dead bodies of
his friends, 29.-CHACES within the thea-
tre at Rome, 717.-CHANCE, great domin-
ion of, over men, 287.-CHANGE dangerous
to governments, 553: gives form to injustice
and tyranny, 761; to be fear'd, 236.-CHA-
RACTER of Justus Lipsius, 490; of Mon-
taigne's father, 291: of Plutarch and Seneca,
347: of the emperor Julian the apostate, 594-
CHARIOTS drawn by four oxen, 714.-
CHASE of cuttle-fish, 386.-CHASTISE-
MENT instead of physick to children, 598;
ought to be deferr'd till anger be over, 599:

of officers ought to be perform'd without
anger, 8or.-CHASTITY, a true vertue, 91,
of the age wherein Montaigne's father lived;
291.-CHEARFULNESS, sign of wisdom,
131.-CHESS idle and childish game, 262.-
CHILDREN abandon'd to the care and
government of their fathers, 597; gloriously
saved by Theoxena from king Philip's edict.
587; grown up, ought not to be kept from
the familiarity of their fathers, 330; how
ought to be provided for by their fathers, 753;
instruments wherewith to grow rich, 328;
monstrous, 596; not much to be coveted,
why, 794; of the Carthaginians sacrificed to
Saturn, 388; of the Lacedæmonians whipt
before the altar of Diana, 594; ought not to
be suddenly awak'd from their sleep, 144:
spoil'd with delicacy, 136; the men to the
future, 794: whipt to death,216.-CHIRUR
GEON his end, 761; of Greece, 814.-CHI-
VALRY amongst the Lacedæmonians, 139.
-CHOICE of heirs, 335: of the manner of
dying left to the will of the criminals by
tyrants, 783.-CHOLICK as long living as
men, 871.-CHRYSIPPUS drunk in his
legs, 883; writings of, 117.-CHURCH
afflicted with troubles, why, 519.-CICERO,
eloquence of, 140, 204, 349: letters, 419:
very ambitious of glory, 523.-CIRCUMCI-
SIÓN, 486.-CLEMENCY of a tyger to-
wards a kid, 400.-CLOATHS unknown to
many nations, 184.-CLOSET of the king of
Mexico, 721.-COACHES made use of by
the Hungarians against the Turks, 713; of
the Emperors drawn by several animals, 714;
of what use in the service of war, 713; won-
derfully swift, 572.-COIN unknown in the
Indies, 725.-COLLATION betwixt meals,
258.-COLLEGE of Guienne, where Mon-
taigne was sent at six years of age, 145.-
COLONIES of the Romans, 573.-COM-
BATS of troop against troop, 583-COME-
DIES written in Montaigne's time, 345.-
COMFORT in old age, 590.-COMMAND
difficult and troublesome employment, 728.-
-COMMANDING mixt with vexatious
thoughts, 751.-COMMERCE of books, 685.
-COMMOTIONS, how are to be appeas'd,
103-COMMUNICATION of ants, 391;
of beasts among themselves, 378; of men
with beasts, 377; of some eminent wit, why
lookt after, 736.-COMPANY, accidental,
upon the road troublesome, 785: of ill men
dangerous, 194.-COMPARISON betwixt
Catullus and Martial, 346.-SENECA, and
the late Cardinal of Lorrain, 604; of Cato
the censor with the younger Cato, 589: of
Plutarch's vices, what, 606; of the Eneid
with Orlando Furioso, 346.-COMPLA-
CENCY and satisfaction in well doing, 671.
-COMPORTMENT disdainful and in-
different in the toleration of infirmities meerly
ceremonial, 635-COMPOSERS of Cento's
118.-COMPOSITIONS that smell of oil and
lamp, 44-CONCORDANCE of the new
world with the old, 485. CONDEMNA-
TION of Socrates, 679.-CONDEMNA-
TIONS to what end, 730.-CONDITIONS
springing in men without reason, vicious, 635;
of ourselves, principal charge of every one,
800-CONFERENCE of greater advantage
than reading of books, 732.-CONFESSION