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

that being but of a meane stature he hath yet by his knowledge in the Mathematicks found a meanes to make himselfe as high as Heaven But I will content my selfe to say that he is my friend and your Oratour that if my commendation and your own glory be deare unto you you cannot but very shortly send him backe with full satusfactuib I promised to send you the two Sonnets you have heard so much spoken of but my bad memory makes me fayle in a part of my promise and I can send you but one and a halfe The one entyre is this Tu reposois Dephnis au plus haut de Parnasse Couronné de lauriers si touffus fivers Qu'ils sombloit te Couurir des orages divers Dont la rigueur du sort trouble nostre bonac●… Quand l'injuste Menalque a been eu cett ' audace D'employer les poysons sans sarabe couuerts Pour corrumpre ton No●… 〈◊〉 ●…plit l'univer●… Et me sprise du temps la fatale menace Mais si durant la paix tes Innocents Escrits Forcerant d'avouer les plus ●…ares asprits Que Florence devoit tu Temple ata memoire Ce style de combat Cet Efford plus qu'humain Feravoir aqual poyut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mettre ta gloire Qu'and l'iujure t' a mis les armes a la main The halfe one is this Quelque fois ma raison par des foibles discans M'incite a la revolte me promet secours Mais lors que tout de bon je me veur servir d'elle Apres beaucoup de peine et a'efforts impuissants Elle dit qu' vr●… est seule aymable belle Et m'y rengage plus que ne font tous mes sens The Authour of this last Sonnet hath made one in Spanish which in the Court of Spaine goes under the Name of Lopez de Vega and another in Italian which Marino verily beleeved he had read in Petrarke It is a Spirit that changeth himselfe at pleasure and transformes himselfe into what shape he list yet he deserves better prayses than this and his Morall qualities are nothing behinde his Intellectuall I will tell you his Name when it shall be lawfull to love him openly and to make his Encomium without soruple But first it is needfull that Fortune which hath cast him upon an Enemies Countrey should bring him backe to Paris where both of us meane to waite upon you to make our Court and from whence I desire not over to returne but onely to testifie to you more carefully than heretofore I have done that I am Madam my deare Cousin Your c. 〈◊〉 Balz●…e 4. May 1633. To Madam de Campagnole LETTER LIII MY most deare Sister I send you the Book which you required of mee for my Niece and I beleeve that this and her Prayer-Booke make her whole Librarie shee shall finde in it a Devotion that is not too mysticall nor too much refined and which hath nothing but Morall and reasonable I like this popular Divinitie which meets us halfe way and stoops a little that we may not strayne our selves too much It followes the example of its Authour who made himselfe familiar with common people and put not backe so much as Courtisans and Publicans farre from making division in families and withdrawing women from obedience to their mothers and their husbands It commends this obedience as their principall verue and calles it a second worship and a second religion I shall be glad to see my Neece make profession of a pietie so conformable to naturall reason and so good a counsellour of all other duties But let her not I pray climbe higher and undertake Meditations of her owne head Grenada whom I sent her hath taken this paines for her and hath meditated for her and for all other that shall reade his Bookes There is nothing more dangerous than to mount up to Heaven without a helper and a guide and it is a great confidence one must have in his Spirit to let it goe so farre and be assured it will ever come backe againe It is not long agoe there was in a Towne of Spaine a Societie of devoted persons who continued in meditation so many houres a day leaving off all base works to live as they sayd a more heavenly life but what thinke you became of it even a thousand domesticall disorders and a thousand publike extravagancies The lesse credulous tooke the pricke of a pinne for a Saints marke the more humble accounted their husbands prophane the wiser sort spake what came in their heads and made faces perpetually In so much that when in the moneth of May there did not past three or foure runne madde it was counted a good yeare It is fit to stay ones selfe upon the true vertue and not to follow the vaine Phantasmes of holinesse And it is farre safer to ground ones selfe upon a solid and certaine reading than to goe wandring in a hollow and unsteady contemplation If I had more time you should have more words but hee that brings you the letter calls upon mee for it and I can no more to it but that I perfectly am My deare sister Your c. At Balzac 15. April 1635. Another to her LETTER LIIII MY dearest Sister all the world tells me●… that my Niece is fayre and you may beleeve I will challenge no man for saying so Beautie is in Heaven a qualitie of those glorious bodies and in Earth the most visible marke that comes from Heaven It is not fit therefore to slight these gifts of God nor to make small account of this sparke of the life to come It is not fit to be of so crosse an humour to blame that which is generally praysed Marke when a comely personage comes in place having but this advantage of her birth you shall presently see all that were talking to hold their peace and what noyse soever there was before you shall have all husht and an universall calme upon a suddaine you shall see a whole great multitude all busie in different labours to make presently but one body and that onely to stand to gaze and wonder some leave to make up the reckoning they had begunne some curtoll their complements and cut them off in the midst every man puts off his conceits to some other time onely to take a full view and to contemplate this divine thing that presents it selfe If it be at a Sermon they leave hearkening to the Preacher and they are no longer the auditours of M. de Nantes but the spectatours of Calista The fayre can never be seene without respect without prayses without acclamations They triumph as often as they appeare and their youth hath not mor●… dayes than their beautie hath Festivalls But the mischiefe is my deere Sister that the Festivals are short the youth is not lasting and the fayre at last come to be ill favoured Queenes and Princesses grow old and there is no old beautie but that of God of the Sunne and of the

never to doe so as they which called us Barbarians and got alwaies as much by their Treaties as they lost by our Victories have found at last that there is wisdome on this side the Alpes as well as beyond and are driven to acknowledge that we had a man amongst us now able to hinder them from deceiving us as they had done They wondred to see a servant that could not endure there should be a greater Master then his owne that felt the least evils of his Country as if they were his proper wounds and thought it a hurt to himselfe if there were but an offer made to touch the Dignity of this Crowne but when they saw that you applyed remedies upon the suddaine to all inconveniencies which they thought you could never have avoyded that you not onely answered all objections they made but prevented all they intended to make that you dived into their soules and tooke hold of their intentions there and at the first conference made answer to that which they reserved for the second then in truth their fleame turned into choller and then you quite rooted all their humane Prudence and all their politicke Maximes c. I am not able to dissemble the joy I take to heare that your good services are acknowledged that when divers counsels had beene tryed yet yours at last was still faine to be followed and that in guiding the fortune of France you are no lesse President of all affaires of Europe It is true that of all externall contentments I have none so sensible to me as this but on the other side when I heare that your health is continually assaulted or at least threatned by some accident or other that the rest which the quietnes of your Conscience ought to afford you keepes you not from having unquiet Nights and that in the midst of all your glory and good successes yet you oftentimes are as it were weary of your life then in deede c. And can it not be that you should come to heare the publicke acclamations but in the unquietnesse of your watchings nor of your praises but in your paines Must the Sense suffer and the Spirit rejoyce Must you be upon the Rocke when you are in your Triumphs Must you doe two contrary workes at once and at the same time have neede both of moderation and of Patience if vertue could be miserable and that the sect which accounts nothing evill but paine nothing good but pleasure were not universally condemned Certainely the divine Providence would at this day be complained upon by all places of this Kingdome and all honest men would in your behalfe finde something amisse in the worlds governement But my Lord you know better then I that it is the happinesse of beasts onely of which we must beleeve the body for as for ours which resides in our highest part it is as little sensible of disorders that are below her as they which are in Heaven are uncapable of offences by stormes of the aire or by vapours of the earth And this being so God forbid that I should judge of your condition by the state of your health and not thinke him perfectly happy whosoever is perfectly wise Doe but imagine with your selfe that you have made a division of the infirmities of humane nature with other men and then you shall finde the advantage is on your side seeing there is in you but a small portion of paine for infinite passions and defects that are in others Yet I cannot but thinke that the tearme of your patience is neere expired and that the time to come is preparing contentments for you that are wholy pure and wil make you young again after the time as before the time you have made your selfe old The King that hath need of your long life makes no wishes in vaine and heaven heares not the prayers of the enemies of our state Wee know of no successour fit to undertake what you leave unfinished and if it be true that our Armies are but the armes of your head and that God hath chosen your counsaile for establishing the affaires of this age why should we feare a losse which hath no right to come but to our posteritie he will not in this only point leave imperfect the happinesse he hath promised us he loves men too well to deprive them of that good which you are borne to doe them When Armies are defeated there may new be levied and a second Fleet may be set forth when the first is lost but if you my Lord should faile us c. It shall be in your time that people oppressed shall come from the worlds end to seeke the protection of this crowne that by your meanes our Allies shall bee well payed for their losses that the Spanyards shall be no conquerours but the Fronch shall be the f●…rs of all the earth It shall be in your time that the holy seate shall have her opinions free that the inspirations of the holy Ghost shall be no more oppugned by the cunning of our adversaries and that there shall be raised up couragious hearts worthy of the antient Italia and able to defend the common cause Finally my Lord it shall be by your wis●…dome that there shall be no more tyrannie in Christendome nor rebellion in this kingdome That the people shall leave in their superiours hands both liberty and religion and that from this legall government and from this perfect obedience there shal arise that happinesse which Polititians seeke for and which is the end of all civill societies My hope is that all these things shall come to passe thorough your wise government and that after you have made sure our peace and our neighbours you shall your selfe enjoy the benefit of your good deeds with pleasure and at your case and shall see the state of things continue flourishing whereof none but your selfe have beene the Author I earnestly entreate you so to deale with Mounsieur de that he may rest contented with this and dispense with me for any new meditation which would require more leasure then I am like to have This bearer will deliver you the History of Queene Elizabeth which may serve you for a recreation till the end of the weeke and then I shall come and aske your opinion and desire you to give me some light of that time out of the great experience you have of many things I desire of God with all my heart that he will be pleased to afford you yet some great matter to exercise your selfe in and that this wise old age of yours which wee so much admire may long continue to be a strength and ornament to your family These are my earnest wishes and withall to make you by a perfect acknowledgement of your favours a perfect proofe that I am Sir my deare Father Your c. At Balzac 7. Iune 1634. To Mounsieur de Boisrobert LETTER LI. SIR the Muses never favoured man as they doe you you

the late heate and have exposed my head to all the beames or to speake like a Poet to all the Arrowes of the Sunne I vow unto you that being in this case I even repented my selfe of all the good I had ever said of it and would faine call backe my praises seeing it made no difference at all betweene mee and my Post boy who had never praysed it Thankes be to God I am now in place of safety where you may well thinke I seeke rather to quench my thirst then to make my selfe fat and looke more after refreshing then tricking my selfe up To this purpose I forget nothing of that I have learned in Italy My ordinary Diet is upon the fruits of Autumne being of opinion that no intemperance of these pure Viands can be dishonest and that it is not fit to be sober as long as the Trees offer us their store and tempt our appetite Bee pleased Sir that my businesse may not be to doe untill the Trees shall have nothing upon them but leaves and that I may not goe to the Citty but when the Winter drives mee from the Country In the meane time I leave mine honour to your care in the place where you are and recommend unto you a little reputation that is left me having so many warres upon me and so many combinations made against me I would bee glad my name had lesse lustre and my life more quiet but I know not where to finde obscuritie I am so well knowne it not by my good qualities at least by my ill fortune that though I should banish my selfe into a strange country I doe not thinke I could be hidden Ubique Notus perdidi exili●… locum I have no remedy therefore but to continue in this famous miserie and to be labouring continually to provoke the envious and to make worke for the idle wherein notwithstanding if I shall doe any thing that pleaseth you I shall not thinke my labour ill bestowed I am in truth in great impatience to make knowne to all the world the account I make of your vertue and to leave a publike testimony and if I durst say it an eternall by which posterity may see that wee have loved one another and I passionately have beene and am Sir Your c. From Balzac 10. Septemb. 1631. To Mounsieur Mainard LETTER XIV SIR I have heard this day by a Letter from Mounsieur Chapelain that you are at Paris and that in some businesse of his you have obliged him exceedingly wherein you have done more than ever you ment and your action hath in it a double merit I owe you thankes for it in my owne behalfe and besides being joyned as I am with him in communion of all goods and evills you cannot fasten upon him and leave me free Hee sends mee no word of the nature of his businesse in which you have done him such good offices but I doubt me it is some imployment beyond the Alpes and dependance upon some Ambassadour to Rome Whereof I thinke I may truely say without giving reines to my Passion at all that hee hath both the substance and the supplenesse which are necessary in dealing with the braines of that country and that hee under whom he serves may lie and sleepe all the time of his imployment without any prejudice at all to the Kings service They who see but his outside onely take him for a neate man and one of excellent and pleasing qualities but I to whom hee hath discovered that which hee hides from all the world besides I know him to be a man capable of great designes and that besides speculative knowledge hee possesseth those also which serve for use and are reduceable to action I would say more if the Poste would suffer me I will onely adde this in point of his honesty which I said to you once of an antient Roman that I see no example of vertue in all the first Decade of Titus Livius that is of too high a straine or too hard for him Never therefore withdraw your affection from so worthy a place and so long as you thus oblige my friends It is I that will be Sir Your most humble and most obliged servant c. At Balzac 20. Decem. 1631. To LETTER XV. SIR in the Letter which received from you I saw a line or two for me that would even tickle a heart that were harder then mine and which I could not reade without some touch of vaineglory There is a pleasure in yeelding to such sweete temptations and though I know my merit hath no right to so gratious a remembrance yet by what title soever I come to be happy I am not a little proud of my fortune These are Sir the meere effects of your goodnesse and your experiments in that art with which you know how to gaine hearts and to purchase men without buying them The fairest part of the earth in which you have left a deere remembrance of your name gives this testimony of you by the mouth of its Princes and of their subjects but seeing in the place where you are you meete with spirits of love and tendernesse it cannot be that any should escape you upon whom you have any designe to take hold All things are biting beyond the Garonne the Sheepe of that Country are worse then the Woolves of this and I have heard a great person of our age say That if France had a soule certainly Gascognie should be the Irascible part Yet I heare Sir you have already sweetned all you found fowre there and that your onely looke hath melted all the stcele of the courages of that Province Mounsieur de and my selfe make account to goe see the progresse of so admirable a beginning and this next Summer to come and behold you in all your glory But if we goe thirtie miles for wee would more willingly goe three hundred for and I begin to thinke already of a vow to Loretta that I may thereby have a colour to goe to Rome to be there at the time when you shall doe honour to France and maintaine the Kings rights This cannot be too soone for his service nor soone enough for my desire who am Sir Your c. At Balzac 4. August 1631. To Mounsieur Arnaut Abbot of Saint Nicholas LETTER XVI SIR I am very slow in answering your Letter but I could not doe it sooner after three moneths of continuall agitation this is my first houre of leasure and the first place I finde of commerce to tender you the Compliment I owe you I see well that your word is not subject to the accidents of the world and that I have chosen a plot which is out of the reach of Fortune Your affection to mee is not of this brittle matter that friendships at Court bee made of it is of a more excellent stuffe and such as neither time can weare out not my negligence weaken I neede not doubt of preserving a good that you

Pacaturque aegro luxuriante dolor I have since received your learned Letter wherein you prescribe mee the order I must hold in using this wholesome disorder and teach me to drinke with art in truth you have more care of mee then I am worthy of my health is no matter of any such importance that it should be managed with such curiositie It is not worth the paines you have taken in treating of it so learnedly and writing these two leafes of paper you have sent me The publik which you will have to be interessed in it will acknowledge no such matter it hath no use in these turbulent times of contemplative Doctors The active life is that defends th●… frontiers and repells the enemy and the lea●… musket in the armie of M. the Cardinall of Va lette is at this time of more use then all th●… Peripatetiks and Stoiks of this kingdome wee may therefore thinke that the publicke you talke off dreames not of me nor is engaged to preserve my idlenesse but it is you that love me and would therefore make mee of more worth then I am thereby to have the more colour for your loving me I am much bound ●…nto you for this favour yet I doubt whilst you set me at so high a price there is none will take me for such as you would vent me but I regard it not I bound my reputation by your account and desire no other Theater nor other world but you It sufficeth mee that in your spirit I enjoy the glory you give mee and sweetly possesse my good fortune which I know I merit not if you weigh it in the Skales of Scrupulous justice but which you will yet preserve to me if you have regard to the passion with which I testifie unto you that I am Sir Your c. At Paris 3. Septem 1635. To Mounsieur de Mesmes D'Avaur Ambassadour to the King at Venice LETTER XXXVI SIR if the persecut●…on continue I shall bee forced to give place to envie and to goe waite in the place where you are for a change to time which in this kingdome is so adverse unto me It is indeede my adversaries designe to make all sorts of governments my enemies and not to suffer me to breath at liberty either in Monarchie Aristocracie or Democracie You have seene his manifests printed which have flowne beyond the Alpes you know the cunning he useth to draw the publike state upon me and to make mee ill thought of as well by the Kings Allies as by his Subjects He goes about to banish mee out of all states to shut all places against me that are open even to fugitives and not to leave my innocencie one corner of the earth to be in safety yet Sir let him doe his worst and practise what hee can I hope you will beare me out to say that he shall never hinder me from having a place in your heart nor be able to take from mee this pleasing refuge And besides that Ambassadors houses enjoy the priviledges of the antient Sanctuaries and that there is neither justice nor violence but hath respect unto them I assure my selfe your onely affection will interesse it selfe for my safety without any other publique consideration and that you will defend me as a thing deare unto you though the defence of a man afflicted were not otherwise in it selfe a thing worthy the dignitie of an Ambassadour and wheresoever you shall have power to speake I shall be sure of a strong protection being as I am assured of your good word and this eloquent mouth which perswades the wise and makes that appeare which is just shall gaine no doubt a good opinion of my cause to the undertaker and a favourable censure of those judges at least that I acknowledge I expect this issue from your almighty Rhetoricke and hope Sir that in these troublesome incounters you will double your love and your good offices unto mee Though I should be worse intreated of the world and of fortune then I am and should have nothing before my eyes but lamentable successes and deadly presages yet you would remember how that Cato stood firme upon ruins and held himselfe constant to a side which the gods themselves had abandoned I doe not thinke my case is yet in this extremitie it hath yet subsistence and foundation and as it is not so badde but that an honest man may maintaine it with a good conscience so neither is it so weake but that a meane courage may undertake it without feare The Gentleman that brings you this Letter hath promised to make you a more amplē relation hereof and to informe you of my whole story I humbly intreat you to give him audience untill I come and crave it my selfe and that I assure you in your Pallace amongst your other Courtiers that I truly am●… Sir Your c. At Paris 20. Decemb. 1627. To Mounsieur de Thure Doctor of the Sorbone and Chanon of the Church of Paris LETTER XXXVII SIR my deare Cousin the newes you sent me surprized me not I am so accustomed to receive disgraces that I finde in this nothing extraordinary it is true I am a little more sensible of it then of the former and the place from whence it comes makes mee take it a little more to heart yet seeing you seeme to compassionate my miserie I finde my selfe comforted of one halfe of it and having you for my Champion I feare not what my persecutors can doe against mee Suffer mee to call them so that sollicite your Colledge against me and make it lesse favourable to me then I had good right to hope for It is not their zeale of Religion nor interest of the publike that sets them on worke it is an old spight they beare mee which I could never master with all my long patience it is the hate of a dead man which lives still in his Tombe it is his rellicks that warre upon me and whereof some ill disposed French doe serve themselves to disgrace a worke which hath no other end but the honour and service of the King I never doubted of your good nature and I know if neede were your charitie would cover the multitude of my faults but in this ease I thinke I have reason rather to aske justice at your hands and to tell you that if you take the paines to consider my words as I meant them and not as my enemies corrupt them you will easily grant they containe nothing contrary to the orthodox doctrine or that is not maintaineable in all the Schooles of Christendome This being so my deare Cousin I doubt not but you will strongly defend my cause at least my person and will be pleased to assure my Masters of your fraternitie that having alwayes accounted their Colledge as the Oracle of true Doctrine and as the interpretor of the Church in this kingdome I could not wish a more sweet or glorious fruit of my travailes then to see them entertained