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A52003	Entertainments of the cours: or, Academical conversations. Held upon the cours at Paris, by a cabal of the principal wits of that court. / Compiled by that eminent and now celebrated author, Monsieur de Marmet, Lord of Valcroissant. And rendered into English by Thomas Saintserf, Gent.; Entretiens du cours. English	Marmet, Melchior de, seigneur de Valcroissant.; St. Serfe, Thomas, Sir, fl. 1668.	1658 (1658)	Wing M701; ESTC R202859	101,018	264

the Idol and made the finest figures and cadencies that could be shew'd by the number of three still turning to the Altar and offering Incense at the end of their Ayer whilst Appelles behind the Altar drew Stratonica's Picture with a regulated motion upon the fame Ayer they daunc't Upon a suddain a huge and terrible noise behind the Altar made both the Musitians and Dauncers stop in the middle of the Sacrifice and the Oracle bellow'd out a dreadful voice that their adorations were not pleasing to the Gods because they had been prophan'd by a Painter but that his Work should expiate the crime and that all men who should look upon it should be deform'd in some part of their bodies excepting only women who should be exempt from the punishment Hereupon the whole Assembly went out of the Temple much afflicted and disturbed Olympia wife to one of the Sacrificers made the sixth Entry and then the Musick struck up again and she understanding the disgust which the Gods had signified against the Sacrifice by the concourse of people she saw going out of the Temple and shewing her self desirous to know the cause thereof she found no body there but Appelles cast into a profound and Letargical sleep whom she in vain endeavoured to awake to consult about the businesse For in regard he had been taken with the beauty of the picture whilst he was drawing it he was the first who received the punishment of the prophanation he had committed by a dead sleep into which he was cast according to thesentence of the Oracle So that Olympia could not awake him but observing amongst other marvailous excellencies of the Picture the Inscription which it bore for King Seleucus and nettled by covetousnesse a vice constant to the Sex in hope of great reward for so rare a Present she resolved to steal the Picture and carry it into Syria to the King But it was no small pleasure to see this woman represent all the motions which the Passions of this Entry required with a well compos'd cadency and an agreeable disposition of Steps As the terror given by the Oracle the Extasies into which she was cast by the excellency of the Piece and the flight she made out of the Temple for fear of being caught in so worthy a theft In a word this Entry was so stupendious and so expressive that it raised so many buzzes of admiration and applause as put the Musick to silence Upon this an excellent Trio was sung by certain Musitians in an Antick Habit to give time for Olympia's journey into Syria with the Picture and to observe the rules of the Representation during which the Temple disappear'd and at the same time by a subtle change of the Scene was suddainly represented a stately Room of a Kings Palace which covered the whole Theater and whose magnificent structure might dispute Architecture with the most pompous Palace of Italy and the most admirable Porticks of Venice where there came out an Eunuch Door-keeper to King Seleucus's Chamber and introduc't Olympia to him The Musick having given the Spectators leisure to recollect their minds from the excess of delight wherewith they had been seaz'd by this stately change of the Stage began to play-again and the Eunuch daunc't his part after a brisk and antick fashion not much disresembling the Ideas of the Trio perform'd by the Musitians The King Seleucus came forth of his Chamber with Olympia to whom he shew'd many signs of recognizance for the Present she had made him and willing her to set it upon a Cupboard which stood neer the Stage and not being able to satiate himself with admiring it or rather with adoring it he suddainly became blind which Olympia perceiving she fled away and left him groaping up and down the Stage and it was a very pleasant spectacle to the Beholders to see him harnast in a Coat of Arms glittering like the Sun with Spangles of Gold and Embrodery go groveling and staggering to his Chamber and all this with the hansomest measure and the most regulated Counterpaces that could be The Prince Antiochus understanding the dismal news of the King his Fathers blindnesse came out of his Chamber with intention to go visit and consolate him but casting his eye upon this Divine and fatal picture and contemplating the beauty thereof he suddainly found his Right Leg shortned by a foot with strange and grievous pains and so he was fain to go halting home In the second Entry two Princes of the Court came forth to go to the King but stopping to gaze upon the Picture before they went in the one of them swel'd up like a Tun and the other grew bunch-backt Then four of the Life-Guard daunc't excellently well and were so much the more admir'd because they daunc't a Pyrrique after the old fashion with their Halbards in their hands wherewith they shew'd many military feats after the manner of pitcht and well regulated Battails But they also suffred by this fatal Charm for as they were peeping upon the Picture they were all four struck lame in their arms and their Halbards fell out of their hands and made sport enough for the Company to see them march off with every one a crooked arm dragging their Halbards with their other hands and all this with a very fine cadency and measure But the greatest mischief the Picture did was to a litte knavish Page who being sent to call the Physitians and not content to stand and pry upon it at a distance must needs forsooth creep towards it and consider it neer hand but upon a suddain the poor Strippling found his thighs shivered and was forc't to wriggle away upon his breech which caused much laughter to see him throw away the Picture in a rage and daunce upon his arse Now the King understanding that the whole Court had suffred by looking upon this Picture commanded it to be torn in pieces to which purpose the Eunuch coming forth in the third Entry and finding the Picture upon the ground could not forbear to look upon it before he brake it but it cost him dear for his head grew forthwith as bald as his chin and so scratching his noddle with one hand and assaulting the Picture with the other he came as scurvily off as the rest A Physitian and a Mountebank being sent for to cure the King and his Son made the fourth Entry so upon the same ayer but with different steps and contrary figures in regard of the Antipathy there is between them in point of their Vocation and this Entry was of more force then the rest and had more paces of Science and figures of peculiarity in respect of their contrariety but it was too short for really had the whole Bal been compos'd of the same steps upon the same ayer it would not have been tedious so delightful and ravishing they were Now all humane remedies being found uselesse towards the cure of these great mischiefs this Charm had wrought

loosnesse and leachery but he perceived also at the same time certain counter-signs to these defects and that vertue had gotten the uper hand of the inclinations of these great men and vanquisht their ill natures Now the same Author says that the Phisiognomy and the principal marks thereof are in the Eye-broughs in the Forehead upon the Brest upon the Shoulders upon the Navel and generally in all parts of the Body Let this ancient Author say what he will said the Count my opinion still is and none can doubt it that the Eyes are the fairest and clearest part of this Science in regard they are the image of the Soul and the windows of the heart or Diaphanous and transparent bodies through which we may clearly see the most secret thoughts and in fine they are the Indexes of manners and the true testimonies of the mind Aristotle was taught by Plato that one may see evidently in a mans eyes whether he be patient or passionate hateful or envious merry or sad chaste or leacherous stupid or subtle giddy or judicious and in fine that all the passions of the Soul may be manifestly seen in these Looking-glasses For when we see the Eyes red and fiery it suffices to signifie a great excess of choler and consequently that he who hath it is touchy and pettish and furious upon the least occasion And the spartling and vigorous brightnesse which shines in a puissant and ardent eye which hath as it were something of the nature of fire in it that is that it hath store of spartling glances or spirits indicates much concupiscence impetuosity boldnesse temerity and insolence But what will you say of those dull and heavy eyes which seem to be always half asleep and not to have confidence enough to look upon others for fear of seeing themselves in them As timidity fear and faint-heartedness have their Essential Signs in these parts of the Body and principally because they are of a most noble substance and very sensible and delicate so may we also gather from thence that such persons as hang down their eyes are fearful bashful unsettled and melancholy The Sanguine Complexion is the most easie of all to be known and the grace which we observe in a cheerful and smiling eye is not only an apparence but a certain and indubitable effect We may often perceive some certain Souls to laugh inwardly as conceiving themselves to be very well hidden but though they be able to hold their mouths and the other parts of their faces yet do their eyes declare the tranquillity of their minds the candour of their Souls and that briskness of humor which is covered by modesty for the knowledge of the Eyes hath not the power to impose any passions but to discover by the senses and spirits which reign over them those which we ought to curb with the bridle of Reason and which are manifested to us by natural Signs The Count having ended the Philosopher said Some Authors have given us for a ground of Phisiognomy that when a man has any kind of resemblance of a beast he hath some kind of Sympathy with that beast both in nature and inclinations But they who Phisiognomize men to beasts make not the right choice of the Signs and their election is defective in order to the Soul though it be in some sort conform to the Body And the Prince of Philosophers is not of this opinion but teaches us that the Nature of Men and Beasts are repugnant to one another and that where there is a repugnance there is no Sympathy and that men have too noble operations to be compared to beasts Another Science of Phisiognomy is discovered by the head where all the principal operations of the Soul reside and in the mould of the skull are disposed all the various Cellutes of the Faculties which the School in barborous terms calls Sensitive Syllogistick Memorial and Motive The head I say is one of the greatest Indexes to know the Spirit it contains as the hand likewise is in regard it is the instrument of the Understanding a good practice to guide us by the lines thereof to the knowledge of the inclinations Chiromancy is a fine Science and very proper to judge of Spirits but it is too common But of all the precepts of Phisiognomy whereof we have spoken it is fit for every body to make use of that which he finds most facil and easie and whereof he hath had most experience and proof The indubitable Secret to make the Horoscopes said the Counsellor whereof the Phisiognomists and Astrologers serve themselves most and whereby for the most part they least baffle and fool men is indeed the Phisiognomy of the forehead which is more then the other parts whereof we have spoken and then the very Complexion it self the gate and light to know the Star which presided at the conception and birth of any body and it is this Star which forms the Complexion makes the Inclinations stirs the Passions and which infuses all the good or evil which befals and threatens us The Body of Man is composed of four Humors which are ever striving for the superiority amongst themselves and some one of them always carries it and predominates over the rest for otherwise we should be immortal because if they had equality they would make an exact and perfect Temperament ad pondus which was never found in any but our Saviour Christ. Now these four Humors or four Complxions are infus'd by the Seven Planets which govern them and which form them of the mixture of the pure substance of the Elements and of the occult vertues of the Firmament for Saturn infuses Melancholy Jupiter Sol and Venus Blood Mars Choler and Luna Flegm and Mercury concurs with some one of the other but is never alone Wherefore we need know no more then the force nature and influence of the Seven Planets to judge of their power and of the propensions and dispositions which they infuse into us and to understand perfectly the effect which is caused by Saturn kind and Saturn unkind Jupiter happy and Jupiter unhappy Mars propitious and Mars contrary Sol gracious and Sol ungracious Venus fair and Venus dangerous Mercury advantagious or Mercury prejudicial and in fine what Luna pleasant and Luna unpleasant can do for certainly I say after we have attain'd the Science of the Planets and come to know perfectively that although their power like the Heavens which are their habitation have the general qualities which unite themselves with those of the Elements and agree with the humors of the Bodies they produce yet doth this power still reserve to it self the empire of their domination or rule and suffers not those Bodies to be govern'd but by a dependency upon and submission to their influence When I say we are perfectly acquainted with the Influent aspect of the Planets and can penetrate to the depth of their powers we need not have any more

of civility from the bed to wait upon them to the door shew'd them so tall straight and slender a body enricht and illustrated with so comely and majestick a grace and with so sweet and penetrating an ayer that the gravity of her carriage and the vivacity of her aspect rendred her Divine and inaccessible Her supper was brought into her chamber to her but the would not touch so much as one bit of any thing and indeed the Gentlemen did neither eat nor say much they being agitated with the passion of love and desire and she with that of fear and discomfort After supper they all retired save only the Baron who dispatcht a witty discreet person to inform himself of the Ladies condition and of the truth of the accident wherby he found that she was worth six hundred thousand Livers which is neer sixty thousand pound Sterling as being the only Child and Heiress to a rich Financier and that there was great diligence and inquiry made after her But if Love had sensibly touch't his heart before this news did it much more in despight of all the generus resistance he could make against it Wherefore he presently began to consider how he might make use of his good Fortune and keep the Lady for himself in order to which he resolved to carry her forthwith out of his house where she had been seen and to this effect he sent his Coach with six fresh horses out at St. Anshonies Gate with some men on horse-back well arm'd to guard it In the mean while he went into the Chamber of his fair Guest to ask her if she were ready to go home however he intended to carry her farther And she as soon as ever she saw him without expecting his complement earnestly ask't him what he came to offer her according to his promise I am here to wait on you Lady said he and there is a Chair on purpose at the Gate to carry you with more ease and convenience then in a Coach in regard of your weakness Whereupon she without answering him without calling for hood or mask and without expecting his hand went first down the stairs and slipt into the Chair and the Baron went into another to conduct her to the Coach which stay'd for them and which was to carry them before day to the house of a friend of his in the Country They met with misfortune in the streets but the Baron being in deep contemplation upon his design was furiously assaulted by two strong Passions which so tormented him that they made a kinde of a Portative Hell of his soul namely Honor and Profit which made a fierce combat in his brest and Love taking the stronger side of the two suffered him not to deliberate much upon it but byassed his Spirit that way Honour said to him Hold whither goest thou Thou goest to commit an unworthy Rape which will stain the brightness of thy glory with irreparable shame and to perpetrate a crime whereof Heaven hath made thee the Preventer Thou oughtest to send this Lady home to her Parents and therein thou wouldst perform an Heroical Action Love said Affection cannot be forc't and my fire is never kindled but by services and complements Thou wilt more vigorously captivate thy Mistresse by carrying her home then by keeping her prisoner and her Father in requital of thy generosity will make thee a Present of the thing which thou hast given him Home with her home with her No said Profit thou art a fool if thou lettest slip thy good fortune and out of faint-heartedness loosest a certain treasure for an uncertain reward Whereupon Love wheel'd about and tickled him with a desire to take present possession of the charms and delights he had propos'd him In fine after a long contestation of his thoughts Honor got the victory and so calling that person to him whom he had sent to inform him of the accident as confiding most in him he bid him softly Go to the Financiers house whither when they came the tears desolation and affliction which was there before turn'd forthwith into as great a confusion of amazement joy and gladnesse For when the Mother who was in her bed overwhelmed with grief and the Father who was walking sadly up and down the chamber exaggerating the excesse of his misfortune heard their Servants shout out upon a suddain Mistresse Mistresse the Father was coming out to see what was the matter and met the Baron at the Chamber-door ushering in his Daughter and presenting her to him The Mother could not contain her self but jumpt out of the bed and caught her in her arms and whilst all was full of embra ements and excesses of joy the Baron said to them It hath been my happinesse to take your Daughter out of the hands of him who had stoln her and now I bring her to you Upon which the young Lady began to relate the good treatment she had received but the Baron forthwith replied Lady all the recompense I desire shall be the glory of having served you As for the Father and Mother their actions supplied the want of words to thank and acknowledge the irremunerable favour he had done them and so having sent for his Coach which expected him out of town and taking his leave he said to the young Lady Lady I have yet served you but to halves nor shall I think my self to have merited any thing of you till I shall have fought with him who forc't you and till the justice of your cause shall have made me sacrifice him to revenge your injury In the second Walk we will treat of the pretty adventures of the Barons love to this Lady and introduce his Coach with other persons in it amongst whom we shall see a Conversation as various as recreative And the Ladies and Wits of the Court must be pleased to pardon me if I have coucht any Entertainments here which are not proper for the Cours or any Matters which are not pleasing to their palates For if I have shew'd in this book that I am not much inclin'd to verbosity and that I love not superfluous and affected terms I was induc't to it by the advice of my friends who are good book-men and the scourges of them who talk much and say nothing However to expiate this crime committed against Gallantry I was fain contrary to my design to change the Scene of this first Walk and retire the Coach of my Interlocutors from the Cours to the end that not being distracted by the charming beauty of the Ladies nor diverted by the variety and confusion of Objects their Conversation might not be interrupted and that they might probably be able to continue it in a Walk apart upon such subjects as require quiet and attention But in these following Walks it shall not be so and they shall allow the Court more freedome more gallantry and more pleasure then this hath done FINIS After the battell of Kilseioh 1. He maintains the honour of Ladies 2. Of the Country 5. Of sympathy 4 Of habitudes in all their parts 6. Of Quarrels and Duels 7. Of the Palm and of the Laurel 8. Of glory the sole reward of Champions and Conquerors 9. Of Envy 10. Of Sea-sickness 11. Of the Turks maxime 12. Of Clomency 13. The relation of a Comedy of the Days Reign of Sem 〈…〉 mis 15. An Invective against an able Poet. 16. Of Eloquence and the delicate parts thereof * Where all the Mountaubancs Jugglers and Cheaters are 17. For the Country 18. An Apology for Monsieur de Balzac 19. Of the distinction of Wits 21. Of Metoposcopy 22. Of the infallibility of the Horoscopes 23. Whence comes the folly of learned men 24. Whether the World be Eternal or no. 25. Of Academies and the differences thereof 26. Of that which makes a compleat Man 27. Of the posture men ought to be in at Court 28. Of Marriage and single life 31. Of the respect we owe to Sacred persons 31. Of Bals and Masks 32. The relation of a magnificent Ball or Mask * Rue des Lombards at Paris Lavieille rue du Temple * Rue des Blancs-Manteaux