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Montaigne's Essays: 3 Volume Set

[Montaigne] [John Florio (trans.)]

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de Montaigne, Michel; Florio, John (Trans.); Swift, Graham (Intro.)

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Montaigne's Essays (3 Vol.)

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Montaigne, Michel de (Translated by John Florio)

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Montaigne, Michel de; Screech, Professor M. A. (Translated by); Bakewell, Sarah (Selected and Introduced by)

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Montaigne; Florio, John

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Montaigne's Essays

Michel eyquem de montaigne (1533-1592), translation by john florio (1553-1625).

Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was provided by Professor Emeritus Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classics' the first volume was published in 1904, and reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by Risa S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The University of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and corrections to the Publisher, rbear[at]uoregon.edu.

THE FIRST BOOKE

THE SECOND BOOKE

THE THIRD BOOKE

trange it may seeme to some, whose seeming is mis-seeming, in one worthlesse patronage to joyne two so severallie all-worthy Ladies. But to any in the right, it would be judged wrong, to disjoyne them in ought, who were neerer in kinde, then ever in kindnesse. None dearer (dearest Ladies) I have seene, and all may say, to your Honorable husbands then you, to you then your Honorable husbands; and then to other, then eyther is to th' other. So as were I to name but the one, I should surely intend the other: but intending this Dedication to two,I could not but name both. To my last Birth, which I held masculine, (as are all mens conceipts that are thier owne, though but by their collecting; and this was to Montaigne like Bacchus, closed in, or loosed from his great Iupiters thigh) I the indulgent father invited two right Honorable Godfathers, with the One of your Noble Ladyshippes to witnesse. So to this defective edition (since all translations are reputed femalls, delivered at second hand; and I in this serve but as Vulcan, to hatchet this Minerva from that Iupiters bigge braine) I yet at least a fondling foster-father, having transported it from France to England ; put it in English clothes; taught it to talke our tongue (though many-times with a jerke of the French Iargon ) wouldset it forth to the best service I might; and to better I might not, then You that deserve the best. Yet hath it this above your other servants: it may not onely serve you two, to repeate in true English what you reade in fine French, but many thousands more, to tell them in their owne, what they would be taught in an other language. How nobly it is descended, let the father in the ninth Chapter of his third booke by letters testimoniall of the Romane Senate and Citty beare record: How rightly it is his, and his beloved, let him by his discourse in the eigh'th of his second, written to the Lady of Estissac (as if it were to you concerning your sweete heire, most motherly- affected Lady Harrington ) and by his acknowledgement in this first to all Readers give evidence, first that ir is de bonne foy, then more than that, c'est moy: how worthily qualified, embellished, furnished it is, let his faire-spoken, and fine-witted Daughter by alliance passe her verdict, which shee need not recant. Heere-hence to offer it into your service, let me for him but do and say, as he did for his other-selfe, his peerlesse paire Steven de Boetie, in the 28. of the first, and thinke hee speakes to praise-surmounting Countesse of Bedford , what hee there speakes to the Lady of Grammont, Countesse of Guissen: Since as his Maister-Poet saide,

-----mutato nomine, de te Fabula narratur: -- Hor. ser. lib. i. Sat. i. 69.  Do you but change the name, Of you is saide the same:

   The further that she goeth, The more in strength she groweth:

Ingrediturque solo, & caput inter nubila condit: --- 177.

She (great and good) on earth doth move, Yet veiles hir head in heaven above:

In questo stato son Donna ver vui, --- Petr. p. 1, son. 107. By you, or for you, Madame, thus am I.

Quod spiro, & placeo, si placeo, tuum est.

That I doe breath and please, if please I doe, It is your grace, such grace proceed's from you.

IOHN FLORIO.

To the Right Ho-

Norable, lucie countesse of bedford..

Relucent lustre of our English Dames,     In one comprising all most priz'de of all,     Whom Vertue hirs, and bounty hirs do call,     Whose vertue honor, beauty love enflames, Whose value wonder writes, silence proclaimes,     Though, as your owne, you know th'originall     Of this, whose grace must by translation fall;     Yet since this, as your owne, your Honor claimes, Yours be the honour; and if any good     Be done by it, we give all thanks and praise     For it to you, but who enough can give? Aye-honor'd be your Honorable Blood;     Rise may your Honor, which your merites raise:     Live may you long, your Honor you out-live.     To the noble-minded Ladie, Anne Harrington If Mothers love exceeding others love,     If Honours heart excelling all mens hearts,     If bounties hand with all her beauteous parts,     Poets, or Painters would to pourtray prove, Should they seeke earth below, or heav'n above,     Home, Court or Countrie, forraine moulds or marts,     For Maister point, or modell of their artes,     For life, then here, they neede no further move: For Honour, Bountie, Love, when all is done,     (Detract they not) what should they adde, or faine,     But onely write, Lady A N N E   H A R R I N G T O N. Her picture lost, would Nature second her,     She could not, or she must make her againe.     So vowes he, that himselfe doth hers averre. Il Candido. To the curteous Reader.

Al mio amato Istruttore Mr. Giovanni Florio.

Florio che fai? Vai cosi ardito di Monte?     Al monte piu scoscese che Parnasso,     Ardente piu che Mingibello?     Plino qui muore prima, che qui monte. Se'l Pegaso non hai, che cavi'l fonte,     Ritirati dal preiglioso passo.     L'hai fatto pur', andand' hor' alt' hor baffo:     Ti so ben dir', tu sei Bellerophonte. Tre corpi di Chimera di Montagna     Hai trapassato, scosso, rinversato.     Del' honorat' impres' anch' io mi glorio. Premiar' to potess' io d'or' di Spagna,     Di piu che Bianco-fior' saresti ornato.         Ma del' hono' ti basti, che sei Florio. Il Candido. A reply upon Maister Florio's answere to the Lady of Bedfords Invitation to this worke, in a Sonnet of like terminations. Anno. 1599.  Thee to excite from Epileptic fits,     Whose lethargie like frost benumming bindes     Obstupefying sence with sencelesse kindes,     Attend the vertue of Minervas wittes; Colde sides are spurrd, hot muthes held-in with bittes;     Say No, and grow more rude, then rudest hindes;     Say No, and blow more rough, then roughest windes.     Who never shootes, the marke he never hitt's. To take such taske, a pleasure is no paine;     Vertue and Honor (which immortalize)     Not stepdame Iuno (who would wish thee slaine) Calls thee to this thrice-honorable prize;     Montaigne, no cragg'd Mountaine, but faire plaine.     And who would resty rest, when SHEE bids rise? Il Candido To my deere friend M. Iohn Florio, concerning his translation of Montaigne. Bookes the amasse of humors, swolne with ease, The Griefe of peace, the maladie of rest, So stuffe the world, falne into this disease, As it receives more than it can digest: And doe so evercharge, as they confound The apetite of skill with idle store: There being no end of words, nor any bound Set to conceipt, the Ocean without shore. As if man labor'd with himself to be As infinite in words, as in intents, And draws his manifold incertaintie In ev'ry figure, passion represents; That these innumerable visages, And strange shapes of opinions and discourse Shadowed in leaves, may be the witnesses Rather of our defects, then of our force. And this proud frame of our presumption, This Babel of our skill, this Towre of wit, Seemes onely chekt with the confusion Of our mistakings, that dissolveth it. And well may make us of our knowledge doubt, Seeing what uncertainties we build upon, To be as weake within booke or without; Or els that truth hath other shapes then one.     But yet although we labor with this store And with the presse of writings seeme opprest, And have too many bookes, yet want we more, Feeling great dearth and scarsenesse of the best; Which cast in choiser shapes have bin produc'd, To give the best proportions to the minde To our confusion, and have introduc'd The likeliest images frailtie can finde. And wherein most the skill-desiring soule Takes her delight, the best of all delight, And where her motions evenest come to rowle About this doubtful center of the right.     Which to discover this great Potentate, This Prince Montaigne (if he be not more) Hath more adventur'd of his owne estate Than ever man did of himselfe before: And hath made such bolde sallies out upon Custome, the mightie tyrant of the earth, In whose Seraglio of subjection We all seeme bred-up, from our tender birth; As I admire his powres, and out of love, Here at his gate do stand, and glad I stand So neere to him whom I do so much love, T'applaude his happie setling in our land: And safe transpassage by his studious care Who both of him and us doth merit much, Having as sumptuously, as he is rare plac'd him in the best lodging of our speach. And made him now as free, as if borne here, And as well ours as theirs, who may be proud That he is theirs, though he he be every where To have the franchise of his worth allow'd.     It being the portion of a happie Pen, Not to b'invassal'd to one Monarchie, But dwells with all the better world of men Whose spirits are all of one communitie. Whom neither Ocean, Desarts, Rockes nor Sands Can keepe from th'intertraffique of the minde, But that it vents her treasure in all lands, And doth a most secure commercement finde.     Wrap Excellencie up never so much, In Hierogliphicques, Ciphers, Caracters, And let her speake nver so strange a speach, Her Genius yet finds apt decipherers: And never was she borne to dye obscure, But guided by the Starres of her owne grace, Makes her owne fortune, and is aever sure In mans best hold, to hold the strongest place. And let the Critic say the worst he can, He cannot say but that Montaige yet, Yeeldes most rich pieces and extracts of man; Though in a troubled frame confus'dly set. Which yet h'is blest that he hath ever seene, And therefore as a guest in gratefulnesse, For the great good the house yeelds him within Might spare to taxe th'unapt convayances. But this breath hurts not, for both worke and frame, Whilst England English speakes, is of that store And that choyse stuffe, as that without the same The richest librarie can be but poore. And they unblest who letters do professe And have him not: whose owne fate beates their want With more sound blowes, then Alcibiades Did his pedante that did Homer want.

    Give me leave 

THE AUTHOR TO THE READER

EADER, loe here a well-meaning Booke. It doth at the first entrance forewarne thee, that in contriving the same I have proposed unto my selfe no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions and humours, and by that meanes reserve more whole, and more lively foster the knowledge and acquaintance they have had of me. Had my intention beene to forestal and purchase the world's opinion and favour, I would surely have adorned myselfe more quaintly, or kept a more grave and solemne march. I desire thereun to be delineated in mine own genuine, simple and ordinarie fashion, without contention, art or study; for it is myselfe I pourtray. My imperfections shall thus be read to the life, and my naturall forme discerned, so farre-forth as publike reverence hath permitted me. For if my fortune had beene to have lived among those nations which yet are said to live under the sweet liberty of Nature's first and uncorrupted lawes, I assure thee, I would most willingly have pourtrayed myselfe fully and naked. Thus, gentle Reader, myselfe am the groundworke of my booke: it is then no reason thou shouldest employ thy time about so frivolous and vaine a subject. Therefore farewell, From MONTAIGNE, The First of March, 1580.

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Montaigne's Essays

Folio Society, 2006. Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Fine 2006 1st print 3 volume Folio Society box set, Florio translation. A little rubbing along insides of box due to previous removal of volumes, otherwise Fine and bright, unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Philosophy; ISBN/EAN: B0019Q4118. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 090293. Collectable - Fine Condition. Item #090293

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Published by the Folio Society, London in 2006.

The books are in excellent condition and is a set of three matching volumes, dark blue buckram spines with paper sides hand-marbled by Ann Muir, together in one matching blue slipcase. There is a small inscription of the previous owner on the endpaper. 

The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. They were originally written in Middle French and were originally published in the Kingdom of France. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record "some traits of my character and of my humours".

Montaigne's Essays by John Florio

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