...IGNE (1533-1592) Translation by John Florio (1553-1625) Book I. | Book II. | Book III. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was pr... ...'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... ...or having dayned to read it, without pitty of my failing, my fainting, my labouring, my languishing, my gasping for some breath O could so Honourable... ...e meglior Oratore e Poeta, o Philospho e Medico). So Scholler-like did he undertake what Latine prose; Greeke, Latine, Italian or French Poesie shoul... ... encountred by chance with Betis, that commanded therein, of whose valour (during the siege) he had felt wonderfull and strange exploits, being then ... ...ly commended and much bemoaned of all; but yet of none so greatly as of a Germane lord, called Raisciac, as he that was amased at so rare vertue: his... ...Rancon, neere unto Puy in Avergne: the besieged yeelding afterwards, were forced to carry the keies of the Castle, upon the decease of the Captaine.... ...that, as in all other actions of man's life, every man should referre the rule of it to the qualitie of his fortune. And the Philosopher Lycon did w... ...eive his inventions how to build bridges, and devices, how to frame other war-like engins; and in respect of that how close and succinct he writes, w...

...s 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, ...