Add MS 40692

MISCELLANEOUS tracts, late 17th cent., viz:-

A. Draft, in a late 17th cent. hand, of a moral treatise in the form of Maxims and Reflections; written in the first person and addressed, apparently, to a nobleman. Imperf. Beg. "Many have been the Advises given & many y^e Books written to assist Man in the prosecuting the great design of becoming great & Perfect." f. 1. B. "The Character of Humane Frailty": apparently a draft (with corrections in different late 17th cent. hands) of Part I only of a projected work in two parts, the first dealing with the disastrous effects of uncontrolled desire (illustrated by examples from classical history), whilst the second was designed to stimulate the practice of virtue. An alternative opening ("The picture here presented to view") on an attached slip (f. 6) has the appearance of having been written by the author, and a correction on another slip (f. 13) seems to be in the same hand as A above. Beg. "The Picture which I now undertake to draw." f. 5. C. Part of a commonplace book, in French, temp. Louis XIV. Contents :-

(1) Verse, chiefly satirical, viz. :-(a) "Le testament du Baron de Lisola [Franz Paul, Baron von Lisola, Imperial diplomatist]." Written circ. 1675 by Père Jean Bertet (cf. De Backer, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Comp. de Jésus, i, col. 592) and printed by A. F. Pribram, Mitteilungen des Instituts für Oesterreich. Geschichtsforschung, viii (1887), p. 315. Beg. "En vertu de ce testament." f. 30;-(b) "L'arrière Ban des Podtes," beg. "Apollon Prince du Parnasse." References occur (f. 31) to the battle of Seneff (1674), to "Corneille brigadier tragique" and to "nostre ingenieuse R'acinc." f. 30 b;-(c) "La fuitte [from the siege of Oudenarde, 1674] du Prince [William Henry III] d'Orange et Monterè [Juan

Domingo de Haro y Guzman, Conde de Monterey y de Fuentes]": a dialogue in Alexandrines, beg. "Fabrice....Ils ne nous Suivent plus mon Prince, arreste, arreste." f. 31;-(d) "Tombeau de Monsieur le Cardinal de Richelieu epitaph, beg. "Icy gist dessous cette pierre Le Cardinal de Richelieu." f. 33;-(e) "Rondeau en Rime gaulois. L[e] C[ardinall d[e] R[iehelieu]," beg. "II est passé, il a plié bagage," printed, with ascription to Francois Maynard, by F. Lachèvre, Bibliographie des Recueild collectifs de Poésies publiés de 1597 à 1700, ii (1903), p. 708. It is a variant version of the poem printed in Le Tableau de la Vie et du Gouvernement de Messieurs les Cardinaux Richelieu et Mazarin, etc. (Cologne, 1693), p. 125. f. 33;-(f) "Sonnet sur les miseres du temps," beg. "Siecle de Richelieu, Siecle de Mazarin." Another copy in Harley MS. 3493, f. 27. ib.;-(g) "Sonnet sur les yeux de Madame de M. [Gabrielle d'Estrées, Marquise de Monceaux, 1595]," beg. "Ce ne sont pas des yeux; ce sont plustost des Dieux," composed circ. 1595-97 by Honorat Laugier, Sieur de Porchères, and printed, according to F. Lachèvre, op. cit., i (1901), p. 279, in a Recueil published by Raphael du Petit Val (Rouen, 1597). f. 33 b;-(h) "Pour un Ecuyer qui appelloit une damoiselle sa pouponne": sonnet, beg. "Ce gentil animal de taille si pouponne." f . 33 b; -(i) "Sonnet pour une dame qui dit à son amant quil luy alloit de sa vie s'il luy parloit d'amour," beg. "Mourir en vous aimant ne se peut Bans revivre." ib.; -(k) "Le mêpris du monde," beg. "I1 nest point de contentement." f. 34;-(1) "Grande vanité de Mr. Le Cardinal de Richelieu, Lequel fit graver en grosses Lettres d'or sur une pierre de marbre ce que dessous, pour estre plaeé sur le frontispice de sa maison": Latin couplet, beg. "Inveni portum: pax & fortuna valete." f. 34 b;-(m) "Pour un Gentilhomme qui avoit une Maistresee nommée Mademoiselle de la Roue," beg. "L'autre iour aux champs tout fasché." ib.;-(n) "Pour un serviteur qui avoit eu un baiser de sa maistresse le soir avant la quitter," beg. "J'ay dormi cette nuit ravi, content, plein d'aise." ib.;-(o) "A Monsieur Monod [? Pierre Monod]": sonnet, beg. "Maistresse des tombeaux, Divinité sanglante." ib.;-(p) "A Monsieur Mariette [? Pierre Mariette, d. 1657]": sonnet, beg. "Que ta plume a d'attraits quelle est complaisante." ib.

(2) "Comparaisons pour faire la guerre de son altesse de Condé [Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé] et de Monsieur de Turenne [Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne]": a somewhat free version of the "Parallélle de Monsieur le Prince et de Monsieur de Turenne sur ce qui regarde la Guerre" (completed 1688) of Charles de Marquetel de Saint-Denis, Seigneur de Saint-Evremond, differing from the text as printed in his Oeuvres Meslées, ii (1705), p. 525. f. 35.

(3) "Arrest Burlesque de Mr Boyleau": the famous prose satire written in 1671 in defence of Cartesianism and printed in Oeuvres Diverses du Sr Boileau-Despréaux, 1701, i, p. 372. The university is here named "Paris" (for "Stagyre" of the printed edition). f. 36.

(4) "Lettre contenant quelques particularites de ce qui s'est passé a L'Execution de Mr [Louis] Le Chevalier de Rohan & de Bes complicea [Marie, Marquise de Villars, etc.] & mesmes comme sa Coniuration a este descouvertc [in 1674]." Printed by E. Fournier (from Bibl. Ste. Geneviève MS. 851, f. 181) in Variétés Historiques et Littéraires, ii (1855), p. 301, and previously in Le Conservateur for April 1758, p. 117. f. 36 b.

(5) "Responce de Mr [Pierre der] Chanut [late French ambassador to Stockholm] à la Reyne de Suede [Christina] de la Haye le 4 Janv. 1651 (sic for 1654)." Printed in P. Chanut's Mémoires, 1675, iii, p. 503. f. 39.

(6) Accounts of (a) the "Milice de Suede" (ends imperfectly). f . 40 and (b) the French navy (begins imperfectly), [circ. 16771. f. 41.

(7) "De la Logique": notes on Logic, Natural and Moral Philosophy, etc. f. 42 b.

(8) Verses, viz.:-(a) "Au Roy [Louis XIV]. Sonnet. Mr Quinault [Philippe Quinault]." Printed, according to F. Lachèvre, Bibliographie des Recueils, iii (1904), p. 495, in the Recueil entitled À la gloire de Louis le Grand Conquérant de la Hollande, 1672- Beg. "Grand Roy, vos ennemis ne trouvent point d'azile." f . 54 b;-

(b) "De Madame de Seudery," beg. "Vostre vol est trop Lent errante Renommée." ib.

(9) Medical recipes in French and Latin. f. 55.

(10) "Stances (23) sur les parolles Memento Mori," beg. "Souviens toy quil te faut, resoudre." f . 55 b. D. "Aduertissement sur les Reliques": transcript, with corrections, apparently in the hand of C above, of Le Traité des Reliques of John Calvin the Reformer, which was first printed at Geneva, 1543, under the title Advertissement tresutile du grand proffit qui reviendroit à la Chrestienté s'il se faisoit inuentoire de tous les corps sainctz et reliques. The MS. varies slightly from the printed text. Imperf. Fr. f. 58. Paper; ff. 74. Folio. Late XVII cent. Presented by More Adey, Esq.