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The greater number of Readers, because they have found one self-same kind of gowne, suppose most falsely to holde one like bodie. Outward garments and cloakes may be borrowed, but never the sinews and strength of the bodie. Most of those that converse with me, speake like unto these Essayes; but I know not whether they think alike. And these are the best.
3: Ibid. 9. 5: The Essayes, or Morall, Politike, and Millitarie Discourses of Lo. Michaell de Montaigne, London, 1603, p. 256. 6: Sainte-Beuve. 7: Essay II. 17, p. 71. 9: Essay I. 26, 257. Florio, 252. 12: Essay II. 12, 297. Florio, 266. 13: Part of an inscription still legible in Montaigne's castle. 14: Essay II. 12. 17: Essay III. 1 21: Essay III. 13. 25: Ibid. 27: Essay III. 10. 28: Ibid. 12.
In 1629 appeared sixteen pieces in fifty-six pages entitled "Micrologia, Characters or Essayes, of Persons, Trades, and Places, offered to the City and Country, by R. M." There was an "R. M." who wrote from the coast of Guiana in November 1817 "Newes of Sir W. Raleigh. With the true Description of Guiana: as also relation of the excellent Government, and much hope of the prosperity of the Voyage.
The younger, a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn, published in 1615 "Satyrical Essayes, Characters, and others, or accurate and quick Descriptions fitted to the life of their Subjects." He had published two years before a play called "Cinthia's Revenge, or Maenander's Extasie," which Langbaine described as one of the longest he had ever read, and the most tedious.
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