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The mine was nothing else but to cutt the nearest tree, and so by his fall make a bracke, and so goe and give an assault. Their fort was nothing but trees one against another in a round or square without sides. The ennemy seeing us come neere, shott att us, but in vaine, ffor we have fforewarned ourselves before we came there.
Indeed, honour'd Sir, I have good need of a patient sperrit in my dealings with him; for altho' at times I think he is in a fair way to become a Christian, there are other times when I doubt Satan has still a hold upon him, and that all my prayers and admonitions have been in vaine.
Sometimes it takes the tone of a lighter melancholy touched with cynicism: La vie est vaine: Un peu d'amour, Un peu de haine, Et puis bon jour. La vie est brève, Un peu d'espoir, Un peu de rêve, Et puis bon soir.
There was nothing singular in his interest in astrology and alchemy. Still though he believed in greater absurdities his attitude towards such matters was that of his chosen motto, Vacate et Videte. "To rely too far upon that vaine art I judge to be rather folly than impiety." As with regard to spirits and witches, he says, "I only reserve my assent."
If to the Mill-stone you shall cast in Sand, It troubles them, and makes them at a stand; If Pitch, it chokes them; or if Chaffe let fall, They are employ'd, but to no use at all. So, bitter thoughts molest, uncleane thoughts staine And spot the Heart; while those idle and vaine Weare it, and to no purpose.
And examining their lives and actions, it will not appeare, that they had other help of fortune, than the occasion, which presented them with the matter wherein they might introduce what forme they then pleas'd; and without that occasion, the vertue of their mind had been extinguish'd; and without that vertue, the occasion had been offer'd in vaine.
Neither of them had ever known what the other thought about it before! Gyp murmured: "La vie est vaine Un peu d'amour, Un peu de haine, Et puis bonjour!" Not quite a grunt or quite a laugh emerged from the depths of Winton, and, looking up at the sky, he said: "And what they call 'God, after all, what is it? Just the very best you can get out of yourself nothing more, so far as I can see.
Now to bring this Peter in credite, and the kyng out of all credite with his people, diverse vaine persons bruted dayly among the commons of the realme, that Christe had twice appered unto him in the shape of a childe, betwene the prieste's handes, once at Yorke, another tyme at Pomfret; and that he had breathed upon him thrice, saying, 'Peace, peace, peace, and teachyng many things, which he anon declared to the bishops, and bid the people amend their naughtie living.
Thus, gentle Reader, myself I 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. We must expect of man the latest day, Nor ere he die, he's happie, can we say.
Without love she might have allowed herself to be blindfolded as many other women are, by ambition, or money, or intellect. "La vie est vaine, Un peu d'amour, Un peu de haine, Et puis bon jour." In the process of Arithelli's convalescence, comedy fought for place with tragedy.
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