. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . not; and as he was carried out of the ship he swooned,and, reviving again, desired the company to pray for him. In a few hours SirRichard, feeling his end approaching, showed not any sign of faintness, butspake these words in -Spanish: Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyfuland quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to dothat hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour. Whereby mysoul most joyfully departeth out of this body, a
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . not; and as he was carried out of the ship he swooned,and, reviving again, desired the company to pray for him. In a few hours SirRichard, feeling his end approaching, showed not any sign of faintness, butspake these words in -Spanish: Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyfuland quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to dothat hath fought for his country, queen, religion, and honour. Whereby mysoul most joyfully departeth out of this body, and shall always leave behind itan everlasting fame of a valiant and true soldier that hath done his duty ashe was bound to do. When he had finished these words, he gave up theghost with great and stout courage, and no man could perceive any sign ofheaviness in him. Such was the fight at Flores in that August of 1591, with-out its equal in such of the annals of mankind as history has preserved tous—to the glory, as I think, of Sir Richard Grenville, and to the everlastingshame of Sir Thomas Howard. Authority: Michel de Montaigne. From an engravmg by Gauthcrot and Weber. No. 28 The Death of Michel de Montaigne (the Wise Master).Born 1533. Died 1592. THE thought of Death runs like a thread through all the writings ofMontaigne; he played with it, dallied with it, collected instancesof remarkable deaths, and even when he himself met with an ac-cident, he used his experience curiously as an approach to what he calledthe Master Day. Thus he speaks: I fortuned one day for recreationsake to go forth and take the air about a league from my house. I wasmounted on a very easy-going nag, but one not very sure footed. On myreturning home one of my men, a strong sturdy fellow, mounted upon ayoung horse with a desperate hard mouth, wishing to outgo his fellows,set spurs to his horse and came right into the path where I was riding along,and, like a Colossus, riding over me and my nag
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