(15)Document 13	Michel de Montaigne, Essays, trans. by John Florio, 1603
	Montaigne was born a to a minor noble French family in 1533. He served in many important political positions before his death 1592.
	Love disdaineth a man should holde of other then himselfe,and dealeth but faintly with acquaintances begun and entertained under another title; as mariage is. Alliances, respects and meanes, by all reason, waigh as much or more, as the graces and beautie. A man doth not marie for himsel fe, whatsoever he alledgeth; but as much or more for his posterity and familie. The use and interest of mariage concerneth our off-spring, a great way beyond us. Therefore doth this fashion please me, to guide it rather by a third hand, and by anothers sence, then our owne: All which, how much doth it dissent from amorous conventions? . . . I see no mariages faile sooner, or more troubled, the such as are hudled up for amorous desires. There are required more solice foundations, and more constant grounds . . . this earnest youthly heate serveth no purpose.