Thomas Okey 
The Story of Paris (Illustrated) 

“I will not forget this, that I can never mutinie so much against

France but I must needes looke on Paris with a favourable eye: it

hath my hart from my infancy; whereof it hath befalne me, as of

excellent things, the more other faire and stately cities I have seene

since, the more hir beauty hath power and doth still usurpingly

gaine upon my affections. I love that citie for hir own sake, and more

in hir only subsisting and owne being, than when it is fall fraught

and embellished with forraine pompe and borrowed garish

ornaments. I love hir so tenderly that hir spottes, her blemishes and

hir warts are deare unto me. I am no perfect French man but by this

great citie, great in people, great in regard of the felicitie of hir

situation, but above all great and incomparable in varietie and

diversitie of commodities; the glory of France and one of the noblest

and chiefe ornaments of the world. God of his mercy free hir and

chase away all our divisions from hir. So long as she shall continue,

so long shall I never want a home or a retreat to retire and shrowd

myselfe at all times.”



—MONTAIGNE.