Michel de Montaigne

“ Chapter XXVIII. Nine-and-twenty sonnets of Estienne de la Boetie.
TO MADAME DE GRAMMONT, COMTESSE DE GUISSEN.
[They scarce contain anything but amorous complaints, expressed in a
very rough style, discovering the follies and outrages of a restless
passion, overgorged, as it were, with jealousies, fears and
suspicions.--Coste.] ”