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A05576	A direction for trauailers Taken out of Iustus Lipsius, and enlarged for the behoofe of the right honorable Lord, the yong Earle of Bedford, being now ready to trauell. They that go downe into the sea in shippes, see the great wonders of the Lord.	Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.; Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606. Epistola de peregrinatione Italica.; Stradling, John, Sir, 1563-1637.	1592 (1592)	STC 15696; ESTC S101412	11,114	28

A DIRECTION FOR Trauailers TAKEN OVT OF IVSTVS LIPsius and enlarged for the behoofe of the right honorable Lord the yong Earle of Bedford being now ready to trauell They that go downe into the Sea in Shippes see the great wonders of the Lord. SEMPER·EADEM CB. Imprinted at London by R. B. for Cutbert Burbie and are to be sold at his shop in the Poultry by S. Mildreds Church 1592. To the Vertuous and Noble Edward the yoong Earle of Bedford IT is full two yeares right Honourable Lord since for many great courtesies receyued at your handes I vndertooke and finished the translation of those two famous bookes of Constancie written by that great and learned Clerke Iustus Lipsius Which I haue suppressed hitherto would it had lien in mee to haue doone so euer partlie bicause I was loth to incumber and cloye the worlde with any more writings of which it seemeth to haue taken a great surfet alreadie partlie for that I was desirous to followe the good aduise and counsel of the wisest poet who in his preceptes of Poetrie to be applied to all writinges willeth all that intend to set out bookes to laye them by for some yeares yer they put them abroad into the open view of the world But now my promise to your Honor which I may not breake the request of my friendes which I cannot denie vrging me therto now that I say they are comming abroad beeyng in the presse and more then halfe doone loe your Honor yer they can bee fullye finished is called away by a worthy resolution to trauell in stead therefore of them may it please your Honour to accept of an other treatise of the same Lipsius much more proper and correspondent to this time and your intended iourney which being written by him to a noble man and a traueller also as you are beginneth thus I heare say noble yoong Earle that you are determined to trauell and surely I am not a little glad therof For this braue and heroycall disposition I know is onely in noble and vertuous natures Base and badder minds indeed content their poore thoughts with their owne countries knowledge and being glued to their home they carrie with the sluggishe and slowfooted snaile their howses on theyr backs to whom the Germaine prouerbe agreeth well That they knowe the sounde of no other Bels but their owne but contrarilie the haught and heauenlie spirited men men indeed are neuer well but when they imitate the heuens which are in perpetuall motion yea God him selfe which gouernes the heauens to whose nature nothing is more repugnant then at any time to be idle or ill occupied All these and many thousands more were worthy trauellers in holy writ Noah and his sonnes Abraham Isaac and Iacob Ioseph and his brethren Moses and Aaron Iosua and the Iudges Dauid and the kings Christ and the Apostles the kinges of Arabia and the Queene of Saba In prophane hystories Pythagoras Plato and other Phylosophers Hippocrates Galen Auicen Physitions most of the ancient and later lawyers haue trauelled among worthy men Iupiter Bacchus Hercules Theseus Iason Vlisses Aeneas Cyrus Alexander Iulius Cesar Hannibal Scipio Augustus Methridates Pompey the Constantines Charleses Othoes Conrades Henries Frederikes In our owne nation Brutus Brennus Richard Cordelion Edwardes Henries 1 2 5 7 8. These men thinke it a great staine and dishonour to the libertie which nature hath geuen them to be Cosmopolites that is Cytizens of the whole world and yet to bee restrained within the narrowe precincts of a little countrie as poore prisoners kept in a close place or fillie birds cooped vp in a narrow pen. Wherfore both in these dayes and in all ages heertofore the best and wisest the cheefe and noblest men haue alwaies trauelled as by examples might be prooued were it not tedious to intreatie of a matter so presumptuous For as with the wise Sacrates they counted euerie place their country which the Poet expresseth in a right good verse Omne solum forti Patria est vt piscibus aequor Ech land vnto a valiant man his country is right so As is each sea vnto the shelly fish where ere she go So to profite and inrich themselues with experience and true wisedome and especially to benefite their owne proper and natural countrie they trauersed ouer and trauelled into other countreies For this right honourable Lord this must be the end of your trauelling Euerie one can gaze can wander and can wonder but to few it is giuen to seek to search to learne and to attaine to true pollicie and wisedome which is traueling indeede Among which few your Lordship must be one which that you may be as you are yong so I hope you will not disdaine the yoong but surely the good counsell which by Gods grace I shall giue you out of my author Pleasure and profite First then presuming that your Lordship is both of your selfe and by those about you which are better able than my yoong selfe instructed in religion and the true feare of the almightie God once the onely maker alwaies the sole gouernour of the heauens the earth and the sea who must be the head the foote and the roote the beginning fountaine and foundation of all your actions much more of these your dangerful voyages I am in the next place to put you in mind that as archers when they goe abroad choose themselues out some mark and cōmonly it is the whitest fayrest they can finde whereat they aime and shoote so must you doe now you go abroad into the world you are to propound vnto your selfe two the fairest and gainfullest marks that be at which all men haue shot euer since the beginning of the world they are not pleasure alone as most the worst do like those which make Garlandes onely for shew they care not how good or wholesome the flowers are so they be goodly and faire to the eye So they care not how litle profit they haue so they be not scanted of their pleasure whom a learned and valiant Gentleman in your Lordships presence my hearing compared to him that was carried faire and softly abroad in a cloake-bagge and returned home as wise as he went out But you most noble yong Gentleman must take a farre other which is a much better course you are to propound to your selfe profite rather then pleasure For this is had better at home wherfore your honor should not need to hazard your selfe and life so many waies abroad if pleasure wer your chiefest end which is but a base end and quickly hath an end for what more short and vncertaine then pleasure which may be compared me thinkes to lightning manie waies and verie fitly lightning proceedes out of a cloud so is our reason darkned and obscured with a cloud as it wer if pleasure once take place lightning is neuer without some thunder no more arethey without their troubles and vexations who haue giuen themselues ouer to pleasure

that it is not fitting for them to trauell wee are to know that lerning which students propoūd to themselues as seafaring men do the hauen is obtained either by the eare or by the eie by hearing I meane or by reading Now although God be thanked our own countrey is replenished with as manie and as profound learned men as anie region in christendome besides yet there is no man but will graunt that heere is not all the learning in the worlde No no the Lord God in his great and wonderfull prouidence as hee hath giuen ech countrey his commoditie so hath he placed learned men in euerie part of the world as starres or pretious stones of whome such is our nature especially of vs English that as we admire and entertaine strange artificers before our owne so wee wonder at and more willingly intreate of learning with the learned forrainer then with our own natiue countrey man which though it be not generally to be liked yet in this case we speake of trauelling schollers by visiting vniuersities and men of learning maye vse this no good inclination to a good end Whoe shall not returne more learned from talking with learned Lypsius a man maye adde to his wisdome verie much by conferring with the wise saith the wisest of men The eloquent Murctus will make a man much more retoricall and ciuil in speach if he doo but once discours with him though hee intende not to learne of him then euer he was before For I know not howe but sure so it is we imitate those with whom in talking we are delighted though we propound no such thing before hand euen as they that walke in the sunne only for their recreation yet are coloured therewith and sun-burnt or rather and better as they that ftaieng a while in the Apothecaries shop til their confections be made carrie away the smell of the sweet spices euen in their garmentes To talke with or but to see such famous men would reuiue and glad me greatlie Now if your Lordship to returne shall like of or chance to light into the familiaritie of these worthy men as it is very easie they being most kind and as courteous as learned lorde God what opportunitie haue you to inriche your selfe with all manner of excellent and exquisite learning Seeke therefore after their acquaintance and albeit meet it is your honour should know your state and calling yet shame not no nor disdaine not to intrude your selfe into their familiaritie which may more ennoble you Neuer can a man be more shamelesse with lesse shame then in coueting to be with them that may better him Thus was Plato Pythagoras Democritus the rest of those worthie trauailers affected who leauing their natiue soile Greece the fountain and foundation of learning ranged ouer the whole world and were not ashamed to learne of the worst and simplest if he knew anie thing whereof they were ignorant The second meanes for a scholler yoong gentleman or anie other to further and increase his learning by perigrination or trauailing I said was by the eyes which is either by reading those bookes beyond the sea which are not to bee had for anie monie on this side or by being an eye witnesse of the verie same things which he hath red in bookes or hard of by others for example your honor is for Italie that Queene of countries famous for the wholesome temperature of the aire for the great plentie of all the gifts of God for the great ciuilitie and wisedome of the people albeit nowe somewhat degenerated with ouer-much effeminacie renowmed in all histories both old and newe for their mightie warres waged with the whole world for their martial discipline in warre and polliticke gouernement in peace In this countrey where shall you set your feet or cast your eie but you shall haue occasion to call into remembrance that which is set downe in Liuie Salust Polibius Plyny Tacitus Dion and Dionisius in whome who so hath read heeretofore sondrie matters of worth and accidents of moment wherof they are full and shall in trauailing see before hys eies the trueth of their discourses and the demonstration of their descriptions in trueth if he be not rauished with delight I shall take him but for some stocke or stone for the sight of the thing which a man hath heard doth set such a grace and edge to the same seemeth to me to be without all life that is not liuely and feelingly assected and moued therewith Segnius incitant animos demissa per aurem Quam quae sunt occulis subiecta fidelibus The things we heare lesse cause the mind and sences to arise Then do the thinges that presently are subiect to the eyes saith the Poet. To goe no farther then Italie although I could be content to wade in writing wander by trauell farther if it might be will not he that hath read of the great ouerthrowe of the Romaines at Thrasimenum and their soule discomfiture at Cannas when hee shall with hys owne eyes beholde the places where the regentes and great dominators of the worlde were shamefully foyled will hee not I say be greatly affected with a certaine compassion on the other side wil he not be greatly delighted with the goodly view of those famous delicious places of Albania Tibur and the renowmed Bathes What a pleasure will it be to see the house where Plinie dwelt the countrey wherein the famous Virgill or the renowmed Ouid was borne the signes and monumentes of the noble conquerours what a delightfull sight will it be to behold so manie ancient buildinges so manie stately Churches so manie huge Theators so manic high pillers so manie sumptuous sepulchres Surely I knowe not howe but it is so the minde of man beginnes to reuiue and lift vp his selfe aboue it selfe and to affect and meditate on excellent and noble thinges at the verie sight and consideration of these so great and glorious monumentes of antiquitie neither can the remembrance of the valour prowesse and vertue of former men and ages but ingender braue and worthie thoughtes in euerie gentle heart and noble bloud Nowe I come to the third effect and vertue of trauel which consistes in learning to refine our maners and to attaine to faire conditions and behauiour towardes all kinde and conditions of men which I haue left for the last place because I would haue it best remembred For he that shall trauell and not haue a speciall care heereof better were it for him to fit dreaming dunsing and drowping at home What is learning nay what shal it profit a man to be wise if a man be not also honest vertuous and of good qualities Wherefore noble Lord Edward thus thinke that the other two properties of trauailing I haue recommended to you as things praise worthy but this as profitable those I wish you to embrace as ornamentes to your honour but this as the prop and piller thereof Wherefore in this point