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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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