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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70701	A treatise of direction, how to travell safely and profitably into forraigne countries written by Thomas Neal ...	Neale, Thomas, 1614-1646?	1643 (1643)	Wing N358; ESTC R3203	36,777	188

tumults under pretences of consultation with the publique enemies they punished their best Patriots So also amongst the Romans F. Camidlus after he had expulsed the Gallograecians or rather the Senones from the city was sent into Exile because as Val. sayeth being Tribune● 〈◊〉 was accused to have taken 1500 pounds out of the treasury when that money as it was well knowne being pillaged by the Gaules had perished in the Combat Much better therefore and more nobler did the Ephori of the Lacedemonians deale with their generall Pausanias whom although he was certainely by his owne friend Arginnius Accused to have dealt about the change of his Countreys government with the King of Persia they would not sudainely apprehend untill his owne confessions drawne on by the youth made his treachery apparent The history is worth the consideration and written in a most choise and elegant latin stile by Cornelius Nepos in his booke of the lives of the most excellent generals Valerius Maximus also may supply the like examples in his chapter offidelity Let therefore be alwaies conversant before the eies of a travellour piety towards god and residing in his most inward affections a faithfull constant and perpetuall love towards his country For if it be necessary for every Christian man alwaies to thinke of God and to remember his benefits with a gratefull commemoration as also to direct our humble petitions and prayers for the enjoyment of those blessings which every day we receave from omnipotent and sacred Majestie of heaven much more the more fervently if herein by any any meane is to bee held ought a travellour to addict himselfe unto this holy duty which continually undergoeth not only the difficulties and dangers common to other men but also undertaketh sometimes a combat with dangers themselves And to this religious feare of god let the love of our countrey succed in the next place For rightly saied he which told us that fidelity yeelded to a friend is a great ornament and trust performed and duty to our parents is a greater but to our Country stability yeelded is the greatest of all Neither shall wee find any men of fame and honor celebrated in history which did not flourish with an immaculate love of their Country The truth of this axiome may appeare in the renowned relations of Codrus Themistocles Timoleon and amongst ours of the Horatii Fabii Camilli Curtii Bruti Ciceroues which to their eternall honor are commended nay almost deifyed in fames never dying register for their inviolate fidelity to their Country in its most sodaine and heavy dangers which they like noble and truly renowned patriots bought out with their owne lives For allwaies amongst generous spirits have publique affaires beene preferred before private although sometimes those private have not a little concerned the publique also Most Heroique if the politicall affaires of this life be only ballanced is that speech of Otho the first to his most faithfull souldiers after the foile he receaved by the Vitellianists at Bebriacum To hazard quoth hee this vertue and valour of yours to needlesse dangers I accompt it to deare a price of my life The more hope you doe shew ifI listed to live the more commendation will bee of my death as being voluntary and not by constraint Fortune and I have had good experience the one of the other and nothing the lesse for that my time hath beene short I tell you it is harder to moderate a mans selfe in felicity which hee looketh not long to enjoy The civill warre first grew on Vitellius party and thence grew the first occasion to contend with arms for the Empire but to contend no oftner but once I for my part am purposed to give the example And hereby let posterity judge and esteeme of Otho Through my benefit Vitellius shall enjoy his brother his wife and his children I seeke no revenge I have no neede of such comforts Others have kept longer the Empire but let it be said that none hath ever so valiantly left it Shall I suffer so much Roman blood again to be spilt and the Common-wealth deprived of so worthy armies let this minde accompany mee my to grave and so surely it shall that you for your parts would have dyed for my sake but tarry you and live and let not me be any longer a hinderance to your obtaining of pardon nor you to my determination and purpose To speake more of dying or to use many words of that argument I take to proceede of a cowardly courage This take for a principall part of my resolutenesse that I complaine not of any For to blame Gods or men is their property which gladly would live This was he which exceeded Cato himselfe For Cato dyed rather out of difdaine and a sullen humour because he would not behold after his victory a pretended tyrant his enemy but this noble Emperour rather then he would engage his countrymen in a bloody quarrell chose to end his dayes on the point of a rapier Not unlike was that Christian and truly worthy resolution of Capt. Nicholas Downton in his 7. East India voyage where after the retort of the Portugall Bravado he concludeth his Iournie and combat with this admirable resolution After all these insultations quoth hee I was glad to see the Viceroy give over the hopes of his fortunes by further following of us which course I like very well since he is so patient for there is nothing under his foot which can make amends for the losse of the worst mans finger I have Besides I wish no occasion to fight for that which I have already paied for I am already possessed on and I am so farre from the humour to fight for honor unlesse for the honor of my King and Country that I would rather save the life or lives of one of my poorest people then kill a thousand enemies Great and noble also was the care of Charles the fifth King of Spaine and Emperour of Germany at that unhappy siege of Algier wherein he himselfe in person was present when many of his gallies and ships of burthen being lost by a horrible Tempest he commanded a great multitude of excellent coursers to be cast overboord reputing it as sayeth my author an unmercifull part to preferre the safeguard of those horses although they were of great worth before the life of the basest common souldier or horse-boy in his campe And therefore in my poore opinion not without Cause Sir Arthur Gorges in his martiall and marine observations of the Portugall voyage taxeth Sir Richard Greenvile Viceadmirall unto the Lord Thomas Howard in a voyage unto the Azores or Flemming Islands who being chased by a great armada of huge Spanish Galleons followed not the directions and judicious courses of his Admirall but suffered himselfe to be inclosed and his sailes becalmed by those massy shipps and at length to be taken his shippe being sunke called the Revenge and neare two hundred slaine outright

tough blowes once save Or else revenge them which their master gave Nay rather then they 'l secret keepe what they But Chance for to suspect they 'l slip away And hunt the Corners of the streets to heare Or tell what he doth in his wine or beere Aske these therefore what from me thou wouldst know They hold their peace nay rather they will shew A secret then to drinke in private up Of stollen wine or the best Ale a cup We rightly ought to leade our lives for these And many causes but least that we leese Our reputation is the speciall cause That should well teach us rather then the lawes And in the sixth concerning the humorous condition of the other part of a family namely a wife not unfitly the Satyre hath discoursed For There hardly is a woman to be found That will not on each small occasion sound Louder then many clockes And the ancient Poet Hesiod giveth them this right character Then a good woman nothing better is For to be had or to compleate our blisse Againe then an expensive wife there 's not A fire more surious or a flame more hot A fire that roasteth men without a brand A flame that soone consumeth goods and land Generally is this corollary comprized by Petrarch in his Epistle unto Andreas the Bishop of Bononia There is nothing quoth he amongst all the difficulties of our life more hard to be kept in order then fidelity Therefore thou shalt perceave those which live with thee seldome merry often sorrowfull never equall in their addictions but alwaies various I feare that saying of Seneca to Lucilius Nothing sooner doth vanish and grow distastefull then affection I feare that verse or exclamation of Vergil the prince of the latine poets O harmefull love no wight can tell What thou men too dost oft compell Wherefore if to a man purposing to remaine in his owne Country such dangers snares and entrapments are created by his owne people nothing is more to be avoided by a Travellour then too much openesse especially if he have no friend but such as Bias the Philosopher did use to choose whom he againe might upon occasion hate and if he suspecteth danger amongst some unknowne people as amongst wild and dangerous beasts These observations although he observe yet let him avoide to expresse them in his countenance gesture or regard either yet let him suffer them to appeare in that sparing discourse he doth sometimes use especially let him decline to shew any diffidence or distrust of those with whom he more familiarly converseth at Table or at leastwise any distast of their manners For nothing is more inhumane indiscreet or more undecent then to brow-beat those which bee they strangers or otherwise sit neere us at Table or discourse with us familiarly For by this meanes a Travellour outwardly designeth himselfe to be possessed with pusillanimity and unworthy feare and by his to humble submission armeth against his throat and reputation the sword and weapon of every cut-throat let him rather colour all exception with the various coverture of affability and civill courtesy That nothing may appeare in him obscure blew or truculent but that he may seeme to all festive yet adorned with a certaine becomming gravity that in his countenance may be discerned the vigor of a moderate and well qualified spirit mixed with a nimble and heroique influence Suetonius relateth of Augustus caesar that he had eyes of so majestique a quality that he seemed to dart from them the very raies of Majeftie The same is storied of Theodosius 1. by AEmilius Probus in the dedication of that little compend commentary concerning the the lives of the most famous Generals by some ascribed unto Cor Nepos where he speaketh unto his booke in this manner Feare not my little booke his yellow haire Encircled with a sparkling Crowne But dare For to salute his bright majestick eyes Which carry splendour like the Serene skyes Titus also Vespasian from his Comitie mixed with his well tempered aspect was called the very delight of the nations So also also in his Panegyrique Pliny reporteth of Trajan pag 5 that he had an incredible dignity in his countenance of whom Sex Aurelius Victor reporteth that he so caryed himselfe in the administration of the Imperiall affaires that the most admirable wits of the best writers can scarse expresse the dignity of his actions so farre is it from the truth that Plinie did flatter this Prince it now being the summe of all good subjects wishes to desire their soveraignes may enjoy the peaceable times of Augustus and the vertues of Trajan Claudian also speaking of the right noble valiant generall Stilico hath these words Then in thy youth most gravely didst thou goe And yet most lively gestures didst thou show Thy following happy actions were for spoke By those faire beames thy eye-lids from them broke The severe Parthian nobles were amaz'd At those full numerous aspects thou hast raisd And Persian Caunes when they beheld a guest Like thee have sighed drinking at a Feast The same hath these verses in the commendation of man Theodorust Thy eyes a temper keepe whom neither rage Doth over sharpen or confound thy age Neither doth sudden tempests in thy face The genuine favour of thy cheekes disgrace And of Honorius Thee the fayre Enipeus and thee wood Dodone once beholding smiling stood And those hard okes which to Chaonians yeeld Their food now seeing thee danc'd round the feild On the other side contrariwise Theocritus describes the unhospitall youth He had no lustre in his looks no flame Of lively vigor ever warmd the same But he observ'd all men as doth the wild Beasts of the feild or as a threatned child All which sentences gathered to a head shew us that this caution of mixing comity with vigor in our countenances is both necessary and becomming for the forehead is as it were the Index of the minde and often from the countenance may be conjectured that which is fixed in the soule In this most worthy part are deposed those the most exact errors and perfections of nature which frequently are the obscure significations of our māners The truth of which sentence may be more fully gathered out of those bookes of Physyologie written by B. Porta in the which strange and rare conjectures from the quality of the countenance of our humane nature are comprized Acutely and philosophically writeth C. Plinius in the 11. booke of his Nat History Only man saieth he hath a face other creatures only have a mouth or beake Other creatures have indeed a forehead but only the forehead of a man sheweth mirth or sorrow anger or mercy In the upper part of this are placed the browes which only are moveable amongst men These especically shew pride and disdaine In other places pride hath his conceptacle or place of birth but in these his abode It is begotten in the heart but it ascendeth hither and heere hangeth and is placed