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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03100	A newe discourse of morall philosophie, entituled, The kayes of counsaile Not so pleasant as profitable for younge courtiours. Optima est patientia victor.	Heron, Haly.	1579 (1579)	STC 13228; ESTC S108570	49,052	150

eschewed Of Trauel CHAP. 8. AMongst all the trades of life practised in sundrye sorte since the beginning of the world there is none more auntient and agréeable vnto the Nature of man than Trauel For as the foule is bred to flye fish to swimme the worme to créep as naturally enclyned to that kind of motion So is man likewise addicted vnto labour and paines taking euen from the first daye of his birth vnto the last houre of his life And as birdes flye not all one waye but some to the hilles other into the fieldes and these vnto the water Euē so of diuerse men diuerse dispositions and not all inclyned to one conuersation and trade of liuing For what common wealth I pray ye can consist of one only Art and Societie or what realme so ryche what nation so fertile that néedeth no forraine help suggestion Surely none so absolute and perfect of it selfe but shall daylye bée forced to séeke out willingly embrace the commodities of others whyche howe can you attaine without Trauell Then if the good estate of euery common wealth depēdeth much vpon trauell no doubte the frequent vse thereof is no lesse worthy to bée allowed and maintayned than the greate and continuall commodities thereby gotten are gladly to be receyued and embraced The which trade we sée specially to be maintayned and practised by thrée sortes of men that is merchaunts Legates and aduenturers To declare the effectes of them al I thinke it not néedful for though the gaines of the Merchaunts is great yet I estéeme the cōmodities glory of the other to be greater bicause how much it excelleth bene viuere quàm viuere it is not vnknown to the learned Then sparing the Merchāts in their traffique now we wil return to the Legates aduenturers accompany thē only in this short discourse of Trauel whose studious minds in paineful trauel hath frō time to time aswell procured the quiet estate of this realme as with forraine treasure wonderfullye enriched the same These therfore be they which dayly hazard themselues their liues and all that they haue in the faithfull seruice of their Prince country which following the steps of famous Knights and valiaunt Counquerors account the wide circuite of the whole world their own natiue soile and finallye whiche for their ventrous actes and worthye mindes deserue to be written in the Bookes of euerlastyng memorie The noble charge of Embassage to bée of great waight and importaunce I note especially in these two points First by the dignitie of the person who for the moste part being out of the number of the most excellent wise and learned sorte is alwayes no lesse honourablye receyued and worthylye entertayned in the discharge of his Embassage Againe the moste auntient vse and inuiolate custome of libertie in all landes by the lawe of armes graunted vnto Legates and Ambassadors expresly sheweth the great power and dignitie of their charge and calling And firste I take witnesse of Herodotus whiche writing of the continuall warres betwéene the Gretians and Barbarians noteth for a wonder that shamefull fact of the Athenians which vpon a time did moste villanously murder the Legates of Darius But Xerxes shortly after pardoned their scouts being taken and condēned by the Marshall of the fielde which before hadde murdred his fathers Embassadors A notable example of Magnanimitie in a barbarous Prince which disdained the malice of his enimies And to speak of Trauel we haue heard that the auntient Pilgrims were wont to vse manye superstitious ceremonies but amongst them al I note thrée speciall points worthy and necessary to be vsed of all men And firste they had a guide to direct them secondly they hadde commonlye a staffe to staye them and lastlye they vsed to bathe their féete in the euening that they mighte we maye vse for a staffe to leane vnto in the daungers of Trauell For if Iupiter himselfe woulde vouchsafe to drawe vppe into Heauen some mortal wight meaning to shewe hym all the celestiall ioyes pleasures of the worlde in vaine were the fruition and sighte thereof vnto him sayth Cicero vnlesse he hadde some friende or other to whome he mighte imparte and disclose these highe profits and commodities aforesaid wherevnto alludeth also the Poet Iuuenall in this verse Sciretuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter Then sith we are so naturally enclined to Societie and that no friendeshippe is to be compared to that which likenesse of nature and disposition hathe linked togither whiche causeth equall mindes to be affected either vnto other whereby the true knotte of friendshippe is knitte according vnto Pithagoras of one minde in two bodies it appeareth howe necessarie a thing is Societie and fellowshippe in Trauaile whiche Marcus Cicero hathe so fittely expressed in the persons of Caius Lelius and Publius Scipio Affricanus that you woulde thinke them alyue familiarlye talking wyth you touching the friendshippe betwéene them vsed whiche not onelye in house and harboure peace and warre prosperitie and aduersitie but euen in long Peregrination and Trauaile was all one And howe can the life of anye man be so solitarie that he is not constrained to delighte in mutuall loue and societie what is more pleasaunte than to haue so faythfull a friende to whom thou maiste committe secreates as safely as to thy selfe who in wrath doeth equally reioice and in pouertie lament with thée But here I doe not meane the common Familiaritie and good fellowshyppe whyche is pretended nowe amongest diuers nor of the naturall affection of brothers and kinsfolkes whiche euen nowe as in Ouides dayes Fratrum quoque gratia rara est But I meane the true and vertuous knotte of faithfull friendshippe as is aforesaide The force whereof doth chiefly appeare in this that of so many kindes of Societies which Nature hathe procured it is onelye so stricte and rare that it cannot be well possest of manye but fewe in number and that is two at the moste of whiche sorte were Alexander and Ephestion Titus and Gisippus Pilades and Orestes Damon and Pithias Phocion and Nicocles wyth Publius Scipio and Caius Lelius aforesaid whose liues were so deare of the one vnto the other that for the most parte they contended whose death should first celebrate their louing fame and memorie supposing their glorious death to be better than vnhappie life with losse of friendshippe Such is the force of Loue that it vanquisheth tirants conquereth the malice of the enuious and reconcileth mortall foes vnto perfect loue and amitie insomuche that they are worthily saide to take the lighte of the Sunne oute of the worlde whiche exclude friendshippe from the life of men And surely this so good a vertue is rather to bée perswaded by example of life than subtilty resoning Although I cannot omit the great prudence of Virgil who considering that as friendshippe is alwaies necessarie and neuer oute of season so in trauaile moste requisite faineth vnto Aeneas in his long trauels