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A treatise of direction, how to travell safely and profitably into forraigne countries written by Thomas Neal ...
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Neale, Thomas, 1614-1646?
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presses groane with the weight of pamphlets and since this most happy invention innumerable bookes of all sortes lye moulding in most private studies and libraries fearing the wormes and desiring their readers Nay many iudicious volumes of former and moderne times doe now cum blattis et tincis rixari whilst many more idle vanities or raging follyes doe busymens minds upon worse imploiments Sed in the phrase of Baudius quae est ista profusio temporis in hac vitae brevitate tantaque copia rerum scitu dignissimarum tempus tanquam rem vacuam aut noxiam super vacuis impendere nec supervacuis tantum sed noxiis vtquae dulcedine quadam sui praeclarissima quaeque ingenia alliciant ad se avocent a melioribus expertus loquor nec quisquam tibi mihi ve verba dederit ut in plurimorum nugis magnum aliquod aut secretum bonum inesse suspicemur I have therefore provided a remedy in this little treatise to mitigate this disease for my selfe and others if they will as many doe have any confidence of an unknown physitian Heere also the patient may trust without danger and knowing once the quality of the potion take as little as it pleaseth him selfe For the needlesse which some perhaps male volent esteemers of other mens endeavours may object subject of this booke I will answer with a learned Philologer Stultum est certe serum nimis jam demum incipere misereri chartarum quae tam diù tam miserè sine omni gratia perierunt pereunt quotidie Besides Scribimus indocti doctique And there is not if we beleeve Pliny any booke out of which the laborious and candid reader may not collect some profit How ever I have made it publique for to serve my owne turne who have now one I may not repent to leave this unto as a legacy or direction But I would be willing to benefit more and amongst the rest my courteous and benevolent reader otherwise Optarem ut placeam sin minus ut taceam From my house At Warneford T. N. 3. Feb. 1642. A Treatise of direction how to travaile profitably and safely into forraigne Countries NOw therefore that we may methodically signe those precepts which in the epistle we have generally premised it will not be impertinent to bring before the reader their logicall distribution and first that we may profitably bend our directions let us behold the end unto which your resolution and my speech ought to be referred The end therefore of discreet Travaile is Wisedome which undertaken with a fortunate preparation is circumscribed with two bounds to wit men travaile for experience sake and the hardning of the bodies faculties or for to better the gifts of the mind The first cause of experience and bettering the inward parts carried Plato into AEgypt Pythagoras into those regions of Italy which were then called the greater Graecia and ushered Apollonius that I may use the words of Hierom unto the scorched desarts of India and the secret conclave of the Sunne The latter moved those great warriors if wee allow not the desire of renowne to bee the only cause Alexander and Iulius to take farre Iourneyes that they might not only in words but in verity prove themselves as well hardy as valiant Therefore that great Macedonian monarch when hee observed a Common Souldier frozen almost to death by passing through those mountainous Counties descending from his throne or chaire of state placed the halfe dead souldier therein that after those delicacies of ambition which hee bought by the endeavours of the common souldier hee might obtaine the fame of a compassionate and hardy man So often Iulius Caesar that true and legitimate son of Mars as wel in his descent as actions was wont to take not only the same diet and lodging with the meanest of his souldiers but some times upon especiall occasion he was used to prevent the marches and with incredible celerity to passe one hundred miles within the compasse of one day Rightly did these famous chiefâ—aines understand that true and ancient sentence of the poet Timocles in Atbenaeus 1. 6. Each noble soule most labours takes for why His honours issue from his Industrie Heated with this Imagination did Alexander after the laborious siege of the City Oxidrace leapt in a most ardent sweat into the river Cephysus that by enduring at the same time the heat of the south and the cold of the north he might shew the strong composition of his body and the Invincible tolerance of his mind But much more was the wonderfull tolerance of the Phylosophers as though there had among them beene this only strife which should be able to endure most For Zeno the master or beginner of the stoick sect when he might have lived safe in his owne Countrey travelled out of desire of encreasing his knowledge and shewing his constancy into Sicilie to the City of Phalaris that most inhumane Tyrant named Agrigentum being so confident of his Towne abilities in enduring saith Valerius l. 3. that by his precepts the barbarous ferity of the people and cruell savage in humanity of the Tyrant himselfe might be mollified A Philosopher also of the same name being entertained by Nearchus likewise a most fierce Tyrant and after some conspiracy against him being taken and also freed from the tortures of the rack upon hope of some farther Confession approching neere unto that monster of men he so strongely fastned with his teeth upon the eare of the Tyrant that he bit his eare from his head neither left his hold until his bowels were plucked forth Strange are the examples of Anaxarchus Theodorus Caelanus the Indian of other Gymnosophists which we read of their tollerance in this and other authors al which to adde unto this Topique will be both tedious and unnecessary And certainely this is most plainely Confessed by al that read the examples of histories that men which have beene Inclined to travaile have nothing so much desired as glory and credit amongst those forraigne nations where they have beene entertained which some have endeavoured to obtaine by the vigour of the minde and the faculties of an understanding shining with the sparkes of vertues and learning others have laboured to get by the vastnesse strength patience and agility of their bodies But this ostentation of bodily strength is more sordid then the other which is most ingeniously decyphered by the witty Poet Martiall Hoc ego tuque sumus sed quod sum non potes esse Tu quod es è populo quilibet esse potest We both have humane shape but what I am Doe what thou wilt thou canst scarce ever bee But such a one as thou each Cobler can Or any worme of the Vulgarity Homer also a most exquisite morall Philosopher and Poet being about to designe the perfect lineaments of a discreet Travellour doth not assigne him the strength of Ajax or the cholerique fury of Diomed but under the person of
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