turne a straighter course for what may happ And thy reuile experience checkes vniust And shewes thou hast to trauaile lesser trust It may be thou and such for mentiond gulles Haue sluggishly consumd your meanes as fooles A broad at home and each way base neclect Makes mans weldoing equall in defect Sir t is confest a fift sayes many gaine But many more by losse of it complaine T is part amends with Thomas thou beleeue Trauaile hath in it potence to releiue Yet he that Credits clowds shall neuer mowe Nor the obiecting flowbacke seldome sow T is true great losses many times befall But donot greater gaines the losse recall Let ts paralell the trafickers condition And iudge him as thou vs without commission Who more aduentures passes too and fro To Spaine to Zant to east and west we know Mixing the gaines and losses in account Yet do the gaines By much the losse surmount How comes it earth ore no degree in state Proueth so wealthy able fortunate If as it sales by land too comes a Crosse By stormes or pirats vnexpected losse His comforts this t was not his owne neclect Nor as a spend-thrift lost it by defect Men subiect are their losses to repeate But not of blessings thankfully to treate Hurts are in marble graud but guifts in sande And thus misprise men the almightyes hand Yea some as Changlings trauaile will bely Faulting it for their owne ill husbandry Lo Losses wayt one men as much at home And Crosses charge vs thicker's dayly knowne Vnkindnesses in strangers grieuie vs lesse Then such who though of land and blood oppresse And man can trauaile harder and content Then when his home friends eye his poore intent A thousand honest shifts men there effect Which end in worth successe and good respect Which they abasht at home could neuer try Or in a worse sort suffer misery To you let me appeale who haue it proud And passe farre vnder what your births behoud In losephs bondage to endure compeld And in a willing patience mildly yeild By cruell Egypt or a Turke affected And Daniell like ouer all respected Be ye in midd of bloody Lyons cast Your cause is good his issue good at last The more the perill the more prouidence And greater glory God in mans defence Then 's only time for him to spread his power When dangers seeme most suddaine to deuoure So haue I seene but often heard it tould Men by the very sea stormes made more bould And in the midd of likely losses gaine And more abroad then neare home grace attaine And lesser cares in forraine cases serue Then where their birth more mercy did deserue Yea more abroad rich then in father land See! trauailers help in the Almighties hand Infine a sixe sayes what need this a doe Vs now in peace to traueiling to woe Sir we are well seated vnder mothers whinge Ill neuer trauaile further then my king Fond How sworme keepe thy chimny corner still To win vnwilling sots t is not our will Let euery man in his condition stay To Gad is not to trauaile but to stray The church and euery christians militant Yea euery soyle supplies anothers want Ther 's most need man of trauaile in a peace The cause of plenty author of increase Natiue comodius good to vtter forth Causing a citty or a countryes worth Such men whose causes sute to sit at home And the vnwilling may reside alone Traficke and peace reciprocall suruiuers Still where the one to wonder both are thriuers In warts no time for free recourse to bee This wee by tryall and experience see Embrace thy mothers dugg in promisd peace Embrace thy slothfulnesse thy shames increase Till times of tryall or confusions come Then runnst thou as a madd man bout thy home If not thy pride is clownish ignorance The plow or cart thy vttermost aduance See now my muse no more of momus crue Appeare as yet thy progresse to pursue The wise can tell sots soone can cauill more Ther 's worth respondence or a rea ding ore And man may sooner Change the moorish hue Then force a fooles beleefe be 't neere so true To the ingenious traueller I bend Thus by a short suruay the totall end His wonders great in skie on sea on earth Hauing each day and way a newer birth His worth in pleasure and true profits gaine How they both soule and sences entertaine His worths the persons highly dignifie How rares declard in royall property His way worth note in persons fitnesse stands Nature birth parts and ablenesse commands The place wherein he passes pious good For god our state and selfe is vnderstood Next note we vertues common worth embrace And vices ready trauaile to disgrace The circumstantiall place and time attend So did my muse against the criticke bend Who with the dart of truth expelled thence Gaue cause least tedioue now wee hy vs hence Trauailes a rose man the industrious bee Wise trauailers sucke and hiue vp swauity Badd spider like suck poisons to deuoure Tiauai e is as the rose a curious flowre None can come neere its colloures curious sents Delicious rosall rites and ornaments The base neere lesse to uenome vertues change And if growe worse by trauaile t is not strange One as the Bee sucks hony from this flower The spider gale and venome to deuoure Not that the venome in this rose doth grow For t is of natures sweets most rare we show But that the others humour poysonous Conuerts these sweetes to Aconita thus In all the parts of mannage more pernitious As is the subiect in affection vitious Well mannagd trauailes only ornament In Christian ciuill and a true intent Al 's vse the heuens planets and spherall pace The soule and sences progresse trauailes grace Mans ages childhood youth and midd age hye To summ at death account of destiny Which destiny in secret set by God From all beginnings sealed by his word Proceds in progresse with vnknowne envent Man cannot stop his makers iust intent He cannot hast his fate it keepeth pace Nor stayes while periods added to the race Its trauaile mazeth all the earth to see The strange effects in destiny there be From birth to nonage midle gray and graue Which some at sea some land all some way haue Some poore of rich some high of low arise Thus wanders man in him his destinyes A sparrow cannot faile but by his fate Who could ere once prolong amend abate True Christian trauaile makes the mortall blest And him that in the two is interest The course of ciuill trauaile was our taske Daily diuines the other two vnmaske The issues seene if worthy uiew t is well Many more learned the forme may happ excell The matter founded on the rocke of truth Both recreations of my muse in youth Courage then trauailes noble sonnes aduance Arme and expect a mapp of
nose toes cheeke and hands we see they loose See then proportion heerein is too be chose Let nobler natures places nobler trace For thers accord twixt natures place and place Hott natures actiue bent and passiue too Able t' inuent and iudgements scann to doo The could are meerly patients practizing Alike it is in place in time in thing The rarest fruites I know take putrifaction The ablest parts worst chiefely in ill action And as t was iudgd Themistocles would proue Worst if ill nurtured best by good improue So may we censure of complexions power In trauaile bent to much gaine or deuoure Climes their complexions haue in each degree To which in trauaile men haue simpathy The tozzid zones one sort of rule command A differents cald for in the frigidd land The obseruation trauailers daily vse Makes mee no further now hearein peruse As persons thus must be the places meete So some proportion due in parts discreete Twixt him now trauailes and his way of trade For triall heereof must at home be made Wherein respectiuely difference is requird According to the state of that desird Some generall parts as strength and languages According to the clime all must haue these Particular notions as now interest If as in publike or his owne invest I cannot stand to point at each mans way The wiâ—e may see the whole by what I say And application proper to the thing Can on ly sollid satisiaction bring He must haue tongues each way bownd out to treate Else shall he be a pray to mens deceit Each aiming at his properends availe And ioyes to see the sortish stranger faile When ignorant to make his sales or buy Or if abused vnderstands not why If souldiour merchant greater strangers raise For what they point to he constrained paies If a mechanicke hoodwinkt walkes all mumm A meete allusion for all cheates to come If on his way ambitious to see rares In high way errours ignorantly shares And what hee sees or where not say where now But what 's a guide to strangers strangers know Chancing on sales turnes now knaue brokers ape For as the Dauus wills 't must rise or bate Yea if more noble in a treaty sent If ere state sent out such an imnecent The tearmes appeare in writing as if there A scipher sent and no Embassage weare In short send any meere vnletterd out And hee s a nose of wax made out of doubt T is true times short and many cannot haue Paris for each place where tranaile passage craue But let vs note language collatrall mixt Vnder both Poles by prouidence is fixt And generall tongues for generalls lead way Which generals each way specials ouer sway Ould Roman Latin in the westerne lands Italian Spanish French and vs commands Ould Greeke the spacious Adriaticke climes Hebrue the East honourd in first of times High Dutch the danish pole and Northerne tracke So hauing one we cannot wholly Lacke And by the generall language that way vsd Perticulars will more easily be infusd Since a propensitions causd in tongues confusion Many as members haue to one head allusion Then fit thy selfe such specialles to collect And lazinesse worths canker worme reiect The many parts each state of way requires Causing succesfull progresse in desires Are in such speciall mannor suting it So as no parts but such in that place fit In all a search is easily made Let those Who passe themselues it to themselues disclose The fourth and last attending the persons grace I hould propertion â—n Estate to place Assighning period to the three before The rudder steareth steadily to shore Monâ—es Great Traian tearmes trades nerues to be This we in daily course of traficke see When language natures worth mens bredings faile Now meanes in trauaile seeme to strike their saile Yea in the merchanicke how beit their hands Seeme to supply this want in trackt of landes A small t is true accomodates his place When higher steps ascend a higher race Which as it must of force in vse be had So like wise corespond the place to trade I say no more let specials be applyed The merchants this way chiefly dignified Where many lands and rarityes are eyed As a meere oreplus to the gaine of trade Which to aduantage is in forraines made Plessures attending profits euery way Others conditions costlier are to stray For trades encrease and minds contents concure Accomodating each by trading fuir The fashionists expences buy his humour The nouellists paies dearely for a rumour The Noble gallant spends no substance gaines The aiery Camelion only feeds his braines Meanes is the matter formd by all the rest But their effects it wanting all supprest Yet as the little puffe makes small barkes fly When greater Caricks wind bound grouling lye So smailer meanes a mâ—aner way well serues When wanting sustenance a greater sterues Or Comes confounded in his crossed wits This of the foure the persons selfe befits Subiects that haue good adiuncts their attendants Well grace their owne worths mutuall defendants Two sorts of wayes one method hath proposd What way man goes in as his cause disclosd Whereto or which way and the clime that 's next The time and these kept trauaile's vnperplext The way or state man passes in is tryed And by this touchstone needfully discried If consonant not crosse to pious life Nor cause of countries or religions strife And honest iust and voyd of fraud and guile Causing thy owne weale too this good way stile Which foure though foure are linkt in vnity And handmaids to our christan trauailes bee For christian trauaile it all trauailes blesses If not besure thy harboures in distresses For us not for vs christianst ' vnderstand As heathens do al 's good to take in hand After we once from natiue Climate goe As if the great God did not all lands know Hee sees in secret as wise Dauid sayes As seend I to the Heauens Heauen he suruayes Decend I downe to Hell he noteth me And in the midd of darknesse he can see Yea should I say I le hence to sea al 's one Or to the outmost I le he there 's well knowne T is therefore meeâ—e we Christians stand in awe Forming our trauailes to Iehouahs law Well may we then expect great happinesse And in most aduers times desire successe Alas what 's Earth as sea vs mortall tofses Sometimes in sunny calmes and then in crosses Our destinies our ships transports vs ore Times trimmer of the sailes and hies to shore What men all men are passengers therin Some trauaile in gods siruice some in sinne Gods hand it steares yet none the hand can see Nor yet fates fleets wherein we sayling bee Some sport some sleepe some worke the voyage hies Youth midage dotage posting through he flies Our harbour Earth graues houses welcome death By sortowes sicknesses when losse of breath
acts her part behind Through Paltz then Beame oh fate she makes retire In spire of foe with patience past admire Long liue the friends of this thrise noble Queene And for her branches dure they euer greene While pacient trauaile period hath and then Both shall be scene victorious to men Gracing his greatnesse whose almighty power Keeps time that Romish Dragon to deuoure Behold next peace and prince arrelatiues Yet trauaile in her acme still suruiues Our Soueraigne sent his sonne its worth to learne What he before by tryall did discerne Lo how so high a prince passes vnknowne That trauailes fame might freelier be showne His happy crop great cause of comfort giues In peace and true religion Brittaine liues Al 's ioy our hope true Christians defence Rests primely in his sacred excellence And long may hee great God our I le defend With whom as period Trauailes worthys end Praise we the highest cause of each good thing Vniting loue and duty to our King Hy hence in hast halfe mazd Caliopea Refresh thy selfe with consorts of the sea Both Trauailes wonders and her worths appeare Returne and make thou trauailes way as cleare Thy choore's not comon Momus if thou lowre Know them the Issues of a vacant howre The sacred sonets since compild in verses No shame to him lesse worths a like rehearses Good matter graced by so sweet a forme Shall not by time nor enuie be outworne The way to trauaile LYeurgus lacedemons Lord of ould When he youths rudenesse did at home behold their wits through ease as standing pooles corupt Their vertues growth by sloth of vice ore topt Adds to his volumes of good lawes this one That heel admitt of none to stay at home All youth must out some traynd in forrayne parts Others in tents in th' feilds must practize arttes For there sayth he they 'r clearest of temptation And may in trauaile learne from euery nation What we haue said of wonders and of worths And of aduantage brought by trauaile forth Is modeld in this wise mans obseruation A rule well merits each mans imitation For the effects braue Lacedemon grast And him among the wise of princes plact But as a wiser Solomon once sayd That 's truely worth to get it vse all ayd The foole sees and neglects a thing of prize Where as it s seene and sought of such are wise That wisest Merchant saw a pearle quoth Iesus And bought with whole estate what 's prised thus T is not the bare hearing of its worths suffice But th' way to winn them layd before our eyes Of the mannor now or forme wee are to treate The goods good issue and the bads deceyte Formes of performance bad as good we know The taske is then the better Part to knew Way as an adiunct locall may be held So how attendant fitting to be teld Way as the mannor how to trauaile taken What 's worthy choice what 's fit to be forsaken The latter part the former comprehends And first my muse the formall part intendes T is asked how a man may best attaine When where and fittest way to crosse the maine In course of traficke ciuill now we treate The Cleargy oft the other way repeate And Christian life is plentifully spread But oft where most is known worst waies are led Yet all accord by right of reason too He that neere knowes the way can neuer doo In ciuill course then know againfull way Is from the paths prescribed not to stray For note we this the bests are worst abused Trauailes the bad of all bads badly vsed Twill in a moment ruing man and state And proue of all pathes most vnfortunate Turne in a trice the ablest youth to Death And as a viper sucke away his breath What mischiefes are but it illframd procures And man confounded then constraind endures Wherefore some iust proportions to be had At first twixt man and therein hee s to trade T is as the ruler stearing trauailes shipp Els must the passenger suffer wracke in it Some corespondence possible relation The mouing cause of tradings propagation T is not each Boor can trauaile to auaile Nor call we each slugg-ship can hoise a sayle Nor euery place can euery man befit Nor euery one each way imploy his wit Reciprocall affection must be had And mutuall betwixt'th person and his trade The subiects birth must sute his way he aimes Birth greater aptnesse then ye thinke containes And mi-imployd beyond its reach destroyes The man imployed and what he imployes If one vnskilld rawbred high matters passe Hee spoiles both matter and is proud an asse For ignorance gets scorne to him of all Besides the thing must wanting mannage â—ale The reasons plaine for natures inbred hue Vnpotene made aboue her reach to serue Struggles gainst fate and streames of higher straine So needs is forced maymed backe againe As Isops frogg effuse her entrailes out Coueting proudly lion like to strout Ambition cause of this aspiring sence Euer in finall fales to impotence We see our bould Mechanicke vncontent In discret way his manualles to vent Will now be merchant yea pry hither too Whenskill else pride procureth his vndoe Our moderne merchant tosse a statists weild Nor will in fashion scarce to courtier yeild Deemes hee s imployment â—it o' silly iest By the supply of forriners supprest Much like that asse clad in the lions hide Vncast was scornd and woried for his pride As such vnmeete ascents proue ruinous So the most base descents befoole it thus When high borne minds debase their breed for gaine Any slauish trauaile entertaine Or vse in trauale an vnequall hand Matters to low for such to vnderstand Distinction in maters vulgar vse Twixt personall and Casuall abuse Say sages truly merits to be made When as a vertue out extreames is had The frowne of fate may force a iust debase In men of worth and once in mighty place Our stories tell proportion is our meate Necessities are banished our treate Complect ons corespondence to our way What natiue vigoures more or lesser sway Must be obserud according to the time And place imployd and qualitie of clime This in these paths is needfully requird Else if not death disgrace quells all desird Natures and nations lump in true relation Though scatterd ore the earth haue propagation Imploy thy trauailes where these likes accord And as they inbred powers to do afford Hott noble spirits actiuest are found As could with flemy sottishnesse a bound Accord thy place and person first vnyted To tread a nation like both be incited The Russe and Norway or could Groynland trade Best by the could hard Phlegmaticke is made The coulds extreames such safely entertaine And may a brother hood in dull coulds attaine Is potent made to labour tugg and toyle The best â—rchiements in a frozen soyle For heere his coulder humours meete their like When coulds to death the cholericke shall strike Or
of strangers in a foraine state Yet see wee some too many too aspird Into some state of trauaile as desird Stand puff and huff to natiues coming ore The priest forgets he was a clearke before Lookes squint at strangers turnes imperious A small imployment hoists a Haman thus And higher to T is one of those great illes Solomon sayth Earth with impatience filles A seruant when he raignes a foole in hanst wise men on foot and sotts on horse aduanst Denyes to know condition or kinn Or as a iockey euer to haue binn Armes fixt agambo and his beauer cocke Is learnd in better manners by a knocks Sequestred pride attends a speedy fall whereas the meeke are effable to all Procures of forraynes by the fact a loue Yea with the very infidels approue Those churlish Nabals Doeg minded men Neuer succesfull scarcely one of tenn Come thus farr through the paths of traualling Le ts in our course obserue another thing Verity to be vsed in word and deede Through all the paths of trauaile we proceed Adding a credit mid the strangers towne And purchasing a truth of much renowne For witnesse hand and oth thus bare word passes And much a christian Cariage each way graces When lying stops a strangers loue intended And trechery when matters passe pretended T was Abners bane yea Ioabs Iudas kisse Recorded for a trechery in this Great Allexanders fame allurd to trechery By base Parmeno that I should gain say Was I Parmeno but I am my selfe And prize sayre victory aboue all wealth Worthy Fabritlus tould pirrhus though a foe How he was moued to his ouerthrow Not Ianus Bifrons with a Harpey smile Bent both wayes equall falsely to beguile But Ionathan like patterne true affection Merits true trauailes grace a false reiection Seest thou a smooth salute proffer too great Beyond relation Consure a deceipt The whistle sweetly playes the fond birds hye Thus are surprizd by th'fowers fallacie Comes one to ayde thee slauishly officious Such hasty helps haue births are to pernitious The wolfe will worke the sleepe from out the bryer Poore sheepe thy ruine is his next desire Thy language and thy owen endeauours trust Vnused armours subiect are to rust And mens deceipt is silly ones to cheare They know experience will not brooke decâ—ite Findst thou a country man of base report With him of all men neuer once resort No Iew or Turke can proue more rauinous Then will a christian once appostulate thus Auoyd as death a reconsciled foe Nor euer with him confidently goe The sore smothd vp not cured out will fâ—ie And soonst infect a carelesse stander by Man of a crosse religion do not trust He hath causionâ— be with thee vniust Power allowes the lawesse to offend So doth the Lyon on his pray descend Deale not in points beyond thee with a foe Better then wit abusd is not to know And in their I and thus falst thou in a snare Of entermedling in beliefes beware A Temporizer shunn though allied May a viper 's in the bosome breed And feare thy mates accompanying thee The fox Clad in the sheepeskin warning be Whose vnspectednesse likenesse did deceaue And th' silly lamb downe to his den bequeath These caueats so in short the wise may â—end The world is now too basely ould to amend Last louely posture sages noble deeme Vrbanityes defind its an esteeme Of euery passage as its worth requires And ioy in person as his loue desires Not stoickes surley melencholy all Much merry parts in traueling befall Wherein mens action present is at gage And ablenesse of discourses set one stage Now stands the case and touch stone of a man When strangers shall his worth of breeding scan Behauior Crownes the outer mans desire And makes him great mens presence to aspire When Lo. the sottish ciâ—icke selfe deuoted Sits in his tubb how wise so ereâ—noted Opon the way a scipher to the view And passes Liuing as one dead in shewe Nones sollace not his owne sad humours seate Be ware thou neuer with a stoicke treate In melancholy fancies onely ioyed Whereby loues true Vrbanity is destroyd And trauailes paths disconsolaterate made Man a meere deadman mid a Liuing trade Good mirth and gladnesse grace true curtesie As do good properties good men discry A merry consorts chariot in the way And makes a long way short as sages say Artes acting parts then history attending Then the merry muses with their hores descending The wood and water nimphe bring in there shares And time of ould it selfe a new declares A scholer's halfe a trauailer at home Attended in his studdy though alone Yet better fitted trauailes rites to vse Then mid bookes dull acquaintance sit and muse Learnings most proper to the fortaine breed Whereby both they and these at home are fed His protects plots and parts of trauelling Assist the state himselfe his church his King Come to the climes of sweete discourse hee 's rare Heere say and ignorance still attendants are Yets heare a moderation much expected Iests become scurrill once the meane neclected Scuâ—llity exposing man to hate Chiefly much vsed in a forraine state The Clownish rusticke short another way Chuff as idoll wanting what to say Blurts forth in a presumption homebred shame Two sorts vnworthy vse of trauailes name When Lo in true vrbanit yes no wast Offence ill mirth presumption or distast Apelles like I leaue vnfinisht quite The shape of trauailes sits for should I write The decades decour more all worth Narration So might men Iudge it too prolix relation With Socrates le ts giue a iudgement now Aske if he would Heracliâ—s writs avow What I haue viewd and vnderstand is good So sure quoth he that is not vnderstood These Comly habits for the rest may stand As generals may the specials command As for the christian progresse it s dayly taught And blesse we him his plenty heere hath brought A like much care for mortall trauailes taken What 's best to be embraced what forsaken Trauaile to forraine parts I only tend Wherein the rest I briefly comprehend Circumstance sayth our lawyer alters Case Our circvmstances shall be time and place Part for the whole though more might be proposd The whole may in his parts be full disclosd First for the time to trauaile in most free Is as the persons interessed be Person with place and time colatertali made Respectiue to the calling cause of trade The Sunny beames of peace most cheare the most How ere the souldier may of quarrels boast For warrs a viper that deuoureth euer It canker like consumes but comforts neuer Yet thens the time the warriour trauailes forth And now 's the season best to shew his worth Times they are as mens purposes require And hearein euery one must backe retire And note his owne occasion when best How should I be with each mans way possest Yet there