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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

Custome is so dangerous that sometimes ordinary things disused bring on the necessity of death Wherefore by degrees the forces of custome are to be mollifyed or hardned according to the nature and customes of the place to which we intend to Travell that when we come to the mature places of observation we may shew no infections of bitternesse and spleene This preparation being orderly practised we ought to proceed warily to the chiefest places of the Kingdome I call not those places the chiefest wheré the Court doth usually reside which sometimes chooseth the most pleasant not famous places but those Cities which are most ancient populous noble best served with merchandizes and if thou hast any smacke of learning where there is some Academy as in France Paris and Monpellier in Italy Rome Bonona and Padua in Spaine Toledo and Salamanca in Germany Strausburg and Basill from the happy concurrence of which famous places not only all sorts of exquisite learning but the very genius of urbanity and civility and the sum of all profitable Conversation is to be enjoyed In which places commerces of all sorts are used the Treasure of all humane knowledge is layed up and all other conveniences to advance a Travailour to the height of civill knowledge are to be found out Here also are not only bookes Containing all sciences which may perhaps not over please the unstable heads of some jetting passengers but the most humane and lively Volumes of famous men whose discourses exercises and polite conversations if they be seriously admitted into a mans minde are the best epitomes of those regions In such places as in the Cyerhan groves and Parnassean hils a Travellour resolving to stay he ought so to frame and settle himselfe that his mind be not precipitate and unconstant and so may loose by to nimble and frequent motion its due and observable considerations and least by to nimble departing out of the right path of Iudgement it may not shew the sudden Capacity of an Ingenious understanding but the heady rashnesse and too apprehensive wearinesse ofa stable happinesse To this observation succeedeth that a Travellour having Conversation with learned men should first rather endeavour to learne then be ready to speake and to understand then to teach First it is a great and especiall hinderance of wisedome to speake much and to desire the opinion of a ready orator without knowledge or sufficiency For pride and a bolder Carriage then usuall are vices most contrary to the humility of Instruction which vices striving to send forth the sounds of an arrogant expression often shew a selfe love and ignorant vanity in the speaker We must therefore labour to observe with a gentle and quiet behaviour being qualified rather with the desire of Instruction then wearied with the distast of information Neither as many doe let us thinke our selves in the gallery before we are entered into the parlour For many as Seneca well adviseth had arrived unto the perfection of learning if they had not supposed themselves perfect to soone This evill is to be avoided because it is most common and yet not so common as dangerous For now a daies nothing is so usuall as for some proud swelling empty unskilfull gul gallant to fall into the extremity of arrogant babling and being intoxicated with the heat of vaine glory and selfe love to boile out trifles and ridiculous language And although this vice be to be abhorred every where as a mischiefe which is a very great enemy unto all quiet and sober communication yet especially it is to be shunned by a Travellour into forraigne Countries unto whom all things ought to seeme strange and new unlesse he desire to appeare imprudent or at at leastwise improvident And therefore Lipsius speaketh aptly Almost every man of the meanest sort can babble wander discourse foppishly and ramble without feare or wit from one place to another but few can learne and search with quietnesse and discretion which is the true end of Travelling Refer therefore more to thy Instruction and sufficiency reall then to the vaine glorious ostentation of babling and to that infectious itch of immethodicall prating Neither unfitly only doth the over-nimble discourser in forraigne Countries let slip his words but sometimes dangerously For it is a very hard thing for a man that talketh much sometimes not to faile although he knoweth the matter of which he discourseth but it is imposible for a man which knoweth not the manners and customes of the men and place before whom and where he is to deliver his minde not to erre and sometimes most grossely to be deceaved Therefore let every wise Travellour with as much care as he may sacrifice unto the two shrines to wit of memory and silence to memory that he may hold fast all things which are good and profitable for he shall according to the phrase of Martiall see some few good things many indifferent and very many ill examples and that also he may refuse the things which are not Convenient for a well nurtured education to follow like those strong and profitable scaines or nets which reserve the great and large fishes but let the worthlesse small fry drop backe againe into the sea Let him also sacrifice to silence if not equally yet in a plentifull measure because he which according to the Poet is like water in a sieve is to full of holes to reserve with judgement any matter of important consequence But thou art ready to reply or rather peremptorily question me Dost thou prohibit a Travellour to use thebenefit of his Tonuge which is most acceptable to most men and often serveth better then a carvoch to passe away the dull houres I answer that my purpose is not to stop their mouthes which with discretion can bridle their discourse but only thus much I admonish thee that thou beest not a perpetuall utterer of thy owne concernements Take liberty in gods name faith a wise man of speaking not only on the way but in the Inne if thou findest fit company yea in any convenient place neither only before supper but at and after it But let thy speech tend to some one of these ends which seeke and enquire of the manners lawes site and condition of each city I adde which discourse of the Princes warres Events and whatsoever is rare and unusuall But alwaies thinke more wisedome to be placed in few then many words so the questions be apposite and pithy Seeke and enquire therefore rather like a scholler then like a Teacher Discourse of other mens actions resound not thy owne knowledge or vaine glorious praises For that Travellour which can abstaine from any glosse of his owne commendations cometh neere the rundell of perfection and is both happy and Iudicious To the discreet modesty of which elocution two observations do occur the first is alwaies to endeavour if thou hast not given thy name unto the muses and their instructions whereby to increase or at least wise lay

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 chief●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