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england_n	france_n	great_a	king_n	26,882	5	4.1773	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44724	Instructions for forreine travell shewing by what cours, and in what compasse of time, one may take an exact survey of the kingdomes and states of christendome, and arrive to the practicall knowledge of the languages, to good purpose.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1642 (1642)	Wing H3082; ESTC R38986	47,384	246

need not feare any one Earthly power if She bee true to Her selfe yet would She be puzzled to cope with any of the other two single unlesse it be upon the defensive part but joyning with Holland She can give them both the Law at Sea and leaguing with any of the other two She is able to put the third shrewdly to it Now it cannot be denied but that which giveth the greatest check to the Spanish Monarchy is France And there is no lesse truth than caution in that saying that the yeaue of the Conquering of France is the morning of the Conquest of England and vice versa It hath not been then without good reason of State that England since that monstruous height of power that Spaine is come to of late hath endeavoured rather to strengthen France to beare up against Her than to enfeeble Her having contributed both her power and purse to ransome one of her Kings at that time when Spaine began to shoot out Her braunches so wide Besides during the last Ligue which raged so long through all the bowels of France with that fury when there was a designe to Cantonize the whole Kingdome Queene Elizabeth though offered a part would not accept of it for feare of weakning the whole Therefore this chaine of reciprocall conservation linking them together so strongly England may well be taken for a sure Confederate of France while France containes Her selfe within her present bounds but if Shee should reduce the Spaniard to that desperate passe in the Netherlands as to make him throw the helve after the hatcher and to relinquish those Provinces altogether it would much alter the case for nothing could make France more suspectfull to England than the addition of those Countreyes for thereby they would come to be one continued piece and so England her overthwart neighbour should bee in a worse case than if the Spaniard had them entirely to himselfe For it would cause Her to put Her selfe more strongly upon Her Guard and so increase Her charge and care To conclude this point there cannot be a surer maxime and fuller of precaution for the security of England and Her Allies and indeed for all other Princes of this part of the World than Barnevelt gave of late yeares a little before he came to the fatall block Decrescat Hispanus nec crescat Francus But I have been transported too farre by this ticklish digression which requires an ampler and more serious Discours In fine with these particulars a Traveller should observe the likenesse and sympathy of distant Nations as the Spaniard with the Irish the French with the Pole the German specially Holsteinmen with the English and in Italy there have beene many besides my selfe that have noted the countenance and condition of some people of Italy specially those that inhabite Lombardy to draw neere unto the ancient Brittaines of this Island which argues that the Romanes who had their Legions here so many hundred yeares together did much mingle and clope with them Amongst other particulars the old Italian tunes and rithmes both in conceipt and cadency have much affinity with the Welsh and the genius of a people is much discovered by their prosody for example Vlisse ô lass● ô dolce Amor● muoro c. This agrees pat with the fancy of the Welch Bards whose greatest acutenesse consists in Agnominations and in making one word to tread as it were upon the others heele and push it forward in like letters as in the precedent example whereof many Italian Authors are full appeareth SECT. X. HE must also observe the number of Languages and difference of Dialects as neere as he can in every Countrey as hee passeth along The French have three dialects the Wallon vulgarly called among themselves Romand the Provensall whereof the Gascon is a subdialect and the speech of Languedoc They of Bearne and Navarre speak a Language that hath affinity with the Bascuence or the Cantabrian tongue in Biscaie and amongst the Pyrenean mountaines The Armorican tongue which they of low Brittaine speake for there is your Bas-Breton and the Breton-Brittonant or Breton Gallois who speakes French is a dialect of the old Brittish as the word Armorica imports which is a meere Welsh word for if one observe the Radicall words in that Language they are the same that are now spoken in Wales though they differ much in the composition of their sentences as doth the Cornish Now some of the approvedst Antiquaries positively hold the Originall Language of the Celtae the true ancient Gaules to be Welsh And amongst other Authors they produce no meaner than Caesar and Tacitus to confirme this opinion For Caesar saith that the Druydes of Gaule understood the Brittish Druyds who it seemes were of more account for their Philosophy because as he saith the Gaules came usually over to be taught by them which must bee by conference for there were few books then Besides Tacitus in the life of Iulius Agricola reporteth that the Language of the Brittaines and the Gaules little differed I restraine my selfe to the middle part of France called Gallia Celtica for they of Aquitaine spake a language that corresponded with the old Spanish they of Burgundy and Champagny with the German and most part of Provence spake Greek there having beene a famous Colony of Grecians planted in Marseilles Other small differences there are up and down in other Provinces of France as the low Norman useth to contract many words as he will often say I' ay un pet à faire for I' ay un petit affaire and the Poictevin will mince the word and say ma Mese mon pese for ma Mere mon Pere but these differences are not considerable The Spanish or Castilian tongue which is usually called Romance and of late years Lengua Christiana but it is called so only amongst themselves for a Spaniard will commonly aske a stranger whether hee can speake Christian that is Castillian The Spanish I say hath but one considerable dialect which is the Portugues which the Iewes of Europe speake more than any other language and they hold that the Messias shall come out that Tribe that speake the Portingal language other small differences there are in the pronunciation of the gutturall letters in the Castillian but they are of small moment They of the Kingdome of Valencia and Catalunia Goth-land speake rather a language mixed of French and Italian In the Mountaines of Granada the Alpuxarras they speake Morisco that last part of Spaine that was inhabited by the Moores who had possessed it above 700 yeares But the most ancient speech of Spaine seemes to have beene the Bascuence or the Cantabrian tongue spoken in Guipuscoa the Asturias and in some places amongst the Pyrenes but principally in the Province of Biscaye which was never conquered by Roman Cartaginian Goth Vandall or Moore which Nations overrunne all the rest of Spaine though some more some lesse therefore whensoever the King of Spaine commeth to

have been strange insolencies committed of late I say when hee hath well observed all this he will sing as once I did to a Noble friend of mine from Denmarque in this Sapphique Dulcior fumus Patriae forensi Flāmula vino praeit unda terrae Herba Britānae mage trāsmarino Flore süavis SECT. XVIII HAving thus tasted of so many waters and beene Salted in the World abroad and being safely restored to the bosome of his owne Countrey his next cours should bee to settle himselfe awhile in one of the Innes of Court which hee may do and yet bee a Courtier besides to understand something of the Common Lawes of England which are the inheritance of every subject as also of the constitutions and Orders of the House of Parlament the most indifferent most wholesome and Noblest way of Government in the World both in respect of King and People It being the greatest glory of a King to be King of a free and well-crested people and the greatest glory of a People to bee under a Crown so embellished with Flowers and sparckling with such ancient and sacred gemmes of Royall Prerogatives Yet to bee under no Law but of their owne making to bee the Setters of the great Dyall of the Common-Wealth themselves To bee subject to no Ordinance to no Contribution or Taxe but what is granted in that great Epidemicall Counsell wherein every one from the Peere to the Plebeian hath an inclusive Vote And if every degree high and low both in Towne and Countrey is there represented by their Subsistutes it were a hard measure under correction I humbly speake it if the Levites the best of all professions who besides the holinesse of their function as having charge of the Nobler halfe of man of that which should guide and regulate the Understanding in making of all Lawes I meane the Conscience do make a considerable part of the People of the Kingdome should be thence excluded for though it be inconsistent with their calling to have hands to execute yet they may well have heads to consult in that great Nationall Senat It were a hard case I say if those great Lights which were used to shine with that brightnesse to the Envy not the reproach or Scandall of any that I know of of all other Reformed Churches should be now put in wooden Candlesticks That those Promotions Endowments and Honors which our well disposed Progenitors provided to nourish the Arts and serve as Spurres to Learning and Zeale should now be cut off as if they served only for Stirrops to Pride There being no professions but have certaine steps of rising up and degrees of Promotion for their encouragement to make men aemulari meliora And he who hath spent the vigor of his yeares and Intellectuals in the Lords Vineyard it may well become him having served as it were his yeare of Iubile to have his gray haires dignified with some Honor and Authority with reward and rest in his old age and by his long experience and paines to see that other painefull Labourers be put into the Vine-yard yet to have his hand often on the Plough himselfe If there bee a theefe in the Candle as wee use to say commonly there is a way to pull it out and not to put out the Candle by clapping an Extinguisher presently upon it If these Lights grow dim there is a Trienniall Snuffer for them If these Trees beare not good fruit or shoot forth any Luxuriant boughs they are sure to feele the Pruning iron once every three yeares In the name of God let these Lights be brought to move within the circumference of their own Orbes and be kept from irregular and eccentrique motions And I am confident it will render them lesse obnoxious to Envy and Scandall and draw upon them a greater opinion of Reverence There is a Castle in the grand Caire in Aegypt called the Nilescope where there stands a Pillar with certaine markes to observe the height of the River of Nile at her annuall inundation which fals out precisely about the Summer Solstice if the streame come to bee higher or lower than such markes it portends dearth but if at highest floud it rest about the middle it is an infallible presage of a plentifull yeare So we may say of these great Streames that are appointed to water the Lords Field they must not swell too high nor must they run in too low a Channell And as humility is the fairest gemme that can shine in a Prelats Miter so the greatest badge of a well devoted Soule is to reverence the Dispensers of the sacred Oracles of God the Ghostly Fathers and Governors of the Church which in analogy to the Triumphant in Heaven hath also her degrees of Hierarchy For besides Revenue there is a Veneration due to this holy function and it were no hard matter to produce a Gran Iury of examples both Humane and Divine that where this Reverence fayled it hath been a symptome and an infallible presage of a declining State or some approaching judgement But I hope I shall never live to see the day that the Noble English Nation who have been so renowned all the world over and cryed up for their exemplary Piety as well as Prowesse will undervalue themselves so farre and grow distrustfull or conscious of their owne judgements their owne wonted Worth and Ability so far as to thinke those Nations who have not meanes to make the Church shine with that lustre to be Wiser than they or to out go them in zeale as to receive laws for the Conscience and forme of serving God from those who have been far behind them both in the first Reception of Christianity and the Reformation thereof Proh pudor I will not say by what I heard muttered abroad it will be accounted a Nationall diminution but if it should fo fall out it is no hard matter to be a Prophet yea by what hath passed already to take a plaine prospect of those Anarchicall confusions and fearefull calamities which will inevitably ensue both in Church and State unlesse with the pious care which is already taken to hinder the great Beast to breake into the Vineyard there be also a speedy cours taken to fence Her from other Vermine and lesser Animals the belluam multorum capitum which begin to brouze her leaves to throw down her hedges and so lay her open to wast spoyle and scorne Vnlesse there bee a cours taken I say to suppresse those petty Sectaries which swarme so in every corner with that connivence to the amazement of all the world and disparagement of so well a policed Kingdome who by their capricious and various kind of gingling fancies in serving God do their best to bring in the opinion of the Pagan Philosopher Themistius delivered once to Valens the Emperor That as God Almighty had infused into his handmaid Nature a diversity of operations and that the beauty of the Universe consisted in a proportion