or carry it the best Lands of that Crown are now what the last King but one conquered in Germany and what the last got from the Danes in Schonen Holand and Bleking in the former whereof is a good and convenient Harbor called Landscroon In fine it is a brave and Warlike Nation which stands too much upon the nicety of Honour as they take it to be so that if one hath in the least received an injury from another he must fight him or else he would be branded for a Coward unfit to come into any Gentlemans company and lay upon his reputation a perpetual blemish and note of infamy I have taken notice that most Gentleman of that Nation when they are abroad follow their Exercises well and succeed therein Of Denmark I have little to say that Kingdom except what they have in Holstein and Iutland consisting all in Islands which indeed are more plentiful and better Country than Sueden there are several little ones as Longland Loyland Femeren and Funen bigger than all these whereof the chief place is Odensea but the greatest and best of all is Sealand whereof Copenhagen is the Metropolis Elsenore is on this side the Sound and Cronenberg Castle is the strongest place of all those parts upon the same Island are also Roskildt and Fredericksburg all worth seeing more or less The temper of this Nation in some things is like the Suedish but more high and lofty though upon account of State there be an antipathy between the two Nations for the Kingdom which was Elective is now become Hereditary and the Nobility hath lost the Priviledge of choosing them a King for the late King after the Suedish War took an opportunity of his standing Army to bring this to pass with the concurrence of the Commonalty but as these places are not much visited by Strangers except in case of Ambassadors or upon the account of Trade for the Sound is the inlet into the Baltick Sea I will forbear any longer speaking of it From Sueden and Denmark Strangâ—rs come back usually to Hambourg and Lubeck Something too should be said of Spain and Portugal the former I have spoken of elsewhere the other is a Kingdom lying South-west of Spain along the Sea Coasts their Language is the same except some few words and some difference in the pronunciation there is an antipathy between the two Nations grounded upon the interest of State After the death of King Don Sebastian in Africa Philip II. of Spain took possession of that Kingdom aâ—d was kept by Philip III. his Successor and by Philip IV. till the year 1640. for that Kingdom took the first opportunity and withdrew from the Spanish Yoak to yield obedience to the right Owner Don Iuan Duke of Braganza the design being managed by the wisdom and courage of his Wife of the Spanish Illustrious Family of Medina Sidonia assisted by some prudent and loyal persons of quality who contributed much to bring that design to pass and to make use of the general disposition of the Nation to a Revolution Portugal and the Algarves are not of any great extent but that King is Potent in Aâ—rica and the East-Indies where they made considerable Conquests and drive a great Trade Goa being one of the most Merchant Cities of all those Indies they understand well the Art of Navigation whereby that Kingdom is much enriched there are not many strong or otherwise considerable Towns Braga Braganza Porto Coimbra Eluas c. are the chief but Lisboa or Lisbon is a good and rich City the Metropolis of the Kingdom it hath some things of the Spanish temper but not altogether so slow there are not many Strangers there except those who are in the service of the Crown Merchants and some attending on foreign Ministers for Gentlemen who travel to see the World and improve themselves make no long stay there but onely do go there for in a short time one can see the chief things there in it and in Spain I was about ten Months But now I must speak of other things After our Travellers are come to Paris have refreshed themselves and made fashionableCloaths the next thing must be to take Masters of Exercises to be perfect therein let them at leisure see every thing they did see before and more too and thereupon make exacter observation such are the Court and all publick Pleasures and Solemnities performed therein whether it be Hunting General Musters Balls Plays c. they must renew good former acquaintance make what new ones they are able specially with men of virtue and quality with Virtuosi and other Wits of Paris they ought to get an exact information of the whole Court and of great Persons of the Kingdom whose authority and power therein is very great this gives a great light to understand the constitution and interests of States which is a thing I could desire them to mind and be well versed in to this effect they must find ways handsomely how to be acquainted with the Ministers of those Princes and Republicks in whose Dominions they have been and of others too which will come in by degrees from them they can hear news of what passeth all Europe and World over learn Wisdom and the grounds of Policy for though they will not acquaint one with their secrets yet the continual course of affairs being apprehended well will teach one very much also sometimes they reason upon things and give their opinion about them Besides this Paris affords a great variety of good Company wherein much is to be learned so that six months at least can well be bestowed there and whole years too if one can and hath a mind to stay and yet loose no time The Languages he hath learned in his travels I would have him not to forget but rather to practice upon all occasions both by reading and speaking for they are accomplishment for any Gentleman and qualification necessary to a Statesman or to any employed in publick Affairs He will also do well if possible to understand the peculiar way of speaking of other Nations As for instance here in England we speak much between the teeth for when the letter H is pronounced after a T the tongue lies between the teeth which else are close for the most part The French speak with a whistling of the tongue The Italian with the lips The German with the throat And the Hollander with the nose These differences are easily perceived by those who have any skill in those Languages and to give an instance of the two last the German and the Hollanders between which two there should be the less difference because this last is but a Dialect of the former yet when one is come from Germany as far as Colen he will find this difference very palpable They also who are critical upon Languages do find that they are adapted to Subjects for upon certain matters some are more energetical and significative than others for
incensed took a resolution to destroy both Escovedo and Perez the first because with his Counsels he encouraged Don Iuan to make himself Master of Flanders and the last because he was become his rival and had betrayed the trust he had put in him so he took Perez's advice to have Escovedo murthered and committed the execution to the care of the Author of the Council which was soon done out of a great desire he had to satisfie the Lady incensed against the other but after the Murther Escovedos Children prosecuting the business against the Lady and Perez the first was sent to prison and the last suspended of his Charges and deprived of his Pensions for the space of six years living privately in Madrid when a new accusation being brought against him by the same Children of Escovedo namely that he had received 10000. Crowns of Gold from the Grand Duke and betrayed the King's secrets to Don Iuan he was condemned to pay 30000. Crowns of Gold worth about nine shillings a piece to two years imprisonment and eight of banishment In the mean time the King by means of his Confessor offered to him to make the Sentence null and void if he would but deliver back the Letters he had under the King's hands concerning the Murther which he refusing to do was cast into a close prison yet at last with the Kings consent he came to an agreement with Escovedo's Family to whom he payed 5000 l. which according to the King's desire impoverished him but at last Philip being resolved to clear himself of the Murther with bringing the Author to punishment he was put to the Wrack confessed the fact and excused it upon the King's Command whose Letters he produced after which knowing the King would never forgive him and that though he had accused his Master yet he had not cleared himself he made a shift to escape out of Prison and in one day went a hundred and fifty miles into Arragon his Country where the Justice promised him protection but the King having brought an Army under this pretence to deprive that Kingdom of its priviledges and prevailed he fled into France where he was well received and found a sure Sanctuary and discovered to the French King all the secrets and Mysteries of State of Spain and how to oppose them since which time the French have made an effectual use thereof against that Monarchy See how many mischiefs link'd together a great States-man murthered a Lady exposed to a publick infamy another great man undone and brought to great troubles for that adultery and murther the whole Kingdom of Arragon deprived of his Rights and Priviledges and the foundation laid of the decay of the whole Spanish Monarchy This hath been the blemish of great persons in former and later days who went not unpunished for God will not suffer them to enjoy at home that peace which they deprive other families of No doubt it is difficult to be chast amidst so many enticements to voluptuousness except through the fear of God they be overcome with a flight from occasions mastering of our sences and with Iob making a covenant with our eyes Men ought to consider that the beauty they so much idolize is but as a flower of the field which the least distemper can dry up age wear out death and worms destroy and corrupt These kind of Women love nothing but themselves or else love all men alike because their monies are their end and their own interest is the principle they are acted by who can tell how many shares are laid against young men Upon this account let a young Traveller seriously look to it for in several places it is as much as his life is worth which upon that account lies often at the stake therefore he must take heed not to run into such premunires which often distemper or destroy their body and endanger their soul and life Therefore one must carry himself with great prudence avoiding evil and offence falling upon the practice of temperance which that it be true ought to receive Being from reason whereby the appetite concupiscible must be ruled for if she hath not the command of it to moderate the impetuosity of its motion man is in a sad condition for imagination having been corrupt by that appetite whilst blood is young and hot and used to please it not being able to shake off that habit will take her turn to solicit him thereunto when his strength and vigor have failed him so that a man shall not be free of disquietness caused through incontinency although he be not in a capacity to satisfie it but when reason hath mastered this appetite there is a pleasant harmony between the inward and outward parts and a decent modesty appears in the ordinary actions of temperate men Against this sinned Diogenes who used sometimes to lie with his Wife in the open street upon which account as well as any other he deserved the name of Cynick or doggish Things may be lawful at certain times and places which are not so nor expedient in others but to perfect temperance when reason hath so gotten the upper hand of Lust and that appetite I named before it is necessary there should be a fix'd and constant resolution so to continue for to be temperate at one time and incontinent at another is not true temperance but effects of an inconstant temper seeing virtue is ever regular always the same and never contradicts her self Farther a man cannot be called chast and temperate when either distempers old age or other accidents have mortified his lusts which he left not but hath been left by them nor when he changeth that sin into another Nani frustra vitium vitaveris illud Si te alio pravum detorseris Fables do represent sensual pleasure in the shape of a Child naked blind with wings in his back a bow in one hand and a torch in the other a Child because that passion becomes none so well as youth and infancy is a mark of want of judgment his ever being a Child is a sign of his continuing foolish and never growing wise naked it strips of all those who are given to it and brings no good to any blind because it puts out the eye of conduct and hinders it from seeing the imperfections of what is loved wings on his back because it is inconstant and apt to flie away a bow in one hand and a torch in the other to shew how incontinency causes nothing but war and fire Hence also we learn that seeing love is blind he cannot pick us out of a crowd to hurt us except we draw and stand near to him let us stand at a distance and with the light of his torch we shall be able to see his rash inconsiderateness in his infancy his shame in his nakedness and his errors and failings in his blindness In the case of Paris the Trojan we see what miscarriages it causes men to
to punishments and that wonderful patience amidst violent pains and torments for the cause of God I know some others have undergone great pains but not in that degree of constancy or else did not so chearfully run to death which when they saw unavoidable they did bear it the more patiently and for certain of all Religions the Christian more than any is for suffering yet excludes not action so much as affirmeth a great Statesman for it hath virtues active and passive which to exercise all or in part a Traveller meets with occasions at one time or other I think I have said enough to my purpose of moral virtues which can hardly be acquired without many precepts much time and experience though the principles of it may more easily be inculcated and if a Governor can but make his Gentleman wise and prudent he gives him thereby the Grounds Principles and seeds of all moral virtues without which they are no virtues these being the life and spirit of them all and though these two seem to be but one expressed in two different words which for the most part are joyned together wisdom and prudence yet they do much differ for the first consisteth in election when of two things it doth chuse the best and the last in foresight for they are prudent who foresee and prevent dangers Farther wisdom is an intellectual habit of the soul but prudence is an actual one the propriety of that is to know of this to operate We know in three wayes and do operate in two the three are Understanding Science and Wisdom the two are Prudence and Art the subject of the contemplation of those are necessary certain and unchangeable things and consequently infallible for ever they conclude the same because he who understands not well is said to want understanding he who doth not well know a thing cannot be said to have the Science thereof but the subject of the operation of prudence and art are not so well regulated for that often meets with passions rising against reason which it makes use of and must act according to several circumstances which of necessity do alter her ways and method Art indeed doth not light upon so much difficulty in its operation nor opposition to her working because use and custom have prescribed what it must do besides that it hath a sure end with means to arrive thereunto Nevertheless as it must have an organ to work by it hath much ado to fit it for his purpose and make it serve his turn Wisdom is a thing hard to be found Diogenes with a Lanthorn at noon was seeking for a wiseman amidst the wisest Nation that was at that time this indeed gives the weight to and tries the intellectual faculties of the soul as prudence doth to her operation ordering our actions and bringing them under her rules it gives form to moral Vertues which are not single acts but habits and therefore difficult to be acquired so that he who will have young men attain to 't ought betime to put them upon giving precepts allowing time and experience till they be contracted When once they are formed they produce admirable effects for fidelity and truth of word and promise Regulus is a known and extraordinary example who had leave from the Carthaginians to go to Rome to advise the Senate to make an exchange of Prisoners on both sides yet contrary to his particular interest and the expectation of his enemies he dissuaded them from it which being done he went back and suffered the cruel death prepared for him namely to be put up in a Tun full of long and sharp nails and thus rowled to death this is an heroical virtue Of which in another kind we have an example in Fabricius who being sent to Pyrrhus that King in two ways attempted against his probity First knowing him to be poor he offered him great sums of money which he refused afterwards he thought to have frighted him with a sudden bringing of an Elephant upon him but he turning towards the King and smiling said Sir yesterday I was not tempted with your Gold nor to day frighted with your Elephant Of such Roman and Heroical Virtues History doth afford us many examples youth amongst them being framed to it with precepts and examples of Parents and by the care of a good Education in which case they are said to have sucked Virtue with the Milk It is related in the life of a worthy Outlandish Gentleman that after his dispute with Cardinal du Perron in the presence of Henry IV his Son said My Father hath been sacrificed to the Pope This coming to the King's ear he was very angry at it whereupon one to excuse it said what a child of sixteen years old hath said is not to be taken notice of the King replied One of sixteen of du Plessis breeding is as much as thirty of another Let this be said by the by to shew how a good Education hath great influences to make a young man knowing and virtuous Virtue is above all things under God and his Grace Marmore quid melius jaspis quid jaspide virtus Quid virtute Deus quid Deitate nihil Virtue is indeed a precious jewel which they that can attain to are very happy Moral virtues are millions of times more scarce than vices but heroical ones are certainly the scarcest of all very extraordinary proper to few rare men to a Hercules Cyrus Alexander c. whose way was Parcere subjectis debellure superbos a rare courage and valour and an extraordinary generosity have been some of the virtues of Heroes Virtue is not of one act but of many Now if there be so few heroical actions in the world how much fewer must be the virtues It is not enough to have a fine Wit a good Understanding Reason strong well regulated Passions a good Nature great Parts and a Soul capacious of great and heroical things occasions of exercising these virtues must concur with those dispositions and capacity be put to many great tryals or else no heroical virtue no advantage but what accidents may happen to afford unto a man once or twice in his life time so that it must be concluded that few in the world are capable of transcendent actions or else want occasions to set them forth yet this should be no discouragement to those who would infuse a desire of it into youth for though it be not easie to come to 't yet it is not impossible as it hath been in some it may be in others therefore nothing is to be neglected This like seed in the ground ripeneth and cometh to maturity Hear what a Heroe AEneas saith to his Son Disce puor virtutem ex me verumque laborem Fortunam ex aliis Tu facito mox cum matura adoleverit aetas Sis memor Et Pater AEneas avunculus excitet hector This may be an argument to excite youth to virtue to commend
manner of Exercises are to be learned and it hath a famous University for Learning besides that it is seated in a Countrey the lower Palatinate called the Garden of Germany most part of it lying along or about the Rhine with plenty delicacy and variety of all things when it is not the seat of War Of all the Courts of German Princes that of Brandenbourg is to my mind the more stately and numerous and I have seen some Royal Courts inferior to it Of all Rivers in Germany the two chief the Danube and the Rhine are most convenient for Travellers by reason of the depth of their water the swiftness of their stream and the length of their course and the many good Towns upon both others as the Wesel Elbe Oder Main Nekar c. are not so convenient for the Rhine crosses all Germany from South to North and the Danube from West to East He who goes into that Countrey must use himself to lie upon straw for strangers in Summer cannot abide to lie between two great Feather-beds as the fashion is in those parts In great places one is well treated but dear there being a set ordinary in most parts Landlords are not used to over-reckon wherefore there is no disputing with them as in most parts of France but will be paid what they ask when men of any fashion come in the Master and Mistriss of the house bid them welcome In Switzerland he and the Landlady shake hands with their Guests and he waiteth on them at Table and both there and in Germany they expect as a token they are satisfied with their house to hear this complement upon their going away I will lodge here when I come hither again And if Erasmus was now alive he would not find them to be so rude as he complaineth they were in his time As to matter of Learning this I must say of the Germans their Wit is not quick but they are strong and patient in their Studies and Labours so that they know more things than others though not â—o well they seem to be more desirous to teach than to learn and do at least as much delight in Writing as in Reading But I must remember I am not writing a Relation of Germans therefore I am to insist onely upon that which is of my present purpose and compendiously too so that having observed that as in France they reckon by Leagues the distance of Places in Italy by Miles in most parts of Germany it is by Hours I must now set forwards our Traveller towards this last Country Venice is the usual place of Rendevous for those who intend to go from Italy into Germany there are daily occasions of those men who go to and fro out of one Country into the other and according to agreement do furnish horses and as to Diet defray Travellers which is very convenient for those who do not know the Country and understand not the Language some go thorough Grats in Styria and other parts of the Hereditary Countreys of the Archduke of Austria to Vienna to see the Emperors Court they who delight to see strong Places go thence thorough Presbourg to see Roà b and Komorrah and other few places belonging to the Emperor upon the frontier of the Turk of the remainder of Hungary thence they come back to Vienna and so thorough Bohemia go into Saxony and if they please from Dresden thorough Magdebourg to Hambourg where crossing the Elbe they go into Holstein â—o into Denmark and Sueden others from Vienna thorough Moravia step into Poland as far as Cracow thence thorough Silesia and Lusatia to Berlin to see the Court of Brandenburg whence some have the curiosity to step into Pomerania and then to Dantzick but others thorough part of Brunswick Lunenbourg and Mecklebourg go to Lubeck thence to Hambourg whence those who do not go into Sueden and Denmark go into the Dukedom formerly Archbishoprick of Bremen Westphalia so into the Low Countreys Others do not go so far into Germany but directly from Venice they go thorough Trent Inspruck to Munichen where the Duke of Bavaria keeps his Court and thence to Ausbourg whence they either go to Vlm to take water to go down to Vienna which I take to be the best way to go to that Court or else from Vlm to Stugard in Wirtemberg thence to Heidelberg to Francfurt so to Mentz and then down the Rhine to Colen Noremberg is one of the Cities of Germany most worth seeing from Colen either one goes by land to Brussels or else by water down the Rhine and so to Vtrech and Amsterdam or upon the Vahal down to Nimegue Lovestein Vorcum Gorcum of which three places the Dutch Proverb says Vorcum Gorcum Lovestein nam ist groet Matcht is Klein from these one goeth to Dort Rotterdam so to any parts of Holand He who travels into those parts must know that Germany was divided into upper and lower the upper is that which now is properly called Germany the lower is now called Netherlands or Low Countreys part whereof was called Belgia or Batavia it contains seventeen Provinces of which the seven United from the particular one Holland are named Hollanders as the ten Flemingers from Flanders Once all these Provinces were possessed by the House of Burgundy which all with both Burgundies part of Suisserland and Lorrain Charles le Hardy or Bold intended to have united and erected into a Kingdom under the name of the Kingdom of the Lion because a Lion is the Arms of most of those Provinces but he miscarried in his design all these Low Countreys and the Country of Burgundy otherwise called Franche Comte by a Marriage fell into the hands of the House of Austria In the year 1568. c. these Countreys in the days of Philip II. King of Spain were by extraordinary oppressions in their Consciences Lives and Estates forced to take Arms and thus beginning was given to that War which with various successes lasted till at last in 1648. by a Treaty at Munster and Osnabruâ—k 7 of these Provinces were by the Spaniards own-to be Soveraign States hereupon is grounded the difference of Spanish and Vnited Netherlands This Republick was founded not only upon Dutch but also English Blood witnesses the Battel of Newport the Siege of Ostend and several other occasions although it be but new and modern it is raised to a great height and is become very potent by Land but especially by Sea therefore a stranger must see their Shipping Store-houses and strong Places and be informed of their way of Trading for herein doth consist their strength and riches for the Province of Holand doth hardly produce any thing besides Butter and Cheese but they have great many Manufactures whereby a great number of people is kept in exercise yet for all this Holand is a Magazine for all manner of Wares there being a distribution made between the Cities of the Trade in several things for every great City
as to the Republick chiefly Democratical as Holand but also as to those which are wholly Aristocratical as Venice The cause of troubles in Nations hath usually been either the eager desire of the Nobles to command or else the violent love of people to their liberty which principles the minds of both sides being once possessed with every one driving on his way rentings and disturbances are unavoidable and truly in such a case the parties are often so blind that to avoid a present inconvenience and distemper they fall into a greater and more dangerous disease as it fell out in Rome when the Nobles and the People being grieved the one at the Tribunes and the other at the Consuls which were ballanced one by another they abolished them all and set up the Decemvirs whose little finger was heavier than either Consuls or Tribunes and certainly when divisions in States cause such courses to be taken there are all dispositions in the World to Tiranny for when one of the parties sets over himself a daring ambitious man of interest he makes use of that party to destroy the other which being done he hath so fortified himself that it will not be difficult to usurp over the rest Thus if the Nobles be destroyed the People having none to fly to must submit and be kept under Appius the Decemvir had such a fair occasion if he had had the wit to make use of it for the people being confident he would bear his interest against the Senate chose him but he instead of making use of this popular favour to undo the Nobles begun to oppose the People who had raised him to that Dignity and complyed with the Senate who were all his enemies some because they had the same ambitious designs as he and all because they lookt upon him as a creature and the head of the people they who came after and had the same designs took a wiser way to bring them about Marius being chosen by the People and Sylla by the Senate stook to their principles and to those by whom they were to raised and when these divisions were come to the greatest height and the great revolution which not long after befel the Republick was hanging over her head Pompeius for the Senate and Caesar for the People did the like for though Pompeius had the worst of it the Nobles stood to him as long as they were able and when they had no other way they murthered Caesar in the Senate whose steps being followed by his Nephew Octavius Auguâ—tus gave the mortal wound to that party by the overthrow of Brutus and Cassius and he set himself over all the People and so reduced the Government to a single person which may be Pompeius or his Sons had done if they had had the better on the other side Something of this is also to be observed in Monarchies where also are the different interests of the Nobles and of the People which to balance is the Princes interest and not to suffer one to be destroyed by the other the Nobillty indeed are the Props and Pillars of a Throne but the Barons War and some Outlandish examples shew that they are sometimes the scourge of it and within these very few years we have seen a King of the North make use of the People to bring down the power and authority of his Nobility That Government is certainly the most happy and the likeliest to last where the Nobility encroacheth not upon the Liberties of the People nor they on the Prerogatives of the Nobles Therefore if a Traveller be from amongst the Nobility so as to have right to hope one day to sit amongst the Noblemen let him not learn ambitious and tyrannical Principles when he hath been in Poland and other places where the common people are no better than Slaves or if he be born amongst the common people let him not be so desirous of a full liberty such as he hath seen in Holand and other places where the supream authority lies in the people so as to scorn when he cometh home to yield respect and that obedience which according to the Law and customs of his Countrey is due to the Nobility and Gentry for a Noble who makes a stay in Poland and a Commoner in Holand finding those Governments suitable to their quality and inclination by the influence of the climate customs and conversations with people will be affected to 't and sometimes desire it should be so at home which desire upon occasion will proceed to action and strivings to setle it there What I said of the manner and customs of Holland almost the like I may say of those of the rest of the Vnited Provinces all having the same general way of Government so I may almost say of those Spanish Countreys which are near them as to manners and customs having all formerly been under the same Soveraign though those under Spain have a mixture of fashions by reason of their constant communication with that Nation as have with the French those of Artois Hainault and others which either belong to the French or are their very next Neighbors which customs by degrees and succession are introduced Now what I say is not as to their Laws and Government which I know are different and particular to some Provinces but I speak in matter of society conversation and manner of life which as the Language are near alike in all the Low Countreys which being so nigh to us their temper is the better known to every one here and 't is less necessary to insist upon 't as much as on Countreys more remote When a Traveller hath seen most of all the Curiosities of those parts which for the most part consist in fair and strong Cities I will have him to come to Paris there to re-collect what he hath seen and learned in all his travels and to perfect himself in his Exercises and take his last stamp before he comes home I had said that from Hambourg or Lubeck some go into Sueden and Denmark onely to see the former being for the most part a barren vast wild Country in comparison of the southerly parts of Europe there is no pleasure nor hardly profit to travel in 't Stockholme where the Court resides is to be seen Vpsal an Archbishoprick and the Seat of the Primate of Sueden where is also 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