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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42641	Subsidium peregrinantibus, or, An assistance to a traveller in his convers with 1. Hollanders, 2. Germans, 3. Venetians, 4. Italians, 5. Spaniards, 6. French : directing him after the latest mode, to the greatest honour, pleasure, security, and advantage in his travells : written to a princely traveller for a vade mecum / by Balthazar Gerbier.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1665 (1665)	Wing G572; ESTC R25458	45,784	144

three Toades Clodian his son did not Coat them but three Crownes Merovee seased on the Crowne made peace with Cetius chiefe of the Romans defeated Antila King of the Hunns and called the Neighbourhood of Paris France which gave the name of all that Empire and as in the first digression his successors took the name of Meroviens the line whereof hath continued untill Pepin Clovis son to Chilperic being Christened was that Clovis who did Coate the Flower de Lis which were at first in great number but were reduced to three by Charles the 6th the 54th French King and so did all the Princes of the Blood It was by perswasion of his Heraold at Armes who said Qui plus a moins porte and these Armes have been continued by the French Kings untill this present time in the Line of Boucley The Kingdome of France as the French will have it falls not to the distaf Lilia non nent though Julius Caesar said of them that though in their first heat they seem to be more then Men but afterwards to be lesse then woman They are the most courteous of all Nations but more unconstant then any therefore one to whom a notable person of them was highly extold for setlednesse being said to have well an Ounce of Lead in his head replyed the Man ought to be much valued for that all France had not one pound The French do generally love their King they are accustomed to a liberty which takes not with all Nations they are much addicted to change which seems to be their life and element but as they are prompt to commit faults they are as quick to repaire them they love and esteem strangers hear their profers with attention they are liberall in bestowing great charges of trust on them though different of Religion for example the Duke de la Force Marshall de Chastillon Torras Turien Gassion Ransoro Balthazar and many others I shall not overburden this with the list of the great and mighty Cities whereof there are 53 as Metropolitans their nine Parliament Citties in respective shires where they are Courts of Justice Neither shall I spend time with such minutes as mentioned in other copious recitalls to wit the difference between the proceeding of Spanish and French in their dressing of themselves which signify nothing to a Traveller though I shall note for the observation of all Travellers certain precise Civilities which the well bred French will observe and doe look for from all Travellers First they confine salutations to Ladies within the bounds of arrivall and departure the Familiarity of Kisses being thought an uncivill boldnesse at any other time and were become troublesome especially from snottinose young striplings who had learned no other quality It is not permitted to any Gentleman who visits a Lady to lay downe Cloake or Hat except in such places that can endure Doublet and Breeches to keep the Cloake and Hat company A Gentleman who hath the honour to Usher a Princesse must not yeeld her hand to any man except to a Prince or a Marshall of France Never refuse but take as a particular Honour the accepting to present to a Prince or Princesse the cup or glasse which by that Prince or Princesse domestick servant may be brought It s not the custome when a Prince doth Sneese to say as to other persons and the old civility was Dieu vous ayde God help you but only to make a Low reverence Though a French Prince should to a stander by at his Table present something which may be eaten yet must he not tast thereof except the Prince commands it and it is the like with any Fruit presented between Meales If a Gentleman be admitted to a Prince his Table he is not to drinke before the Prince had his Glasse No Broth is to be taken out of a Dish but first laid on the trencher No yolk of Eggs sipped out of the shell but taken out with a spoone Nor any blowing of hot Broth in a spoon which little nicities must be observed by any man that will passe for a Gentleman among the Nobility of France and are here recited only in reference and for the observation of those who have the honour to accompany a Prince in his Travell A Princely Traveller curious to know all the ancient and Moderne affairs of France will do well to visit the Library of Mons du Puy who hath a collection of above a hundred Volumes of Manuscripts as also visit the Library of the Count de Brienne for he hath 120 Volumes of Manuscripts containing the Treaties and Alliances made with Forraigne Princes and all the rare pieces of State since Lewis the XI and among them to take particular notice of the Memorialls of Mr de Villeroy and President Genin who were Great men in King Henry the 4th his time As for publick visits a Princely Traveller who knoweth what the publick Accademies for exercises and for the knowledge of the Mathematicks are shall not need to spend time with Academies but call upon Masters of Ceremonies to accompany him for the first time and afterwards untill departure use the liberty of France in visits not in Italy nor Spaine where the day and hower for visits must be demanded Hee shall not use any complement in the retreat from a conversation for it is the manner to depart without any ceremony except the company be all gone As for the visiting of Embassadors it is most fit to consult their leasure as well in France as in other parts for it is with them as it was with him who had written on his dore Whosoever hath knockt twice and is not opened may be gone for I am not cannot or will not be at home Embassadors are as publick Sentinells they have their set time of guard and no conversation then to be had with them It is fit for a Princely Traveller to visit them to entertaine amity with those Soveraignes whom they represent and to know the continuall case of their affaires and intriques and to that purpose to visit also those Ladies where the publick Ministers do frequent where a Traveller will heare as from Parrets when their cage is in the Sun all what occurres France is represented by a Woman all deckt with Eyes and Tongues and if none could speake loud enough she hath a Trumpet SECT VIII NOW for Italy and if by Savoy men who affect Relicks may take notice of a Saints Sudari at Turin And as for the Prime of men let them take notice on the successors of the great Emanuel of Savoy and never be wrought upon by what the Cardinall d'Ossat in his passion wrote against that Great Duke of Savoy by Birth King of Cypres of the old Saxon Imperiall Spanish and French Royall blood most magnanimous in all his proceedings more rich in Jewells then any other Prince in Europe attended by a great number of Nobles and in as much Pompe as any Christian Soveraigne Prince can

of Gold and Copper to hold 24 Wax lights on the gate two great figures in the shape of Angells of copper and Gold holding two Scroules wherein is carved the words Natura me Occidit Spes me Elevat There is a vaulted place in the coming forth of this Pantheon wherein are the Tombes of the Princes and Princesses of Spaine covered with red Velvet richly embroydered with gold and Silver There are 36 Altars in the Church to which appertains all the Ornaments of change for every day in the yeare There are many pictures of an inestimable value a true originall of King David There are 36 crosses of Gold set with precious stones and an infinite number of Silver Lamps and Candlesticks there are in the main body of the Escuriall twelve thousand Windows and Dores the least of the Dores having cost one hundred pound sterling There are 17 Cloisters and 17 Courts and 85 Fountains there are 300 Religious men of the Order of St Jerome all Gentlemen the Annuall Revenue is foure hundred thousand Crownes There is in the Escuriall one of the Earthen vessels wherein as the Spaniards say was the miraculous Wine of the Wedding in Cana. As for Madrid it hath ever since the Court of the former Kings was kept at Valledolit bin the place of the King of Spaine his constant aboade The great Feast and Sport of the Torros is that which the Spaniard affects so much as he cannot leave it for the Popes Excommunication against such as may come to a fatall end in that sport The Pompe of the Roman Catholick Church sheweth it selfe very much in that of la Madona de la Totche wherein the Dominicans have an Altar of Massie Silver of an extraordinary bignes with a Madona of Silver fix foot high with a Sun of Massie Gold about the head set with precious stones the Railes about the Chappell of Massie Silver there are one hundred Silver Lamps the least whereof cost 400 Crowns some cost 12 thousand Crowns That of Toledo is of the forme of St Peter in Rome the Bishop hath 400 thousand Crownes revenue per annum the Treasure of that Church is of an unestimable value At the Pardo some miles distant from Madrid there is in a massy Silver Tombe a Figure representing Christ for the which King Philip the 2d did pay one hundred thousand Crownes it is of wood but so rarely carved as never Eyes beheld the like I have begun with Sepulchers proceeded with Churches Monasteries and described their riches more facil to the King of Spaine to compasse since he possesseth the Gold and silver Mynes and hath in his Dominions all the most pretious productions of Nature As for Madrid it is situated under a most pure Clime The greatest Palace would not yeeld so much Chimney mony as a little House of ten pound per annum in England since by the number of seaven Chimneys the greatest Palace of Madrid is wont to be described they use Silver Brazeros in all their romes of State and Bedchambers That which is remarkable in the King of Spaines Court is the attendance to his prime Minister of State now the Duke Medina de las Torros successor to Don Louis d' Arro who succeeded the Conde Duca d' Olivares prime Minister of State when Charles Prince of Great Britain was in that Court Anno 1625. The Nobles affect no other clothes then Black Freize all Winter long plain Taffaty in the Summer time The Ladies at Court admit Audiences when demanded it is in the presence of the King and Queene The Ladies stand on a row if the Cavalleros who have demanded Audience of them are Grandees they cover themselves The late Duke of Buckingham the Match les of all the Subjects in the World and who attended the Prince of Great Pritain had particular Audiences with the Conde Duca d' Olivares his Lady on the score of his being Embassador Extraordinary the Plenipotentiary for the Treaty of the Match and her being Camarera-Major with whom it was necessary to confer during the Treaty of an intended Match by King James of Blessed memory and the Prince with the Infanta Maria sister to King Philip the 4th But very loose impertinent and ill grounded discourses have been made in England concerning the Duke of Buckinghams correspondency with the said Countes as if she had been a strumpet of Greece and of those young silly Court sooles who are charmed by kind words who see Babies in all mens Eyes that look on them and perswade themselves that they must not resist those first glowings of Cypres coles except they would smother those Babies in their temporary Lovers eyes and loose their Maiden head in a dreame for nothing when as they pretend by answering their palpable Narcissus to have something more then imagination in the Bargain The Duke of Buckingham had other Fish to Frie then to make Love to himselfe with an old Woman the good successe of a Treatie for an intended Match by which Gondomar had promised the re-restitution of a Palatinate was the golden fleece for which this Matchlesse Jason exposed himselfe I do not say among Monsters of Africa but among Juglers Interlopers and no lesse then such Embassadors who with the Character of honest men do but too often Lye abroad to make good State Policy exposed himselfe into the attendance of that Matchlesse Prince in whose preservation three Great Nations besides all his friends abroad were interessed And when the Duke of Buckingham did find where the Remora was fixt partly in the calot humour of the Sexe which is the most tardy to admit reason because the Sex is the most passionate and that after long parleys with the slow resolving Spanish Councils of State the Match was still in statu quo it was then time as the French say either Faire bonne mine en manvais jeu put a good Face on an ill businesse or to try the uttermost a Camarero Major could or would do laying aside words Bull-begger like damned Hereticks whereby the zelot Romans do distinguish the true Christian Catholicks others in the Match of Matchlesse most precious Infanta Maria who certainly was a Princesse fit to be an Empresse of all the World as Shee afterwards became the Empresse of Germany As for visits to the Spanish it is not their custome to exchange words or complements before parties are set in Chaires with Armes They leave the visitor in possession of their House when the conversation is ended and for that go before attending him in his Coach they are succinct and grave in their Complements use to speak Proverbs if to passe Complements on great Holy-dayes as Christmas and Easter they only say three words Las buenas Pasquas they are very carefull to send complements to those of their friends and acquaintances who have been let blood and ever accompany their complement with a present which they call la Sangria They endeavour as much as they can to send their present

be a Nobility extreme Generous and Gentile the Ladies so Beautifull as that they are called all Italy over the Faire Piedmontese The liberty of the Court of Savoy is moderated between France and Italy The first considerable object a Traveller shall meet with in Savoy is the fortresse of Mount-Milan which withstood a yeare and above all the French Kings Army when King Lewis the 15th had set upon it all the courage of the Nation and all what could be attempted by Jupiter-like flames and Vulcan like forgery to blow up the Fortresse to which the French King had invited all the adjacent Nobility to be spectators but the successe proved a forced retreat of the French Army Chambray the first Metropolitan of Savoy seated as a center to the Hills as if those whereon the Tempter set the King of Kings may be the first nights lodging to a Traveller who will see there that most magnificent Stable built by the late Prince Thomas of Savoy all of white Marble within the Post the Manger and the Racks of massy Copper to entertaine one hundred great saddle Horses Susa is the next great Fortresse The next place of note is Rivoly 14 Italian miles from Turin Rivoly is a place with variety of rich furniture the gardins Eden like as in that at Turin 85 Brazen metall Vases 8 foot high all imbossed by the famous John de Bologne cast so as the like of them is not to be seen in Europe except in a Dorade within the Kingdome of the American Guiana where such and other ornaments are of massie Gold The rare Palaces and Seats without Turin are first that of the Capuchins built by the Duke as the Rotonde at Rome all of Marble and to serve also in time of Warre for a Fortresse of defence The next is the Palace of the late Cardinall Maurice Uncle to the present Duke of Savoy That of Valentin neer the River Po a mile from Turin and is as Noble as any can be seen in all Italy Three mile farther is that called Mile Fiori a thousand flowers and may it raise the Savoyards and Piemontesis thoughts to that Bower whereof the Imperialls and the choice Anemones are Sunne Moone and Starres whereon Constantine made his Victorious conclusion as is seen neerer to the Equinoctiall then England is to the cape of good hope May none of the Nation misse that marke Padua may prove the first place which a Traveller will call upon in his repaire to Venice where if among the disereet he be pleased to speake in sober termes of St Anthonio as at Milan of St Carlo di Boromeo he will never be dislikt of for an Italian will converse with a discreet stranger without questioning his particular profession it being granted among them that all Tramontany all men beyond the Hills may be Hereticks yet giving no offence in their Churches where no man is compelled to go lesse to their beds a man never so much Tramontany may live Methusalems days among them without any troubles at all except how to drink drunk for it s not in practise among them revengefull they are against their own Countrymen they hold it to be an honour and an imitation of the Poets thundering Jupiter who hath reserved the sweetest to himselfe to wit Vengeance They make as before said a great distinction between Strangers and their Natives who they would on all occasions have to proceed as by Mathematick rules and even on the least as in going to a House of a stranger or Neighbour or particular friend the Italian will not enter though the dore be open except one can tell him whether the Master may possibly be within Their leisure must be consulted as if they were all Embassadors or prime Ministers of state few words must serve turne with them and some discourses answered with a shrug or nodding of the head Oathes mixt with other words are not credited they affect few examples to support truth The next delightfull Progresse will be for Venice that microcosme of all the Cities which do represent the reliques of a deloge the River Brenta will appear as the best in Eden might have been if the first Landlord had not been drove out of it there being such ravishing Palaces and Gardens planted on both sides as for Venice it selfe that Metropolitan Ark made of stone there is in it as the Italian saith molto bene molto male a Prince may live therein with a couple of Gundoliers and a couple of Men one for his Kitching the other for his bedchamber so he shun the Horentin horrid Vice to save Pasquin the providing of a shield on his back part And if a man speaks but with civill respect of the Old Madona of Loretta he needs not to trouble himselfe with his profession of Faith they are free Blades who when King Francis the first of France had threatned Italy and them in particular were not affrighted nor moved from their Arsenao nor Concilio di dieci by Francis the first his merry reply to his Jester who after he had askt of the French King whether the men of his Great Councell had thought on a way of retreat as well as to enter the State of Venice replyed The Senate had wise heads but he would put so many young French fools upon them as might be able to disturbe their set day of Councell But thousands of the young fools their bones as yet to be seen about Pavia could not returne into France To Florence by Millain or by Bologne a Princely Traveller may steer and he shall find all Ambergris or Jasemin like in the State of Milan and in Tuscany Modana and Parma But as for Romania and Rome it selfe though this speaks Roma fuit and whereon the French Poet St Amant hath vented this point of spirit Rome n'est plus ô mondaine Inconstance Le marbre y est detruit et ce qui fuit an temps fait resistance In English as neer the words as can be Rome is no more O worlds inconstancy Marble hath there its fall But what runnes away resists the time and all Meaning the River Tiber. What remains of old Rome besides the Tiber are broken marble Columns the Pantheon some Triumphall Arches and Amphitheaters and that which at Rome as among all other Nations will stick more close then pitch to cloth is wilfull prating Pasquin and Morforius Rome is called la Sancta Milano la grande Bologna la Superba Padua la docta Venetia la rica Fiorentia la bella Napoli la gentilla yet doth it not prove a receptacle of as much Impiety and dissolutenes as Paris in France may not London make up the number of three on which if Pasquino be let alone he will prate loud at his returne from Hell for the Italians have printed again his work stiled Pasquino in estasi nuovo é molto viaggio de l' inferno All Travellers will do well to observe in Rome Fide sed cui vide