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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

INSTRVCTIONS for Forraine TRAVELL IN MOTV MELOS LONDON Printed by T B. for Humphrey Mosley at the Princes Armes in Paules Church-yard Ano 1642. 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 Post motum dulcior inde Quies LONDON Printed by T. B. for Humprey Mosley at the Princes Armes in Paules Church-yard 1642. To the growing Glory OF Great Brittaine Prince CHARLES A parallell 'twixt His Highnesse and the Black Prince SIR Wales had one Glorious Prince of haire and hue Which colour sticks unto Him still like You He travell'd far He won His spurs in France And tooke the King the KING ô monstrous chance Then His victorious troupes afresh He getherss And with the gray Goose-wing his shaftsnew fethers He beats a march up the Pyrene Hils And the Cantabrian clime with terro●fils To re-inthrone Don Pedro Castile's King Of which heroique Act all Stories ring Your Royall Sire travell'd so far and Thay Of all our Princes only made that way Who knowes Great Sir but by just destiny Your bunch of Youthfull Plumes may further fly But Faulcon-like You may with full summ'd wing The Eagle cuff and from his tallons wring The * Prey or in exchange seize on his Ore And fixe Your Standard on the Indian shore 'T was by b ● Charles France once the Empire got 'T was by a c Charles the Spaniard d●●ue that los Why may not Brittaine challenge the next call And by a CHARLES be made Imperiall Sic Vaticinatur IA HOWELL The Substance of this Discours OF the advantage and preheminence of the Eye Of Forraine Travell and the progresse of Learning What previous abilities are required in a Traveller A caveat touching his Religion Precepts for learning the French Language What Authors to be made choyce of for the Government and History of France Of Books in generall Of Historians and a method to reade them Of Private Meditation Of Poets An estimat of the expences of a Nobleman or of a private Gentleman a broad Advertisements for writing of Letters INstructions for travelling in Spaine Of barren and fruitful Countreys The strange contrariety 'twixt the French and the Spaniard the reasons natural accidental Of their cariage cloathing and diet c. Of the Spanish Language how to be studied and of its affinity with the Latine Of Spanish Authors The advantage of conversing with Marchants PRecepts for travelling in Italy Of the people and Language Of the Repnblique of Venice and other States there What observations are most usefull in any Countrey A digression into a politicall Discours of the Princes of Europe Of crossing the Alpes and passing through Germany Of the Court of Bruxells and the Netherlands Of the wonderfull Stratagems used in those wars The best Authors for the Belgick Story Of the States of Holland and their admired Industry and Navall strength A Discours of the vulgar languages of Europe with their severall Dialects Of the richnesse of the English Tongue Of the Pattuecos a People nere the heart of Spaine never discovered til of late yeares Of the abuse of Forrain Travell Of S. Thomas Moore Traveller Of Ptolomeys Travellers and of the most materiall use of Travel What cours a Traveller must take at his returne home Of the Parlamentary Governement of England and her happinesse therein above other Countreys Of the Mathematiques of Chymistry INSTRVCTIONS FOR Forraine Travell SECTION I. AMongst those many advantages which conduce to enrich the mind with Knowledge to rectify the Iudgement and compose outward manners Forraine Travell is none of the least But to bee a Sedentary Traveller only penn'd up between Wals and to stand poring all day upon a Map upon imaginary Circles and Scales is like him who thought to come to bee a good Fencer by looking on Agrippa's book-postures only As also to run over and traverse the world by Heare-say and traditionall relation with other mens eyes and so take all things upon courtesie is but a confused and imperfect kind of speculation which leaveth but weake and distrustfull notions behind it in regard the Eare is not so authen●●q●e a witnesse as the Eye because the Eye by which as through a cleare christall Casement wee discerne the various works of Art and Nature and in one instant comprehend halfe the whole Vniverse in so small a roome after so admirable a manner I say the Eye having a more quick and immediat commerce and familiarity with the Soule being the principall of her Cinq ports and her Centinell taketh in farre deeper Ideas and so makes firmer and more lasting impressions conveying the object more faithfully to the memory where it remaines afterward upon record in particular topicall notes and indelible characters For though I confesse with the Stagirite that Hearing is the sense of Learning and of Faith also as the holy Text tels me yet the Sight surpasseth it by many degrees if you respect the curious workeman-ship of the Organ the readiest roade to the heart and love's best Intelligencer and Usher As also for the penetrative apprehension of the object with the intuitive vertue and force of affection it worketh inwardly as we find upon good record that a heard of Sheepe conceived once by the strength of the Eye as likewise for the wonderfull quicknesse of this Sense which is such that i● makes the effect oftentimes fore-run the cause as we see the Lightning before wee Heare the Thunder though thunder be first in Nature being by the violent eruption it makes out of the Cloud the cause of such fulgurations And although one should reade all the Topographers that ever writ of or anatomiz'd a Town or Countrey and mingle Discourse with the most exact observers of the Government thereof and labour to draw and draine out of them all they possibly know or can remember Yet one's own Ocular view and personall conversation will still find out something new and unpointed at by any other either in the cariage or the Genius of the people or in the Policy and municipall customes of the Countrey or in the quality of the Clime and Soyle and so enable him to discourse more knovvingly and confidently and vvith a kind of Authority thereof It being an Act of parlament in force amongst all Nations That one Eye-witnesse is of more validity than ten Aur●cular Moreover as every one is said to abound with his owne sense and that among the race of man-kind Opinions and Francies are found to be as various as the severall Faces and Voyces So in each individuall man there is a differing facultie of Observation of Iudgement of Application vvhich makes that every one is best satisfied and most faithfully instructed by himselfe I do not meane soley by himselfe for so he may have a foole to his Master but Books also and conversation vvith

empire of the Will with the other faculties and powers of the soule which are meerely Spirituall as Love and Hatred with the like They that dispute thus have much reason on their side yet if we consider well the order and method that our Understanding and Wils do use in the production of their actions we shal find that the influence of the Heavenly bodies must have something to do therein though indirectly and accidentally for all Terrestriall creatures by a graduall kind of subordination being governed by the Heavenly it must needs follow that whatsoever is naturall in man as the organs of the body and all the senses must feele the power of their influence Now is the Soule so united and depends so farre upon the senses that she cannot produce any act unlesse they ministerially concurre and contribute thereunto by presenting the matter to her which is the intelligibles species Whence it necessarily comes to passe that in regard of this straight league and bond which is betweene them she partakes somewhat and yealds to that dominion which the Starres have over the sensuall appetite which together with the Will are dispossed off and incited I will not say forced by their influxes And as that famous Wisard the oldest of the Trismegisti did hold that the Intelligences which are affixed to every Spheare doe worke through the organs of the body upon the faculties of the mind an opinion almost as old as the World it selfe so it may be said more truly that by the sensuall appetite by the frailty and depravation of the will the Heavenly bodies worke very farre●upon the Spirituall Powers and passions of the Soule and affect them diversly though by accident and indirectly as I said before The position therefore of the Heavens and Asterismes which governe the Spanish Clime being different in their vertue and operations to them of France the Minds and Fancies of both People must by a necessary consequence bee also different Yet notwithstanding that this assertion be true yet it doth not follow that the Influxions of the Starres and diversity of Climes are the sole cause of this Antipathy and Aversenesse for there are many Nations which live under farre more distant and differing Climes which disaffect not one another in that degree therefore there must be some other concurring Accidents and extraordinary motive of this evill I reade it upon record in the Spanish Annales that Lewis the eleventh desiring a personall Conference with the King of Castile they both met upon the borders the Spaniards came full of Iewels and Gold Chaines and richely apparelled Lewis though otherwise a wise and gallant Prince yet had he an humor of his own to weare in his hat a Medaille of Lead which he did at this enterview nor were his attendants but Regis ad Exemplum but meanely accoutred which made the Spaniards despise them and make disdainefull Libels of them which broake out afterwards into much contempt and disaffection which came to bee aggravated more and more And if we say that the Devill made use of this occasion to engender that violent Hatred which raignes between these two Nations it would not bee much from the purpose for the least advantage in the World is sufficient for him to iufuse his venom where he finds hearts never so little disposed to receive it either by naturall or contingent causes Adde hereunto the vast extent of greatnesse the Spaniard is come to within these Sixe score yeares by his sundry new acquest which fils the French full of jealousies of emulation and apprehension of feare and 't is an old Aphorisme Oderunt omnes quem metuunt Furthermore another concurring motive may be that there passe usually over the Pyreneys from Gascoigne and Bearne great numbers of poore French tatterdimallians being as it were the Scumme of the Countrey which do all the fordid and abject offices to make a purse of money whereof Spaine is fuller than France from Spaine also there come to France many poore Spaniards to bee cured of the Kings Evill the common people of both Nations measuring the whole by the part and thinking all to be such it must needs breed mutuall apprehensions of disdaine and aversion between them so that what was at first Accidentall seemes in tract of time and by these degrees to diffuse it selfe like Originall sinne f●om Father to Sonne and become Naturall But I have beene transported too farre by this speculation considering that I proposed to my selfe brevity at first in this small discours SECT. VII ANd now being come from France to Spaine make accoump for matter of fertility of soyle that you are come from Gods blessing to the warme Sun who is somewhat too liberall of his beames here which makes the ground more barren and consequently to be a kind of Wildernesse in comparison of France if you respect the number of People the multitude of Townes Hamlets and Houses for about the the third part of continent of Spaine is made up of huge craggie Hils and Mountaines amongst which one shall feele in some places more difference in point of temper of heat and cold in the ayre then 'twixt twixt Winter and Sommer under other Climes But where Spaine hath water and Valleis there she is extraordinarily fruitfull such blessings humility carieth alwayes with her So that Spaine yeeldeth to none of her neighbours in perfection of any thing but only in Plenty which I beleeve was the ground of a Proverbe they have amongst them No ay cosa mala en Espana sino lo que habla there is nothing ill in Spaine but that which speakes And did Spaine excell in Plenty as she doth in perfection of what she produceth specially did she abound in Corne whereof she hath not enough for the fortieth mouth as also had she Men enough whereof besides the Warres so many Colonies draine her shee would prove formidable to all her Neighbours But let the French glory never so much of their Country as being the richest embroidery of Nature upon Earth yet the Spaniard drinks better Wine eates better Fruits weares finer Cloth hath a better Sword by his side and is better Mounted than he Being entred Spaine he must take heed of Posting in that hot Countrey in the Summer time for it may stirre the masse of bloud too much When hee comes to Madrid for I know no other place secure enough for a Protestant Gentleman to live in by reason of the residence of our Ambassador he may take new Spanish servants for I presume he discharged his French when he forsooke Paris There hee shall find the King constant all the Seasons of the yeare in the midst of his Kingdom as the heart in the body or the Sun in the Firmament whence the one giveth vigor to the little world th' other to the great in equall proportion And the first thing he must fall to is Language which hee shall find far more easie than the French for in point of

should be the center to which Travell should tend Moreover one should evertuate himselfe to bring something home that may accrue to the publique benefit and ad vantage of his Countrey and not to draw water to his own Mill only For of those three that the Orator saith challenge a share in our Nativity our Countrey is the first and our selfs last Therefore he should pry into the Policy and municipall Lawes of other States and Cities and be able to render an accompt of their government and by collation thereof with that of his own Examine well whether any wholesome constitution or custome may be applyable to the frame of his owne Countrey It is recorded in an ancicient Greek Author that the famous Ptolomey he who conversed and Travelled so much amongst Heavenly bodies culled out a select number of his pregnantest young Nobles and Gentlemen to go to Greece Italy Carthage and other Region● and the prime Instruction they had in charge was to observe 〈◊〉 Government as they Travelled along bring back 〈◊〉 of the wholesomest Lawes out of every Countrey Being returned they related that in the Roman Republique a most singular veneration was had of the Temples a punctuall obed●ence to Governors and unavoydable punishments inflicted upon malefactors In Carthage the Senat commanded the Nobles executed and the People obeyed In Athens the Rich were not suffered to be Extortioners the Poore idle nor the Magistrates ignorant In Rhodes Old men were Venerable Young men modest and Women solitary and silent In Thebes the Nobles did fight the Plebeians labour and Philosophers teach In Sicily Iustice was entirely administred Commerce was honestly exercised and all enjoyed equall priviledges and interest in the State Among the Sicionians there were admitted neither Physitians to hinder the operations of Nature nor Strangers to introduce innovations nor Lawyers to multiply Contentions These men it seemes di● not go out to see feathers fly in the Ayre or Reeds shaken with the wind they did not go to get Complements or Cringes or Cariage of bodies or new Modes of cloathing or to tip the tongue with a little Language only but they searchd into the solidest and usefullest part of humane Wisdome which is policy And doubtlesse that rare wise King made excellent use of their observations and rewarded them accordingly And one of the happiest advantages to a Monarchy is to have a discerning and bountifull King when occasion requires for Subjects are accordingly active or idle as they find their Prince able to judge of their merit and endeavours and so emp●oy them for in the Common-wealth of Letters and speculative Orbe of Vertue the benigne aspect and iufluence of the Prince is as Apollo was to the Muses it gives a kind of comfortable heate and illumination whereby they are cherished and made vigorous The most materiall use therefore of Forraine Travel is to find out something that may bee applyable to the publique utility of one's own Countrey as a Noble Personage of late yeares did who observing the uniforme and ●regular way of stone structure up and down Italy hath introduced that forme of building to London and Westminster and else where which though d●stastfull at first as all innovations are For they seeme like Bug-beares or Gorgons heads to the vulgar yet they find now the commodity firmenesse and beauty therof the three maine principles of Architecture Another seeing their Dikes and draynings in the Netherlands hath been a cause that much hath beene added to lengthen the skirts of this Island Another in imitation of their aqueducts and sluces and cōveyance of waters abroad brought Ware-water through London streets And it had been wished so great and renowned a City had not forgot Him so soon considering what infinite advantages redounds to her thereby for in other Countreys I have seene Statues erected to persons in the most eminentest places to eternize their memories by way of gratitude for Inventions of farre lesser consequence to the encouragement of others for it is an old Rule of State and will be in date to the Worlds end that Honor nourisheth Arts and is the golden sp●rre of Vertue and industry SECT. XVII AMongst many other fruits of Forraine Travell besides the delightfull ideas and a thousand various thoughts and selfe contentments and selfe contentments and inward solaces it raiseth in the memory of things past this is one That when one hath seene the Tally and taillage of France the Milstone of Spaine the Assise of Holland the Gabels of Italy where one cannot bring an Egge or roote to the market but the Prince his part lyes therinna When he hath felt the excesse of heat the dangerous Serains the Poverty of soyle in many places the Homelinesse and incommodity of lodging the course cloathing of the best sort of Peasants their wooden shooes and straw hats their Canvas breeches and Buckram petticoates their meager fare feeding commonly upon Grasse Hearbs and Roots and drinking Water neere the condition of brute animals who find the cloth always ready layed the buttry open When hee hath observed what a hard shift some make to hewe out a dwelling in the holes of the Rocks others to dig one under the Sea when he feeles how in some Climes the Heaven is as Brasse in others as a dropping Sponge in others as a great Bellowes most part of the yeare how the Earth in many places is ever and anone sick of a fit of the Palsie When hee sees the same Sun which only cherisheth and gently warmes his Countrey men halfe parboyle and tanne other people and those rayes which scorch the adusted soyles of Calabria and Spaine only varnish and guild the green hony-suckled plaines and hillocks of England When he hath observed what hard shifts some make to rub out in this world in divers Countreys What speed Nature makes to finish her cours in them How their best sort of women after forty are presently superannuated and looke like another Charing-Crosse or Carackes that have passed the Line in three voyages to the Indies When hee hath observed all this At his returne home hee will blesse God and love England better ever after both for the Equality of the Temper in the Clime where there is no where the like take all the Seasons of the yeare together though some would wish She might bee pushed a little nearer the Sun For the free condition of the subject and equall participation of the Wealth of the Land for the unparallelled accommodation of lodging and security of Travell for the admirable hospitality for the variety and plenty of all sorts of firme food for attendance and cleanlinesse for the rare fertility of Shoare and Sea of Ayre Earth and Water for the longevity well favourednesse and innated honesty of the people And above all for the moderation and decency in celebrating the true service of God being farre from Superstition one way and from Prophanesse the other way though with a quaking heart I speake it there