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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92196	An itinerary contayning a voyage, made through Italy, in the yeare 1646, and 1647. Illustrated with divers figures of antiquities. Never before published. / By Jo: Raymond, Gent.	Raymond, John, Gent.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1648 (1648)	Wing R415; Thomason E1128_1; ESTC R33233	71,514	330

AN ITINERARY Contayning A VOYAGE Made through ITALY In the yeare 1646 and 1647. Illustrated with divers figures of Antiquities Never before Published By Jo RAYMOND Gent. LONDON Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his Shop at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard 1648. Roma Venetia Plebeae sane sunt istae animae quae suis affixae terris bona resident 〈◊〉 divinior est quae c●●●um Imitatur et gaudet metu Il MERCURIO ITALICO Communicating A Voyage Made through Italy in the yeares 1646 1647 by I. R. Gent. Ne Plus Mome Vltra J. Cross Sculpt London Printed for Hum Moseley are to be sold at 〈◊〉 shop at ye Princes Armes in St. Paules Church-yard 1648 TO MY READERS Howsoever Qualified Gentlemen DEdicatory leaves to a Book like a Curtaine before a picture only beget some higher expectation of the Piece A weather beaten Traveller needs no such Vmbrilla as a Patron to shroud under Though this Booke was not writ to bee Printed yet the worst infallibly are printed to be read My intention was to confine this wanderer to my Closet and no farther till the advice of some familiar and command of Superiour Friends prest mee to exchange a single Manuscript for more Numerous Prints I can challenge no other inducement then that I expose some Novelties which I question not but this age will disgest For the cutts I have hither transported interpret me not so much desirous to grace the Page as to preserve Antiquity My choyce consisting of those things I never before saw publisht I Speake plurally through my whole Transcursion because that particle wee implyes asseveration or in Reference to Gentlemen my fellow Travellers who can affirme what I relate Some though strange yet no Contradiction have seene this Booke before the Authour pend it to those my sentence is referd such as looke into forraine parts through the spectacles of Imagination only have no Patent either to Justify or condemne me to these therefore may I appeare a Romance to the others a Reall story J. R. TO THE Most Illustrious PRINCE CHARLES Prince of Great BRITAINE Duke of Cornwall and Aubigny Earle of Chester c. May it please Your Highnesse T Is humbly conceiu'd the duty of all the youth of ENGLAND to dedicate themselves and their endeavours to your HIGHNESSE not onely in regard of your Native but Acquired Greatnesse which drawes the eyes of all Good Men upon Your HIGHNESSE Person and Actions This Sir makes mee humbly beg leave to lay my first fruits at Your HIGHNESSE feet which without farther Presumption is the utmost Ambition of Your Highnesse most humble and most faithfully devoted JOHN RAYMOND A LETTER from a most ingenious Freind to whom the Authour sent His Mercurio Italico SIR I Returne your Papers by that hand which brought them I have runne swiftly over your Itinerary but am not so impudent to pronounce my thoughts on it unlesse I had more time or a steaddier Brain for after my riding three dayes poast I am fitter for sleep then Epistles The thing most observable of all your Travells is your selfe who are able to graspe so much of the World when 't is not twice ten yeares since you came into it I conceive it flowes from your good nature thus to set markes on your severall Stages that the Prints are visible to your freinds and Country 'T was usefully done since now so many of us are doom'd to wander not like Cain for drawing blood but for asking Peace Did others follow your example this unhabitable-VVorld would have more Manners and lesse News Many Itineraries I have seene in Latine few in English and those so partiall that Countries are describ'd as Committees do Gentlemen not as they are but as they would have them 'T is a Noble Meditation how Greece and Italy two great Champions looke over the Water Daring and threatning and watching each other 't was once so 'twixt France and England Such as have seen them will say how exactly you shew us Rome Venice Florence Naples Milan Genua Bolonia Padua and those other Glories beyond the Alpes to me this great limbe of the World Italy you know is a leg not your foot but your hand hath gone over as a brief elegant smart Anatomist But I am sorry you mention Virgils Tombe for now people will thinke hee is mortall sure his owne Pile built three stories high of Eclogues Georgicks and Aeneads will last as long as the round World In this Journey others went before you so as you are forc'd almost upon gleanings yet here as in the Field gleanings put togeather are the best of the Corne Now you are come home you 'l have stranger sights then any abroad you 'l see Great Brittaine a Floating Island and the most vertuous Monarch under Heaven cast into a small Isle as on some plank in a great Ship-wrack You 'l find London like the Spleen in the Body hath rendred other Parts poore and languid so as now England is but one great Towne this London all sides do court and hate and shee is so much cocknay to thinke it will continue having kickt at all and made no freind Sir when you behold a Kingdome without a King a Church without Clergy a University without Scholars you 'l grant wee have a thorough Reformation But two houres since I saw a better sight then Italy affords 't is His Highnesse the Prince of Wales who for Soule and Body is sure the most hopefull Prince in the Christian World whose comming hether this afternoone brings a floud of businesse as well as joy on all the English in this Towne especially on such as come for Dispatches and that 's the very reason why now you must excuse Sir Amiens Iul 11. Stilo novo 1648. Your most affectionate humble Servant J. BERKENHEAD On his Friends Mercurio Italico GOe with your Hellish Heliconish spells Raise puffpast kneade unleav'ned sillables Expatiate on a page in Tiptoe sence To pacifie the witts concupisence Make Cupid dance o' th Ropes O! this is sport Will drill the Tenements of the Planetick N●ntio tell him that peepes here Tyber and Thames concorporate this yeare Minnums leave Padling in your feeble Geare Marke how the lusty Gray Beards hugg each other Their Elementall sobbs the consort smother These to their Native Beds Retreate But see Antiquity swadled in a Novelty Yet no Booth Progeny to be Gaz'd on Guest Nor Loud ones with the Mandeville posest Rare not miraculous Blusterers that can Preach up the Booke but chatechise the Man What though * Hells Centinell that Champion stout Spit wildfire Blow the Dayes Taper out Or those insulting † Gogmagogs rehearse But pimples in the Corpulent Vniverse All 's safe Begin thy Voyage Reader trye Delay will Annalize a Diary Travells goe twice abroad both merit Praise First they drive dayes to yeares then yeares to dayes J. N. An Introduction to ITALY IT is preeminence enough methinkes for Italy that shee