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A08653	The passenger: of Beneuento Italian, professour of his natiue tongue, for these nine yeeres in London. Diuided into two parts, containing seauen exquisite dialogues in Italian and English: the contents whereof you shall finde in the end of the booke. To the illustrious and renowmed Prince Henry ...; Passaggiere. English and Italian	Benvenuto, Italian.; King, Mr., fl. 1612.	1612 (1612)	STC 1896; ESTC S101559	418,845	732

then loue in Daliaes false flatteries as also in the kisses of false trayterous Iudas and yet euery one affects them E. And yet man is so foolish in the prosecution of them that though he obtayne them to his owne preiudice hee reputes himselfe happy and him on the contrary vnhappy that cannot attaine thereunto A. Neuerthelesse God visiting vs with tribulations doth declare that he is with vs or desireth to be with vs. E. But I beseech you sir how stands it with your good Father A. Why haue you not heard E. What I heartily pray you A. To satisfie you in a word sir hee was first conducted and then introducted within the gates of death E. Possible he is departed to a better life A. Although not onely for goodnesse of life example of manners but also for singularity of wit and excellencie of learning hee might be tearmed the principall light of this our age yet in that he died well all of him is not dead E. The life of the learned is no other but a comment vpon death the which they expect as the onely deliuerie from an obscure and tedious imprisonment A. Yet I would it had pleased God that hee might haue liued long for so he might long time haue bin able to do good E. Oh for a last word sir what is man more then a violl of bloud which euery little thing breakes and then all is corrupted A. Nay let vs rather say what the meaning of this his death is why peraduenture he hath ended herein to be miserable and begun to be happy E. Be it as it will sir when we are ripe for Hell or Paradise the one must either needes receiue or the other swallow vs vp A. We must be mindfull of this our course to death as we would be of a short dreame E. All men must once die and in seeing euery day that death grants not any estate it may inure vs the better to die A. The world is growne such as we may rather wonder at him that is borne then lament for him that dies E. Therefore I commend them of Thrace who mourne bitterly when their children are borne but being remoued out of this life they accompany them with songs and laughter to their graues A. This Euripides affirmes saying We must lament when that a sonne is borne As one that shall great troubles vndergoe But when by death all griefes he comes to scorne Then should we ioy and lay aside all woe Smiling when he to buriall doth goe E. He that would but duly way things present cannot but thinke man much bound to God and Death Howbeit Petrarch saith Each creature naturally Gainst death seekes remedie A. It is most true for man dying is freed from all bonds and discharged of all duties E. Your meaning is that by death all miserie is ouercome all labour likewise is dead and this life is onely the beginning of mans glory Therefore diuine Petrarch I liue but yet thou dead do'st still remaine Said she and so will be while the houre comes That must remoue thee from this nether world And in another place One onely comfort and that 's death And againe Happy the day when out this prison vile Making escape I leaue my mortall roabe A. It is very true this present life being but a cloudy Winters day E. Nay surely the whole course of our life may rather be termed a most short dreame and a vanishing shadow A. Death onely is that which like the pillar of fire in the hollow cloud conducts vs out of this our mortall Aegipt E. Nay out of a worse place then Aegipt was for none can glorie that in this world he hath so much as one drop of sweet without an infinite bitternesse A. Certainly reason doth pacifie and experience dries vp very great riuer of teares E. Wherein we read that though olde age comes not to make the vertuous man olde but to make him venerable yet to die olde of yeares is often no other then to die olde in sinnes and offences A. Therefore to be young cannot be counted a mishap but a good fortune ●herefore the Poet saith How many happy are already dead in the cradle And how many miserable in their old age Some say happy he that is neuer borne E. And yet many will not forbeare though in vaine to lament for the dead A. We reade of such follies And at this day it is obserued in Naples for hipocrisie where many women or old wiues hyred for eleauen dayes doe nothing but lament in the house of the dead party declaring the vertues and actions of the deceased E. Lamentation is proper to a woman but you might well say in hipocrisie as that great Matron did who being left sole heyre to her husband for feare of loosing this rich will shee put it into her bosome vnder her gowne body and so crossing her hands ouerthwart her breast she howled most pittifully ouer the dead coarse with throbbes yellings teares and out-cryes most tenderly vttering these words Oh my ioy oh my onely happinesse When the foolish vulgar supposing she had spoke this of her husband she meant it onely of the rich will A. She was not so simple as that playne country hinde who hauing his Father and an Oxe both dead in one day lamented most impatiently and his neighbours and friends herevpon comforting of him by saying that his Father was gone to heauen he returned answere oh how happy are you for I grieue not nor lament so much for my father who already had liu'd longer then hee should as I mourne for my Oxe by whom I got my liuing E. Howsoeuer it is what wise man will mourne for the dead who by this meanes goes from all dolours and griefe and who will repine that hee should goe before when we must follow after with hasty steps Therefore Petrarch saith Life slydes away with long and full large steps A. To bewaile the dead is an argument of blindnesse of minde or to mourne for priuation of life in the defunct E. In very truth they are teares that deserue teares A. They are rather teares full of enuie and passions worthie of compassion E. It is a wiser part to prepare for death then to lament for him that is dead A. It is true therefore the diuine Petrarch said Who dies well dying rids himselfe of griefe And Tasso also The honest man needes no teares nor lament For dying to the world he liues in heauen And it receiues him mongst her choise elect A thousand times most happy is that soule Which weares the Palme Crowne of her good deeds And againe the same in another place He dies not for his vertues him preserue In that instant and he scales heauen in peace E. Notwithstanding as Christ said the flesh is weake though the spirit be willing therefore the diuine Poet Petrarch In his last passage he had neere at hand A flesh infirme

is a most singular remedy against the plague by being onely infused into wine with bole Armoniacke otherwise being drunke in wine it cheares vp the heart and helps Tissickes but so it is difficult to digest it heales the Lyuer and nourisheth but a little but in a sallet with cold hearbs it alwayes helps old men and melancholickes A. But what say you to those that vse Purcelaine P. Marry they doe it not without reason this being of notable assistance to dissenteryes to menstruall fluxes to the spetting of bloud and heate of the stomacke it cooleth Venus and the sorenesse of the teeth but being eaten in great quantity because it is moist and cold it hurts the stomacke and sight and nourisheth little but in Summer it is good for cholericke sanguine young men but old men it helps A. And what if wee should mingle Rosemary with our other hearbes P. That with honey cureth all Asmatickes and the cough it stayes fluxes the flowers thereof conserued in sugar comfort the stomacke the heart and the matrixe but it exasperates the arteries if it be not rectified with honey A. By the report of many Sage giues place in vertue to no other hearbe P. It comforts the stomacke and the head helps vertiginall dizinesse and the Megrim both paralitickes and epileptickes it prouokes vrine and menstrues and stayes the white fluxes of women the pouder thereof is excellent for all cold infirmities of the head or ioynts it makes the sterile plentifull and the decoction thereof cures the scabbe of the genetals it fortifieth the vitall spirits it helps much to detaine the creature within the womans wombe the conserues thereof with Sugar produceth the same effects and is excellent to mortifie Mercury but all venemous creatures creepe willingly vnder it except it grow hard by Rue A. I haue many times obserued Spinage to be much vsed P. It dilates the breast helpes coughes the heate thereof refresheth the Lights Lyuer and choler it moues the bodie though but little and yet they are not of very bad nourishment but so they are windie and hurt a cold stomacke As for Watercresses sodden or raw if it grow in cleare waters it breakes and expels both the one and other stone causeth vrine and prouokes womens flowers it helpes to bring forth the dissenterie all Hydropickes greene sicknesse and opilations of the Liuer making a good sight A. Let there be in them what vertue soeuer hearbes haue alwayes pleased me little or nothing at all except when I haue beene vrged by some necessitie or by the Physitians opinion who in my opinion are the readyer to perswade others to vse the decoction of hearbes to the end that at the better rate they may fill their owne bellies with Pullets P. I doe not thinke so but how like you Raddish A. Sometimes I eate them but very seldome what thinke you of them P. In the Spring Sommer their vertue is in the leaues flowers and seedes but in Autumne and Winter they are powerfull and vigorous but yet their vse serues more for medicine then meate because they are all of them in a manner of bad iuyce hard to digest but yet those that grow neare home and be tender and young and newly gathered may be eaten more securely and the middle part of them is for the most part the best A. O Lord how my head paines me P. Peraduenture your Cooke importuned by the harsh voyce of that blinde man who continually like a desperate man cryes in euery hole and corner of the citie Garlicke Garlicke Garlicke hee I say peraduenture hauing bought some of his fopperies it belongeth to you sir to pay the penaltie thereof A. In very truth I feede little on this meate P. It hath a facultie mordificatiue as it were of the race of backbiters and slanderers degestiue apertiue and incesiue The greene is best and it will serue you for Treacle against any poyson if you haue wormes it will driue them away it will prouoke vrine and if you haue an old cough it will helpe it especially if it be rosted vnder hot ashes it will also make you haue a good voice and happie were you if you should be vpon the Ocean Sea for it will stand you in great stead because it resisteth sea vomite and rectifies the corrupt aire of stenches It excites Venus but it is verie hurtfull to the vertue expulsiue to the braine to the sight to the head it procures thirst it is very detrimentall to women great with childe with other such like qualities but aboue all other it makes the breath to stincke which may sodainely be reformed by eating of raw beanes greene water parsley or the leaues of fresh rue A. But I will taste of these sponges or mushromes P. This is the miserable condition of man that while he lalabours to auoide an inconuenience he runnes into a thousand other for oftentimes these things doe kill although those of the Apennines and the mushromes which do spring in madorre which in Aprill grow in meddowes with others called boleti are reputed good and pleasing to the stomacke but if they be made into a sallet or cleansed and well boyled with wilde peares basill bread garlike and calamint and then seasoned with oyle salt and pepper they may securely be eaten and then withall we must drincke very strong wine with them but whosoeuer vseth them too often they cause dulnesse appoplexies and doe suffocate but those which grow vpon the hill Collepardo being more dryed in the shadow and puluerized and taken in wine or broth to the waight of a scruple they mitigate choler and the griefes of the reines prouoking vrine and expelling both stones and grauell but it must be taken foure houres before meate A. But how like you Parsenep rootes P. So so it is very hot abstersiue and rarifying and opens much but so it yeelds but little and that bad nourishment they digest slowly they excite Venus generate bad bloud and oftentimes the itch but being well boild and seasoned with oyle vineger or mustard or fryed with butter it is much corrected and yet notwithstanding it hurts both flegmatick and old men A. Amongst all others the house Radish roote espeacially if it haue a blacke rinde pleaseth me well P. If you eate it in the beginning it prouokes vrine mollifies the belly expels stones and being cut small and put in water and so made into a sallet they increase milke they make your drinke taste well and if they be sodden they preuaile much against an olde cough but it makes leane is windy and raiseth vp stincking raspings it digests slowly offends somewhat the head and the teeth and augments artericall griefes A. This same Turnep pleaseth my taste very well P. Quod sapit nutrit being boild in broth they procure nourishment the tops thereof being sodden and eaten prouoke vrine encrease venerie and make cleare sight and the roote thereof is good against the quartane Feuer and such like

onely obtaines true honor that is his true friend if pleasure without him all pleasure is but vaine if glory hee is the Lord thereof But here is the maine point that God in truth is sought after but onely in apparance but yet God discouers our hipocrisie and inward defects when man can no wayes be at quiet in his owne minde but only intends his continuall pleasures proper interests and worldly reasons and for that which pertaines to the truth of the spirit he leaues it for a reliefe to the poore and with loose reynes followes the world and the flesh and death at last catches both one and other but the matter thus standing I pray you in what manner passed you ouer all the hot dayes for I dissolue into sweat with onely thinking of them P. Partly with haulking and partly with hunting C. Oh God what a tedious laboursome and dangerous pastime is that P. The more industrious and laboursome the more vertuous All ioy is not good Nor all things ill that doe annoy That may rather be counted true ioy That springs from vertue after much endurance C. Euery action is measured not by the labour but by the excellencie of the end P. If that be true which you said from greatest gaine greatest wealth proceedeth and from greatest wealth greatest felicitie and nothing being more to be desired then felicitie nothing likewise should be more appetible or more excellent then gaine which you so much desire but these being no points for me to decide I referre my selfe to the more learned C. Whensoeuer profit goes before honestie the more gaine hee obtaines the more happy hee shall be but to conclude you answere more subtiltie then learnedly in that among the leauie Oakes you can hardly haue leasure to be conuersant among dead Authors P. Studie requires ease and vacancie C. And most of all of minde which is much distracted by all bodily agitation From hence it proceedes if I erre not that the greatest of vs being wauering and inconstant few minde their studies and fewest of all make any great profit in them and those few that doe are very rare P. I will answere you at further leasure For he 's not alwayes ouercome In truth that is in words subdu'd C. A fault requires no excuse but onely amendment Where deedes accuse all defence offends P. God of his infinite mercy and goodnesse illuminate vs grant vs his spirit by vertue whereof flying the world as his true sonnes we may aspire to heauen FINIS DIALOGVE I. Of the second part of the first part of the Passenger of Benuenuto Italian professour of his owne naturall tongue in London VVherein Eutrapelus Alatheus and Vrbanus a Seruant discoursing together they vse all ceremonie and complement possible and to that end discusse of that which any wayes concerneth ceremonious entertainments wherein the Author doth briefely argue partly as a Courtier and partly as a Philosopher Eutrapelus HOnest youth are you belonging to the house V. Yes indeede sir readie to doe you any seruice what pleaseth it you sir to command me E. I desire to speake with your Maister so he be not otherwise busied V. He is arfull leasure sir and therefore it will be no trouble to him E. I pray thee then impart so much vnto him on my behalfe V. Very willingly and I will presently goe E. Well my good friend what is his answere V. Sir he requests you to come vp E. Goe afore for I know not the way V. I doe obserue you Sir and therefore you may follow if you please Sir here is the Gentleman that would speake with you E. Good morrow gentle Sir A. The like good day with a thousand happy yeers betide your worthy selfe E. Sir I wish no lesse to you and also am glad of your prosperous returne out of the country A. I wish you no lesse as also your welcome is vnfayned E. And how haue you done Sir since I last saw you A. A few dayes since God visited mee with a very grieuous sicknesse E. God once apparelled in our flesh spake therof in operations blood and euen in his owne pretious death but now crying out vnto vs with his voice and not with his actions hee stirreth vs vp to be mindefull of him and by sufferance to follow his steps A. Out alas hath Christ shed for my good of his owne blood with a thousand stripes and haue not I out of both these eyes powred forth one teare of repentance though hee hath scourged me and that which is worse I am now reduced to such a point as I make a scruple in my conscience to see him painted or ingrauen E. God will not haue his vertue and power lye hid nor that the memoriall of him should be blotted out wherefore hee afflicts vs with continuall molestations A. He thunders a thousand times for our terrification but so as the fountaine of pittie it selfe he neuer lightens because he would not destroy vs. E As being most iust with one hand he smites vs but then with the other as a most mercifull Father he sustaynes vs to the end we may not fall A. He offreth to his elect of the fruits of his crosse to be tasted of which is the true medicine of the soule E. Let vs giue God thankes for euery worke of his which euer hath reference to our saluation A. I bend all my thoughts to the doing of good and to take all at his gratious hand with meekenes and thanksgiuing E. But now sir I hope you are very well A. Thankes be to God for as long as it shall please him I am reasonable well E. I am much comforted in this your comming but a great deale the more because it is with your health A. I giue you infinite thankes sir E. I am sorry for your griefe past but yet I am farre more ioyfull for your present good A. What is past is gone what is present is inioyed and that which is future cannot be perceiued but is onely expected or hoped after E. God grant that we long and quietly enioy this present estate A. I make no doubt but you would herein inferre that which an honourable man said who being visited by one of his own degree and in departing from him he saying God be with you while we meete in Rome or in Paradise the other replyed well but may it be as late as can be E. Oh the good God pardon me my offences which are not small nor few in number but I did not once thinke of this A. Then you would haue said and that with good reason that some enioy with ioy and others with annoy E. These are but worldly discommodities for one laughes in his heart and not in his countenance another with his mouth and not inwardly others both in countenance and secretly together But many againe rather lamenting in both doe yet frame in their visage an artificiall Cour-like smyle A. There is more bitternes