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A05576	A direction for trauailers Taken out of Iustus Lipsius, and enlarged for the behoofe of the right honorable Lord, the yong Earle of Bedford, being now ready to trauell. They that go downe into the sea in shippes, see the great wonders of the Lord.	Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.; Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606. Epistola de peregrinatione Italica.; Stradling, John, Sir, 1563-1637.	1592 (1592)	STC 15696; ESTC S101412	11,114	28

Lightning is said to be of such power that meeting with strong and firmly vnited thinges it melteth or breaketh or changeth them As by experience hath beene seene in monie which hath bene molten in mens purses and swordes broken in their scabbards and beare turned in barrels So doth pleasure plant most commonly her ordinance and batterie against the best and worthiest men Lightning is light and lite faire indeed but quickly fading so is pleasure sweete but I confesse but short Lastly not to be long lightning falles from heauen so doth pleasure make them that vse it wherefore the Prophet Esay he saith that sathan fell from heauen like lightning as I told you that it is short so I said it is a bad end then which Architas was wont to say that God in giuing it gaue the greatest plague and mischiefe vnto man that could be deuised for pleasure makes beast and man all one Wherefore my verie good Lord this must be your last end though I named it in the former place as oft times the worst goes first To stand heere to dilate how your Lordship may receiue pleasure by trauailing is to teach your eyes to see and your ears to heare a thing both needlesse and foolishe for there is none that hath his sight and senses but must needes be greatly affected and maruellously delighted with the view and sight of so many faire fields goodly riuers high hilles great cities strange countries with the strange varietie and sundrie sortes of fashions lawes men and maners Thus pleasure as a faire wanton standeth in euerie corner of the street and offereth it selfe to all that passe by But as for profite as euerie best thing is hardest to come by it is not so easily attained vnto without farther directions and some more extraordinarie conceite and labour If therefore you will be a profitable Trauailer and come home better then you went out which I know is your honorable resolution you must seeke to be enriched with three things three the godliest most pretious pearles in the world They are Wisedome or Pollicie Knowledge or learning Manners or behauiour As for wisedome Homer the wisest in my fancie not only of all Poets but of all heathen men he I say affirmeth that it is had and increased very much by right trauailing who giueth euerie where no other or no greater reason of the great Sapience and prudence of Vlisses then that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that had seen much as himselfe saith in the verses which are ineuery ones mouth All trauailers do gladlie report great praise of Vlisses For that he knew many mens maners and saw many cities And in sooth the learned Poet saide right well for of all things in the world I know nothing more auaileable to the attaining of true wisedome and sound discretion then the sight consideration and knowledge of sundry rites maners pollycies and gouernments especiallye if you marke them diligentlie compare them togither perfectlie and applie them to your purpose effectuallie which of all loues I desire your honour to do It is enough that you see strange ordinaunces in other landes but you must see into them and marke the reason and grounde of them Thinke it not sufficient to seeke into forren estates and customes vnlesse you search also into the vse and abuse of them Now this search and inquisition I speake of is to be practised either by reading the seueral hystories of those nations where you are to trauell for euery particular countrie hath his peculiar storie and chronicle where you shall find the nature manners and behauior of the people the Citties the waies and the commodities of the countrey set downe or else by hearing for seeing no storie as no lawe can comprise euery particular thinge therefore to attaine to a more exact and perfect knowledge it shall not be amisse for your Lordship to talk with the learned of the lande where you goe For albeit wisedome and safetie do wishe mee to counsell you to silence in trauelling yet I thinke it not amisse though you giue the rains now and then to that vnbrideled member the toong which you may vse as occasion shall serue both on the way by sea and by land and also at and after meales according to that laudable custome which I am priuie to is vsed by your selfe and the vertuous about you at your owne table And might I haue leaue to direct you also because I haue begun to be bold in the subiect of your talke in mine opinion nothing were more meet for one of your honourable estate then to question and discourse of the fashions lawes nobilitie and kind of warfare of the people where you trauell as did the great Alexander who when any embassadors resorted to kinge Phillip his father from farre countries and great potentates was woont to demande of them what weapons they vsed in warre what lawes in peace how they gouerned their Citties but especiallie how they ordered their battels Thus if you imploie your time in trauell and applie your selfe to imitate the worthiest certainelie you shall find at your comming home that you haue taken great profit though you know not how nor when As the clocke goeth and we discerne it not as man groweth and we marke it not herbes sprout out and we see not how nor when so dooth a mans iudgement wisedome and pollicie grow from strength to strength and increase woonderfullie ere wee are aware onelie let vs adde now a little and then a little And of the first fruit and effect of trauelling whiche was named wisedome and pollicie thus much in briefe Now for the seconde your Honour maye chance to wonder to heare me saye that learning is to be sought for abroad in this great varietie of learninge and learned men at home seeing also that the studentes life is farre different from the trauellers the one beeing of necessitie in continuall motion care and busines the other naturallie affecting ease safetie and quietnesse both whose humors and conditions the Poet who had tasted of both expressed liuely in two verses Carmina secessum scribentis otia quaerunt Me mare me venti me fera iactat hiems The students life seekes ease and quietnesse But trauellers state hath care and businesse But because if I in my simplicitie durst presume so farre I would be yea right honourable I am an humble sutor to your honour to vouchsafe me some place vnder your lordship in this praise-worthie voyage both because I haue alwaies borne a feruent zeale to your honour and an exceeding longing to trauel and my friends will neuer giue me leaue but now to wait vpon your Honor. Therefore leaste in this request which if I might obtaine I should thinke my lims my life and libertie to little to spend in your lordships seruice and safety least I say you might crosse my sute with mine own sword therefore to answer my selfe and anye that may obiect against schollers and students

that it is not fitting for them to trauell wee are to know that lerning which students propoūd to themselues as seafaring men do the hauen is obtained either by the eare or by the eie by hearing I meane or by reading Now although God be thanked our own countrey is replenished with as manie and as profound learned men as anie region in christendome besides yet there is no man but will graunt that heere is not all the learning in the worlde No no the Lord God in his great and wonderfull prouidence as hee hath giuen ech countrey his commoditie so hath he placed learned men in euerie part of the world as starres or pretious stones of whome such is our nature especially of vs English that as we admire and entertaine strange artificers before our owne so wee wonder at and more willingly intreate of learning with the learned forrainer then with our own natiue countrey man which though it be not generally to be liked yet in this case we speake of trauelling schollers by visiting vniuersities and men of learning maye vse this no good inclination to a good end Whoe shall not returne more learned from talking with learned Lypsius a man maye adde to his wisdome verie much by conferring with the wise saith the wisest of men The eloquent Murctus will make a man much more retoricall and ciuil in speach if he doo but once discours with him though hee intende not to learne of him then euer he was before For I know not howe but sure so it is we imitate those with whom in talking we are delighted though we propound no such thing before hand euen as they that walke in the sunne only for their recreation yet are coloured therewith and sun-burnt or rather and better as they that ftaieng a while in the Apothecaries shop til their confections be made carrie away the smell of the sweet spices euen in their garmentes To talke with or but to see such famous men would reuiue and glad me greatlie Now if your Lordship to returne shall like of or chance to light into the familiaritie of these worthy men as it is very easie they being most kind and as courteous as learned lorde God what opportunitie haue you to inriche your selfe with all manner of excellent and exquisite learning Seeke therefore after their acquaintance and albeit meet it is your honour should know your state and calling yet shame not no nor disdaine not to intrude your selfe into their familiaritie which may more ennoble you Neuer can a man be more shamelesse with lesse shame then in coueting to be with them that may better him Thus was Plato Pythagoras Democritus the rest of those worthie trauailers affected who leauing their natiue soile Greece the fountain and foundation of learning ranged ouer the whole world and were not ashamed to learne of the worst and simplest if he knew anie thing whereof they were ignorant The second meanes for a scholler yoong gentleman or anie other to further and increase his learning by perigrination or trauailing I said was by the eyes which is either by reading those bookes beyond the sea which are not to bee had for anie monie on this side or by being an eye witnesse of the verie same things which he hath red in bookes or hard of by others for example your honor is for Italie that Queene of countries famous for the wholesome temperature of the aire for the great plentie of all the gifts of God for the great ciuilitie and wisedome of the people albeit nowe somewhat degenerated with ouer-much effeminacie renowmed in all histories both old and newe for their mightie warres waged with the whole world for their martial discipline in warre and polliticke gouernement in peace In this countrey where shall you set your feet or cast your eie but you shall haue occasion to call into remembrance that which is set downe in Liuie Salust Polibius Plyny Tacitus Dion and Dionisius in whome who so hath read heeretofore sondrie matters of worth and accidents of moment wherof they are full and shall in trauailing see before hys eies the trueth of their discourses and the demonstration of their descriptions in trueth if he be not rauished with delight I shall take him but for some stocke or stone for the sight of the thing which a man hath heard doth set such a grace and edge to the same seemeth to me to be without all life that is not liuely and feelingly assected and moued therewith Segnius incitant animos demissa per aurem Quam quae sunt occulis subiecta fidelibus The things we heare lesse cause the mind and sences to arise Then do the thinges that presently are subiect to the eyes saith the Poet. To goe no farther then Italie although I could be content to wade in writing wander by trauell farther if it might be will not he that hath read of the great ouerthrowe of the Romaines at Thrasimenum and their soule discomfiture at Cannas when hee shall with hys owne eyes beholde the places where the regentes and great dominators of the worlde were shamefully foyled will hee not I say be greatly affected with a certaine compassion on the other side wil he not be greatly delighted with the goodly view of those famous delicious places of Albania Tibur and the renowmed Bathes What a pleasure will it be to see the house where Plinie dwelt the countrey wherein the famous Virgill or the renowmed Ouid was borne the signes and monumentes of the noble conquerours what a delightfull sight will it be to behold so manie ancient buildinges so manie stately Churches so manie huge Theators so manic high pillers so manie sumptuous sepulchres Surely I knowe not howe but it is so the minde of man beginnes to reuiue and lift vp his selfe aboue it selfe and to affect and meditate on excellent and noble thinges at the verie sight and consideration of these so great and glorious monumentes of antiquitie neither can the remembrance of the valour prowesse and vertue of former men and ages but ingender braue and worthie thoughtes in euerie gentle heart and noble bloud Nowe I come to the third effect and vertue of trauel which consistes in learning to refine our maners and to attaine to faire conditions and behauiour towardes all kinde and conditions of men which I haue left for the last place because I would haue it best remembred For he that shall trauell and not haue a speciall care heereof better were it for him to fit dreaming dunsing and drowping at home What is learning nay what shal it profit a man to be wise if a man be not also honest vertuous and of good qualities Wherefore noble Lord Edward thus thinke that the other two properties of trauailing I haue recommended to you as things praise worthy but this as profitable those I wish you to embrace as ornamentes to your honour but this as the prop and piller thereof Wherefore in this point