A Ce1ljure of Travel!. A SEcT. V IJ. AN D in truth, it is not onely in T ravell,wherein wemay ju!llycomplaine of rheinconveniencyofhafre, but (rhatwemaylooke alirtleaGde ) in all the important buGneffes ofour life, efpecially in mariage and profeffions: The ordinary hafre in the one (before the face candefcry rhefex ) fills the world full of b<ggery-and impotence.t"ndno !I!IIC hafre in the orher, fills it as full of ignorance and imperfetl:ion. For on theone fide, whe'7th vigourofnature' ants, wbatcan be propagated but infirmirie? or howcan ne skill ro live, that wants experience? On theorher, whatplemyofwarer can there be, where the lead oftheCifl:erne is B putallinrorhepipes?wherethofe rharlhould be gathering knowledge forthemfelves, fpend it( likeumhrifry heires) upon oche!"!, as fafr as rheyget it. I amdeceived, if I have not touched oneof the maine ground.af that univerfall decay of Arcs and Men,wherewith rheworld is commonly checked: They mufr be mightier andwirer, that knowhowtoredreffeit. SECT. VIII. BUt let U> give our Traveller ( rhar which Parenrs feldome care ro give) matu• riry of age; let him be·as ripe as time canmake him; What isrhe befr advanC cage which his abfencecan promiCe us; Let L1Slay the bcnelirsofTravell in the one fcale, the inconveniences in the other; whethe>foever over-weighs ll!all fway downe thebeameofour judgment. The private contentment ofa mans owneheart in rhe viewof!Orrain things,isbur abetter nameofan humorous curiality. Ifaman yeeld to run after his appetite andhis eye, he !hall never knowwhere ro refr, and aftermany idle excurfions,lhould lie downe, weary, but unfatisfied. For, give me a man that bath feene '}Nd•ffi' Lanrhome atSaint Dennifu, the Ephefian DiAIIA in the Louvre, the great veffell at Heidelherg,rhe Amphitheatre at Nifmu, rhe mines and halfe-letteredmonuments of the feven hils,and athoufand (uchrarities; what peace bath his heart, above rhofe that fit at home, and conremne th<fe royes? A~d what ifrhat mans fancy lho\1 call him to the frables ofrhe great Mogol, or to the folemniD ties ofMuh4, orro the Library ofthe Mounraineofthe Moone, will he be fo farre the drudge or Lacquayofhisowneimaginarion, as to undertake rhispilgrimlge? Or where will he fray at lafr, upon his rerurne ? Tfhe have (melt the ill-fenced Cities of Fr•11ce, orhave feenc faire Florence, rich Pe11ice, proudGemt4, L11ca che indullrious: ifrhen his thoughcs !hall tempt him rofee the richGluttons houfe in'jerMfolem, or invite him to .Jfmm, or Bmg•la, murt hegoe ? And ifhe candeny and chide his ownoeunprofirab!edefires at the J,fr, why began·he nofooner? That could not be forborne too early, which at lafr we repenrro have done : bee therefore that rravellsonely to pleafe his fanrafie, is like fame woman wich childe, that longs for that peecewhichlhefeesupon anorhers rrencher, and fwounds if fheemiffe it ; or fomeSquireofDames thatdoacsupon every beauty, and is every day love-ficke E anew: Thefe humours are fitter for conrrolment thanobfervation. SECT. IX. IT isan higher faculty thatTravell profeffeth to advance, the fupr<me power of our underfranding,whichiffrom hence it may bemanifeftly improved,he lhould nor be worchy to tread upon the earth that would not emulate IlTA".!and C•nd1jh incompaffingit: buc fet afide rhe frudyofcivil! law,(which indeed finds better helps abroad) all Sciences (theword may feeme proud, but it is true) may bemore both fitly wooed,andmore furely won,within our !Oure Seas: for whac learning is that, which theSeas,orAlps, orPyreneeshave ingroffed from us? what profeffion either I ii 4 liberall
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