THe ende of our traueill being determined , and hauing in our minde the hope of great profite which shall ensue to vs thereby , a man must so prouide for euerie thynge , that aboue all hée haue regarde to hys health , whether it bée of bodye , or soule . For hée that doth not so , but dependeth al vpon Fortune , be shal make God his enemy , hurt his conscience , and expose himself to a thousand daungers . For immediatly he hath opened , as it were , a window vnto infinite mischieues , & hath gotten a most large The feare of God . fielde to offend in . But who so committeth hymselselfe vnto Gods kéepyng , shall bée saued through his protection , as saith the Psalmiste . And although many éeuilles and daungers lye in his waye : notwythstanding hée shall not bée mooued . Hée shall also brydle hys affections : since the cheifest meanes to auoyde sinne , is to auoide the occasion of sinne , wherein hée must employ great diligence , and preuent many imminent daungers by hys wisedome . So Tobias , when hée sent his sunne forth into Rages , Tobias . exhorted hym aboue all thinge to feare God , as the chiefest guide of his iourney , and all his affaires . Poetes feygne , that Aeneas was couered in a cloude by Venus , and diuerse other men also by other Goddes , thereby escapyng not onely the sight of men , and also sundrye perilles that they might haue incurred , thereby to declare that they bée safe from daungers , that are couered with the might and power of God . Which thing likewise the holy scripture testifieth in many places saying : They wente foorthe and the Lorde was with them : and againe , the Lorde dothe know thy iourney , and thy Lorde thy God hath remained with thee , and thou hast wanted nothinge . The nexte care is , that hée haue regarde of hys body , that 〈◊〉 doely ●●●lth . is to saye , to kéepe it sounde and in good health . How this may hée doone , preceptes of Phisitious do declare , and as farre as I am able to say in the matter : it consisteth in the due vse of the sixe things not naturall , as they tearme them , that is to witte , the Aier , Meate and Drinke , Fulnesse and emptinesse , Exercise and reste , Sléepe and Watching , and finally , Accidentes and motions of the minde . For hée that is of a weake constitution of body , cannot wel entende those things for which hée hath traueiled . And therfore he ought to haue a more diligent regarde hereto , for that the chaunge of Ayer , of Diet , & custome , doth easely bring with it some sicknesse , although the payne and 〈…〉 of the iourney do supply no cause thereto at all . There be also two other things to hée marked by a Traueiller , namelye to applie himselfe to the manners of other , and also to looke to his owne businesse with diligence : whereof the one is very hard for him to doo that hath no rule of himselfe , the other requtreth rather iudgement then will . Howbeit hée must néedes doe them both if hée will do well . For who so meaneth to liue in a straunge lande after his owne fashion , maketh himselfe a mocking-stocke vnto other , and neuer amendeth his owne barbarous & corrupt maners , althoughe hée see daily innumerable examples of vertues . Hée shall soone sustaine losse of his businesse that dealeth therin necligently . It is after one maner that wée liue at home , and another that wée line abroade , and some nations are more gyuen to craste and deceite then others , which many haue tryed to their great paine . Wherefore wée must lyue warely among forreine nations , and take hi●de wée offende them in no case , being mindfull of the Gréeke prouerbe , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , meaning that we must Note . applye our selues to the Manner and Cuntrie , and yet haue regarde to our owne affayres , hauing alwayes respect vnto honestie . In Clemens Alexandrinus is cited this verse of Heraclitus , thus to bée Englished .

In which , as the same Clemens saith , is proposed an example of a Philosophicall life , where he saith that we shuld go sée manye forreine nacions for knowledge sake , but not to ensue the vices of strange Cuntreyes , that is to saye , hée admonisheth vs to vndertake many iournies for intent to learne , still retaynynge the integritie of our maners , and condicions . ●eware ●●rruption . For although some cuntries cary a certen suspicion of lust and licentiousnes : yet neuer to haue beheld any parte therof , but alwaies continently to haue liued in the same , is no small praise and glory . Let vs not therfore leaue any token of our owne fylthines in Forreyne Regions , nor let vs learne there any vile crime to bring home with vs into our owne cuntrey , but let vs insue vertue and exercise godlynesse in all places wheresoeuer wée béecome . Which who so doth , through the power of God shall not onely escape the cruell Scylla and Charybdis , and contemne the most swéete sower alluringe Songes of the Syrenes : but lyke a most experte Pilot Syrenes Songes . that passeth vnder Sayle in the midst of the sea , shall as much as may bée auoide all quicksandes and perillous Rockes , the sworne Enemies of them that passe by the déepe . Thys also a Traueiler muste diligentlye prouide for , that hée lacke not his chiefe necessaryes , which the Logicians terme , Destinata , thynges apperteyning to his purpose , as vnto studye béelonge Bookes , and Teachers : vnto Warfare , Harneys , Weapons , Horses , Captaines , with suche other lyke . So then , lyke as a souldiour cannot attayne his ende if hée lacke hys Weapons : neyther can a student if hée lacke Bookes , & if other also lacke other thinges necessarye for their vse , accordynge to the diuersitie of theyr state , and callynge . Finallye , thou must indeuour by all meanes possible , to attaine to thy purpose and ende the ryght waye and order , omitting all vnnecessarie circumstaunces . For so shalt thou take lesse paynes , and all thing shal bée doone wyth more ripenesse and better iudgement . For the The great force of Order in all things . same truely is of so great force in all worldly and humane affayres , that vnlesse a man vse some good and commendable order in performyng them : hée laboureth in vayne , or to lyttle profite . Wherfore , some haue written how a man shall béehaue himselfe in Warfare , & of the whole order of warfare , as hath Vegetius : some haue taught how we should béehaue our selues in the studie of Phisick or Law , or in other artes and Sciences , whereby a man may in shorter time attaine vnto them , & reape fruite and commodie out of them .

The commoditie and profit of traueiling is dispersed throughout and in all things of the world , and there is no humane action or trade to be founde , but it may bée bettered and holpen by traueil . And the I may say nothing of vile artes , are not all artes and trades according to the diuersitie of them , better exercised in one place then another ? is not this thinge best handled in such a place , and that in another ? which if a man be desirous to learne , it were best for him to traueill thither , rather then lerne them at home of others whiche haue not perfectly learned them themselues . So in Germanie , Italie , Fraunce and Spayne , the art of Printing is much vsed , but among the Getes it is not knowne . And not onely cuntreys far distant hence , do practize other artes : but also those that be néere vnto vs . As the Arte of Printing is as much frequented in England as in Germanie , and Fraunce : in Ireland it is nothing so , and yet Ireland lyeth néere vnto England , and vnder obedience to the same Quéene . The Englishmen ar excellent archers , but the Irishmen bee better , and more experte in swimming , excellinge all other nacions of Europe in running and diuing vnder water . How much good , traueill doth to a Carpenter , Vitruuius teacheth : how much to a Souldiour Vegetius sheweth : how much to a Paynter or Keruer , the horses made by Fideas and Praxiteles , standing yet at this present in the Church of Romulus at Rome do testifie , with other Collossi , Statues , Images , and Pictures , which there is no woorkeman beholdeth , but he wondreth at them , and departeth away more cunning than he came . I wil speake nothing of Merchandize , which is altogether , as it were nourished by traueill , and not occupyed somuch for honesty sake : as for commodytie and lucre . Let vs suruey the studies of humanyty which are comprehended vnder the name of Philosophy , & wée shall finde that in auntient times they were partly inuented & deriued from the Egiptians vnto other nations , & afterward brought into Europe , continuing also along while in Greece , from whence they arriued in Italy , and from thence were dispearsed abroad into other Regions of Europe , as it were into Colonies , & places of lyberties within themselues . And who wyldeny that there is enie profite receyued by Philosophy , or that sumtime it flourished in Greece in such sort : that from al places men traueilled into that cuntry to be instructed therein , as it had bene to some faier , or mercate ? which Plutarch wel signified , saying , that there were no men at all , if there wer not a sea wherby they might passe into Greece . For that graue & wise Philosopher , iudged that none could bée Philosophers are onely men . called by the name of men , vnlesse they were instructed in Philosophye , for as much as wyt , and verteous furniture of the minde , maketh men , not the forme or figure of the Body . But now this instruction of wittes is quite taken away from Greece together with the empire , and it is to be feared , lest shortly also it be taken from other places whether as the study of lyberall Arts are extended , & in stéed therof the old barbarousnes come in place after awhile . Touching historis , & that woorks of Poets , what shall I néede to giue any admonicion ? In whose books there be some suchthinge , which nether by eloquence of words , or construction can bee expressed , neithe by dilygence of interpretours expounded , but that rather they require to bée séene with the eye . As when in Virgill mencion is made of certayne pictures , very lyuely expressinge the lineamentes of nature , which Aeneas béeheld in Didos Temple séeming to containe in them verye motions of mind , affections , and true teares indéede : the Poet therupon sayinge :

Great grief bringes teares , and mortal haps , make mortal harts to rue . That is to say , a man wold suppose , that those Images and Pictures had wept indéed , and that those paincted and counterfeited bodies , were mooued with compastion one of them towards another . Histories reporte , that Zensis & Parrasius the Painters , fell in contention for the excellencie , at what time the one of them painted Grapes so liuely that hee deceined Birdes with them : the other painted a Shéet so woorkemanly that be deceaued him that had deceaued the birds . So lykewise Prothogenes , and Apelles lines deserned to bee looked vpon , and Cicero so highly commended the counterfeite of Ephigenia drawne by the Painter Timantes that he supposed that one example to bée sufficient from which all Oratours and Poetes might take a president and patern to obserue Decorum , and cumlynesse in expressinge affections . The lyke is to bee iudged of Antiquitie . For what description of any place can bée so euident , or what interpretacion so plaine and perspicuous , but the béeholding of the thing it self doth far excéede it ? And lyke as if wée reade enie thing that is obscure and intricate , wée vnderstande it muche better if wee béeholde some tokens and remnauntes of it , then wée can conceiue by the traueill of interpretours , or learne by anye semblable coniecture : so lykewise the knowledge of the Antiquitie thereof , is no lesse pleasant and profitable , which of it self is able alone to stirre vp honest wittes , and nourisheth the sludies of good learning . Tullie glorieth in a certen place , that he founde out the Sepulcher of Archimedes the Geometrician , by the engrauing of a Sphere an● a Cylinder , which he sayeth hée shewed vnto his cuntrimen of Arpinum , which sepulcher was ouergrowen with bushes and briars , and much defaced , for that it was long since he died . And nothing inferrior vnto these , haue bin founde also not much before our age , at which a man may no lesse wonder . Hereof a sufficient witnes is Raphaell Volaterranus , writing , that in his time in the way called Via Appia nigh Rome , there was A noble buriall . digged vp the body of a woman , embaulmed with precious oyntments , whole , vncorrupted , layd vp in a Coffin , and couered with a Marble Stone , hauinge béetwéene her féete ( as he sayth ) a burning Candle whom the liquor of the oyntment nourished , but suddenly went out as soone as the Marble coueringe was remooued : adding moreouer , that diuers supposed that it was the body of Tulliola , Tullies Daughter whom he loued Culliola . dearely . Witnesseth also the lyberalitie of Pope Nicholas the fift , at whose time lyued one Cyriacus Anconitanus , a wonderfull searcher of Antiquities , not only concerning his owne cuntrey of Italie , but almost of all Europe , and of a great part of Asia and Africa , whereby hée tooke the name of an Antiquarie , leauinge an euerlastinge renowme of his name vnto posteritie . Who vpon a time , when one demaunded of hym , why hee bestowed so muche labour in search of such matters : answered , that he would gladly raise some dead man to lyfe : rightly weighing how that many things are decaid and forgotten through proces of time , which might be restored by dyligence of traueilynge , and by industrie of learned men , preserued from iniurie of obliuion . Yea , what shall we say more , that we shuld now haue no Cosmography at all , which contayneth the discription of that whole world , nor Topography , which comprehendeth the description of certen priuate places : vnles it were graunted vnto vs through the benefite of trauelinge ? The auntient Cosmographers were of opinion , that the earth was vnhabitable vnder the Equinoctiall , as also that part of the worlde , whiche stretcheth out beyond the polare circles towards the Poles . Which two positiō● of theirs to be false : partly the Nauigacions The pro●●●e of Nauigations . of the Portingales , do teach vs : and partly also those Regions whom the eleuation of the North Pole argueth to to lye without the arcticke circle , as are Gronlandia and Willappia , with other Ilandes lying neere to the frosen Sea , Wherin the Portingall Nauigacions haue not alonely done much good , but in other thinges also . For where as the auncient Writers by the difference of Noonetide shadowes , haue called some men Periscij that is to saye , tourninge shadowed , some Amphiscij double shadowed , some Heteroscij single shadowed : this haue they founde by their Nauigations to be true , and vnto the thrée partes of the world , haue found out and adioyned a fourth , namelye America , ●merica . which for the vnknowne bignesse therof , they think to be an other world , béesides many moe Ilandes vnknowne beefore . Whereby we are the lesse moued to wounder at the Antipodes , or Antichthones , that is to say , those who , as Cicero hath interpreted , doo tread step for step directly against vs . For the Geometricall reason , sayth Copernicus , proueth that America lyeth directly on the othersyde agaynst India Gangetica : the lyke iudgement is also to bee giuen of other regions of the Worlde . Likewise , there is no man doubteth but that traueill was the firste cause of the findinge out of Astronomie , since by it , firste of all the eleuation of the Poles was found out , and by that varietie of Horizons , & by them both the differences of the dayes and nightes . But al these thinges beinge omitted , let vs retourne to nature , & vnto grauer studies . There is no man , I thinke that wyl deny , but that the searchinge out of the nature of The studye of Nature . thinges is most profitable , the same is performed by no meanes more effectually , then by traueill . As for example sake , Peaches which grow in that cuntrey from which they tooke their name , are Poyson : but in Germanie they are accoumpted amonge delicates and banqueting dishes , which ar both found by traueill . So likewise the Hemlocke that groweth in Germanie , hath not the same force which that hath that groweth in Italie . Our Cuntrye of Germanie knoweth not the Date Tree : The Date tree . howbeit it groweth in Italie , but for the moste parte withoute frute : and in Africa they abounde in such sort : that they make both meat and drink of the fruit . And to be short , other things grow in other places , which in one place are of more force & vertue then in another , and they also of sundry and dyuers kindes , whose properties and qualyties who so is ignoraunt of : is not worthy the name of a Phylosopher , much lesse of a Physicion , who ought to be vnskilfull of nothinge appertayning to the nature and diuersitie of thinges , places , and men . Yea , there bée fruits of sundrye Trées , who amonge the auntient writters are called after the names of them that founde them , that is to saye , of those that firste brought them out of forreine lands and planted them in their owne . As ar Manlians of Manlius , Macians of Macius , Claudians of Claudius , as Plinie hath noted , and also Appians or Melapians in smell and bignes lyke Quin●●s , because Appius of the House of Claudia . graffed the same firste vpon a Quince . In lyke maner saieth Plinie , Decumian Peares and Dobellian , and Pompeian called teat or Dugge Peares , haue ennobeled their founders and firste planters , with many other fruites moe well nigh innum●rable . So Lucius vitellius béeing Censor , brought the Nut Pistick first into Italy , and by the aucthoritie of Athenaeus and Plinie , wée know that Lucullus being generall of the Romane Armye , after that hée had vanquished Mithridates and obtayned the vpperhande : was the firrst that euer brought The Cherie tree . the Cherietree out of Cerasus a certen place and libertie of Pontus called nowe Zephano , into Italy , callynge also the Fruite thereof Cerasus a Cherie , although some bee of another opinion . It is also euydent out of the same Athenaeus , that Citrions wer neuer séene nor tasted of within the remembraunce of Plutarches Grandfathers . Neither yet were they commonlye eat● in Plinies and Theophrastus time , but onely estéemed and regarded for t●eir pleasant smell .