THe glasse of Trauellers , after they had consumed their time in diuerse kingdoms and countries , to learne languages , & to see fashions and maners of diuerse Nations : Then home with the prodigall Sonne , they returne to their country , loaden with strange sights and wonders in greate pouertie .

One commeth from Scythia : where he saw black snow , Hielfild . cap . 10. de aquis . ye must beleeue him , if Anaxagoras say so ; another from Armenia , where he saw red snow , another from some Yles in Persia , where trees beare woole , and other trees beare gourdes .

Some come from Cypres , where they saw brasse sowed like corne in the earth , and growne like brasse out of the earth .

Some saw where vines bring forth candida folia ex puro auro , Strange sights of trauellers . white branches , and leaues of pure gold , caried as great presents to Princes and to Kings , and yet they could carie not a leafe , nor a braunch home with them : to shew such wonders in their countrie , to their friends , to be short , they saw with their eies more then Plinie wrote with his pen , and yet left no monument behind them , as Plinie did .

But if Trauelers had seene what they might haue read : Exod . 14. They should haue seene greater wonders .

Where Moses walked in the bottome of the sea , where Elias was carried in a fiery charriot into the Ayre : for so Chrisostome cals Moises , 2. Chron . cap . ● viatorum in mare , et Elias aurigam in Aere , no doubt Sathan was amazd to see Elias in a fierie charriot , The Diu●ll is the great traueller . drawne with fierie horses in his region , he is the onely traueller in the aire , in the seas , in the earth .

So a great rich man at his death told his friends that he was willing to die , but that hee feared theeues which lay in ambush in the middle region among the clouds for him , that is , that great thiefe that was cast downe from heauen with millians of theeues with him .

Againe where Enoch was taken vp aliue in his bodie into heauen . Farre greater wonders then to trauell to see where Vulcan fell from heauen to earth in the I le of Lennos : Vulcan fell from the heauens to Lemnos . where Vulcan was so crushed by his fall , that hee euer after went lame . That Cicero called him Claudum deum . Homor Ilia . 10. Homer saith that a whole day was Vulcan in falling downe to the earth from heauen .

One of the maisters of Israel a great Rabbin of the Iewes , Ieron . in Daniel . hearing that Abbacuck was caried by the haires of the head from Ierusalem to Babilon with a messe of pottake in his hand to Daniel being in prison with the Lyons , made but a scoffe of it . Ezech . cap . 5.

And againe hearing that Ezechiel in like sort was caried from Caldea into Iudea , Derisit hominem , & tooke it for fables , and thought it more wonderfull and straunge then to heare Pismiers to bee as bigge as Elephants , Lucian Vat . hist . 1. or the foot-steps of Hercules and Bacchus to be as bigge as an acre of ground .

Some Philosophers also haue trauelled as Pythagoras to the priests of Memphis : Old Philosophers treat trauellers . Apollouius trauailed to Persia , to see and to heare their Philosophers , and their Magi , from thence to Scythia , to the Massegits , and to the Indians , to heare and to see Hiarcas sitting in suo aureo throno , Hiarchas . reading Astrologie to the Brachmans .

Plato vt qui magister erat Athenis , Plato . hee that was Maister in Athens , trauelled from Greece to Egipt to become a Scholler , to learne and to augment his knowledge to profit his Country , these and many others trauelled to Ethiop , & to all parts of the world , to see Tantalus well , to heare Gymnosophists , Gymnosophists and to see the golden table of the Sonne in Sabulo Ethiopiae .

But of all good and great trauellers , Paule the Apostle , Magister gentium , better taught and instructed to teach others , then all these philosophers : Paule . After he had trauelled to Arabia , to Damascus , and to all kingdomes and countrys , to teach Christ , both to the Iewes and to the Gentiles , he trauelled further to the third heauens , where hee saw more wonders then were seene in Sir Thomas Moores Vtopia . He trauels well that striues to the narrow way , to that rich India where that welth is most sure & safe ( said Antistenes ) that can in Shipwrack swim through seas to land , Laert . de vita Pi●●ol . that can from fire scape free from burning , & from Bullets , scape Battering , so Zeno escaped shipwrack , and caried all his wealth with him , so Socrates escaped the bullets at Tanagra , and Bias the fire at Prienna , so that each of them three might say one sentence , Omnia mea mecum porto .

So can not the Marchant say , though hee brag much of many ships vpon the seas , Cic . Tus . quest . lib . 5. yet as the philosopher said , sua f●●icitas è funibus pendet , his wealth hangeth on cables .

So cannot the rich couetous Niggard say , which possessed his wealth , quasi suis vinctus catenis , and maketh hast to be rich , when in truth ad vltimum nil , nisi lenta faelicitas .

For if fortune and vertue bee ioyned together , and waighed together in Critolaus ballance , it shall be found as Critolaus did , who waighed bona animi , et bona corporis in one ballance , Cic . de finit . and found the one like stellae in radio solis , the other quasi sol ipse splendore virtutis .

So it may be said of the Ambitious that builds towers in the aire , whose nature is more agreeued to see one man go before him , then reioyce in a thousand that followe him , Esth. 3.4 . one Mardocheus troubled Hamans minde more then all Persia could please .

Some great men ambitious among the Iewes , Num . 16. tooke vp Moses and Aaron , saying you extend too much of your selues , ye Sons of Leui , Cur cleuamini super populum Domini ,

For that they were the best Tribe amongst the Israelites , but such God euer raised and furnished with wisedome and vertue , to be stars and pillers of his people in his Church .

The Greeks hauing diuerse such ambitious men in euery Citie of Greece , Aristoph . in Ramis . Aristophanes brought in a commaedie Pericles from hell , to admonish the Atheneans , non oportere leonem in vrbe nutriri , yong Lions must not be nourished in Athens , and therefore great rich & noblemen must be bridled , from hauing too much honour and power , lest thereby , Solons lawes . they bring Solons lawes to Dracas lawes .

The like we reade that Priamus Deiphobus , and many other Greeks and Troians were brought in vpon a stage , vgly , g●astly , and bloudy to perswade men that liue ill , to liue better by the terrible and horrible sights of such great men , beeing dead , & in hell punished , Exempla magis mouent quam verba , and therefore I wish such were plaid on their stages in London , and not such wanton lassiuious &c , I wish it were before Kings in Courts .

The rich man in hell , The rich man in hell . requested Abraham , to send one from the dead to tell his brethren the tormts and paines he was in , and though it was told him by Abraham , that they had Moses & the prophets to instruct them , but that was nothing to be beleeued in respect of the other .

Yet many trauel to Africa , Diodor . 2. to seeke out the I le of Satyrs , and become Satyrs thereby , many trauels into Arabia , Satyrs . to seeke out the I le of Serpents and become Serpents thereby , and many trany trauels to all parts of the world to seeke out purgatorie , and are become papists thereby , each of these haue their glasse in their hands , to finde their way and yet misse it .

This soldier cryeth , that he serued such great Captaines , which were most famous , and though they come lame and maihemed home , yet it doth them good to remember the victory in besieging such a Citie , and of their fighting on the seas in such a place , there escaping of the bullets , Eneas sang to his Souldiers . that it doth sollace the Soldier to cry with Eneas , haec olim meminisse iuuabit .

You must not take from the souldier his valiant mind , his martiall actions and exployts in warres , for the souldier will bragge as his Captaine : for as Nabucadnezar sayd , What God can take Sidrak , Esa . 14. Mysael and Abednego out of my hand , so Rabsases his Captaine will say , What God will or shall defend any kingdome from his maister .

And as Demetrius spake to Ionathan , Learne , Demetrius . 1. Macab . 3. and know of others who I am , Quia mecum virtus bellorum est .

The souldiers of Benhadad will say as he sayd , that the dust of Samaria is not enough for euery soldier of Benhadad to take a handfull ; 3. Reg . 20. For if the gods of the mountaines will not fight with him , the gods of the valleyes shall .

Another Captaine crieth out like Seron against Iu . Machabeus , saying , Faciam mihi nomen , I will get me a name on Iudas Machabeus .

Another like Gaal with the like proude crie , proud bragges . What is Abimelek , and what is Sichem , O I would I had some such soldiers with me at my command . So Pyrrhus wisht and Marius would haue Romane souldiers , Non calones , non iactatores , take away the brag of a souldiers seruice , take also his reputation and life away .

And therefore amongst the Thracians , The Thracians which brag that Mars was borne in Thracia , their greatest glorie and fame was to haue cuts and wounds on their faces and bodies , thereby to be knowne valiant souldiers .

But amongst the Lacaedemonians it was not so , The Lacedemonians called Comati milites . for their souldiers kemd the long haires of their heads and beards : and therefore they were called Comatimilites , which when the Captaines of Persia saw Leonidas souldiers at Thermopila so deckt and so trimd , Velut desides & ignauos habuerunt , but they iudged otherwise of them before the battell was done : For that 20000 Persians were slaine by 300 Lacaedemonians , who came with sweete slutes and soft pipes .

And the Souldiers therefore in Macedonia sit crowned with Lawrell by the Law of Alexander the Great to see Games and Plaies in the best places and highest roome of the Theatres . Lawrel crowns .

In Persia the souldiors haue golden girdles giuen them by the Law of Cyrus , Golden girdles to animate the soldiors to fight for their countrey .

In Greece they had siluer laces and golden fillets to trim vp the haires of their heads , Siluer laces & golden fillets . and therefore were the Lacedemonian Souldiers called Comati milites .

In Rome the Souldiers haue diuers and sundry kinds of Crownes , golden Chaines , Bracelets , and Rings , in reward of their Seruice . Chains , bracelets and rings . Some had Crownes for sauing of Cities , made of Ex querna fronde , of Oken bowes . Another sort had Coronam Obsidionalem , made ex illo gramine of that grasse , where the Citie stood , by remoouing of Sieges , or otherwise .

Such a Crowne had Fabius Maximus , Fabius Max. which by delayes wearied Hanniball out of Italie , and saued Rome . The like honour happened to Lu Sicinius in the first African Warres : And the third , to Cneius Atinates , in bello Cimbrico , in the Cimbrian Warres .

In Greece Themistocles had Coronam Oleaginam , Reward and gifts in Greece and a golden Chariot , for the sauing of Greece from the Persians . Milciades for his victory at Marathon had his picture in the Port Pucile : And Dion for sauing Syracusa from Dionysius , had Coronam auream .

But now neither in Persia , in Sparta , in Athens , or in Rome , or elswhere , the Souldiers haue nowe no such siluer Fillets , nor such Bracelets of Gold , no golden Girdles , or any other Militarie rewards for the crie of Souldiers .

Onely of this , Watch words of souldiers . Souldiers may bragge of some watch●word called Tesserae militares , which great Captaines vsed in great Warres , as in Persia , the watch-word of Cyrus , in many battels vsed , Cyrus Watch . word . Caesars watchword . Iupiter belli socius , or of Caesars watch-word , who vsed somtime Faelicitas , sometime Victoria , for that Caesar was himselfe in fiftie two set battels : and therfore vsed many watch-words , which Caesars Souldiers made great account of , after Caesars time .

Least I should vse too often Tautologia , for that I remember I wrot of Pompey the great , Pompeis glasse broke at pellusum . Plut. in Pomp . for his great victories in Asia , Affricke , and Europe , three parts of the world was compared to Alexander the great , whose word was Hercules inuictus , yet his Glasse brake on the sands at pellusium , in Egypt .

Antiochus , Antiochus . surnamed Soter , vsed this for his watchword to his Souldiers in his warres , aduersus Galatas , bene valere .

These many watch-words shall suffice to solace Souldiers in their crie .

So likewise may poore Souldiers weare their great Commaunders and Captains cullors , Ethiopiam soldiers of the cullors of diurse and sundry maner in warres . as the Aethyopian Souldiers weare white cullors , the Thracian Souldiers russet cullors , the Africans puke cullor , the Samnites pied or partie cullors , the Lacedemonians vsed Scarlet cullors , and the Persians red cullors : For such cullors ware great Artaxerxes King of Persia , in field against his brother Cyrus , and Cyrus Souldiers ware white cullors in the selfe same battell against Artaxerxes : Artaxerxes cullor . but the most of these Nations their glasses were bruised and broken at that time .

And so may any Souldier now weare any cullors , Cyrus cull or . if it be but in Ribbands or Laces about their neckes , to remember and to honour valiant and warlike Nations , and to satisfie their owne valiant and noble minds , and to stop their cries , in steede of deserued rewards .

And yet somewhat more for the honour of soldiers , in whom appeared some naturall grace and Maiestie , to moue people , Plut. in vita . both to loue and honor them aswell in forraigne countryes as their owne , Scipio Emilianus . as Scipio Africanus the elder had such grace with King Antiochus the great , that he ruled more in Asia , then Antiochus & Scip . Emilianus with King Masinissa in Africa , so greatly honoured and beloued , that at his death he gaue the kingdome of Numidia to Scipio .

So Paulus Emilius with the Macedonians , & Pub . Pau . Emilius . Sen. epist. 81. Rutillius though banished from Rome , yet so much esteemed in all the Cities of Asia , that hee seemed rather to make his triumphs in Asia , as the history saith , that Maius Triumphare quam exulare videretur .

Q. Q. Meteilus . Cic●ad Atticum . 1. Metellus could haue no greater honor giuen him by the Senators , then when the table of his creditors were shewed to the Senators that they refused to looke on it saying , non in Tabulis , sed in vita Metelli respiciendum .

The like reuerence and honor was alwaies giuen Marcus Cato that wheresoeuer hee went , M. cato . Gell . 4 , cap . 1● . or whatsoeuer he said in the Sennate house , or to the people abroad , it was esteemed , ac vox cuiusdam numinis , with great admiration .

It is so written o● Zenocrates , Zenocrates crdit . that when he came as a witnes in a cause before the Iudges Areopagites in Athens , to lay his hand vppon the altar to take his cath , the Iudges with one voice said , in tanta tanti virisapientia , needs no oath .

C. Marius is not to be forgotten , for that in his seauenth and last consulship in Rome ( although an old man , C. Marius Silla and Caesar as great soes as frends to Rome . and in much miserie , ) forsaken of all his friends , and left naked without weapons , yet had such Maiestie , then in his countenance , that the Executioner , an enemy of Marius ( being a Cymbrian , whose nation Marius much grieued ) being sent into a priuat house , close shut , at Minternum , to kill Marius , The grimme countenance of Marius . at the sight of Marius threw downe his weapons and fled , as Marius , Silla , and Caesar were like Scipio to aduance Rome , but againe like Hanibal to plague Rome .