An itinerary containing his ten yeeres travell through the twelve dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland & Ireland . hat they learneby nature, that reason joined to nature teacheth can be added to the worthy praises of him as thePoet saith ; Qui Mores hominum multorum vidit, & urbes : Who many Mens manners hath seene,And hath in many Cities beene. The conclusion In one word, I will say what can be said upon thisof the matter, subject; Every soyle is to a valiant man his owneCountrey, as the Sea to the Fis
An itinerary containing his ten yeeres travell through the twelve dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland & Ireland . hat they learneby nature, that reason joined to nature teacheth can be added to the worthy praises of him as thePoet saith ; Qui Mores hominum multorum vidit, & urbes : Who many Mens manners hath seene,And hath in many Cities beene. The conclusion In one word, I will say what can be said upon thisof the matter, subject; Every soyle is to a valiant man his owneCountrey, as the Sea to the Fishes. We are Citizens ofthe whole World, yea, not of this World, but of thatto come: All our life is a Pilgrimage. God for his onelybegotten Sonnes sake, (the true Mercury of Travellers)bring us that are here strangers safely into our trueCountrey. Chap. II. Of Precepts for Travellers, which may instructthe unexperienced. Will follow my purpose, and give pre-cepts, not to expert men, (as Phormio didto Hanniball in military affaires), butonely to the unexperienced, and that notcuriously, as if I would prescribe themevery step they should goe, but suchas may whet the wits and memories of. God is first tobe solltcited. Other men, well knowing that many things may be added,which are slipped out of my memory, and which othersmay daily find out. I In the first place, as every man in any course of life,so most of all a Traveller, who is subject to many dangers,must by his daily prayers sollicite God for his graciousprotection. All our actions must take beginning from 370 OF PRECEPTS FOR TRAVELLERS ad. , the fountaine of all good, if we desire with theIsraelites, to have Gods Cloud and pillar of fier protectus in our journies and aboads. Let him daily commendhimselfe to Gods protection, and even in his journeys,daily at morning and evening, not while he slumbers inhis bed, but in private withdrawne from company, eitherkneeling as before his father, or standing as before hisMa
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