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2jB Of Travel.
Nobil'ty, taking place above other, than to be learned
and wise> and where may wisdom be had, but from
many men, and in many places > Hereupon we find the
most eminent and wise men of the World,to have been
the greatest Travellers (to omit the Patriarchs and A*
postles themselves in holy Writ) as Plato, P/tbagoras,
Aristotle, Thcuphraftus ; 0/;rir, King of JEg}pt) who
travelled a great part of the World, and caused to be
Diodor, Sic-Ai. engraven upon his Sepulcher, Hereunder l lie King
Osyris, eldejt [on of Saturn, who have lest no part os the
World unsearched^ rvhitberto 1 have not come) teaching a-
gain whatsoever I have sound) sor the use and commodity
of mankind. And Xenophon to intimate unto us thebe-
nefit and excellent use of Travel, saith that CambjseS)
by his travel, learned many excellent things, which he
taught Cyrus his son, and having travelled as far as
Meroe (as a perpetual Monument of his long voyage)
he built a City in the form of a Perstan Shield. And it
was the usual boast of Alexander (fdidArchelaus a Gos-
Biog. Laert. 1. mographer)that he had found out more with his eyes,
r. in vita Ar- than other Kings were able to comprehend in thought:
cs}d. and to no small commendation of himself, Menelaits in
Homer, reporteth that he had been in JEgypt} Cjprusy
Phoenicia, and seen Thebes having an hundred Gates,*
and at every Gate two hundred Horse-men for the
Guard. But say some, few of our Gentlemen are bet-
tered by their travel, but rather return home worse
than they went in Manners, and many times in Reli-
gion ; therefore it were better they tarryed still at
home, according to Claudian ;
Fcelix quipatriti &vum transegit in agrisj
Ipfa domuspuerum quern videt, ipfasensm ;
Quibaculo nitensdn quareptavit arena,
Vnius numei at s&cula longa cas£.
He’s blest who in’s own Country ends his day es,
Whose homestead see’s his old age and his birth,&c.
But
Nobil'ty, taking place above other, than to be learned
and wise> and where may wisdom be had, but from
many men, and in many places > Hereupon we find the
most eminent and wise men of the World,to have been
the greatest Travellers (to omit the Patriarchs and A*
postles themselves in holy Writ) as Plato, P/tbagoras,
Aristotle, Thcuphraftus ; 0/;rir, King of JEg}pt) who
travelled a great part of the World, and caused to be
Diodor, Sic-Ai. engraven upon his Sepulcher, Hereunder l lie King
Osyris, eldejt [on of Saturn, who have lest no part os the
World unsearched^ rvhitberto 1 have not come) teaching a-
gain whatsoever I have sound) sor the use and commodity
of mankind. And Xenophon to intimate unto us thebe-
nefit and excellent use of Travel, saith that CambjseS)
by his travel, learned many excellent things, which he
taught Cyrus his son, and having travelled as far as
Meroe (as a perpetual Monument of his long voyage)
he built a City in the form of a Perstan Shield. And it
was the usual boast of Alexander (fdidArchelaus a Gos-
Biog. Laert. 1. mographer)that he had found out more with his eyes,
r. in vita Ar- than other Kings were able to comprehend in thought:
cs}d. and to no small commendation of himself, Menelaits in
Homer, reporteth that he had been in JEgypt} Cjprusy
Phoenicia, and seen Thebes having an hundred Gates,*
and at every Gate two hundred Horse-men for the
Guard. But say some, few of our Gentlemen are bet-
tered by their travel, but rather return home worse
than they went in Manners, and many times in Reli-
gion ; therefore it were better they tarryed still at
home, according to Claudian ;
Fcelix quipatriti &vum transegit in agrisj
Ipfa domuspuerum quern videt, ipfasensm ;
Quibaculo nitensdn quareptavit arena,
Vnius numei at s&cula longa cas£.
He’s blest who in’s own Country ends his day es,
Whose homestead see’s his old age and his birth,&c.
But