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Right Honorable , I Feuer any men had reason to bee in loue with the face of a forraine entertainment , those are they , which were admitted to the attendance of the truly Generous and Honorable , Lord HAY , your most noble sonne , in his late embassage to France ; in which number my vnworthinesse was allowed to make o●e ; who ca● therefore well witnesse , that no man could either recei●e more honour from a strange Countrey , or doe more honour to his owne . What wanted there that might make men confesse themselues more welcome then strangers ? Neither doubt I but that after many ages , France it selfe will wonder at the bountifull express●ons of her own● fauours . But whiles others were ●nioying the noble courtesies of the Time , my thoughts entertained themselues with searching into the proofe of that ordinary Trauell , wherewith I saw men comm●nly affected ; which , I must needs confesse , the more I saw , the lesse I liked . Neither is it in the power of any forraine munificence , to make mee thinke ours any where so well● as at home . Earthly commodities are no part of my thought : I looked ( as I ought ) at the soule ; which I ●ell saw , vses not only to gather 〈◊〉 mosse in this rolling , but suffers the best graces it bath , ●o molder away insensibly in such vnnecessary agitation . I haue now beene twise abroad : both times ( as thinking my selfe worthy of nothing but neglect ) I bent my eyes vpon others , to see what they did , what they got : my inquirie found our spirituall losse so palpable , that now at last my heart could not chuse but breake forth at my hand , and tell my Countrymen of the dangerous issue of their curiositie . I meddle not with the common iourneyes to the miner all waters of the Spa ; to which many sicke soules are beholden for a good excuse : who whiles they pretend the medicinall vse of that spring , can freely quaffe of the puddle of popish superstition ; poisoning the better part , in stead of helping the worse . These I leaue to the best Physician , Authoritie ; which if it may please to vndertake the cure , may perhaps saue as many English soules from infection , as that water cures bodies of diseases . I deale only with those , that professe to seeke the glory of a perfect breeding , and the perfection of that , which we call Ciuilitie , in Trauell : of which sort I haue ( not without indignation ) seene too many lose their hopes , and themselues in the way ; returning as empty of grace , and other vertues , as full of words , vanitie , mis-dispositions . I dedicate this poore discourse to your Lo : as ( besides my daily renued obligations ) congratulating to you the sweet libertie and happy vse of your home ; who like a fixed starre may well ouer-looke these planets , and by your constant settlednesse , giue that aime to inferiour eies , which shall be in vaine expected from a wandring light . The God of beauen , to whose glorie I haue intended this weake labour , giue it fauor in the ●ight of his Church , and returne it backe ; but with this good newes that any one of the son● of Iaphet , is hereby perswaded to dwell euer in the tents of Sem : Vnto that diuine protection , I humbly betake your Lo : Iustly vowing my selfe Your Lo : humbly deuoted in a●l faithfull and Christian obseruance , IOS . HALL . QVO VADIS ? Sect. 1. IT is an ouer-rigorous construction of the workes of God , that in moting our ILAND with the Ocean he ment to shut vs vp from other regions ; For God himselfe that made the Sea , was the Author of Nauigation , and hath therein taught vs to set vp a wooden bridge , that may reach to the very Antipodes themselues : This were to seeke discontentment in the bounty of God , who hath placed vs apart , for the singularity of our happinesse , not for restraint . There are two occasions wherein Trauell may passe , Matter of trafique , and Matter of State. Some commodities GOD hath confined to some countries , vpon others hee hath with a full hand powred those benefits , which hee hath but sprinkled vpon some . His wise prouidence hath made one Countrey the Granary , another the Celler , another the Orchard , another the Arsenall of their neighbours , yea of the remotest parts . The earth is the Lords which he meant not to keepe in his hands , but to giue ; and hee which hath giuen no man his faculties and graces for himselfe , nor put light into the Sun , Moone , Stars for their owne vse , hath stored no parcell of earth with a purpose of priuate reseruation . Salomon would neuer haue sent his nauie for Apes and Peacockes , but yet held gold and timber for the building of Gods house , and his own , worthy of a whole three yeares voyage : The sea and earth are the great Cofers of God ; the discoueries of Nauigation are the keyes , which whosoeuer hath receiued , may know that he is freely allowed to vnlocke these chests of nature , without any neede to picke the wards : Wise Salomons comparison is reciprocall . A ship of Merchants that fetches her wares from farre is the good Hus-wife of the Common-wealth , and if she were so in those blind voyages of antiquity , which neuer saw needle nor card , how much more thrifty must shee needes be in so many helpes both of nature and Art ? Either Indies may be searched for those treasures , which God hath laid vp in them for their fardistant owners ; Onely let our Merchants take heed , least they go so farre , that they leaue God behinde them ; that whiles they buy all other things good cheape , they make not an ill match for their soules , least they end their prosperous aduentures in the shipwracke of a good conscience . Sect. 2. And for matter of policy , nothing can be more plaine then that our correspondence with other nations cannot possibly be held vp , without intelligence of their estate , of their proceedings ; The neglect whereof were no other then to prostrate our selues to the mercie of an hollow friendship , and to stand still , and willingly lie open whiles wee are plaide vpon by the wit of vntrusty neighbourhood . Th●se eyes and eares of State are necessarie to the well-being of the head ; In which number I doe not include those priuate Inter-lopers of intelligence , that lie abroad only to feed some vaine Cameleons at home with the aire of Newes , for no other purpose , saue idle discourse ; but only those profitable agents , whose industrie either fitteth them abroad for publike imployment , or imployeth them after due maturitie , in the fit seruices of the Common-wealth : Neither my censure nor my direction reaches to either of these occasions . It is the Trauell of curiosity wherwith my quarrell shall bee maintained ; the inconueniences whereof my owne Senses haue so sufficiently witnessed , that if the wise parents of our Gentry could haue borrowed mine eyes for the time , they wou●d euer learne to keepe their sonnes at home , and not wil●ully beate themselues with the ●taffe of their age : vpon them let my pen turne a little , as those that are more then accessaries to this both priuate and publike mischiefe . Sect. 3. It is the affectation of too-early ripenesse that makes them prodgall of their childrens safety an● hopes ; for , that they may be wi●● betimes , they send them foo●● to the world in the minority bo● of age and iudgement , like as fon● Mothers vse to send forth the● daughters on frosting , early in col● mornings ( though into the mi● of a vaporous and foggy ayre ) an● whiles they striue for a colo● loose their health ; If they were n● blinded with ouer-weening a● desire , they could not but see 〈◊〉 their vnsetlednesse carries in it manifest perill of mi●-carriag● grant that no danger were thre●ned by the place , experience gi● vs , that a weake-limde childe if 〈◊〉 be suffered to vse his legges too soone , too mu●h , lames himselfe for euer ; bu● if hee wa●ke in vneuen ground , he is no le●se subiect to maimes , then crookednesse . Do they not see how easily a young twig is bowed any way● Do they not see that the Mid-wi●● and the Nurse are wont to frame the gristly head of the Infant to any fa●hion ? May not any thing be written vpon a blanke ? And if they make choice of this age , because it is most docible , and for that they would take the day before them , why doe they not consider that it ●s therefore more docible of e●ill ; ●ince wickednesse is both more 〈◊〉 and more plausible then ●ertue , especially when it meetes with an vntutored iudge ; and ●inc●●here is so much inequality of ●he ●umber of both , that it is not ●ore hard to finde vertue , then to misse vice . Heare this then , yee carelesse Ostriches , that leaue your egges in the open sand for the Sun to hatch , without the feare of any hoo●e that may crush them in peec●s , haue your stomackes resolued to digest the hard newes of the ruine of your children ? Doe ye professe anmity to your owne loynes ? then turne them ( as ye doe ) loose to these dangers , ere they c●n resist , ere they can discerne ; but if ye had rather they should liue and grow , bestow vpon them the kindly heat of your be●t plumes , and shelter them with your owne brest and wings , till nature haue opened a seasonable way to their owne abilities . Se●● . 4. Yea let it be my iust complaint in this place , that in the very transplantation of our sonnes to the sa●er soile of our owne Vniuersities , and Innes of Court , nothing is more preiudiciall then speede . Perfection is the childe of Time ; neither was there euer any thing excellent , that required not meet leisure : but besides , how commonly is it seene , that those which had wont to swimme onely with bladders , sinke when they come first to trust their owne armes ? These Lap-wings that goe from vnder the wing of their damme with their shell on their heads , run wilde . If Tutors be neuer so carefull of their early charge , much must be left to their owne disposition ; which if it leade them not to good , not only the hopes of their youth , but the proofe of their age lies bleeding . It is true , that as the French Lawyers say merily of the Normans , which by a speciall priuiledge are reputed of full age at 21. yeeres , whereas the other French stay for their fiue and twentieth , that Malitia supplet aetatem ; so may I say of the younglings of our time , that Precocitie of vnderstanding supplieth age and stature : but as it is commonly seene , that those blossomes which ouer-runne the spring , and will be looking forth vpon a February-Sunne , are nipped soone after with an Aprill-frost , when they should come to the knitting : so is it no lesse ordinary that these rathe-ripe wits preuent their owne perfection , and after a vaine wonder of their haste , end either in shame , or obscuritie . And as it thus falles out euen in our Vniuersities ( the most absolute and famous Seminaries of the world ) where the Tutors eye supplies the parents ; so must it needs much more , in th●se free and honourable Innes ( as they are called , for their libertie , Colledges for their vse ) of our English Gentry , wherein each one is his owne master in respect of his priuate studie and gouernment : where there are many pots boiling , there cannot but bee much scumme . The concourse of a populous citie affords many brokers of villanie , which liue vpon the spoiles of young hopes , whose very acquaintance is destruction . How can these nouices , that are turned loose into the maine , ere they know either coast , or compasse , auoid these rockes and shelues , vpon which both their estates and soules are miserably wracked ? How commonly doe they learne to roare in stead of pleading , and in stead of knowing the lawes , learne how to conternne them ? We see , and rue this mischiefe , and yet I know not how carelesse we are in preuenting it . How much more desperate must it then needs be to send forth our children into those places which are professedly infectious , whose very goodnesse is either impietie , or superstition ? If wee desired to haue sonnes poisoned with mis-be●eefe , what could wee doe otherwise ? Or what else doe those parents , which haue bequeathed their children to Antichristianisme ? Our late iourney into France informed me of some ordinary factors of Rome , whose trade is the transporting and placing of our popish nouices beyond the seas ; one whereof ( whose name I noted ) hath beene obserued to carry ouer sixe seuerall charges in one ye●re . Are wee so foolish to goe their way , whiles wee intend a contrary period ? Doe wee send our sonnes to learne to be chaste in the midst of Sodome ? The world is wide and open ; but our ordinary trauell is southward , into the iawes of danger : for so farre hath Satans policie preuailed , that those parts which are only thought worth our viewing , are most contagious ; and will not part with either pleasure , or information , without some tang of wickednesse . What can wee pleade for our confidence , but that there is an houshold of righteous Lot in the midst of that impure citie ; that there are houses in this lericho , which haue scarlet threeds shining in their windowes ; that in the most corrupted aire of Poperie , some well reformed Christians draw their breath , and sweeten it with their respiration . Blessed bee God , that hath reared vp the towers of his Sion , in the midst of Babylon . Wee must acknowledge , not without much gratulation to the Gospell of Christ , that in the very hottest climates of opposition , it findes many clients , but more friends ; and in those places , where author●tie hath plea●ed to giue more aire to the truth , would haue had many more , if the Retormed part had happily continued that correspond●nce in some circumstances wi●h the Romane Church , which the Church of Englan● hath hitherto maintained . God is my record how ●r●e my heart is both from pa●●●alitic , and pr●iudi●e . Mine eyes and eares can witnesse with wha● approo●e and applause diuer● of the Catholiques Royall ( as they are termed ) entertained the new-tran●lated Liturgie o● our Church , as maruelling to see such order and regular deuotion in them , whom they were taught to condemne for hereticall . Whose allowances I w●ll saw , might with a little helpe , haue beene raised higher , from the practise of our Church , to some points of our iudgement . But if true religion were in those parts yet better attended , and our young Traueller could finde mo●e abettors , and examples of pie●ie , on whom wee might relie , yet how safe can it bee to trust young eyes with the view and censure of truth or ●alshood in religion ? especially when truth brings nothing to this barre , but extreme simplicitie , and contrarily , ●alshood , a gaw dy magnificence , and proud maiestie of pompous ceremonies , wherewith the hearts of children and fooles are easily taken . That Curtizan of Rome ( according to the mann●r of that profession ) sets out her selfe to sale in the most tempting fashion ; here want no colours , no per●umes , no wanton dre●ses ; whereas the poore Spouse of Christ can on●y say of her selfe , I am blacke , but comely . When on the one side they shall see such rich shrines , garish Altars , stately Processions , when they shall see a Pope adored of Emperours , Cardinals preferd to Kings , confessors made Saints , little children made Angels , in a word nothing not outwardly glorious : on the other side , a seruice without welt or guard , whose maiestie is all in the heart , none in the face , how easily may they incline to the conceit of that Parisian dame , who seeing the procession of S. Genoueifue goe by the streets , could say , ( O que belle , &c. ) How fine a religion is ours in comparison of the Hugenots ? Whereto must bee added , that ( supposing they doe not carry with them , but rather goe to fetch the language of the place ) some long time needs be spent , ere they can receiue any helpe to their deuotion ; whiles in the meane season , their vnthriuing intermi●●ion is assailed with a thousand suggestions : And who sees not that this lucrum cessans ( as the Ciuil●ans terme it ) offers an open aduantage to a bu●●e aduersarie ? Sect. 6. In a word , it hath beene the old praise of early rising , that it makes a man healthfull , holy , and rich ; whereof the first respects the body , the second the soule , the third the estate : all fals out contrary in an early trauell . For health : The wise prouidence of God hath so contriued his earth , and vs , that he ha●h fitted our bodies to our clime , and the natiue sustenance of the place vnto our bodies . The apparant difference of diet ( and of drinkes especially ) falling into so tender age , must needs cause a iarre in the constitution ; which cannot in all likelihood , but send forth distemper into the whole course of the ensuing life . The streame runnes like the fountaine , and speeds well , if at last , by many changes of soile it can leaue an ill qualitie behinde it : besides that the mis-gouernance of diet , whereto their libertie layes them open in the weaknesse of their pupillage , cannot but bee extremely preiudiciall . In this point let experience be consulted with ; her vnpartiall sentence shall easily tell vs , how few young trauellers haue brought home , sound and strong , and ( in a word ) English bodies . As for holinesse , we lose our labour , if this discourse proue not that it hath none so great enemie as timely trauell ; at once doe wee hazard to abandon God and our home : set an empty pitcher to the fire , it crackes presently , whereas the full will abide boiling . It was the younger sonne in the Gospell , who therefore turnes vnthrift , because he got his portion too soone into his hands , and wandred into a farre countrey . The eye of the parent , and the ferule of the master , is all too little to bring our sonnes to good . Where then there is neither restraint of euill , nor helps to grace , how should their condition bee other than hopelesse ? The soile doth much in many plants : the Persian Hyos●yamus if it be translated to Egypt , proues deadly ; if to Ierusalem , safe and wholesome : neither is it otherwise with some dispositions , which may iustly curse the place , as accessory to their vndoing . Lastly , for riches , not of the purse , ( which is not here thought of ) but of the mind , what can bee expected from that age , which is not capable of obseruation , carele●●e of reposition ? whereof the one gets , the other keepes the treasure of our vnderstanding . What is this age fit to looke after but Butterflies , or birds nests , or perhaps the gay coat of a Courtier ? And if remarkable considerations be put into it by others , they are as some loose pearles , which for want of filing vpon a string , shake out of our pockets ; so as all the wealth of a young Traueller is only in his tongue , wherein he exceeds his mothers Parrat at home , both for that hee can speake more , and knowes that he speaketh . Sect. 7. And in truth , it is not onely in trauell , wherein wee may iustly complaine of the inconuenience of haste , but ( that wee may looke● a little aside ) in all the important businesses of our life ; especially in marriages and professions ; The ordinary haste in the one ( before the face can descry the sex ) fils the world full of beggerie and impotence ; and no lesse haste in the other , fils it as full of ignorance and imperfection . For on the one side , where the vigour of nature wants , what can be propagated but infirmity , or how can hee skill to liue that wants experience ? On the other , what plenty of water can there be , where the leade of the cisterne is put all into the pipes ? Where those that should be gathering knowledge for themselues , spend it ( like vnthrifty heires ) vpon others , as fast as they get it . I am deceiued , if I haue not touched one of the maine grounds of that vniuersall decay of Arts and Men , wherewith the world is commonly checked : They must bee mightier and wiser , that know to redresse it . Sect. 8. But let vs giue our Traueller ( that which Parents seldome care to giue ) maturity of age ; let him be as ripe as time can make him ; what is the best aduantage which his absence can promise vs : Let vs lay the benefits of Trauell in the one sca●e , the inconueniences on the other , whethersoeuer ouer-waighes , shall sway downe the beame of our iudgement . The priuate contentment of a mans owne heart in the view o● forraine things , is but a better name of an humorous curio●ity . If a man yeelde to runne after his appetite and his eye , he shall neuer know where to re●t , and after many idle excursions , ●hal lie downe weary , but vnsa●is●ied . For , giue me a man that hath seene ●udasses Lanterne at S. Dennises , the Ephe●ian ●iana in the Louure , the great vessell at Heydelberg , the Amphitheater at ●ismes , the ruines and halfe-lettred monuments of the seuen hilles , and a thousand such rarities ; what peace hath his heart aboue those , that sit at home , and contemne these toyes ? And what if that mans fancie shall call him to the stables of the great Mogol , or to the solemnities of Mecha , or to the Librarie of the Moun●aine of the Moone , will hee be so farre the drudge or Lacquay of his owne imagination , as to vndertake ●his pilgrimage ? Or where will he stay at last , vpon his returne ? If he haue smelt the ill-sented Cities of France , or haue seene faire Florence , rich Venice , proud Genua , Luca the industrious : if then his thoughts shall tempt him to see the rich gluttons house in Ierusalem , or inuite him to Asmere , or Bengala , must he goe ? And if hee can denie and chide his owne vnprofitable desires at the last , why began hee no sooner ? That could not be forborne too early , which at last we● repent to haue done : he therefore that trauels onely to please his fantasie , is like some woman with childe , that longs for that peece which she sees vpon anothers trencher , and swounds if she miss● it ; or some squire of Dames , tha● doats vpon euery beautie , and is euery day loue-sicke anew : These humours are fitter for controlment , than obseruation . Sect. 9. It is an higher facultie that Trauell professeth to aduance , the supreme power of our vnderstanding , which if from hence it may be manifestly improued , he should not bee worthy to tread vpon the earth , that would not emulate Drake , and Candish , in compassing it : but ( set aside the studie of Ciuill Law , which indeed findes bett●r helpes abroad ) all sciences ( the word may seeme proud , but is true ) may be both more fitly wooed , and more surely wonne within our foure seas : for what learning is that , which the Seas , or Alpes , or Pyrenees haue ingrossed from vs ? what profession either liberall , or manuary , wherein the greatest masters haue not beene at least equalled by our hom●-bred Ilanders ? what hath this , or the former age knowne more eminent for learning , then some of ours , whi●h haue neuer trod on any but th●ir owne earth ? And ( as good market-men by one handfull iudge of● all the whole sacke ) why may we● not finde cause to thinke so of the rest , if they would not be wanting to themselues ? I am sure the Vni uersities of our Iland know no matches in all the world ; vnto whose per●e●tion ( that as they exceed others , so they may no lesse exceed themselues ) nothing wanteth , but seuere execution of the wise and carefull lawes of our Ancestors , and restraint o● that libertie , which is the common disease of the time . And why should not the childe thriue as well with the mothers milke , as with a strangers ? Whether it be the enuie , or the pusillanimitie of vs English , wee are still ready to vnder-value our owne , and admire forrainers ; whiles other nations haue applauded no professors more then those which they haue borrowed from vs ; neither haue wee beene so vnwise , as to lend forth our best : our neighbours ( which should be our corriuals in this praise ) shall be our Iudges , if those f●w of our writers , which could be drawne forth into the publike light , haue not set copies to the rest of the world , not without iust admiration . And how many starres haue wee of no lesse magnitude , that will not be seene ? Blessed be God ( who hath made this word as true , as it is great ) no nation vnder heauen so aboundeth with all varietie of learning , as this Iland . From the head of Gods anointed doth this sweet perfume distill to the vtmost skirts of this our region . Knowledge did neuer sit crowned in the throne of maiestie , and wanted either respect , or attendance . The double praise which was of old giuen to two great nations , That Italie could not be put down for armes , nor Greece for learning , is happily met in one Iland . Those therefore that crosse the seas to fill their braine , doe but trauell Northward for heat , and seeke that candle which they carry in their hand . Sect. 10. Yea so farre is our ordinary Trauell from perfecting the intellectiue powers of our Gentry , that it rather robs them of the very desire of perfection . For what discouragements shall they finde from the loue of studies , in those parts which are most sough● to for ciuilitie ? Who k●ow●● not that they are growne to that height of debauch●ment , as to hold learning a shame to Nobilitie ; esteeming it as a fit gard for the l●ng robe only , too base for their Tiss●es ? An opinion so sauouring of proud ignorance , and ignorant looseness● , tha● I cannot honour it with a confutation . Who would thinke that the reasonable soule of men , not professedly barbarous , should bee capable of such a monster ? What is learning , but reason improued ? And can reason so farre degenerate , as to hate and contemne it selfe ? Were these men made onely for a sword , or a dogge , or an horse ? Onely for sport , or execution ? I know not wherein Lewi● the eleuenth shewed himselfe vnwitty , but in the charge which hee gaue to his sonne , to learne no more Latine , but , Qui nescit dissimulare , nescit viuere : and would this alone teach him to rule well ? Doth the Art of Arts ( such is the gouernment of men ) require no grounds but dissimulation , or ignorance ? Euen to the feeding of hogges , or sheepe , there is more and better skill necessary . How v●like is this to a successor of Charles the great , whose word it had wont to be , that he had rather abound in knowledge , then wealth ? In the Court of our King Henry the eight , a certaine great Peere ( of this diet ) could say , it was enough for Noblemens sonnes to winde their horne , and carry their Hauke faire ; that studie was for the children of a meaner ranke : To whom Pace iustly replied , that then Noblemen must bee content that their children many winde their hornes , and carry their Haukes , while meaner mens sons doe weild the affaires of State. Certainly it is a blinde and lame gouernment that lackes learning ; whose subiects , what are they else , but as limmes of a body whose head wanteth senses , which must needs therefore faile of either motion , or safetie ? From hence it is , that so few of the forraine Noblesse are studious , in comparison of ours ; ( in which regard I am not ashamed to recant that which my vnexperience hath ( out of heare-say ) written in praise of the Frenc● education ) and those few that haue stolne the turning ouer of bookes , hide their skill , left they should be made to blush at their vertue . What braue Trophees and rich monuments hath the pen of our gracious Soueraigne raised of himselfe vnto all posterities ? When ignorance and malice haue shot their bolt , the glory of his great wisdome , and knowledge , shall more fill the mouthes and affect the hearts of all succeeding ages , then of his greatnesse . Paul the fift , and his greatest Chaplaines , Bellarmine and Perron , haue felt the weight of his hand ; whereas the great King that stiles himselfe Catholike , when he comes to passe his censorious edict vpon Cardinall Baronius ( who in the eleuenth Tome of his Historie seemed too busie in fastening the title of the Kingdome of Sicilie vpon the Pope ) professeth to ground his intelligence of this wrong only vpon others eyes ; as if a booke ( though of a Cardinall ) were too meane an obiect for the view of Maiesty : and as all subordinate greatnes flowes from the head , so doe commonly also the dispositions . Neither haue the Doctours of the Romish Church ( vpon whom the implicit faith of the Laitie is suspended ) found it any ill policie , to cherish this dislike of bookishnesse in the great ; for , whiles the candle is out , it is safe for them to play their trickes in the darke : and if the Assyrians be once blinded , how easily may they bee led into the midst of any Samar●a ? If the light of knowledge might freely ●hine to the world , Poperie would soone bee ashamed of it selfe , and vanish amongst the workes of darknesse . Now how well these examples , and this conuersation , shall whet the appetite vnto good studies , it cannot be hard to iudge . Sect. 11. But perhaps it is not the learning of the schoole , but of the State , wherein our Traueller hopes for perfection : The site and forme of cities , the fashions of gouernment , the manners of people , the raising and rate of forraine reuenues , the deportment of Courts , the menaging both of warre and peace , is that wherein his owne eye shall be his best intelligencer ; The knowledge whereo● shall w●ll requite his labour , whether for discourse or for vse . What if I say , that ( saue the soothing vp of our fancy in all this ) these lessons may bee as well taken out at home : I haue knowen some that haue trauelled no further then their owne closet , which could both teach and correct the greatest Traueller , after all his tedious and costly pererrations , what doe wee but lose the benefit of so many iournals , maps , hystoricall descriptions , relations , if we cannot with these helps , trauell by our owne fire-side ? Hee that trauels into forraine countries , talkes perhaps with a Peasant , or a Pilgrim , or a Citizen , or a Courtier ; and must needs take such information as partiall rumour , or weake coniecture can giue him ; but hee that trauels into learned and credible Authors , talkes with them who haue spent themselues in bolting out the truth of all passages ; and who hauing made their labours publike , would haue beene like to heare of it , if they had mis-reported : The ordinary Traueller propounds some prime Cities to himselfe , and thither hee walkes right forward , if he meet with ought that is memorable in the way , hee takes it vp ; but how many thousand matters of note fall beside him , on either hand ; of the knowledge whereof he is not guilty ; Whereas ●ome graue and painefull Author hath collected into one view , whatsoeuer his country affords worthy of marke ; hauing measured many a fowle step for that , which we may see dry-shod ; and worne out many yeeres in the search of that , which one houre shall make no lesse ours , then it was his owne . To which must be added , that our vnperfit acquaintance may not hope to finde so perfect information on the sudden , as a naturall inhabitant may get , by the disquisition of his whole life : Let an Italian or French passenger walk through this our Iland , what can his Table-bookes carry home , in comparison of the learned Britaine of our Camden , or the accurate Tables of Speed ? Or if one of ours should ( as too many doe ) passe the Alpes , what pittances can his wilde iourney obserue , in comparison of the Itenerary of Fr. Schottus and Capugnanus : Or he that would discourse of the Royalties of the French Lillies , how can hee bee so furnished by flying report , as by the elaborate gatherings of Cassaneus , or of Degrassalius ; What should I bee infinite ? This age is so full of light , that there is no one country of the habitable world , whose beames are not crossed and interchanged with other ; Knowledge of all affaires , is like musicke in the streets , whereof those may partake , which pay nothing ; Wee doe not lie more open to one common snnne , then to the eyes and pens of our neighbours ; Euen China itselfe , and Iaponia , and those other remotest Isles , & continents ( which haue taken the strictest order for closenesse ) haue receiued such discoueries , as would rather satisfie a Reader , then prouoke him to amend them . A good booke is at once the best companion , and guide , and way , and end of our iourney ; Necessity droue our forefathers out of doores , which else in those misty times had seene no light , we may with more ease , and no lesse profit sit still , and inherit , and enioy the labours of them , & our elder brethen , who haue purchased our knowledge with much hazard , time , toile , expence ; and haue beene liberall of their bloud ( some of them ) to leaue vs rich . Sect. 12. As for that verball discourse , wherein I see some place the felicity of their trauell ( thinking it the onely grace , to tell wonders to a ring of admiring ignorants ) it is easie to answer ; that table-talk is the least care of a wise man ; who like a deepe streame desires rather to runne silent ; and as himselfe is seldome transported with wonder , so doth he not affect it in others ; reducing all to vse , rather then admiration , and more desiring to benefit , then astonish the hearer ; withall , that the same means which enable vs to know , d● at o●ce furnish vs with matter of dis●ourse , & for the forme of our expression , if it proceede not from that naturall dexterity which we carry with vs , in vaine shall wee hope to bring it home ; the change of language is rather an hinderance to our former readinesse ; and if some haue fetcht new noses , and lips , and eares from Italy ( by the helpe of Tagliacotius , & his schollers ) neuer any brought a new tongue from thence . ●o conclude , if a man would giue himselfe leaue to bee thus vaine and free , like a mill without a scluse , let him but trauell through the world of bookes , & he shall easily be able to out-talke that tongue , whose feet haue walkt the furthest ; what ●ath any eye seene , or imagination deuised , which the pen hath not dared to write ? Out of our bookes can we tell the stories of the Monocelli , who lying vpon their backes , shelter themselues from the sunne with the shadow of their one only foot . We can tell of those cheape-dieted men , that liue about the head of Ganges , without mea● , without mouthes , feeding onely vpon aire at their nosthrils . Or of those headlesse Easterne people , that haue their eyes in their breasts ( a mis-conceit arising from their fashion of attire , which I haue sometimes seene ) : Or of those Coromand●e , of whom Pliny speaks , that couer their whole body with their eares : Or of the persecutors of S. Thoma● of Canterbury , whose posteritie ( if wee beleeue the con●ident writings of Degra●●alius ) are borne with long and hairie tailes , souping after them ; which ( I imagine ) gaue occasion to that prouerbiall iest , wherewith our mirth vses to vpbraid the Kentish : Or of Am●zons , or Pygme●s , or Satyres , or the Samarcaudean Lambe , which growing out of the earth by the nauell , grazeth so ●ar●e as that natural●●●ther will reach : Or of the bird Ruc , or ten thousand such miracles , whether of nature , or euent● Little neede wee to stirre our feet to lea●●e to tell either loud lies , or large ●ruth● . Wee haue heard a bird in a cage ●ing more change of ●otes , then others haue done i● the wilde libertie of the wood● And as for the present occurrences of ●he time , the world about vs is so full of Presses , that it may , and ●s grow●e so good a fellow , that it will , impart what it knowes to all the neighbours : whose relations , if sometimes o●ey swarue from truth , we may well consider , what varietie of report euery accident will y●●ld ; and ●hat therefore our eares abroad are no whit more credible , then our eyes at home . Yea rather , as Tully could say , that at Antium he could heare the newes of Rome , better then at Rome ; so may wee oft-times better heare and see the newes of France , or Spaine , vpon our Exchange , then in their Paris , or Madrill : Since ( what libertie soeuer tongues may take to themselues ) a discreet man will be ashamed to subscribe his name to that , whereof hee may bee afterwards conuinced . Sect. 13. Since therefore Trauell cannot out-bid vs in these highest commodities , which concerne the wealth of the minde ; all the aduantage it can afford vs , must bee in those mixt abilities , wherein our bodies are the greatest partners , as dancing , ●encing , musicke , vaulting , horsemanship ; the only professions of the mis-named Academies of other nations . Who can denie that such like exercises are fit for young Gentlemen , not onely for their present recreation , but much more for the preparing of them to more serious action ? Yet must these learne to know their places : what are they else but the varnish of that picture of Gentry , whose substance consists in the lines and colours of true vertue ? but the lace or facing of a rich garment ? but the hang-byes of that royall court which the soule keeps in a generous heart ? He that holds Gentilitie accomplished with these ( though laudable ) qualities , partakes more of his horse , then his horse can possibly of him . This skill then is worthy of our purchase , yet may not bee bought too deare ; and perhaps need not bee fetch 't so farre . Neither my profession , nor my experience will allow mee to● hold comparisons in this kinde ; but I haue beene heartened by no meane masters of these Arts , to say that our Nation hath yeelded some in all these faculties , which need not stoope vnto the proudest ●orrainer : ours haue no fault but one , that they are our owne ; and what h●●h their Countrey offended , if their Art offend not ? It is an humorous giddinesse to measure the goodn●●●e of any thing by the distance of miles , and where there is equalitie of worth , to neglect the neerest . I slander our Nation if it bee not sicke of this disease , in the course of all sciences . And if neerenesse and presence bee the cause of our dislike , why doe wee not hate our selues , which are euer in our owne bosomes ? Why doe we not hate this fastidious curiositie , which is too close to vs ? Perhaps perfection in these qualities is thinner sowne amongst vs , then some other-where ; so as our Iland for want of worke , and incouragement , affords not such multitude of masters : but how can wee complaine of rarenesse , since if our age yeeld vs but one excellent in each kinde , it is more then wee are willing to vse ? and if the fault were not in our selues , one candle may light a thousand . To instance in the best : The horse is a noble cr●ature , which as it is the str●ngth and pride of France , so wins the hearts and heeles of that Nation : The generalitie of their skill is nothing to a stranger ; each pri●ate mans cunning rests in himselfe ; it is only the Teacher , whose abilitie may concerne vs. And whereas there is a double kinde of menage ( as I haue heard ) one for seruice , the other for pleasure ; in the first our masters thinke they cannot yeeld vnto the best ; in the latter , if they grant themselues exceeded , how many men haue taught their dogge the same trickes , with no lesse contentment ? In both , we haue the written directions of their greatest Artists ; who ( for the perpetuitie of their owne honour ) failed not to say their best . And if these dead masters suffice not , wee haue had , wee may haue the best of their liuing : The conscience of a mans excellencie will abide no limits , but spurres him forth to winne admiration abroad ; and if therewithall he can finde aduancement of profit , how willingly doth hee change his home ? Wee haue had experience of this in higher professions , much more in these vnder foot . One obscure towne of Holland in our memory , had by this meanes drawne together at once the greatest lights of EVROPE , and made it selfe then no lesse renowned for Professors , then it is now infamous for Schisme . Feare of enuy forbids me to name those amongst vs , which haue honoured this Iland in the choice of their abode . Where Art is encouraged , it will soone rise high , and go farre , and not suffer a channell of the sea to stay it from the presence of a more bountifull patronage . Sect. 14. But let vs grant these faculties so fixed vpon any nation , that all our water must necessarily bee fetcht at their Well ; and adde vnto these a few wa●te complements , and mimicall courtesies , which must needs bee put into the match of our ordinary trauell : and now let vs sit downe , and see what wee paid for this stocke , and count our winnings : What must our com●pleat Traueller stake downe for this goodly furniture o● his Gentry ? If not losse , danger ; danger of the best part , if not all ; a double danger ; of corruption of religion , and deprauation of manners ; both capitall : And can we thinke these endowments so precious , that they should bee worth fetching vpon such an hazard ? Will any man ( not desperate ) runne into an infected house , to rifle for a rich suit ? Will any man put his finger into a fiery crucible , to pull out gold ? It is wittily taken of Chrysostome , when our Sauiour said , Ne exeat is in eremum ; that he sayes not , Goe forth into the desert and see , but beleeue not ; but giues an absolute prohibition of going forth at al● , that they might be out of the danger of misbeleefe . Tush , idle and melancholicke feares , say some of our Gallants ; wherefore serues discretion , but to seuer good from ill ? How ●asily may a wise man pull a rose , and not pricke his hand ? How freely may he dip in this streame , and not be drowned ? Little doe these peremptory re●oluers know , either the in●inuatiue power of euill , or the treachery of their owne heart in receiuing it , or the importunitie of deceiuers in obtruding it : They are the worse for their trauell , and perceiue it not . An egge couered with salt , as our Ph●losophers teach vs , hath the m●at of it consumed , whiles the shell is whole : many a one receiues poison , and knowes not when hee tooke it . No ma● proues extremely euill on the sudden . Through many insensible declinations doe wee ●all from vertue ; and at the first are so gently seazed by vice , that wee cannot beleeue our accusers . It is mischiefe enough , if they can bee drawne to a lesse dislike of ill ; which now by long acquaintance is growne so ●amiliar to their eyes , that they cannot thinke it so loathsome , as at the first view . The societie of wilfull Idolaters will now downe with them , not without ease ; and good meanings beginne to bee allowed for the clokes of grosse superstition . From thence they grow to a fauourable construction of the mis-opinions of the aduerse part , and can complaine of the wrongfull aggrauations of some contentious spirits : and from thence ( yet lower ) to an indifferent conceit of some more politike positions , and practises o● the Romanists . Neither is ther● their rest . Hereupon ensues an allowance of some of their do●trines , that are more plausible , and lesse important , and withall a censure of vs that are gone too farre from Rome . Now the mariage of Ecclesiasticall persons begins to mislike them : the daily and frequent consignation with the crosse is not to no purpose : The retired life of the religious ( abandoning the world forsooth ) sauours of much mortification ; and confession giues no small ease and contentment to the soule . And now by degrees , Poperie beginnes to be no ill religion : If there cannot be a false fire of mis-deuotion kindled in them , it is enough , if they can be cooled in their loue of truth ; which how commonly it fals out amongst vs , I had rather experience should speake , then my selfe . Some there are that by a spirituall Antiperistasis haue growne hotter in their zeale , by being encompassed with the outward cold of irreligion , and errour , who as they owe not this grace to themselues , so they are more for wonder then imitation . If Daniel found a guard in the Lions denne , shall another put himselfe thither for ●helter ? And if Peter walkt vpon the pauement of the water , did the rest of the Disciples step forth and follow him ? That valiant champion of Christ ( since wee are fallen vpon his name ) who durst draw his sword vpon a whole troupe , after all the protestations of his inseparablenesse from his master , was yet infected with the aire of the High-Priests Hall : and whiles hee but warmed himselfe at that fire , cooled in his respect to his Sauiour . Although perhaps this contagion working ( as it commonly doth ) remissely , causeth not any sudden alteration in our Traueller , but ( as wee say of Comets and Eclipses ) hath his effect when the cause is forgotten . Neither is there any one more apparant ground of that luke-warme indifferencie , which is fallen vpon our times , then the ill vse of our wandrings : for our Trauellers being the middle-ranke of men , and therefore either followers of the great , or commanders of the meaner sort , cannot want conuenience of diffusing this temper of ease , vnto both . Sect. 15. All this mischiefe is yet hid with a formall profession , so as euery eye cannot finde it : in others it dares boldly breake ●orth to an open reuolt . How many in our memory , whiles with Dina● they haue gone fo●th to gaze , haue lo●● their ●pirituall chastitie , and therewith both the Church , and themselues ? How many ( like vnto the brooke ●●dron ) run from ●ierus●lem through the vale of ●●hos●p●●t , and end their course in the dead Sea ? A popish writer of our Nation ( as himselfe thought ) not vnlearned , complaining of the obstinacie of vs heretickes , despaires of preuailing , because hee findes it to be long agoe fore-prophecied of vs in the booke of the Chronicles , At illi Protestantes audire noluerunt . It is well that Protestants were yet heard of in the old Testament , as well as I●suites ; whose name , one of their owne by good hap hath found , Numb● 26. 24. Like as Erasmus found Friers in S. Pauls time , inter falsos Fratres . But it were better , if this mans word were as true , as it is idle . Some of ours haue heard to their cost , whose losse ioyned with the griefe of the Church , and dishonour of the Gospell , wee haue sufficiently lamented . How many haue wee knowne strucken with these Asps , which haue died sle●ping ? And in truth , whosoeuer shall consider this open freedome of the meanes of seducement , must needs wonder that wee haue lost no more ; especially if he be acquainted with those two maine helpes of our aduersaries , importunitie and plausibilitie . Neuer any Pharisee was so eager to make a Proselyte , as our late factors of Rome : and if they bee so hot set vpon this seruice , as to compasse sea and land to winne one of vs , shall wee be so madde as to passe both their sea and land , to cast our selues into the mouth of danger ? No man setteth foot vpon their coast , which may not presently sing with the Psalmist , They come about mee like Bees . It fares with them as with those which are infected with the pestilence , who ( they say ) are carried with an itching desire of tainting others . When they haue all done , this they haue gained , that if Satan were not more busie and vehement then they , they could gaine nothing . But in the meane time there is nothing wherein I wi●h we would emulate them , but in this heat of diligence , and viol●nt ambition of winning . Pyr●●us did not more en●ie the valour of those old Roman souldiers , which hee read in their wounds , and dead faces , then we doe the bus●e audacitie of these new . The world could not stand before vs , if our Truth might bee but as hotly followed , as their falshood . Oh that our God , whose cause wee maintaine , would enkindle our hearts with the fire of holy zeale , but so much as Satan hath inflamed theirs with the fire of ●urie and faction . Oh that hee would shake vs out of this dull ●ase , and quicken our slacke spirits vnto his owne worke . Arise , O North , and come , O South , and blow vpon our garden , that the spices thereof may flow forth . These suters will take no deniall , but are ready ( as the fashion was to doe with rich matches ) to carry away mens soules whether they will or no. Wee see the proofe of their importunitie at home : No bulwarkes of lawes , no barres of iustice ( though made of three trees ) can keepe our rebanished fugitiues from returning from intermedling . How haue their actions said in the hearing of the world , that since heauen will not heare them , they will tr●e what hell can doe ? And if they dare bee so busie in our owne homes , where they would seeme somewhat awed with the danger of iustice ; what ( thinke wee ) will they not dare to doe in their owne territories , where they haue not free scope only , but assistance , but incouragement ? Neuer generation was so forward as the Iesuiticall , for captation of willes amongst their owne , or of soules amongst strangers . What state is not haunted with these ill spirits ? yea what house ? yea what soule ? Not a Princes Counsell-Table , not a Ladies chamber can be free from their shamelesse insinuations . It was not for nothing , that their great Patron Philip the second King of Spaine , called them Clerigos negotiadores ; and that Marcus Antonius Columna Generall of the Nauie to Pius quintus , in the battell of Lepanto , and Viceroy of Sicilie , could say to Father Don Alonso , a famous ●esuite , affecting to be of the counsell of his conscience , Voi altri padri di ●h●su ●auete la mente al cielo , le mani al mondo , l' anima al diauolo . Sect. 16. Yet were there the lesse perill of their vehemence , if it were onely rude and boisterous ( as in some other sects ) that so ( as it is in Canon●shot ) it might be more easily shun'd , then re●●sted : but here , the skill of doing mis●hiefe contends with the power ; their mis-zealous passions hide themselues in a pleasing sweetnesse , and they are more beholden to policie , then strength . What Gentleman of any note can crosse our Seas , whose name is not landed in their bookes before hand , in preuention of his person , whom now arriued , if they finde vntractable through too much preiudice , they labour ●irst to temper with the plausible con●●rsation of some smooth Catholike of his owne nation : the name of his Country is warrant enough for his in●inuation . Not a word yet may be spoken of religion ; as if that were no part of the errand . So haue wee seene an Ha●ke cast off at an Heron Shaw , to looke and flie a quite other way , and after many carelesse and ouerly fetches , to towre vp vnto the pr●y intended . There is nothing wherein this faire companion shall not apply himselfe to his welcome Countriman . At last , when hee hath possest himselfe of the heart of his new acquaintance , and got himselfe the reputation of a sweet ingenuitie , and delightfull sociablenesse ; hee findes opportunities to bestow some wittie scoffes vpon those parts of our religion , which lie most open to aduantage . And now it is time to inuite him ( after other rarities ) to see the Monasterie of our English Benedictines , or ( if elsewhere ) those English Colledges , which the deuout beneficence of our well-meaning neighbours ( with no other intention then some couetous farmers lay faltca●s in their doue-cotes ) haue bountifully erected . There , it is a wonder if our Traueller meet not with some one , that shall claime kindred or Country of him in a more intire fashion . The societie welcomes him with more then ordinary courtesie : neither can hee refuse ( except hee will be vnciuill ) to be their guest . He cannot mislike the loue of his Countrimen , hee cannot fault their carriage . And now that they haue mollified the stiffenesse of his preiudice , and with much tempering fitted him for their mold , he is a taske meet for one of their best workmen ; who willingly vndertaking it , hath learned to handle him so sweetly , as if he would haue him thinke it a pleasure to bee seduced . Doe yee thinke this Doctor will begin first with the infallibilitie of their great Master , and perswade him that a Necromancer , an Hereticke , an Atheist , cannot erre in Peters Chaire ? or tell him that hee may buy off his sinnes as familiarly as he may buy wares in the market ? or teach him that a man may and must both make and eat his God to his breakfast ? This hard meat is for stronger mawes . Hee knowes how first to begin with the spoone , and to offer nothing to a weake stomacke , but discourse of easie digestion : As first , that a Ca●holike so l●uing and dying ( by our confession ) may be saued : That there is but one Church , as but one Christ ; and that out of this Arke , there is no way but drowning : That this one Church is more likely to bee found in all the world , then in a corner ; in all ages , then in the last Century of yeeres ; in vnitie , then in diuision . And now comes in the glorious bragge of the Roman Vniuersalitie , their inviolate Antiquitie , their recorded successions , their harmonious vnitie , their confessed magnificence : That theirs is the mother Church , as to the rest of Christendome , so especially to the English : How well a Monarchie ( the best forme of gouernment ) beseemes the Church : How vnlikely it is that Christ would leaue his Spouse in the confusion of many heads , or of none . And now , what are wee but a ragge torne from their cote ? and where was our religion before Luther lay with Bora ? And what miserable subdiuisions are there in our Protestancie ? and what a gleaning are we to the haruest of Christendome ? w●th infinite suggestions of this nature ; able ( as they are plausibly vrg●d ) to shake an vngrounded iudgement : which i● they haue so farre preuailed , as that the hearer will abide himselfe hood-winkt with this vaile of the Church , how easily shall time lead him into those hatefuller absardities ? Sect. 17. In all which proceedings , these impostors haue a double aduantage : First , that they deliuer the opinion of their Church with such mitigation and fauour , as those that care to please , not to enforme : forming the voyce of the Church to the liking of the hearer , not the iudg●ment of the hearer to the voyce of the Church : wherein it is not hard to obserue , that Popery spoken and written are two things ; In discourse , nothing is more ordinary then to disclaime some of their receiued positions , to blanch others . It is the malice of an aduersary that mis-reports them ; they doe not hold that images should bee adored ; that the wood of the crosse should be worshipped with the very same deuotion that is due to Christ himselfe ; that the Church is the Iudge of Gods writings ; that Panl the fift cannot erre ; that a man may merit of his maker , much lesse supererogate ; that a mouse may runne away with that which either is , or was God Almighty ; That it is lawfull to kill an hereticall King , and all other those monsters of opinion , which their most classicke Authors haue both hatched and shamelesly thrust into the light of the world . They defie those ridiculous Legends which we father vpon their Church ; and how much doe they scorne S. Francis his Bird , or his Wolfe , or his Wounds , or his Apostles of Assise . Pope Ioane was but a fancy : Neuer Pope was an hereticke . If now wee cry out of impudence , and call their allowed writers to witnesse . Lo , euen they also are forged by vs , & are taught to play booty on our side . Thus resolued to out-face all euidence , they make faire weather of their fowlest opinions , and inueigh against nothing so much as the spightfulnesse of our slanders . It is not possible that any wise stranger should be in loue with the face of their Church , if he might see her in her owne likenesse , and therfore they haue cunningly masked one part of it , and painted another , so as those features of hers which are vgly and offensiue , shall not appeare to any but her owne eyes . And because bookes are dangerous blabs , and will be telling the generations to come , how strangely that face is altered with Age and Art , therefore their tongues are clipped also , and made to speake none but her owne words . Out of this licence , and hope to winne , they can fit their dishes to euery palate , and are so sawcy , as to make the Church belye it selfe . Hence it was that a Spanish Father could teach , that it is not of the necessity of faith , to beleeue that the present Pope is the Vicar of Christ , and the Successor of Peter . That Hostius the ●esuite could say , that the Pope abused his keyes , and the authority of the Church , in receiuing Henry the fourth . That another of his fellowes in a discourse with a French Bishop , could disparage the decision of his Holines in comparison of a generall Counsel . That Men●s the reader of diuinity at Valledolid following Salas the Iesuite , could affirme the lawfulnes of the mariage of religious persons vpon a doubtful reuelation . That more then one of that order , haue dared to broach confession by letters , against the of Clement Bull the 8. And if these men be no sparing of their contradictions to that Vice-god of theirs , whose vassals they are by peculiar profession , how much more boldly will they swim against the streame of any common opinion , that may concerne the body of that head ? Sect. 18. Their second aduantage is , that they regard not with what vntruths they make good th●ir owne assertions ; It is all one with what morter or rubbish they build vp a side . From hence flow the confifident reports , both of their miracles to conuince vs , and their slanders to disgrace vs. Father Hayndius , a Iesuite of 33. yeeres standing , amongst fifty two complaints , which ( out of an honest remorse ) he put vp against his owne society , to their Generall Aquauiua , findes this not the least , that his fellowes s●amed not to seeke the honour of their order , by cogging of miracles . What packets flie about daily of their Indian wonders ? Euen Card. Bellarmine can abide to come in as an auoucher of these couzenages ; who dares auerre that his fellow Xauier had not only healed the deafe , dumb and blinde , but raised the dead ; Whiles his brother Acosta after many yeeres spent in those parts can pull him by the sleeue , and tell him in his eare , so lowd that all the world may heare him , Prodigia nulla producimus , neque verò est opus . Of the same stamp are the daily-renued miracles , reuelations , vi●ions , wherewith any mans eares must needes bee beaten amongst them : Africke was at the best but barren of nouelties , in comparison of Rome ; and yet the world is incredulous , if it will not suffer it selfe gulled with these holy frauds . And no fewer are those lewd calumniations ( the stuffe of all their inuectiues ) whereby they labour to make vs loathsome to the world : our persons , our doctrines are loaded with reproaches ; neither matters it how iust they are , but how spightfull ; What other measure can be expected of vs , when their best friends haue thus ( vpon some priuate dislikes ) smarted from them . Their owne holy Fathers , Clement the eight , and Sixtus quintus , and with them ( the honour of the Iesuiticall order ) Cardinall Tollet , can all shew bloudy wales in their backes , from their lashes . Their late Patron of famous memory , whose heart they well-merited , and keep it ( as their deere relique ) enshrined in their La-Flesche , was after his death in their pulpits proclaimed Tyran and worse : no maruell then if after the virulent declamations of our Gifford ( their Gabriel ) and the malicious suggestions of others of that viperous brood , we haue much adoe to perswade our neighbors , that we haue any Churc●●s , Baptisme , Liturgy , Religion . I appeale then to all eyes and eares , how easie it is for a man that will take leaue to himselfe , of making what truth he lists , and defending them by what vutruths he pleaseth , to lead a credulous hea●t whither he pleaseth . Sect. 19. But if the power of falsified reason preuaile not , these desperate factors of Rome ( as I haue beene informed ) haue learned out of their acquaintance in the Court of the Prince of darknesse , to imploy stronger aid . On some of their hands , I feare , Magicall delusions and deuillish incantations shall not want , rather then they will want a client . Neither can this feeme strange to any , that knowes how familiarly the Roman Church professes the solemne practise of coniuration ; in such a fashion , as it doth more then trouble the best Casuists , to set downe a perfect difference betwixt their sacred Magicke , & the Diabolicall . From hence perhaps haue proceeded those miraculous apparitions ( if at least they were any other but fancie , or fraud ) wherewith some of our death-sicke Gentlemen amongst them , haue beene frighted into Catholikes . A famous Diuine of France , second to none for learning , or fidelitie , told me this one● amongst other instances , of his owne experience , which hee yet liues to iustifie : A Gentleman of the religion , whose wife was popishly deuoted , lying vpon the bed of his sicknesse , in expectation of death , sends for this Diuine , his Pastor ; the sicke mans wife sends for a Iesuite ; both meet at the beds side ; each perswades him to his owne part ; both pleade for their religion at this barre , before these Iudges : after two houres disputation , not only the Gentleman was cheerefully confirmed in that iudgement which hee had embraced , but his wife also , out of the euidence of truth , began to incline to him , and it : The Iesuite departed discontent ; yet within some few houres after , returning ( when the coast was clearer ) intreats some priuate conference with the Gentlewoman ; with whom walking in her garden , hee did vehemently expostulate , mixing therewithall his strongest perswa●●ons ; at last to shut vp his discourse , he importun'd her with many obsecrations , that she would vou●hsafe to receiue from his hands a little boxe which he there offred her , and for his sake weare it about her continually : shee condescended . No sooner had shee taken it , then shee fell to so great a detestation of her husband , that shee could by no meanes bee drawne into his presence , and within two dayes a●ter , in this estate shee died . An act more worthy the sword of iustice , then the penne of an aduersarie . These courses are as secret as wicked : not daring therefore peremptorily to accuse , I had rather leaue these practises to further inquirie . Sure I am that by their tongues Satan labours to inchant the world , and hath strongly deluded too many soules . And are wee weary of ours , that wee dare tempt God , and offer our selues as challengers to this spirituall danger ? The Iesuites , amongst much change of houses , haue two famous for the accordance of their names ; one called The Bow , at Nola ; the other The Arrow , ( La Flesche ) in France : though this latter were more worthy of the name of a whole Quiuer , containing not fewer then eight hundred shafts of all sizes . Their Apostate Ferrier ( if I shall not honour him too much ) plaid vpon them in this distich : Arcum Nola dedit , dedit ill is alma Sagittam Gallia ; quis funem , quem meruere , dabit ? Nola the Bow , and France the shaft did bring : But who shall helpe them to an hempen string ? This prouision is for the care of Christian Prouinces : but in the meane time , what madnesse is it in vs , not only to giue aime to these rouing flights , but to offer our selues to bee their standing Butt , that they may take their full aime and hit vs leuell at pleasure . Doe wee not heare some of their owne fellow-Catholikes in the midst of their awfullest Senate , the Parliament of Paris , pleading vehemently against these factious spirits , and crying out passionately of that danger ( which will follow vpon their admission ) hoth of lewd manners , and false doctrine , and doe we in greater opposition feare neither ? and especially from English Iesuites ? Some Countries yeeld more venomous vipers then others ; ours the worst . I would it were not too easie to obserue , that as our English Papists are commonly more Iesuitish , so our English Iesuites are more furious , then their fellowes . Euen those of the hottest climates cannot match them in fiery dispositions . And doe we put our selues out of our comfortable sunne-shine , into the midst of the flame of these noted incendiaries ? Doe wee take pleasure to make th●m rich with the spoile of our soules , and because they will not come fast enough to fetch these boo●ies , doe we g●e to carry them vnto their pillage ? Sect. 20. The danger is in the men more then in their cause ; and if this great Curtizan of the world had not so cunning Pandars , I should wonder how shee should get any but foolish customers . Th● searcher of all hearts ( before whose Tribunall I shal once come to giue an account of this Censure ) knowes I speake it not maliciously ; Him I call to witnesse that I could not find any true life of Religion amongst those that would bee Catholikes . I meddle not with the errours of Speculations , or Schole-points ; wherein their iudgement palpably offendeth , I speake of the liuely practise of Piety ; What haue they amongst them but a very out-side of Christianity , a meere formality of deuotion ; Looke into their Churches ; there their poore ignorant Laity hope to present their best seruices to God ; and yet alas they say they know not what , they heare they know not what , they doe they they know not what ; returning empty of all hearty edification , and onely full of confused intentions ; and are taught to thinke this sacrifice of fooles meritorious . Looke vpon their Chemarim the sacred actors in this religious scene , what shall you see but idle apishnesse in their solemnest worke , and either mockery , or slubbering ? Looke into their religious houses ; what shall you see but a trade of careles and lazie holinesse ; houres obserued● , because they must , not because they would . What doe they but lull piety a sleepe with their heartlesse and sleepy Vespers ? Look into the priuate closets of their deuout Ignorants , what difference shall you see betwixt the Image and the Suppliant ? If they can heare their beades knacke vpon each other , they are not bid to care for hearing their prayers reflect vpon heauen : Shortly in all that belongs to God , the worke done sufficeth , yea meriteth ; and what neede the heart bee wrought vpon for a taske of the hand ? Looke into the melancholike cels of some austere Recluses ; there you may finde perhaps an hairecloth , or a a whip , or an heardle ; but shew me true mortification , the power of spirituall renouation of the soule ? How should that bee found there when as that sauing faith ( which is the onely purger of the heart ) is barred out as presumptuous : and no guest of that kinde allowed , but the same which is common to Diuels . What Papist in all Chistendome hath euer beene heard to pray daily with his family ; or to sing , but a Psalme at home ? Looke into the vniuersall course of the Catholike life ; there shall you find t●e Decalogue professedly broken , Besides the ordinary practise of Idolatry ; and frequence of oathes ; Who euer saw Gods day duely kept in any city , village , houshold vnder the iurisdiction of Rom● ? Euery obscure Holy-day takes the wall of it , and thrusts it into the channell . Who sees not obedience to authority so sleighted , that it stands onely to the mercy of humane dispensation ; and in the rest of Gods Lawes , who sees not how fowle sinnes passe for veniall ? and how easily veniall sinnes passe their satisfaction : for which , a crosse , or a drop of holy-water is sufficient amends . Who sees not how no place can bee left for truth , where there is full roome giuen to equiuocation . All this , though it bee harsh to the conscionable man , yet is no lesse pleasing to the carnall . The way of outward fashionablenesse in religion , and inward libertie of heart cannot but seeme faire to nature ; and especially when it hath so powerfull angariation . It is a wonder if but one halfe of Christendome bee thus won to walke in it . Those which are either vngrounded in the principles of Religion , or the vnconscionable in the practise , are fit to trauell into the●e miserable errours , But though Israel play the harlot , yet let not Iudah sinne . Come yee not to Gilgal ; neither goe yee vp to Bethauen . Sect. 21. From the danger of corruption iudgement . Let vs turne our eyes to the deprauation of manners ; which not seldome goes before : Apples therefore fall from the tree because they are worme-eaten , they are not worme-eaten because they fall ; and , as vsually followes , Satan like the rauen first seizes vpon the eye of vnderstanding , and then preyes freely vpon the other carcase . Wee may be bad enough at home , certainly wee are the worse for our neighbours . Old Rome was not more iealous of the Grecian and African manners , then wee haue reason to be of the Roman . It were well if wee knew our owne fashions , better if wee could keepe them . What mischiefe haue wee amongst vs that we haue not borrowed ? To begin●● at our skinne ; who knowes not whence wee had the varietie of our vaine disguises ? As if wee had not wit enough to bee foolish , vnlesse wee were taught it . These dresses being constant in their mutabilitie , shew vs our masters . What is it that wee haue not learned of our neighbours , saue only to be proud good cheape ? Whom would it not vexe to see how that other sexe hath learned to make Antiks and monsters of themselues ? Whence came their hips to the shoulders , and their breasts to the nauell ; but the one from some ill-shap't Dames of France , the other from the worse minded Curtizans of Italie ? Whence else learned they to daube these mudde-walles with Apothecaries morter ; and those high washes , which are so cunningly lickt on , that the wet napkin of Phryne should be deceiued ? Whence the frisled and poudred bushes of their borrowed excrements ? as if they were ashamed of the head of Gods making , and proud of the Tire-womans ? Where learned wee that deuillish Art and practise of duell , wherein men seeke honour in bloud , and are taught the ambition of being glorious butchers of men ? Where had we that luxurious delicacie in our feasts , in which the nose is no lesse pleased , then the palate ; and the eye no lesse then either ? wherein the piles of dishes make barricades against the appetite , and with a pleasing encombrance trouble an hungry guest ? Where those formes of ceremonious quaffing , in which men haue learned to make Gods of others , and beasts of themselues ; and lose their reason whiles they pretend to doe reason ? Where the lawlesnesse ( mis-called freedome ) of a wilde tongue , that runs , with reynes in the necke , through the bed-chambers of Princes , their closets , their Counsell-Tables , and spares not the very cabinet of their breasts , much lesse can bee barr'd out of the most retired secrecie of inferiour greatnesse ? Where the change of noble attendance , and hospitalitie , into foure wheeles , and some few butterflies ? Where the Art of dishonestie in practicall Machiauelisme , in false equiuocations ? Where the slight account of that filthinesse , which is but condemned as veniall , and tolerated as not vnnecessary ? Where the skill of ciuill and honorable hypocrisie , in those formall complements , which doe neither expect beleefe from others , nor carry any from our selues ? Where that vnnaturall villanie , which though it were burnt with fire and brimstone from heauen , and the ashes of it drowned in the dead sea , yet hath made shift to reuine , and cals for new vengeance vpon the actors ? Where that close Atheisme , which secretly laughes God in the face , and thinkes it weaknesse to beleeue , wisdome to professe any religion ? Where the bloudy and tragicall science of King-killing ; the new diuinitie of disobedience and rebellion ; with too many other euils , wherewith forraine conuersation hath indangered the infection of our peace . Loe here , deare Countrimen , the fruit of your idle gaddings : Better perhaps might bee had ; but hee was neuer acquainted at home , that knowes not our nature to bee like vnto fire , which if there bee any infection in the roome , drawes it straight to it selfe : Or like vnto ●et , which omitting all precious obiects , gathers vp strawes and dust . Ilanders haue beene euer in an ill name . Wherefore ? saue only for the confluence of forrainers , which neuer come without the fraight of their nationall wickednesse . The experience whereof , hath moued some witty nations , both ancient and present , to shut themselues vp within their owne bounds , and to barre the entercourse of strangers , as those that thought best to content themselues with their owne faults . A corrupt disposition , out of a naturall fertilitie , can both beget and conceiue euill alone ; but if it bee seconded by examples , by precepts , by incouragements , the Ocean it selfe hath not so much spawne , as it : In all which regards , he hath escaped well , that returnes but what hee carried ; but hee is worthy of memorie , that returnes either more good , or lesse euill . Some haue come home perhaps more sparing , others more suttle , others more outwardly courteous , others more capricious , some more tongue-free , few euer better . And if themselues bee not sensible of their alterations , yet their Country and the Church of God feeles and rues them . Sect. 22. Let mee theref●re haue leaue to close this discourse with a double sute , one to our Gentry ; the other to supream authority ; both which shall come from the bottome of an heart vnfainedly sacrificed to the common good ; neither speak I words , but my very soule vnto both . To the former my suit is , that they would bee happy at home : God hath giuen vs a world of our owne , wherein there is nothing wanting to earthly contentment . Whither goe yee then , worthy Country-men , or what feeke yee ? Heere growes that wealth , which yee go but to spend abroad ; Heere is that sweet peace which the rest of the world admires and enuies : Heere is that gracious and well-tempered gouernment , which no nation vnder heauen may dare once offer to parallell : Here all liberall Arts raigne and triumph : And for pleasure , either our earth , or our sea yeelds vs all those dainties , which their natiue Regions enioy but single . Lastly , heere Heauen stands open , which to many other parts is barred on the out-side with ignorance or mis-beleefe . And shall our wantonnes contemn all this bounty of God , & carry vs to seek that , which we shall find no where but behind vs , but within vs ? Shall the affectation of some friuolous toyes draw vs away from the fruition of those solid comforts , which are offred vs within our owne doores ? How many of ours , whom their iust offence hath cast out of the bosome of their country , compare their exile with death , and can scarce abide to bid that breath welcome , which they are forced to draw in a forraine aire ; and though freedome of conscience entertaine them neuer so liberally abroad , yet resolue either to liue or die at home ; and doe wee suffer our folly to banish vs from those contentments , which they are glad to redeeme with the hazard of their blood ? Are we so little in our owne books that wee can bee content to purchase out-landish supers●uities with the mis-carriage of our soules , with the danger of mis-carriage , with the likely-hood of danger ? Are we so foolish , that whiles we may sweetely enjoy the settled estate of our Primogeniture , wee will needes bring vpon our selues the curse of Reuben , to run abroad like water ; whose quality it is , not ea●ily to be kept within the proper bounds ? yea the curse of Cain , to put our selues from the ●ide of Eden into the Land of Nod , that is , of demigration ? None of the least imprecations , which Dauid makes against Gods enemies , is , Make them vnto like a wheele , o Lord : Motion is euer accompanied with vnquietnesse ; and both argues , and causes imperfection , whereas the happy estate of heauen is described by rest ; whose glorious spheres in the meane time , doe so perpe●ually moue , that they are neuer remoued from their places . It is not the least part either of wisdome , or happinesse , to know when wee are well . Shall we● not be shamelesly vnthankfull , if we cannot sing the note of that great Chorister of God , My lot is fallen to mee in a good ground ? Hath not the munificence of God made this Iland as it were an abridgement of his whole earth , in which he hath contriued ( though in a lesser letter ) all the maine and materiall commodities of the greater world , and doe wee make a prison where God meant a Paradise ? Enioy therefore ( happy Countrimen ) enioy freely God and your selues ; enrich your selues with your owne min●s , improue those blessed opportunities which God hath giuen you , to your mutuall aduantage ; and care not to be like any but your selues . Sect. 23. And if at any time these vnworthy papers may fall betwixt the hands of my Soueraigne Master , or any of his graue and honorable ministers of State , let the meanenesse of so weake and obscure solicitors presume to commend this matter to their deepest consideration ; and out of an honest zeale of the common safetie , sue to them for a more strict restraint of that dangerous libertie , whereof too many are bold to carue themselues . Who can bee ignorant of those wise and wholesome lawes , which are enacted already to this purpose ? or of those carefull and iust cautions , wherewith the licences of Trauell are euer limited ? But what are wee the better for Gods owne lawes , without execution ? Or what are limits vnto the lawlesse ? Good lawes are the hedges of the Common-wealth : iust dispensations are as gates , or stiles in the hedge . If euery stragler may at pleasure cast open a gap in this fence of the State , what are we the better for this quickset , then if wee lay open to the common ? Who sees not how familiarly our young Recusants , immediately vpon their disclosing , are sent ouer for their full hatching and making ? Italie , Spaine , Artois , and now of late France it selfe , prouides nests , and perches , and mewes for these birds , with the same confidence , wherewith wee breede our owne at home ; which , when they are once well acquainted with the Roman lure , are sent backe againe , fit for the prey . And as for those of our owne feather : whereas the libertie of their Trauell is bounded chiefly with this double charge ; one , that they haue no conuersation or conference with Iesuites , or other dangerous persons ; the other , that they passe not into the dominions of the Kings enemies ; both these are so ●ommonly neglected , as if they were intended only for a verball formalitie , yea as if the prohibition meant to teach men what they should doe . Euery of our nouices hath learned to make no difference of men ; and dare breathe in the poisonous aire of Italie it selfe , and touch the very pommell of the chaire of pestilence . It is this licentious freedome ( which wee mis-call open-hearted ingenuitie ) that vndoes vs. Doe wee not see the wary closenesse of our Aduersaries , which will not so much as abide one of our books ( a mute solicitor ) to harbour in any of their coasts ? How many of the Italian or Spanish Noblesse haue wee knowne allowed to venture their education in our Courts or Vniuersities ? Doe they lie thus at the locke , and doe wee open our breast , and display our armes , and bid an enemie strike vs where hee list ? Since then wee haue no more wit , or care , then ●o bee willingly guiltie of our owne shame , oh that the hands of supreme authoritie would be pleased to locke vs within our owne doores , and to keepe the keyes at their owne girdle . And ( to speake truth ) to what purpose are those strait and capitall inhibitions of the returne of our factious fugitiues into th●s Kingdome , if whiles the wicket is shut vpon them , that they should not come to vs , the posterne be open to vs , that we may goe to them ? As all intercourse is perillous , so that is most , which is by our owne prouocation . Here yet they dare but lurke in secret , and take only some sudden snatches at a weake prey , like vnto euening-wolues , that neuer walke forth but vnder the cloake of the night ; but in their owne territories , they can shew the sunne their spoiles , and thinke this act worthy of garlands and trophees . Here we haue mastiues to secure our flockes : there the prey goes stragling alone to the mouth of their dennes , without protection , without assistance , and offers to be deuoured . Ye whom the choice of God hath made the great Shepheards of his people , whose charge it is to feed them by gouernment , suffer not their simplicitie to betray their liues vnto the fangs of these cruell beasts ; but chase them home rather , from the wilfull search of their owne perdition , and shut them vp together in your strong and spacious folds , that they may be at once safe , and yee glorious . Sect. 24. Lastly , for those , whom necessary occasions draw forth of their owne coasts ( that wee may haue done with those , which like foolish Papists goe on pilgrimage to see another blocke better dressed then that at home ) let mee say to them , as Simeon that propheticall Monke said to the pillers which hee whipped before the Earth-quake , Stand fast , for yee shall be shaken . And therefore , as the Crane , when shee is to flie against an high winde , doth ballace her selfe with stones in her bill , that shee may cut the aire with more steddinesse ; so let them carefully fore-instruct , and poise themselues with the sound knowledge of the principles of religion , that they may not bee carried about with euery winde of doctrine . Whereto if they adde but those lessons , which they are taught by the State , in their letters of passage , there may be hope , they shall bring backe the same soules they carried . It was at least an inclination to a fall , that Eue tooke boldnesse to hold chat with the Serpent . And as subtill Lawyers desire no more aduantage in the quarrell , which they would picke at conueyances , then many words , so neither doe our Aduersaries . Whiles our eares are open , and our tongues free , they will hope well of our very denials . Errour is cra●tie , and out of the power of his Rhetoricall insinuations , oft-times carries away probabilitie from truth . I remember in that famous Embassie of the three Philosophers , which Athens sent to Rome , Critolaus , Diogenes , and Carneades , there falling out many occasions of discourse , wise Cato perswaded the Senate to a speedie dismission of those ( otherwise welcome ) guests ; because ( said hee ) whiles Carneades disputes , scarce any man can di●cerne which is the truth . There is more danger of these spirituall Sophisters , by how much the businesse is more important , and their subtiltie greater . Let our passenger therefore ( as that wise Grecian serued his fellowes ) stop vp his eares with waxe against these Syrens . Our Sauiour would not giue Satan audience euen whiles hee spake true ; because hee knew that truth was but to countenance errour . There is euer true corne strowed vnder a pit-fall : those cares are full and weightie , which wee dresse with lime to deceiue the poore birds in a snow . No fisher lets downe an emptie hooke , but clothed with a proper and pleasing bait . These impostors haue no other errand , but deceit . If he loue himselfe , let him bee afraid of their fauours , and thinke their frownes safer then their smiles . And if at any time ( as no flie is more importunate ) they thrust themselues into his conuersation , let him ( as those which must necessarily passe by a carrion in the way ) hold his breath , and hasten to be out of their aire . And if they yet follow him in his flight , let him turne backe to them with the Angels farewell , Increpet te Dominus . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A02578-e260 Edicto del ●ey D●n Phelipped● Espana co●tra el Tr●ct ad● della Mon●r●●ia d● S●cil●a e●xerid● por Cesar Baronio Cardenal , on el T●mo vndecim● de 〈◊〉 Annales Eccl●si●stic●s . ●●bert P●int● in his pre●ace to the t●stimonies for the r●all presence . 2 Chron. 24. 〈◊〉 ●n I●s●am , l. ● . c. 〈◊〉 q. 19. Gret●er . contra Le●●●eum , c. ● . & 2. V r● ai● quida● 〈◊〉 Iesu●ta●●n s●cris l●●●ris ●●p●riri . Exemplar . Epist . Scriptae ad D●minum Paulinum quondam datarium sub Ciementis 8● beat● m●mori● Ponti●●cat● . Ibid. Ibid. Lib. 4. de salut . Ind. c. 12. &c. Examplar . ●pi●t . supr . cit . At etiam nu●● non animaduertimus quod Lati●● sermonis ob●●n●● impurissimè Gallici inuentutis mores ingenuos foedant , bonarum literarum praete●t ●pessimas edocent artes , dum ingenia excolunt , animas perdunt , &c. Oratio ad Curiam Parlamenti super Henrici magni parricidali n●ce .