himselfe out of breath, That I could carry you

the sea, where he may run and his humour out of him. much further, and yet leave more before then behind, and all will be but via navis, without print or tracke, for so is morall instruction to youths watrish humour. That though a ship under saile be a good sight, yet it is better to see her moor'd in the haven. That I care not what become of this fraile barke of my flesh, so I save the passenger. And here I cast anchor.

W. S.

T is delivered from France, that the choyce of friends there, is as of their wines: those that beeing new, are

hard and harsh, prove best: the most

pleasing are least lasting. That an enemy fierce at the first onset, is as a torrent tumbling downe a mountaine; a while it beares all before it: have but that whiles patience, you may passe it drie-foot. That a penetrating judgement may enter into a mans mind by his bodies gate: if this appeare affected, apish and unstable; a wonder if that be settled.

That vaine glory, new fashions, and the French disease, are upon termes of quitting their countries allegeance, to be made free denisons of England. That the wounds of an ancient enmity have their

scarres, which cannot be so well closed to the sight, but they will lye open to the memory. That a princes pleasurable vices, ushered by authority, and waited on by connivence, sooner punish themselves by the subjects imitation, then they can bee reformed by remonstrance or correction: so apt are all ill examples to rebound on them that give them. That kings heare truth oftner for the tellers, then their owne advantage.

From Spaine.

then

HAT the shortest cut to the riches of the Indies, is by their contempt. That who is feared of most, feares most. That it more vexeth the proud, that men despise them, that they do not feare them. That greatnesse is fruitfull enough, when other helps faile, to beget on it selfe destruction. That it is a grosse flattering of tired cruelty, to honest it with the title of clemency. That to eat much at other mens cost, and little at his owne, is the wholesomest and most nourishing diet, both in court and country. That those are aptest to domineere over others, who by suffering indignities, have learned to offer them. That ambition like a silly dove flies up to fall downe, it minds not whence it came, but whither it will. That even galley-slaves, setting light by their captivity, find

freedome in bondage. That to be slow in military businesse, is to be so courteous, as to give the way to an enemy. That lightning and greatnesse, more

feare then hurt.

From Rome.

HAT the venereall (called veniall) sin, its

to

passe in the rank of cardinall vertues;

and that those should bee held henceforth

his Holinesse beneficiall friends, that sinne upon hope of pardon. That where vice is a state-commodity, he is an offender that often offends not. That Jewes and curtezans there, are as beasts that men feed, to feed on. That for an Englishman to abide at Rome, is not so dangerous as report makes it; since it skilles not where we live, so we take heed how we live. That greatnesse comes not down by the way it went up, there being often found a small distance between the highest and the lowest fortunes. That rackt authority is oft lesse at home then abroad regarded, while things that seeme, are (commonly) more a farre off then at hand feared.

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From Venice.

HAT the most profitable banke, is the true use of a mans selfe, whiles such as

grow mouldy in idlenesse, make their houses their tombs, and die before their death. That many dangerous spirits lie buried in their wants, which had they meanes to their minds, would dare as much as those that with their better fortunes overtop them. That professed curtezans, if they be any way good, it is because they are openly bad. That frugality is the richest treasure of an estate, where men feed for hunger, cloath for cold and modesty, and spend for honour, charity, and safety.

From Germanie.

HAT the infectious vice of drunken-goodfellowship, is like to stick by that nation as long as the multitude of offenders so benums the sense of offending, as that a common blot is held no staine. That discretions must be taken by weight, not by tale: who doth otherwise, shall both prove his own too light, and fall short of his reckoning. That feare and a nice fore-cast of every slight danger, seldome gives either faithfull or fruitfull counsell. That the empire of Germanie, is not more great then that over a mans selfe.