The passenger: of Beneuento Italian, professour of his natiue tongue, for these nine yeeres in London. Diuided into two parts, containing seauen exquisite dialogues in Italian and English: the contents whereof you shall finde in the end of the booke. To the illustrious and renowmed Prince Henry ...

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DIALOGVE. III.

Betweene Falsorino, and Bulugante a Seruant.
Wherein Phrases of Buying and Selling are vsed: they further discourse of such matters as concerne trauaile, lodging at an Inne, and paying the Host: with many other true, wittie, and necessarie ayings and aduertisements.
Falsorino.

WEll sir, haue you dispatcht what I willed [ 1] you to doe, or after your old fashi∣on, haue you forgot something or other?

B.

For the auoyding of all such errour I set downe euery thing in particu∣lar, as you Sir commanded me, euen so I did it all.

F.

All is well, if you did both write downe, and so performed all.

B.

So I haue done Sir: but with your fauour Sir, we haue not yet bought some small toyes, whereof you told me you had neede.

F.

I marry, this grieues me much, and makes mee altogether discontented; but there no remedie but Patience: let vs goe to the Citie.

B.

The shops are here, very rich, and well furnished.

F.

Honest youth, wheres your Maister? [ 2]

Hee is gone out sir: but I am here ready to serue your Wor∣ship in any thing.

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F.

You fore-men and Prentises, after an ocean of lying and su∣gred wordes in demanding still aboue your prices, that so you may intimate your owne greater sufficiencie to your Maisters, you goe beyond your commission, neither will you euer, (but especially if your chap man be a stranger) descend to any reasonable tearmes. But when your Maisters see with whom they haue to deale, they presently conclude with the iust and lowest price.

F.

With your fauour my good friend: I would willingly buy three paire of gloues, one of Lambes leather, the other of Kid, and a paire of Cordiuant: but for Gods sake let vs haue no ceremonies, not any biddings off and on: what wee shall giue at last, let vs agree vnto in the beginning, and so begin to flea at the taile, as the prouerbe is: Let me therefore see of the best.

These are such, which now I haue found out.

F.

Oh God, how ill sowed they are, the leather hath many frets without, and diurs spots within, haue you no better? I pray you hold me not with delayes to no purpose.

See here of the fairest, and of the best scent that can be seene.

F.

The leather likes me not they are ill cut they haue an ill fa∣uoured shape, and almost no scent, but what shall I giue you for these?

Seauen shillings.

F.

You demand after the manner of Holland, three times more then the common prise. Ile giue you foure shillings.

I cannot so afford them.

F.

Shall I not haue them say you: here is my money, if you be not content, we will part friends, as before we were.

Well sir, that you may come hither another time, I am content to lose in them.

F.

I would he were gelt that beleeues you: well, farewell till we see you againe. Bulugante, whether shall wee goe to furnish our selues with linnen cloath.

B.

Why here are Semsters shops.

F.

Ah good man calues-head, these are some friends of yours: now I beginne to smell you out: would you haue mee guld

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you coxcombe, with such fawning Syrenes, riffe raffe scums, babbling minxes, wanton Puppies, mopping Munckies, pra∣ting Parrates, and chattering Pyes, onely borne to cackle, chide and scould, and to be in Innes, Tauernes, and Ale-houses, and euery blinde hole, gusling, ribaldising, puncking, and making their Husbands merry in euery corner. Know∣est thou not, like a great Baboune, (excepting those honest) whereof they smell? Goe farre off from doung, let them prate and gabble as long as they will, neuer take pepper in the nose for their deeds or misdeeds, nor yet for their frumps and flim flams, seeing one that is infamous can defame none but themselues.

B.

Here is a Merchant a friend of ours.

F.

I am neuer deceiued but by friends: for of others I am wary enough, and no interest whatsoeuer can blinde mee. Let vs goe to him whom I neuer saw before. Friend, haue you fine linnen cloath of all sorts?

Here is whatsoeuer you can desire: see here of foure sorts: Did you euer see better? Surely, I thinke not.

F.

How many yards is this whole piece?

About thirty.

F.

How sell you a yard of it? and what I pray you is the vtter∣most price of the whole piece together?

After tenne shillings the yard, it comes to threescore crownes in all.

F.

Well sir, in few words, let vs come to a reasonable price: I will giue you in ready money a crowne and a quarter for the yard, and so I will take this whole piece, and halfe of the other.

Sir, if you did not take such a quantitie, I would haue two French-crownes at least for the yard: looke well on it, it hath no fault at; neyther can you finde the like at this price in all the Citie.

F.

I, but you aske too much: for your price exceedeth the vt∣most value which is admitted in payments of dead money, or vpon a day. In few words I conclude, you shall haue so much of me and not a farthing more: if you be content, so

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it is: if not, I am gone and will neuer imitate Lots wife.

I will not refuse money: the diuers charges of carriage, the toles that euery day throughout all Europe encrease like the hornes of a snaile, the hyre of Cellar and ware-house, of the Shop and Seruants wages, and oftentimes the losse of many pieces, and our labour is so great, that very many times wee lose.

F.

Well, so you lose not your owne soule good enough, seeing in the end euery body must forgoe all.

Neede you any thing else sir at this time?

F.

No sir I thanke you. Bulugante, pay him so much money: let vs be gone without delay. God keepe you sir.

B.

Now Maister what remaines there more?

F.

As before I told you, to morrow we will depart. [ 3]

B.

Without all doubt?

F.

Vndoubtedly. What are you a Lawyer? what needes so ma∣ny chimeraes and needlesse replyes?

B.

Then I will set all things in readinesse.

F.

Make ready whatsoeuer I said I would carry with me: doe you remember it?

B.

If I remember me well I thinke so: but why scratching your head, looke you vp vnto heauen, will it raine thinke you?

F.

Thou piercest not deepe with thy braine.* 1.1 For against heauen no humane force preuailes, neyther can that be altered which must come to passe: and yet hee that is too curious,* 1.2 * 1.3 doth entangle himselfe but the more: and hee doeth nought that thinkes on many things. I considered what a trouble it was to see a seruant with a cloake-bagge at his backe.

B.

Pleaseth it you that wee take an horse for our goods or some idle Porter?

F.

At last, the charge would surmount to the value of the cloth.

B.

Let vs leaue them behinde in the hands of some faithfull friend that may send them.

F.

And where is such an one? thou art not another Diogenes? how sauourest thou of a foole?

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B.

Let vs send them before, and they will be lesse annoyance to vs.

F.

You may easily send them, but peraduenture neuer receiue them.

B.

Let vs then goe thither where they goe naked. But now I remember, you may commit them sir to Master Robie your so inward friend, and that makes so much of you.

F.

Hee that prayseth would deceiue me: the more hee flatters me, the lesse I beleeue him, and admit he were, as many o∣ther are, both a true and sincere friend; yet he would referre the care thereof ouer to his seruant, who is the most negli∣gent, hollow, false, lying, and hipocriticall creature, that is vnworthily couered with a skinne.

B.

Time goes away sir, and we with the time: what shall I doe?

F.
I see time to goe away, nay to flie: And the world flyes away, and carries all things with it, Neither can it euer stay,* 1.4 or returne While it hath reduced vs to a little dust:

I answere thee, it being the best for him that hath wit to fol∣low his owne wit: I will send all backe againe with my other seruant, and onely carry with me that which befits my cal∣ling; or lesse peraduenture, to the end (that if it so fall out) I may appeare in good forme & comely equipage amongst others: and now I call to minde another reason; that I shall euer be in brabbles with those horse-letters, who seeing thee to lade thy horse, they will euer whoop and cry after thee, or else giue thee such a restie Iade, that neither blowes, nor spurres preuayling any whit, they will make thee a thousand times a day call for helpe from hell.

B.

Besides, ariuing in Moscouia, Polonia, Almaine▪ Fraunce, Italie, or other wheres, euen as other heauenly aspects, and fluences, so we shall meet with other countryes, diuers man∣ner of proceedings, other religions, sundry formes of ha∣bites▪ conformable to the varietie of their humours: where, Sir, if you be apparailed in a strange fashion, you will stir vp the common people to open laughter.

F.

You may say, that lighting on banished men, or theeues,

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that they may the more securely robbe you of your goods, they will first robbe you of your life, hoping to finde that which the lesse waightie that it is, the more it will please them.

B.

Well, you sir must command me, and I am to obey.

F.

Take as little as is possible, and the lesser, the wiser thou shalt be.

B.

But if you please sir, I will put into the portmantu, with a [ 4] chaine and pad-locke, a few shirts, some hand-kerchiefes, and such like necessary things. But Maister, tell mee one thing; with riding and trauailing, your apparrell in short time being worne, and the world not respecting vertue but onely out∣ward pompe, and you being a Gentleman, how will you be able to shew your selfe among others, or to be regarded?

F.

I thinke thou hast learned to argue, but not to resolue: I will vse some sleight ouer-drawing garment, to preserue my good sute, or else staying long in some Citie where I must needes be knowne, I will make me a new garment after the fashion of the Countrey.

B.

Now I remember me I haue seene many great Lords passe through Italy very priuately.

F.

Such are surely very wise, they haue the lesse trouble, vnder∣goe the lesse charge, auoid many dangers, and doe not as many Polonians and others doe, who for vaine-glorie in their trauailes, not spending, but splitting all with the prodi∣gall childe, they goe forth Lords, but returne seruants or deepely indebted.

B.

And yet a Noble-man must liue like a Noble-man, and a Prince like a Prince.

F.
I know it well. It befits not a Lord to be so sparing.* 1.5

But you must conceiue that a trauailer is more esteemed for his ciuill carriage, his patience towards them that deserue it, (and which is worse, euery foole as a dutie will looke for it) as also otherwhiles for his vertue and valour, then for any pompe, without wisedome: besides, when the vulgar and common multitude (too much attentiue on gaine at another

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mans cost) when they see any gallant man appeare vaine∣gloriously in the streetes, euery one supposeth to be well re∣warded by him, and thereupon they flatter him: but at last it being vnpossible to giue euery one, and satisfie all men, but few receiuing a little, and many others nothing at all, they will contemne him as a true Ape of Europe, or a liuely pi∣cture of Folly: the honour formerly done vnto him, will be conuerted into scorne, his reuerence into opprobrie: his sa∣lutations into reproaches, his obseruances into calumnies: his, yea sir, and no sir, into a thousand iniuries, and their me∣morie liues and continues amongst them with perpetuall infamie: but canst thou imagine, what I will tell thee?

B.

No surely, not without speech. [ 5]

F.

Oh my wicked hap, that after my seeking, through a thou∣sand market places, I could neuer light on so craftie a ser∣uant, that could vnderstand mee without speech, or at least vpon any signe made.

Yet in the brow each thought deciphered is,* 1.6 And in the eye the hearts desire we read.
B.

Surely if I be not deceiued, it is great pittie, that Fortune made you not a great man.

F.

This she did not, because she knew my heart, and how I doe abhor all humane pompe: but how supposeth thou, that For∣tune erred, in not setting of me vpon the Theater, and Stage of this lying world, with the maske of some great personage.

B.

Because you seeme to haue an heart farre more loftie, then a Prince, who if he be not foolish, but wise, would be of autho∣ritie▪ in few words to be vnderstood, and often with meere iestures to be obeyed: and so you sir, without either word or speech, would be conceiued: and yet in my opinion it is no disgrace to a Gentleman, to argue, it being a thing reaso∣nable: much lesse for a priuate man, who not being able by authoritie, he may yet make himselfe to be vnderstood, with explanation, and reason.

F.

I argue for pleasure: knowing, that neither King, Monarch, nor God himselfe, cannot be vnderstood, without making himselfe so to be.

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B.

But what is there more for me to doe? [ 6]

F.

Let vs dispatch: before I returne from supper, see euery thing be as readie, as if I meant presently to ride, and in my chamber, while my things lie abroad, let no man liuing come in, for hoping to pilfar somewhat, with words and prittell prattell, either before, or behinde, or on the one side, while one laughes in thy face, another wipes thee of somewhat.

B.

I am not so blinde, as some take me for.

F.

What if thou haddest a thousand eyes, the matter lies not in seeing, but in shutting the dore.

B.

Must I giue them audience, like one of the Indian Kings, through a Trunke? I hope we are amongst good people, and yet if we should be robbed, is there not a Magistrate neere hand?

F.

When you are amongst Hosts, or where chambers are let [ 7] out, you must looke to your owne, auoide occasions of quar∣rell, and be honest vnto them: for if by any subtill meanes, they steale from thee, and that with reason thou complaine thereof, they will confound thee in the hearing: and with a thousand falsities, they will defame thee, and retaine the the theft: knowest thou the cause?

Such people in their hearts, tie a knot against truth.* 1.7
Beleeue me, I speake out of experience, there are very few of these, that are not defiled with the common pitch: vice one∣ly raignes in them, no good at all, no feare of God, but dead faith: they neither care, nor know what infamie is, or zeale of honour and credit: truth is cleane extinguished in them, vnder shadow of truth, truth it selfe is banished: and towards trauailers of another Nation, all courtesie is abandoned: and thus consent of bad neighbours, and an habite onely in wickednesse, makes them audacious in condemning that which is honest, and iustifying that which is naught: for how should they respect a trauailer, when they neither care for honour, ciuility, nor for God himselfe?

B.

Hee that goes in the durt, cannot come out, without be∣ing bemired, Ile be farre from them, and they from mee.

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F.

What you haue to carry with you, I hope I shall not neede to tell you any more.

B.

Little, giues but little disturbance: set me downe iust as you see me.

F.

Happy are you if you can be so contented, for a seruants wealth should be wisedome and fidelitie.

B.

So they say: but a certaine Philosopher would faine haue serued one that would obay, and this is the common humor.

F.

He that well and faithfully serues a good Master, though hee holds his peace he demands inough, and thus perseuering he receiues inough: and for my part, I thinke not that I vse any courtesie when I giue to an honest man, but that rather I receiue from him: and so if I finde you honest and wise, knowing, that seruice is delighted vvith reward, offence with pardon, anger with milde loue: I shall not thinke that I giue you, but rather that in part, I doe but satisfie the loue wherein I stand bound, and therefore carry your selfe well, for so being silent, and seruing a vertuous and noble spirit, you may worke inough from me.

B.

I will be faithfull, and in the rest studie to giue you all con∣tentment: but Sir, will you now command me any thing els?

F.

Must I needes get me into the Pulpit, to read a lesson vnto thee of euery small matter? You must often see my horse, haue a care they be well lookt too; cause them to haue good prouander giuen them, to the end they grow not broken winded, and to stay by them, while they haue eaten all, then to looke on their backes whether they are not hurt or galled, with the saddle, to feele on their legges, and see they be cleane rubbed, to view their hoofes, to peruse their shooes, and finding in them any fault, to take the helpe of a Farrier: and aboue all things, to keepe my saddle vnder key and lock, to the end, the implements and furniture be not stollen, or changed for worse.

B.

I thought of my selfe to haue done as much, and all your things are vnder my key.

F.

This is a good course, and secure way, follow it, for so wee shall iumpe and agree, and we shall get an hundred for one.

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B.

But sir, haue you payd our Host? [ 10]

F.

The greatest point that stands with a trauailer, is when hee comes to reckon with his Host.

B.

Whensoeuer I grow to this point, at the same instant, I both frie, and freeze.

F.

I but you pay not of your owne.

B.

So much the more I feare.

F.

But many others doe quite contrarie, for hauing their Mai∣sters [ 11] purse in their hand, they presently goe clad in silkes, and if the purse be rich, and their Maister blinde or foolish, they ioyne fields to fields, and to houses Palaces, and if others be in companie, they say to them; let vs be merrie, for our ship goes booming before the winde of a good purse.

B.

Whosoeuer meetes with a good purse, and little wit, out of doubt he lights on a worldly Fortune: but God laying open all secret deceipt, the debts that ensue, and the deminution of a rich state, clearely manifest how proper interest hath herein raigned, defect of the loue of his Lords good, and an expresse want of good gouernment.

F.

You know the world is thus, that hee who hath a net, must seeke to catch? But let vs come to the matter, how may I come to an account of what I owe to my Host.

B.

Ile call for a bill.

F.

But now I obserue, that you haue not well noted yet, how [ 12] neare to swim in such waters: it is no small defect, to goe simply to worke, with false and deceitfull people, but rather to vse Art with them, and to be very warie and circumspect, is great wisedome: for to preuent a malicious man, with malice, is no small wit: and where there is no conscience, there they make profession of dissimulation with science: and where no honestie is, yet they alwayes make a shew of nothing but honestie, and liuing vpon their credit: and in their speech, they will oftentimes with deuotion, name God, who knowes all things: but in the end vvith actions they dis∣couer, that they carrie God in their mouthes, but hell it selfe in their hearts, and of this troupe, euery trauailer will tell me, that the ring leaders, are Hosts, their seruants, and in

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a manner, all those which let out lodgings and chambers to strangers: for the Host setting downe all things against con∣science: to make himselfe an honest man, and an honorable person, and yet not to diminish either in the one, or other point (notwithstanding any courtesie formerly shewed vnto him) for a desert, they clap you in the mouth with Pilat: quod scripsi, scripsi: the bill cannot be altered: but further, behold, heare, be silent, and obserue, with what a brutish looke, the Host sayes to that poore begger, if you haue no money get yee hence: a lodgick certainly, that if you haue not heretofore learnt, this is able to teach you vnderstand∣ing therein.

B.

Miserable is that sheepe, which lights on a famisht Wolfe, and vnhappy is that man, who falles into the hands of ano∣ther man.

F.

If the vvorld be after this fashion; Cum sancto, sanctus eris: et cum peruerso peruerteris.

He that others delights to deceiue,* 1.8 He must not complaine, if the like he receiue. No deceit is done to him, to whom deceit is pleasing.
Foure houres before, going wilily to vvorke vvith mine Host, enter courteously into some discourse, and make a nar∣ration vnto him, of the affection that I beare him (but by no meanes, cast no eye on his daughter) of the profit, vvhich by often going, and returning this way, I can procure him, and that by commending his lodging and entertainment, I can send vnto him many of my rich friends, and so they will doe the like by others: then afterwards as I tolde you, returne to him, and say, how I tolde you, that to morrow I would depart, and so demand of him a bill of my recko∣nings.

B.

Alas sir, you must obserue, that I am not a Poet, to finde out inuentions; a Logician, to argue; nor yet a Rhetorician, to plead and perswade like another I ullie; as also no Lawyer, to inuent euasions, and to diuert, all right and truth: for these people with their continuall pratling, will wearie euery com∣mon vnderstanding.

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F.

But be not deterred, neither giue backe, for where words a∣bound, there is scarsetie of right, and he that speakes with∣out reason, he is presently confounded, when reason comes in place.

B.

I, but foure may doe more then one tongue can.

F.

After their manner, they will ouercome thee, with words and lyes, let them talke what they will, while with Balaams false Prophets they spet bloud, for at last a preualent an∣swere, seasoned with equitie, and truth will confound them.

B.

Such people liuing by dead Faith, care not for truth, neither doe they know equitie.

F.

Beleeue me in thus managing thy businesse, and feeding a man with the tearmes of conscience, of honour, of his profit, and of the hope thereof, thou shalt make such a paste, as that, wherewith we dazle the Fish, and so thou with this, shalt bleare euery ones eyes.

B.

But with your pardon sir, were it not more honour for a [ 13] Gentleman, to refer himselfe to his Host.

F.

Thou doest not onely make my stomack rise, but further euen poysonest my heart, by placing honour in meere folly.

B.

And yet liberality, with bounty and magnificence is onely proper to the noble or honourable.

F.

Why, I affirme as much: but you must conceiue, for yet thou knowest not the course of the world: that Christ cau∣sed all the withered boughes and branches as vnnecessarie to be kept and gathered together, and so to be consumed with fire: and therefore why shall man, who is no other then a worme, be a waster of the gifts of Fortune, nay, rather of God.

B.

But where the custome of the Country requires otherwise, such an one as doth not spend and scatter, hee is flouted at by euery one.

F.
Others flie out, & yet haue wings: neuerthelesse conceiue. Who meanes to flie: in vaine his wings he spreads.* 1.9

And therefore, when they mount vp, they fall againe with Icarus: vvhosoeuer followes abuse, in the end hee is

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confounded, from the Court hee retires into the Country, and from the Country to the Citie in priuate estate, and so from a Palace, to a Cottage: but a wise man prudently mo∣derates his parts liberall and magnificent, conformable to his in-comes, and spends iudiciously without miserie: but one prodigall will spend excessiuely without frugality, and so consume all, without any honour, and to no end in the world: the couetous man, that hee may heape vp much, is so retentiue, as hee denies due ayde and assistance to the nee∣die: but the prodigall man, is so vicious in the contrarie ex∣treame, as consuming more then he is able, because he would not come short of any worldly vanities, and so hee remaines so impouerished, that hee is vnable to relieue the poore, to be assistant in charitable operations, and those appertai∣ning to deuine worship, and the credit of his owne state.

B.

But if they haue such spirit or winde in earthly things, how much more vvill they haue them in those deuine?

F.

What a simple Gull thou art? Are not thy eyes yet open? [ 14] Their faith is no other, but to giue satisfaction to the world in apparance, and so oftentimes to beguile it also: for they are so blinded with vanitie, as therein they altogether loose wisedome, and with it faith, and with faith their owne soules goe to wracke, so as they become so blinde that they are more then miserable towards God, and towards the world altogether prodigall.

B.

But good Master vvould you not haue it thus, that hee who is a Gentleman in state and name, should so shew himselfe also in actions.

F.
Oh that with spurring oft, our flight's but slow.* 1.10

Thou vnderstandest lesse, then I supposed, me thinks thou shouldest be satisfied with what hath formerly beene said: but yet I am content further to reply: that a Gentleman ought to maintaine his place and quality, as the text said: Sta in gradu tuo: which he shall neuer doe, while he seekes to satisfie the spendall humour of the world: and moreouer, euery one knowing how much his lands yeeld him, and ob∣seruing the effects of superfluous expences, how euery one

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honours him to his face, and laughes at him behinde his backe, holding him in such esteeme as they will commit no∣thing to his credit, though they commend him for his faire and rich liueries, for his plentifull table, for new inuentions, braue fashions, and his honourable retinue, yet at last they send him to vtter ruine, and oftentimes with rich Diues to Hell.

B.

Excuse mee Sir, at one blow the lofty Pine is not ouer∣throwne.

F.

One misfortune, or at least many ill-gouerned, and much excessiue charge, may ruine one noble, or by new taxations, and impositions, disturbe a Duke, or an Emperour, and ha∣zard as well his owne person, as his whole Empire, in that they cannot endure the gouerment of one, who is not ruled by reason: and hereupon Salomon saith, Hee that regards not a little, by a little and a little fals, and so in the end vanisheth cleane away. Moreouer, to vvaste prodigally with expense in Tauernes was neuer any meanes, vvith vvise men, to ob∣taine honour, but onely amongst the vulgar troupes.

B.

Well, I know much, and vvill performe your minde. [ 15]

F.
Neuer was Fencer sound so quicke and yare* 1.11 To auoid a blow: no Pilot so precise To scape the rockes, and couet some sure port, As ought a Trauailer in all his wayes.
B.

In truth so hee ought: because it seemes that euery one is [ 16] borne to doe euill, to nourish himselfe onely with deceit, and hee whom a man most trusts, prooues most deceitfull, and such an one seemes a Saint, that scarce beleeues in Christ: so that he vvhich trusts not, cannot be deceiued.

F.
This earthly life is like a meadow faire,* 1.12 Where Serpents midst the hearbes and flowers doelye, If any please his eyes in this faire shew, His soule by this entangled more remaynes.
B.

What wit therefore can be so perspicuous but it wil be dulled or trusting too much to it selfe, in the end vvil be deceiued?

F.
Not to conceale, but to reueale the truth vnto thee, When vnder heauen, I nothing euer savv

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Stable and firme:* 1.13 as one astonished I turn'd and said: take heed in whom thou trusts. Onely trust him, that hath this whole world fram'd, And neuer fail'd with one that trusts in him.
B.

To trust in God, is a very godly part: but as concerning men, it argues much folly.

F.
Man being froward, and instable found, He may be deem'd but blinde that trusts in him, When therefore I would trauell Countries strange, My foote before: mine eye lookes euer back: neuerthelesse well prouided of my selfe formerly I said. Knowledge preuailes not, where discomfort raignes, Prudence and Patience, ouercomes at last.
B.

The Trauailer must set downe to himselfe, either to ab∣staine, or beare with much.

F.
A trauailer must oftentimes digest, Things to remember that would grieue him much, And which an houre or yeere would seeme but short then. For to relate: and therefore trauailer Seeke heauen; if nothing here please thee.

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