enough for two; but Tom must be none of those two, unless there were a trick to folder up his mouth: if he had committed a fecret to me, and enjoined me filence, and I had promised it, though I had been fhut up in Perillus' brazen bull, I fhould not have bellowed it out. I find it now true, "That he who discovers his "fecrets to another, fells him his liberty, "and becomes his flave:" well, I fhall be warier hereafter, and learn more wit. In the interim, the best fatisfaction I can give myself is, to expunge him quite ex albo amicorum, to raze him out of the catalogue of my friends (though I cannot of my acquaintance), where your name is inferted in great golden characters. I will endeavour to lofe the memory of him, and that my thoughts may never run more upon the fashion of his face, which you know he hath no cause to brag of; I hate fuch blateroons : Oft liss ceu clauftra Erebi I thought good to give you this little mot of advice, because the times are ticklish, of committing fecrets to any, though not to your mot afectionate friend to ferve you. From the fame to Sir K. D. at Rome. Fleet, 18 March 164% Sir, THOUGH you know well that in the carriage and courfe of my rambling He, I had occafion to be, as the Dutchan faith, a landloper, and to fe much of the world abroad, yet methinks I have travelled more fince I have been immured and martyred betwixt tiefe walls than ever I did before; for I tave travelled the Ife of Man, I mean this little world, which I have carred about me and within me to many years: fir as the wiek of Pagan philofophers did, trat the greatest learning was the knowletre of coe's felf, to be his own geometne cun; if one do io, he need not gut a broad to fee fashions, he fall ind enough home, he shall hourly zeet via new fancies, new humours, tex paiots w in doors. This travelling over of ce's af is one of the paths that leads a mano pa radde: it is true, that is dangerous one, for it is thick fet with extravagant defires, irregular affections and concupifcences, which are but odd comrades, and oftentimes do lie in ambush to cut our throats: there are also fome melancholy companions in the way, which are our thoughts, but they turn many times to be good fellows, and the best company; which makes me, that among thefe difconfolate walls I am never lefs alone than when I am alone; I am ofttimes fole, but feldom folitary. Some there are, who are over-pestered with thefe companions, and have too much mind for their bodies; but I am none of those. There have been (fince you shook hands with England) many strange things happened here, which pofterity muft have a ftrong faith to believe; but for my part, I wonder not at any thing, I have feen fuch monftrous things. You know there is nothing that can be cafual; there is no fuccefs good or bad, but is contingent to man fometimes or other; no rare there any contingencies, prefent or futime pait: for the great wheel of fortune, ture, but they have their parallels from upon whofe rim (as the twelve figns upon the zodiac) all worldly chances are emboffed, turns round perpetually; and the spokes of that wheel, which point at all human actions, return exactly to the fame place after fuch a time of revolution: which makes me little marvel at any of the ftrange traveries of thefe difracted times, in regard there hath been the like, or fuch like, formerly. If the liturgy is now fuppreffed, the miffal and the Rotan breviary was fed to a hundred years face: if crofes, churca-windows, organs, and fonts, are now battered down, little wonder at it; for chapels, monsterie, bermitaries, panneries, and other rellgious hodin, were sled fo in the time of cd King Henry: if billops and deans are now in danger to be demoled, I Italie wonder at it, for aboots, onon, and the Pope bizli, ud that fumate sere at age free. That our line is the to the pain, I do act wonder zei; for the fi dize In de Lewis XII. afterwards a mat and Arg as ever mac contra 122 bala; for to was brugte is dibente with part of a commation 11 more fram i soffice, council-table, from his very bed-cham- It is a moral discourse of the right use of ber, his greatest favourites: he was driven to be content to pay the expence of the war, to reward thofe that took arms against him, and publish a declaration that the ground of their quarrel was good; which was the fame in effect with ours, viz. a difcontinuance of the affembly of the three eftates, and that Spanish counfels did predominate in France. You know better than I, that all events, good or bad, come from the all-difpofing high Deity of heaven: if good, he produceth them; if bad, he permits them. He is the pilot that fits at the ftern, and fteers the great veffel of the world; and we must not prefume to direct him in his courfe, for he understands the use of the compafs better than we. He commands alfo the winds and the weather, and after a storm, he never fails to fend us a calm, and to recompenfe ill times with better, if we can live to fee them; which I pray you may do, whatsoever becomes of your fill most faithful humble fervitor. the paffions, the conduct whereof, as it is the principal employment of virtue, fo the conqueft of them is the difficulteft part of valour to know one's felf is much, but to conquer one's felf is more. We need not pick quarrels and feek enemies without doors, we have too many inmates at home to exercife our prowess upon; and there is no man, let him have his humours never fo well balanced, and in fubjection to him, but like Mufcovia wives, they will oftentimes infult, unless they be checked: yet we fhould make them our fervants, not our flaves. Touching the occurrences of the times, fince the King was snatched away from the parliament; the army, they fay, ufe him with more civility and freedom; but for the main work of restoring him, he is yet, as one may fay, but tantalifed, being brought often within the fight of London, and fo off again. There are hopes that fomething will be done to his advantagespeedily; because the gre garian foldiers and grofs of the army is well affected to him, though fome of the chiefeft commanders be still averfe. Your moft obedient and most faithful fervitor, measure to boot. I know in that more fubtile air of yours, tinfel fometimes paffes for tiffue, Venice beads for pearl, and demicaftors for beavers: but I know you have fo difcerning a judgment, that you will not suffer yourfelf to be fo cheated; they must rife betimes that can put tricks upon you, and make you take femblances for realities, probabilities for certainties, or fpurious for true things. To hold this literal correfpondence, I defire but the parings of your time, that you may have fomething to do, when you have nothing else to do, while I make a bufinefs of it to be punctual in my anfwers to you. Let our letters be at echoes, let them bound back and make mutual -da mutual repercufions; I know you that breathe apon the continent have clearer echoes here, witness that is the Tamil leries, specialty that Charenton bridge, whict quarers, and renders the voice tea time it is open weather, and it WETT A VITUONNA CURICÁity to try it. Frews, the wood is nere turned fle down, and i ha been long a-goz 6. vie now a good wade ince we are bat teacher caps and bearer foes; but the and are come to be leg, for tim on fees are won for so We The wait is come as the be, ir a pont a vere et be bende, are now aging bo and foes ar i ag me ca ar ces n Ge. Be mer al proteñan and LETTER LXXXVI. From the fame to Mr. T, W. at P, Cafile, Fon, t. Thomas's brog, My prediona Tom, "once fwallowed." This city hath bred of late years men of monftrous ftrange opinions, that, as all other rich places befides, fhe may be compared to a fat cheese which is most fubject to ingender maggots. God amend all, and me first, who am yours moft faithfully to ferve you. LETTER LXXXVII. From James Howel, Efq; to Mr. William Blois. I Fleet, 20th March 1647. My worthy esteemed Nephew, RECEIVED thofe rich nuptial favours you appointed me for bands and hat, which I wear with very much contentment and refpect, mot heartily wishing that this late double condition may mul tiply new bleflings upon you, that it may ulher in fair and golden days according to the colour and fubftance of your bridal ribband; that thofe days may be perfumed with delight and pleafure, as the rich fcented gloves I wear for your fake. May fuch benedictions attend you both, as the epithalamiums of Stella in Statius, and Julia in Catullus, fpeak of. I hope alfo to be married fhortly to a lady whom I have wooed above thefe five years, but I have found her coy and dainty hitherto; yet I am now like to get her goodwill in part, I mean the Lady Liberty. When you fee my N. Brownrigg, I pray tell him that I did not think Suffolk waters had fuch a Lethean quality in them, as to caufe fuch an amnettia in him of his friends here upon the Thames, among whem for reality and ferioufnefs, I may match among the foremost; but I impute it to fome new task that his mufe might haply impofe upon him, which hath ingroffed all his fpeculations; I pray prefent my cordial kind refpects unto him. So praying that a thousand blefings may attend this confarreation, I reit, my dear nephew, yours moft affectionately to love and ferve you. LETTER LXXXVIII. From the fame to Henry Hopkins, Efgs Sir, Fleet, 1ft January 1646. TO ufher in again old Janus, I fend you a parcel of Indian perfume which the Spaniard calls the Holy Herb, in re- it frees him. Now to defcend from the The Spaniards and Irith take it mott in powder or fimutchin, and it mightily refreshes the brain, and I believe there is as much taken this way in Ireland, as there is in pipes in England; ore fal commonly fee the ferving-maid uper the wathing-block, and the fwain upc the plough-fhare, when they are tire with labour, take out their boxes o fmatchin Sect. IL fmutchin and draw it into their noftrils with a quill, and it will beget new fpirits in them with a fresh vigour to fall to their work again. In Barbary and other parts of Afric, it is wonderful what a fmall pill of tobacco will do; for those who use to ride poft through the fandy defarts, where they meet not with any thing that's potable or cdible, fometimes three days together, they ufe to carry fmall balls or puls of tobacco, which being put under perpetual the tongue, it affords them a moiture, and takes off the edge of the appetite for fome days. If you defire to read with pleasure all the virtues of this modern herb, you maa read Dr. Thorus's Patologia, an accurate piece couched in a ftrenuous heric verfe, full of matter, and continuing its frength from frit to laft; infomuch that for the bignefs it may be compared to any piece of antiquity, and, in my epinion, is beyond Baxpaya, or Tshrutsuzy 4. So I conclude thefe rambling notions, prefuming you will accept this imall arIf gument of my great respects to you. you want paper to Eight your pipe, this Etter may ferve the turn; and if it be De, what the poets frequently fing, that afection is fire, you that need to other than the clear fames of the dooor's love & make ignition, which is comprehended in this dich : be Ignis Amor & fit. Tobiccom x ́enére enfrum Numa petenda ti sot. So I with you, as to myelf, a mcâ happy new year; may the beginning grid, the middle better, and the end bef al. Your mod faithfd and truly af fectionate ferviter. me, THE fubject of this lever may Venture ften a the cobler will clout it till midnight, the 66 the fon is always of the father's trade;" and it is all the learning he aims at: which makes them admirable ariifans; for beides the dexteroufnels and propesEty of the child, being defcended in y from to many of the lame trade, the father is more careful to intruá kín, vi to difcover to film all the mykery thereof. This general custom or law keeps reiz Reads from reading are on after sixlearning, and other vocations. read a tale of hopen Grolan dé Leek, that bring core t granell, he had a bronner wow: 2 abastman, and expected prut matters from |