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Superftition, without a veil, is a deformed Thing; for as it addeth deformity to an Ape to be so like a Man; fo the Similitude of Superftition to Religion makes it the more deformed: and as wholesome Meat corrupteth to little Worms, so good Forms and Orders corrupt into a Number of petty Obfervances. There is a Superstition in avoiding Superftition, when men think to do beft if they go furtheft from the Superftition formerly received: therefore Care would be had that (as it fareth in ill Purgings) the Good be not taken away with the Bad; which commonly is done when the People is the Reformer.

XVIII. Of Travel.

RAVEL, in the younger Sort, is a Part of Education; in the Elder, a Part of Experience. He that travelleth into a Country, before he hath some Entrance into the Language, goeth to School, and not to Travel. That Young Men travel under fome Tutor, or grave Servant, I allow well; fo that he be such a one that hath the Language, and hath been in the Country before; whereby he may be able to tell them what Things are worthy to be seen in the Country where they go; what Acquaintances they are to feek; what Exercises or discipline the Place yieldeth. For elfe young Men fhall go hooded, and look abroad little. It

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is a ftrange Thing that in Sea voyages, where there is nothing to be feen but Sky and Sea, Men should make Diaries; but in Land-Travel, wherein fo much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it; as if Chance were fitter to be registered than Obfervation. Let Diaries, therefore, be brought in use. The Things to be seen and observed are the Courts of Princes, specially when they give Audience to Ambassadors: the Courts of Juftice, while they fit and hear Causes; and fo of Confiftories Ecclefiaftic: the Churches and Monasteries, with the Monuments which are therein extant; the Walls and Fortifications of Cities and Towns, and fo the Havens and Harbours : Antiquities, and Ruins; Libraries, Colleges, Difputations, and Lectures, where any are: Shipping and Navies; Houses, and Gardens of State and Pleasure, near great Cities; Armories, Arsenals, Magazines, Exchanges, Burfes, Warehouses; Exercises of Horfemanship, Fencing, Training of Soldiers, and the like: Comedies, fuch whereunto the better Sort of Persons do refort; Treasuries of Jewels and Robes; Cabinets and Rarities; and, to conclude, whatsoever is memorable in the Places where they go after all which the Tutors or Servants ought to make diligent Enquiry. As for Triumphs, Mafques, Feafts, Weddings, Funerals, Capital Executions, and fuch Shows, Men need not to be put in mind of them; yet are they not to be neglected. If you will have a Young Man to put his Travel into a little Room, and in short time to gather much, this you must do:

First, as was faid, he must have fome Entrance into the Language before he goeth; then he must have fuch a Servant, or Tutor, as knoweth the Country, as was likewife faid. Let him carry with him alfo fome Card or Book defcribing the Country, where he travelleth; which will be a good Key to his Enquiry. Let him keep also a Diary. Let him not stay long in one City, or Town; more or less as the place deserveth, but not long: nay, when he stayeth in one City or Town, let him change his Lodging from one End and Part of the Town to another, which is a great Adamant of Acquaintance. Let him fequefter himself from the Company of his Countrymen, and diet in fuch Places where there is good Company of the Nation where he travelleth. Let him, upon his Removes from one place to another, procure Recommendation to some perfon of Quality refiding in the Place whither he removeth; that he may use his Favour in those things he defireth to fee or know. Thus he may abridge his Travel with much profit. As for the acquaintance which is to be fought in Travel, that which is most of all profitable is Acquaintance with the Secretaries and Employed Men of Ambaffadors; for fo in Travelling in one Country he fhall fuck the Experience of many. Let him alfo fee and visit Eminent Perfons in all Kinds, which are of great Name abroad, that he may be able to tell how the Life agreeth with the Fame. For Quarrels, they are with Care and Discretion to be avoided; they are commonly for Miftreffes,

Healths, Place, and Words: and let a Man beware how he keepeth Company with Choleric and Quarrelfome Perfons; for they will engage him into their own Quarrels. When a Traveller returneth home, let him not leave the Countries where he hath Travelled altogether behind him ; but maintain a Correspondence by letters with those of his Acquaintance which are of moft Worth. And let his Travel appear rather in his Discourse, than in his Apparel or Gesture and in his Difcourse let him be rather advised in his Answers than forward to tell Stories: and let it appear that he doth not change his Country Manners for those of Foreign Parts; but only prick in fome Flowers of that he hath learned abroad into the Customs of his own Country.

XIX. Of Empire.

T is a miferable State of Mind to have few Things to defire, and many Things to fear; and yet that commonly is the Cafe of Kings, who being at the higheft, want Matter of defire, which makes their Minds more languishing; and have many Representations of Perils and Shadows, which makes their Minds the less clear. And this is one Reason alfo of that Effect which the Scripture fpeaketh of; That the King's Heart is infcrutable.1 For

1 Proverbs xxv. 3.

Multitude of Jealoufies, and Lack of fome predominant Defire, that should marshal and put in order all the reft, maketh any Man's Heart hard to find or found. Hence it comes, likewise, that Princes many times make themselves Defires, and set their Hearts upon Toys: fometimes upon a Building; fometimes upon erecting of an Order; sometimes upon the advancing of a Perfon; fometimes upon obtaining Excellency in fome Art, or Feat of the Hand: as Nero for playing on the Harp; Domitian for Certainty of the Hand with the Arrow; Commodus for playing at Fence; Caracalla for driving Chariots; and the like.

This feemeth incredible unto those that know not the Principle, That the Mind of Man is more cheered and refreshed by profiting in small things, than by Standing at a stay in great. We fee also that Kings that have been fortunate Conquerors in their first years, it being not poffible for them to go forward infinitely, but that they must have some Check or Arreft in their Fortunes, turn in their latter years to be fuperftitious and melancholy as did Alexander the Great; Diocletian; and in our memory Charles the Fifth, and others: for he that is used. to go forward, and findeth a Stop, falleth out of his own favour, and is not the thing he was.

To speak now of the true Temper of Empire: It is a Thing rare and hard to keep; for both Temper and Distemper confift of Contraries; but it is one thing to mingle Contraries, another to interchange them. The answer of Appollonius to Vefpafian is full of excellent Inftruction: Vefpafian

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