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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42641	Subsidium peregrinantibus, or, An assistance to a traveller in his convers with 1. Hollanders, 2. Germans, 3. Venetians, 4. Italians, 5. Spaniards, 6. French : directing him after the latest mode, to the greatest honour, pleasure, security, and advantage in his travells : written to a princely traveller for a vade mecum / by Balthazar Gerbier.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1665 (1665)	Wing G572; ESTC R25458	45,784	144

his misfortune and a Sponge to take of his tears Justinian cryed out Vanitas vanitatum and set Glimmer free allotting to him a Territory in France to live on Sect. 2. Concerning learned Princes OCtavian Augustus notwithstanding his warlike proceedings let not one day pass without reading and making a speech The Emperour Charles the Fourth did take so great delight in Learning as being at Prague invited to hear an Orator and having been four hours time entertained by the Orator when his Lords did beseech him to think on his dinner the time being past an hour he bid them go to their dinner saying He had fed himself with Learning Julius the Second was wont to say Learning with the common People to be as Silver Gold with the Nobles Jewels with Soveraigns Those Princes who have rendered themselves famous for their great Knowledge were carefully provided with choice of Teachers Darius had Lucan Alexander the Great Aristocles Artaxerces Mindare Palemon Captain of the Athenians Xenocrate Xeniacque King of the Corinthians had for him and his Children the Philosopher Chilon Epaminond Prince of the Thebans had Marut Ulisses Catinus Pyrrhe King of the Epirotes had Artemius King Ptolomy Philadelpho was Schollar to the famous Philosopher of Greece Cyrus King of Persia who did destroy Babilon had the Philosopher Prestic Trajan the Emperour Plutarque King Darius Herodet Augustus Pi●to Pompey Plaute Titus had Plinius Adrian Seconon Antoninus Apollonius Theodosius Claude Severnis Fabate These Philosophers had so much credit with all these Princes that the Children did call them Fathers and the Fathers did respect them as Masters So there came more Travellers to Rome to see Titus Livius and to speak to him than to see the Magnificency of that Epitome of the World Love to Knowledge moved all men to have them in singular great esteem for they were those who taught Numa Pompilus to honour the Churches to Marc Marcell to shed tears for the vanquished to Julius Caesar to forgive his Enemies to Octavian how to make himself beloved of the people to Alexander the Great to Reward all men they rouzed up the Spirit of Hector taught to Hercules of Thebes the Employing well his Forces to Ulisses of Greece discreetly to Adventure to Pyrrhe King of Epirotes to order and invent warlike Engins to Cattullus Regulus patiently to endure Torments Titus to be a Father of Orphans to procure more Knowledge to Marc Aurellius than to any other to Cressus King of the Lydians to get the love of wise men and to all Travellers the true scope of Travel and to make a true useful distinction between men when as the Nations were enslaved in the Adoration of divers Gods the Assyrians in Bel the Egyptians in Apis the Chaldeans in Isis the Babilonians in Dragon the Pharaons in a golden Statue the Palestins in Belzebub the Romans in Jupiter the Africans in that destroying Monster Mars the Corinthians Apollo the Arabians Astaroth the Aguies the Sun the Achaians the Moon the Sidonians Belphegor the Amonites Bahalim the Indians Bacchus the Lacedemians Oyges the Macedonians Mercury the Ephesians Diana the Gretians Juno the Armenians Liber the Trojans Veste the Latins Februa the Tarentins Ceres and the Rhodians Janus The List of all these abominations may justly move all Travellers to thank God that there is at present no danger to be enslaved in the damnable Observation of them but also to implore of the Almighty that they may not meet in their travel with such as Bordelots whose wilfulness moves them to perswade others to entertain no belief at all such as Bordelot taught during his being among the Goths to utter in publick That King Charles of blessed memory did deserve to lose his head because his hand wrote so much of God whose blessed memory justly moves and obligeth me to mention this for having been an ear witness of that most diabolical utterance The best Advice I zealously offer to my Princely Traveller is first to take a delight to charge his Memory with the knowledge of such things as may never be a burden to his Conscience that may afford him sufficient matter of quietness of Mind and plausible Discourse among all worthy men that may move those who shall see and hear him to be his friend as certainly no Rational in the universal World nay no wild Heathens would not be friend Bordelots Scholar The French are accustomed to ask at the very first sight of a stranger Whether he be Homè desprit A man of Wit The Germans If he be a Gentleman The Spaniards If he be a Cavallero The Venetians and Genovesi If he be Rich The Italians in general If he be Ingenious The Low-Dutch If he be an Honest Man Secondly The best Circuit a Traveller can take is to go through Holland towards Germany thereby to satisfie his curiosity by degrees which will encrase upon him for Germany will afford more satisfaction than the Low Countries France more than Germany Italy more than France and as for Spain what it may want of the French Complements it will make good in matter answerable to the Pirenean Hills so in the Spanish their Carriage their Speech and their Conceits like as the words concerning Cortez who did Conquer the golden part of the American world Cortez de à sa Rei muchas Triumphas Reynos y Palm●s à Dios muchas Almas in English Cortz gave to his King many Triumphs Kingdoms and Palmes to God many Souls If my Princely Traveller therefore begins with Holland he will see a People who by labour industry and indefatigable assiduty to attain to a settled being have come the nearest to the great Maker by raising something out of an almost nothing to wit a little very rich world out of moorish ground mighty fair populous flourishing well built and well fortified Cities and strong Holds every Inhabitant whereof tending to a settled point to wit Preservation and Melioration accustomed to the Maxime Concordia res parvae crescunt which hath at last brought them by the blessing from above the good and prudent conduct of their States the valiant carriage of their Commanders in chief the William Maurice and Frederic Henry Princes of Orange and the assistance of England and France to such a condition as that after a War which lasted 80 years the King of Spain hath declared them Free States on whom he hath no more pretence at all Their chief publick profession of Religion is called The Reformed Protestant their Church Government depending on their Synods their Pastors maintained by the respective Magistrates who do permit Liberty of Conscience to all men their Courts of Judicature do observe the Imperial Laws no Arrests of persons before Judgement so they be Free Denizons no man suffers death without the party accused confesseth the Crime those of Amsterdam having lost their priviledge in matter of entertaining a Hangman who they must in time of Execution borrow from the Town of Harlem because in some

of Gold and Copper to hold 24 Wax lights on the gate two great figures in the shape of Angells of copper and Gold holding two Scroules wherein is carved the words Natura me Occidit Spes me Elevat There is a vaulted place in the coming forth of this Pantheon wherein are the Tombes of the Princes and Princesses of Spaine covered with red Velvet richly embroydered with gold and Silver There are 36 Altars in the Church to which appertains all the Ornaments of change for every day in the yeare There are many pictures of an inestimable value a true originall of King David There are 36 crosses of Gold set with precious stones and an infinite number of Silver Lamps and Candlesticks there are in the main body of the Escuriall twelve thousand Windows and Dores the least of the Dores having cost one hundred pound sterling There are 17 Cloisters and 17 Courts and 85 Fountains there are 300 Religious men of the Order of St Jerome all Gentlemen the Annuall Revenue is foure hundred thousand Crownes There is in the Escuriall one of the Earthen vessels wherein as the Spaniards say was the miraculous Wine of the Wedding in Cana. As for Madrid it hath ever since the Court of the former Kings was kept at Valledolit bin the place of the King of Spaine his constant aboade The great Feast and Sport of the Torros is that which the Spaniard affects so much as he cannot leave it for the Popes Excommunication against such as may come to a fatall end in that sport The Pompe of the Roman Catholick Church sheweth it selfe very much in that of la Madona de la Totche wherein the Dominicans have an Altar of Massie Silver of an extraordinary bignes with a Madona of Silver fix foot high with a Sun of Massie Gold about the head set with precious stones the Railes about the Chappell of Massie Silver there are one hundred Silver Lamps the least whereof cost 400 Crowns some cost 12 thousand Crowns That of Toledo is of the forme of St Peter in Rome the Bishop hath 400 thousand Crownes revenue per annum the Treasure of that Church is of an unestimable value At the Pardo some miles distant from Madrid there is in a massy Silver Tombe a Figure representing Christ for the which King Philip the 2d did pay one hundred thousand Crownes it is of wood but so rarely carved as never Eyes beheld the like I have begun with Sepulchers proceeded with Churches Monasteries and described their riches more facil to the King of Spaine to compasse since he possesseth the Gold and silver Mynes and hath in his Dominions all the most pretious productions of Nature As for Madrid it is situated under a most pure Clime The greatest Palace would not yeeld so much Chimney mony as a little House of ten pound per annum in England since by the number of seaven Chimneys the greatest Palace of Madrid is wont to be described they use Silver Brazeros in all their romes of State and Bedchambers That which is remarkable in the King of Spaines Court is the attendance to his prime Minister of State now the Duke Medina de las Torros successor to Don Louis d' Arro who succeeded the Conde Duca d' Olivares prime Minister of State when Charles Prince of Great Britain was in that Court Anno 1625. The Nobles affect no other clothes then Black Freize all Winter long plain Taffaty in the Summer time The Ladies at Court admit Audiences when demanded it is in the presence of the King and Queene The Ladies stand on a row if the Cavalleros who have demanded Audience of them are Grandees they cover themselves The late Duke of Buckingham the Match les of all the Subjects in the World and who attended the Prince of Great Pritain had particular Audiences with the Conde Duca d' Olivares his Lady on the score of his being Embassador Extraordinary the Plenipotentiary for the Treaty of the Match and her being Camarera-Major with whom it was necessary to confer during the Treaty of an intended Match by King James of Blessed memory and the Prince with the Infanta Maria sister to King Philip the 4th But very loose impertinent and ill grounded discourses have been made in England concerning the Duke of Buckinghams correspondency with the said Countes as if she had been a strumpet of Greece and of those young silly Court sooles who are charmed by kind words who see Babies in all mens Eyes that look on them and perswade themselves that they must not resist those first glowings of Cypres coles except they would smother those Babies in their temporary Lovers eyes and loose their Maiden head in a dreame for nothing when as they pretend by answering their palpable Narcissus to have something more then imagination in the Bargain The Duke of Buckingham had other Fish to Frie then to make Love to himselfe with an old Woman the good successe of a Treatie for an intended Match by which Gondomar had promised the re-restitution of a Palatinate was the golden fleece for which this Matchlesse Jason exposed himselfe I do not say among Monsters of Africa but among Juglers Interlopers and no lesse then such Embassadors who with the Character of honest men do but too often Lye abroad to make good State Policy exposed himselfe into the attendance of that Matchlesse Prince in whose preservation three Great Nations besides all his friends abroad were interessed And when the Duke of Buckingham did find where the Remora was fixt partly in the calot humour of the Sexe which is the most tardy to admit reason because the Sex is the most passionate and that after long parleys with the slow resolving Spanish Councils of State the Match was still in statu quo it was then time as the French say either Faire bonne mine en manvais jeu put a good Face on an ill businesse or to try the uttermost a Camarero Major could or would do laying aside words Bull-begger like damned Hereticks whereby the zelot Romans do distinguish the true Christian Catholicks others in the Match of Matchlesse most precious Infanta Maria who certainly was a Princesse fit to be an Empresse of all the World as Shee afterwards became the Empresse of Germany As for visits to the Spanish it is not their custome to exchange words or complements before parties are set in Chaires with Armes They leave the visitor in possession of their House when the conversation is ended and for that go before attending him in his Coach they are succinct and grave in their Complements use to speak Proverbs if to passe Complements on great Holy-dayes as Christmas and Easter they only say three words Las buenas Pasquas they are very carefull to send complements to those of their friends and acquaintances who have been let blood and ever accompany their complement with a present which they call la Sangria They endeavour as much as they can to send their present