euerie perticular poynte in these Nations the Italians and Spanyardes are wyse béefore the déede Frenchmen in the déede and Germans after the déede There is also great difference béetwéene these Nations in the loue of wéemen for The Frenchman loues the nimble wenche ▪ that trippes and treades apace And aptly footes the measures fine to daunce with comly grace The Spaniarde doth more his minde in bewtie braue delight And ioyes withall to please his lust euen with his ladies sight Th' Italian with a fearfull wenches loue is best content That often shunnes the pleasant game of loue least shee be shent But shee that with a brasen face her maister can prouoke Shee is the loue that in the Germans hart beares greatest stroke These properties as they are by iudgment of many ascribed vnto the men of those nations so are there also peculiar qualities in the wéemen wherein they differ one from another whether you speake of their stature and forme of bodie gesture courage gate diuerse studies loue faith towards their husbands diligence towardes theyr Children humanitie towardes all men or whether you talke of theyr wittes and vnderstanding For the Italian wéemen for the more parte apply the studye of good learning especially if they bée of any noble familie which the Spanish wéemen doe not and the Frenchwéemen doe more studye the knowledge of forreyne toongues then of learnyng The Germane wéemen doe scarce knowe anye other language then their owne whiche they sucked from theyr mothers breastes much lesse any good learnyng So the Spanish wéemen are proude in theyr apparell and goyng the Italian wéemen graue and neate the Frenchwéemen lyght the Germanewéemē variable and foolish And vnderstand that I speake héere of the higher Germanie for the Dutche wéemen are more ciuile more graue in goyng and more giuen to learne straunge tongues then of any other nation by reason of the traficque of Merchādize which much flourisheth among them hauing England Scotland Fraunce and the higher Germany neare neighbors vnto them and are gouerned by the King of Spaine The Italian wéemen are passing wise the Spanish wéemen for the more part are dull of wit and vnderstanding the Frenchwéemen are simple rather by nature then custome the German wéemen aplie all their wittes rather vppon houshould affaires then any thing else The Spanishe wéemen vse painting to excessiuely to commende their beautie with all the Italian wéemen vse the same somewhat lesse the Frenchwéemen verie little and the Germane wéemen painte their faces béefore they bée maried onely but not all of them that which they doe is the to th' intent to deceiue their louers But as touchinge their honestie that I commit to other mens iudgement There is moreouer a certen difference béetwene these Nations and all other in those things which wée haue béefore specified wherby they are discerned from all other Nations which profiteth very muche to the framing of a mans iudgement as the sundry nations of Italians are Ligurians Tuscanes Spoletanes Latines Campanians Lucans Calabrians Salentines Apuliās Samnites Marca Anconitans Flaminians Aemilians Lumbards Venetians Forli and Slauonians these differ al not only in spéech proprietie of language pronunciacion but in maners also many other wayes Which thing how true it is Fortian questions do declare whervnto whoso ioyneth the booke that was written by one Landus Hortēsius set foorth without any name hée may bée conuersant among the Italians with great profit and honour Hetherto haue I shewen the causes and effectes of Traueill and noted the diuersitie of the principall Nations of Europe Hereafter I meane to declare how to know whether a man haue gotten any profit by his traueill or not And although it bée harde to iudge of euery perticular since diuerse traueill for diuerse causes some studie one art some another neuerthelesse who so weigheth diligently the meanes whereby euerie Art is learned hee may gather it by verie playne and euident argumentes For as no man accoumpteth hym to bée experte in Physicke that hath no knowledge in simples or that hée is a good Carpenter or Caruer that cannot discerne a Doricke Picture or statue frō a Corinthiā so nether can it be thought that hée hath well employed hys tyme and labour in traueill which hath not amended and encreased by his traueill the knowledge and skill which hee had béefore As for example if there bée one that is a politicke person and bée a Counseller to any Prince or in some frée state and say that hée hath continued some space in Fraunce it bée demaūded of him how many miles Fraunce or Spaine is in length or breadth what fortifications it hath At what syde it is easie or harde to bée assaulted Howe manie great Riuers it hath that cannot bee waded What is the chiefe force and vertue of the Spanyardes and what of the Frenchmen what is the greatest vice in both nacions wherin doth the one or the other moste repast themselues or take greatest delight In what thinge the nobilitie of Fraunce doth differ from the nobilitie of Spain wherein also the commons doe differ of both nacions what are theire studies and maners what diuersitie is béetwéene the buildinges of both those cuntreys which kinge of ether cuntrie is of greater power After what maner the subiectes in both cuntreies shewe their obedience to their prince or oppose themselues against him How mutch the bondage of Fraunce is vnlike to the bondage of Spaine How in those regions the scarcitie of corne and vitaill maye bée eschued what is the guise of Court in doth Realmes and what prouision is made that in time of warre the Husbandmen sustaine no iniurie If therfore hée can sufficiently answere these demaūdes then it is wel if not it is a great presumption that hée hath bestowed his time in other matters rather then by his traueill to know these things which it héehooueth a politicke person or a Counseller to vnderstand although ther withall he know also what kind of Dauncing the Frenchmen or Spaniardes do vse For those things are chiefly to bée obserued which tende to the principall ende not toyes and trifles or such things as appertaine not to the direct ende although we may also haue some vse of them in other affaires In fine to conclude much matter in fewe woordes the most certeine rule to knowe whether a man haue profited by traueiling is whether besides the things that I haue recited in this presēt Chapter you diligently obserue what hée iudgeth in his familiar talke of the landes wherin hée hath traueiled For hée that vnaduisedly derogateth anye thing from the dignitie and excellencie of forreine regions without iust cause preferring his natiue Cuntrey béefore those places the same is ether ruled by affection or of himself rude and foolishe not beinge able to iudge of thinges accordingly And where discretion lacketh there wanteth also choice and where choice wanteth there wisdome is foorth a towne wherwith all other
England Scotland Polande and Sueueland which lawes none can interprete better then hée that is borne and bred vnder them Yea noble mē likewise such as haue done worthy and valient déedes haue also bin addicted to trauel For it is writē that Iupiter Cretaeus traueiled ouer the whole world fiuetimes Which although it may haply séeme fabulous vnto some yet it importeth thus muche wherby we may vnderstand that at his time he left no part of the world vnsought The like whereof also was done by his two Sunnes that is to wit Dionisius surnamed Bacchus and that most valient Hercules the one of them profiring the whole worlde by his inuention teaching men how to plant vines the other deliuering the earth from all kinde of wicked men and tyrannie For what other were Procustes Scyron Cacus Diomedes Antaeus Geryō but cruel and wicked tyrantes who euermore in all places were encountred by Hercules Theseus and other valiant personages It is no vnknowne howe Iason with other maies of that famous expedition called Argonautae sayled into Colchos of purpose to fetch from thence the Golden fleese which in déede he atchiued getting vnto himself therby immortall glory Like as Vlisses when he had bin twentie yeares away from his Realme of Ithaca it is no merueill if Homere tearme him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say one that knoweth many mennes maners and extoll him with wounderfull commendation Virgill likewise verie much praiseth his traueiling Aeneas who both might well haue lyued in rest and quietnesse Vlisses with his louers Calypso and Circes and Aeneas with his Dido if they had bin contented alwayes to haue liued obscurely Howbeit the excellencie of their courage and the desire of greater glory pricked them for the to forsake no paynes nor daungers so that they might obtayne that which they sought for Let vs moreouer consider al the Monarchies of the world and wée shal perceaue that the Princes that ruled in them atchieued most excellent exployts by traueilling as Ninus Nabucadnezer in the first Monarchie Cyrus Darius and xerxes in the second and Alexander the great in the thirde with whom also that Monarchie began and ended For after his death the kingdomes which hée left were gouerned by many howbeit they also maintayned great warres in sundry places In the fouerth Iulius Caesar Octauianus Augustus Constantines Charleses Othoes Conrades Henries Fredericks and other moe vnto whom all Lorde Charles the fifth was inferiour in no respect ether for trauellynge or glorye in chiuaulrie For how often hath he gone to visite the Realmes that came to hym by discent from his auncetours lying wide among many Nacions and as it were dispersed How often hath he returned conquerour out of France and gone to his owne realmes Did not hée leauing the most flourishinge realmes of Spaine appeace all Italy with his presence that had bin manye yéeres vexed with ciuile war and also preserued Germanie beinge sick almost of the same disease when hée came towardes Pannonia did not Solyman emperour of the Turkes immediatly run away Did not hée beinge present in person recouer the kingdome of Tunetz a realme in Africa which Ariadenus Barbarossa had inuaded by commaundement and with the power of Solyman went not hee to Aphrodisium in hope to succour that Christian commonwealth To be short to what kingdomes or places went not hée what dangers what labours sustayned he not wherby as I haue shewed hee might purchase peace and tranquilytie to the Empire that was committed to his charge a most excellent prince and as Voerthusius sayth in al poynts lyke to Charles the maine Histories much commende of Mithridates Kinge of Pontus for that hée coulde speake fiftie seuerall toongues but who supposeth that hee learned so many for any other intent but that hee might be able himself to talk with the nacions with whō he had dealings as also to be conuersant amonge straungers with lesse enuie So likewise Antiochus the great was well traueiled and Hannibal Pompeius the Scipios the Marij Lentuli with other Kinges Princes noble men innumerable of al cuntries whose vertues most valient déedes shal neuer any obliuion put out of memorie like as there is no age the will cōmend of those that lye sleaping at home giuen to slouth and idlenes neuer doing any thing at home or abroad worthy of praise or speach of posteritie according to the example of Ninias sun to Ninus and Semiramis Sardanapalus with others But let vs nowe peruse the holye Scriptures and in them we shal finde infinite examples of godlie men that haue traueilled partly of their owne accord partly at that cōmandement of God. For in the xii of Genesis God expresly commaundeth Abraham that leauyng the Cuntrey where he dwelt he should go to an other place and shortly after hée promyseth to the same Abraham the land of his traueill and to geue hym al the land of Chanaan for an euerlasting inheritance Likewise Isaac after the death of his father departed into Palestine and dwelt there being comaunded by God so to doe Iacob his father being a liue traueiled into Mesopotamia and after many yéeres returned thence into his natiue cuntrey And beyng well stroken in yéeres he traueiled into Aegipt to sée his sunne Ioseph and in sundry places of the Scripture wee reade how the holy Patriarches Prophetes and other godly men tooke long viogies in hand namely Moyses Aaron and Iosua Yea our sauiour Christ himselfe traueilled abroade very often appearyng many times in semblant of a Pilgrim and Traueiller to th' intent hée might gather his Churche from euery place The lyke whereof hee wrought also by his Apostles whom he sent ouer the whole worlde to preache the Gospell To whiche purpose it is writen that Thomas traueilled into Parthia and preached vnto the inhabytants there also to the Medes Persians Hircanes Bactrianes and other nacions of the inner India Mathew to the Macedonians and Thracians Bartelmew to the Lycaonians those that inhabite the farther India Andrew to the Achaians and Scythians Iohn after the death of Mary to the people of Asia Iames the elder to the Spaniards Phillip to the Frenchmen Simon Zelotes to the Egiptians Peter into Pontus Gallicia Bythinia Cappadocia Italye and at length preached Christ at Rome Saint Paules peregrinacions are knowne out of the Actes of the Apostles and out of his owne writinges Hée declareth how after that hee was conuerted vnto the faith hée traueiled into Arabia from thence returned to Damascus and went to Ierusalem to sée Peter After that hée departed into Syria and Cilicia and when fourtéene yéeres were expyred went agayne to Hierusalem to preach the Gospell It is well knowne moreouer that hee was in Spaine and in Hispania Narbonensis conuerted many soules to the faith of Christ as he also did in other places vntill at last hee was beheaded at Rome vnder the Emperour Nero. Duringe all this time of traueill the Euangelist S. Luke was
suppose y this is to bée reckned among the principall commodities of this Citie that euery house almost hath a Well or twayne aboundantly flowing with most holsome water nether is there any other citie in all Italy as concerning store of water that may be compared with this The strets of the citie are narow except thrée only which as they are sufficient broade enough so are they of a merueilous length The higher Stréete of these is called La vicaria another Capuana the thirde lyeth right againste the Castle and stretcheth open alonge to the Merket place The Stréet Capuana leadeth towardes Capua whiche Citie is very famous renowmed for the Ciuile law especially in mater of contracte For the firste Prator or Maiour thereof was a straunger and in oulde time it muche flourished with trade of Merchandize Wherby returnes of paymentes vpon billes and exchaunges were woonte to bée discharged ether there or at Rome or at Bithynia a citie of Asia Vpon the Gate of this Stréete are manie Monuments to be séene whiche was made at what time Charles the fift Emperours of Rome and King of Naples first of aâ— creatures entred in at the same the like wherof also the Citizens of Andwarpe did imitate in a gate of theirs afterward Beefore the Gate 〈◊〉 the Images of Oceanus and Tethis and also in the â—tréete in conuenient places were errected the Statues of Hercules Athlas Perpetuitie Religion 〈…〉 other 〈◊〉 whiche â—re set 〈◊〉 in â—he Triumph of Naples ¶ The Merket place and Churches The 17. Chapter THe chiefest Merket place of the Citie is foursquare and verye broade and large but not paued in the midste wherof stande a paire of Gallowes and a scaffold set vp for the nonce to put trespassers to death vpon also a Chappell rightouer againste whiche is a Well with a very large Cesterne or Lauer. In the Merket place are many Innes but they bée of the meane and common sorte and the greatest want in Naples is of clenly and soote lodgings although that be an infinite number of Tauerns and vittling houses in it It hath not manie Churches but those whiche it hath are verye faier amongst which the Cathedrall Churche of Sainct Clare is passing bewtyfull and so is that also which is dedicated vnto Sainct Luio sauing that it is ouer dark Sainct Maries of the Preachinge Friers is a verie proper Churche for it standeth vpon one of the moste pleasant and loftyest places of the Citie and within it is almoste made al of Marble without any periettinge or plastering but it is sumwhat of the narowest Sainct Marie Churche Di Carbona is very mutch frequented for deuocion sake whiche is a House of Religion not farre from the Merket place by reason whereof it hath in it a number of vowed Tables and two Chappels all of Marble faste béeside the higher Altare Within the Altare is a Tumbe wherin reste the bodies of Robert Kinge of Naples and his Wyfe verye sumptuous insomutch that the report goeth that there is neuer a péece of woorke to be found in all Europe of greater maiestie then that is Howbeit if not faierer then this yet in my opinion match vnto it is that wherein lyeth the bodie of William Croius and his Wife in Belgicum or Dutchlande not farre from Louane at the Castle of Heffria Likewise the Tumbe of Mauritius of Saxonie one of the Dukes Electours at Friburge in Hermonduris and that also wherein his Wyfe lieth at Vimaria in Thuringe and moreouer the same which is builded at Heidelburge in the memorie of Duke Palatine Duke Electour Truly these 4. TuÌ„bes whiche I haue nowe named are the most principall of all that euer I sawe ether in Italye or Fraunce or Germanie or in England for as for Spayne I was neuer there But amongst al that are séene in any of these aboue named Regions made of Brasse or Copper in my iudgement the Tumbe of Kinge Henrie the seuenth King of Englande surpasseth the residew whiche standeth in the Abbey of Westminster nigh to the Citie of London with an inscription in Latine verses which may thus bée Englished Kinge Henrie the seuenth heere lieth in this place The glorie of all Kinges that liued at his age In wit and wealth and deedes of noble grace To whom befell the gifts of nature for vauntage A princelie countenaunce a fauour graue and sage A comly personage and bewtie heroicall And ech poinct of venustie ioyned therwithall Vnto him was coupled in wedlocks pleasant band An amiable Spouse in beautie right diuine Bashfull and verteous and like a frutefull land Plentifull of children sprong forth of princely line Right happie parentes their issue so doth shine To whoÌ„ o EnglaÌ„d these thaÌ„ks thou owest of right That euer Henrie the 8. was borne into thy sight All the whole Toumbe is gilten ouer and it shineth faire being round beset with precious Stones but of the meanest sorte it hath in it also many turned and carued pillers and very lyke vnto this are the mounmentes of the Kinges of Fraunce in Sainct Denise Churche ¶ Granetes and Stoare Houses Castles and Armaries The 18. Chapter MOreouer there are at Naples foure Storehouses and as the Grecians term them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 euery one foursquare benched rounde aboute mutch lyke the place at Andwarp whiche they call the Burse or at London the Roiall Exchange and at Venice la piazza del riuo alto In these Store houses at certen times of the yéere are generall assemblies and counselles holden And Merchauntes also méete dayly in them to bargein and deale in Merchandize There are thrée Castles whereof twayne stande faste by the Sea side to wit the new and the ould the thirde is situate vppon the high Hill that lyeth ouer the Towne And it is so stronge and so well fortified that hée that hast possession of that Castle may easely master the Citiâ— yea although it were surprised by the enemie A litle beneth this castle is a house of Carthusians wherof the Church is dedicated to Sainct Martine from whence there is a merueillous pleasaunt prospect both ouer the Citie and the sea But in the ould Castle which standeth by the way Capuana are very auntient buildinges and Imagerie to bée séene and there is also an Armarie wherein is kept the complete armour of Fraunces Kinge of France whiche hée woare vpon hym when hee was taken prisoner at the Citie Ticinum now termed Pauia in Lumbardie very faire made of pure stéel and without any furniture of Golde Foorth of the Castle you may goe into excéedinge large and goodly Gardeines and within the Castle is an hangynge Gardeine but the same besids a pleasant prospect hath nothinge else in it The newe Castle is builded at the entrance into the citie of Tiburtine stone fouresquare In the same place in ould time stoode a Religious House of preaching Friers whiche is now conuerted to another vse It is fortified on that side whiche lyeth to the Citie with a verie