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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07419	A sixe-folde politician Together with a sixe-folde precept of policy.	Melton, John, Sir, d. 1640.	1609 (1609)	STC 17805; ESTC S112610	54,449	258

and successiue excercises remission from the bent of grauer studies and affaires A speciall rule for poets to obserue And if any will and must needes make it their profession let them hould this comicall rule concerning the state and statists Sic haec misceant vt illa non immisceant Let them so vse their quaint conceits as they may picke no qua rell with the counter CHAP. 4. Concerning Trauailers THat of Horace Caelum non animum mutat qui trans mare currit hee that changeth his soyle changeth not his soule was wel noted of SOCRATES For SOCRATES hearing a certaine person complaining that his trauelling into strange Countries for learning knowledge had nothing auailed him answered that it chāced vnto him very deseruedly for that he either applyed himselfe to the company of idle runagating fellowes or else mewed himselfe vp and kept priuate as if he tooke phisicke thinking that the ayre of a strange country would infuse strange languages riper Witte What maketh a mans trauell into strange countries profitable and what vnprofitable and Iudgemente without conuersing with such as were wise and iudicious or else wanted wit to obserue such occurrences as the conuersation of wise and graue iudgements did affoord For one of those three makes a mans trauell fruitlesse For whosoeuer in any ordinarie profession entendeth to reape any skill and knowledge by entercourse with other nations must examine his owne strength of witte whether it be capable of the skill and art he intendeth and desireth to attaine must settle his affections and bridle the appetites of pleasure and raging extrauagant humors that rule in his nature What general lie is to be obserued of a trauailer that thereby hee may be able both to resolue himselfe to a studious and paineful course of exercise and obseruation and also to be wary and circumspect of the choice of his companye least he light vpon natures not so skilfull and well seene in the Arte and misterie he couets to learne as subtill and full of pleasing shewes and delusions which are by them made both cunning pursnets hartnets to inueagle and intrap young nouices by This haue manye Iewellers Phisitians young vntamed Gentlemen Schollers pregnant but vnskilfull of the course of the worlde had woefull experience of What particulerly is requisite for him that intendeth by trauelling to attaine knovvledge in state learning But they which intend to make progresse by trauelling in the studie of state learning must not onely haue a capacitie fit for the entertaining all stratagemicall plots and deuises that may be offered to their consideration and abilitie to quell and suppresse all disordered motions and affectes but must be throughly insighted both in the Theorie of the principall and most substantial points of all policy Cunning politicians are like true Alchymists not opē or free to relate their misticall and wel digested positions and also well experimented in the particuler liues qualities and policies of his owne countrie chiefest and deepest Statists that thereby in conuersing with profounder iudgements abroad who vse not in their discourses to make Academical lectures and comments but mistically and as it were in a cloude to inuolue their quaint conceits and purposes they may be able in the turning of a hand to vnfolde and discouer that which may be conveyed to their quicke vnderstanding worthy obseruation and giue vnto them they conuerse withall a taste of the like iudgement The learned and skilfull affecte the conuersation of their like and insight anto politicke affaires which breedes in great wits men of deeper vnderstanding mutual content and satisfaction and workes through the very marrowe and pericran yon of the wisest and soundest heads and lastly must be furnished with such iudgement as may make him able in a moment to discerne a redde from a stammell and not to spend either time or coste vppon any vain-glorious friuolous deluding mountibankes and showemakers of policy and state-learning Now forasmuch as many haue a good will to learne and want wit to conceaue and abilitie to temper their affections and maister and ouer-rule their vnbridled partes and many hauing a good and ready wit and abilitie to fit their humours to all occasions yet diuert and incline both their wit will to sinister bye courses the former sorte prooue nothing wiser but in shew the other onely wiser in wicked and crafty contriuances and yet both must returne great states-men and politicians V●ine and formal trauailers compared to vvanton and foolish academickes The former like fresh gentlemen Academickes who after they haue learned by heart but Porpheries predicables and predicaments by a sophisticated argument can include scarce conclude their fathers sculliō at their return home in Bocardo think thēselues learned enough but more like base timerous motly Crosse wearers for they are not worthy the title of Soldiers such as Alexander had at the siege or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or rock in the Indies so impregnable as they admired but feared to venter vpon it who hauing looked vppon the coūtry A description of prating souldiers and Braggarts whether they were prest to wage war in and gotten by heart the names of the chiefe Commanders leaders Captaines Leiftennants and such like returne with as great a brag as if by their vertue and prowesse Sa. Domingo or some other hould of speciall note had bene taken and setting vpon their faces some scuruy Deuill-like visards of sternesse taking into their mouthes canon oathes will among the simpler vppon their ale-benches be accounted the onely powder and shot-men expertest martialists of ten thousand being indeede as we commōly cal them hot-shots and haue more skill in the letting off a duzzen rigglesworthes dags well fild with sacke then in discharging one Calliuer and know the way better and had rather march by night to the Iland of Cranes then sayle by day to the East or West Indies so these first sorte of foolish trauellers if they can but recite the names of many faire townes they haue past thorough Bragging trauellers desbribed giue their friend at their returne a french salutatiō though it be with a french bow in the hams and cut their meat after an Italian fashion weare their hat feather after a Germaine hufty tell with a good grace or rather bould face not a hundred fifty merry tales for then they would take away the gentleman fooles office but fiue hundred lies purchase with those lies and cogges good cloathes and alter the fashion often they must and wil be esteemed the onely wise learned languaged politicians and great reason for why among men of the simpler and smoother condition who think any man though but as wise as a Parrat that can change his lāguage very learned they sticke not to giue out that they are close and priuate or rather priuy intelligencers and yet their continuall prating taking all occasions to keepe