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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

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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
Carmel 39 Of Alcantara 40 Of Avesiens 41 Of St George 42 S. Stephen Martyr 43 Of the Holy bloud 44 S. Mary Redemp 45 S. John Baptist. 46 The Theutonick 47 Of Salvator 48 S. John in Spain 49 Of Calatrava 50 Of Scama 51 Of La Calra 52 Of S. Andrew 53 The golden Fleece 54 Of Ciprus 55 Of S. Michael 56 Burgundy Crosse. 57 The Holy Ghost 58 The Round Table 59 Baronetts 60 Bannerets 61 Of the Garter 62 Of the Bath SECT 6. The Germans their love to all Arts and Sciences the Application and best use thereof SECT 7. 1. Concerning the Princely Traveller his course towards France the desent Coat and Quartering of Armes of the French Kings 2. The Civillity of the French towards strangers and esteeme of them 3. The Civilities by them much stood upon 4. What there is to be observed among them 5. The manner of their Visits 6. The liberty to be used therein SECT 8. 1. The best course for a Princely Traveller in his going from France into Italy by Savoy 2. The Gentility of the Court of Savoy at Turin in Piemont 3. The Nature and disposition of all Italians and the distinction they make between strangers who are not acquainted with their customes and humours and their own Countrymen 4. What discourse will be advantagious to a stranger who is not of the Roman profession 5. The reservednesse of an Italian in his discourse and speech 6. The difference between Present and Old Rome 7. The rarities to be seen in and without Rome 8. That strangers must not stumble at their Imagery and number of Pictures for as it is a Church Policy among those of the Roman profession so there is as yet an absolute necessity for the adorning their Churches with Images and Pictures 9. Naples a Cavallier like place 10. The Antiquities to be seen at Puteoli beyond Naples 11. Annotations concerning Loretta the difference between it and the Stable wherein our Saviour Jesus Christ was borne SECT 9. 1. The providence of God manifested in favour of the French and Spanish Nations by the scituation of those Kingdoms separated by the Pirenean Hills 2. The Confidence and high Disposition of the Spaniards 3. The Magnificence Riches and Greatness of St. Geromine en el Escurial 4. Concerning Madrid the pompe of Churches there that of Toledo its Revenue rarities at el Pardo 5. The great Attendance to the King of Spains prime Ministers of State the Audiences to Ladies of the Court and of that the late Duke of Buckingham had from the Countess of Olivares whereas malicious and ignorant men have vented falshoods 6. What is to be observed in the Visits made to Spaniards 7. Concerning their prescribed order for Titles settled by publick Act in King Philip the second his time 8. Concerning some Embassadors their Secretaries and Masters of Ceremonies 9. The Conclusion of the Vade Mecum on the point Whether men travel or stay at home A VADE MECUM FOR A Princely Traveller First Concerning reverence due to Religion PApirus a General of the Romanes having resolved to Fight their Enemies Engaged on apparent hope of a notorious advantagious Victory yet had omitted the consulting of the Oracle then being certain Hens to whom the Hen-Priests were to cast meat whereupon they kept a great pudder because the Hens to whom the meat was cast would not take it which moved Papirus to say That if they would not eat they might be thrown into the Sea to drink whereupon Papirus his best Friends in the Senat sent him word That though a Victorious General was commonly honoured with a Triumphant Reception all they could procure in his Favour for his Victory was to keep his Head where it stood so great the crime of neglecting the Religion in esteem with the people was held though never so absurd in it self as that was to consult Hens Antiochus King of Syria a barbarian who had besieged Gier●solima being sought by the Inhabitants for a Truce of seven dayes to celebrate the Feast of the Tabernacles did not only grant this Request but sent them a fat Bull with gilded Horns and sundry golden Vessels full of Incense Camilus having taken the City Veienti and made a vow to offer the tenth part of the spoyls to the Temple of Apollo seeing that the People and the Nobles were at such a variance as if Rome were to be turned up-side down said That he did not wonder at it since vowes to God Apollo had not been performed Marcellus being desirons after the taking of Syracusa to offer to two Gods to wit Honour and Vertue it was opposed by the general voice That there ought more respect to be born to the Gods than to sacrifice to two of them at once and in one place Concerning reverence due to the Christian Profession and to Priests Constantine the Emperour had the Priests in so great esteem that being in the Council of Calcedonie presented with a bundle of complaints against Church-men he put them in his bosom and being with drawn threw them into the fire Alban Armer being in the year 1499 taken by the Turks suffered himself to be sawn through rather than forsake the Christian Profession Marin who by the Emperour Valeria was honoured by a Military Command being discovered to be a Christian and put to the choice of life or Death having but three hours given him to recant a naked Sword and a Bible laid before him he choose the Sword to stick to the Bible Hormisda and Suenes noble persons in the Court of Ildegerdes a Persian King made good their constancy to the Christian Profession notwithstanding the first though of the Royal blood was degraded stript naked and sent to attend the Mules in the Persian Camp Suenes was not only deprived of all his Means they were not only given to his Servant who had betrayed him but Suenes his Wife was given to that Servant and Suenes a slave to them both Concerning Humility When the People of Jerusalem offered to Crown Godsery de Boullon he refused both the Title of King and the Crown of Gold as being unfit a sinner should bear that Name and a Crown of Gold the King of Kings having had one of Thorns Tiberius a Roman Emperour would never suffer the Attendance of Senators about his Litter and being once a foot met by a Citizen of Rome who profered to cast himself at his feet retired himself in such haste as he fell on the ground Frederick Count of Urbin was so humble of Heart and so free to his Subjects that going by the streets he would ask to all those of his Acquaintance and Vassals who he met How they did How their Father and Friends did Whether they did prosper in their Vocation And to the Young-men Maidens and Widows When they would Marry And speaking to every man with his Hat in his hand Those of Nova Hispania affect so much Humility that whensoever they are to Crown their King