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A14785	Pan his syrinx, or pipe compact of seuen reedes: including in one, seuen tragical and centicall arguments, with their diuers notes not impertinent: Whereby, in effect, of all thinges is touched, in few, something of the vayue, wanton, proud, and unconstant course of the world. Neither herein, to some-what praise-worthie, is prayse vvanting. By William Warner.	Warner, William, 1558?-1609.	1584 (1584)	STC 25086; ESTC S103297	106,443	242

not yet liuing did languish neuer wer men wrapped in more miserie or distressed so vnmeasurably This alas is greeuous ynough that you haue heard but harder was our hap than thus Whilst we stoode rufullye gazing one vppon an other more like to ghosts departed than men liuing our good Generall Menophis a noble Duke and victorious Captain vnder whose fortunate conduct we had diuers times before preuailed in many a hot Encounter being now 〈◊〉 of an vnhappie Embassage frō India into Cicyona looking as ghost-like as any other and supporting his weake body with a shorte Iauilin pight in the middle of the Hat●hes spake to vs as followeth Cap. 18. WEre it so my euermore couragious but now comfortlesse companiōs that we once again were in y e champion fields of India enclosed with the warlike bands of Semiramis though fiue times doubled yet would I put you in hope either to march after them in a second pursuite or at the least to make from them the first escape but alas small is the councel that I am now able to giue yet somwhat the comfort that therby you may gaine but no conquest at al is here to be got knowing that to intreate or threaten the churlish surges were more than Follie. Onely giue me leaue in this my last I say my last and vnaccustomed exhortation to preuaile and then assure your selues that if this aged carcase of mine sufficiently instructed not to feare death to be solde into perpetuall bondage or to suffer death it selfe might be in ought availeable to you I would account such bondage a freedome and such death a flea-biting for how I haue bene am affectioned towards you may well appeare in this that I a Duke by birth and your General by assignmēt was notwithstanding the first before the meanest here that did want to eate not the last of this company that did feele the famine and yet were you eased of this miserie I should not be impatient of much more sorrowe Listen therefore I say how I your careful Captaine not occasioned nowe as often times heretofore to instruct you how and in what manner you ought to fight am at this time after a far differing sort to admonishe you how and in what manner you are to die It either needes not or bootes not to be offended with Fortune that can be no other then mutable by name and nature neither is Fortune whom it pleaseth the irreligious people to intitle a blinde Goddesse any other in deede then a by-name drawne from the Originals and Euents of our mortall actions but it is the vndoubted gods thēselues whom we haue by some meanes vnaduisedly offended it is they that punish and them must we pacifie as those of whose aide we should neuer dispaire for though persecution procureth a death to the bodie yet a conscience dispairing assureth death to the soule miserable is distresse more miserable distrust but most miserable then to feare when we cannot hope Neuerthelesse let vs not make our case so desperate but that whatsoeuer shall betyde vs life or death we laie hold-fast on patience the onely touch-stone of vertue being pleasure vnto paine comfort to correction wealth vnto want and death vnto death vanquishing altogether with suffring and not with striuing then which is nothing more victorious no not death it selfe for who are those that death conquereth euen such fooles as dreade him and vnto whom the onely remembraunce of death is an horrour such I say as willingly become Ghostes whilst they feare their graues fearing more in sence then they may feele in substance and not thinking their paine will be either not great or not long What shoulde be the cause that men hauing Nature their vndoubted Author Reason their assure● Instructor Experience their continuall Perswader should neuertheles or euer death commeth little better then die through the onely feare they conceiue of death vnles doting to much on their wealth which they are loth to leaue or else hoping to little of the mercifull gods who then forgiue an ill life when they find a good ende with whom it shalbe neuer to late too shake hāds as esteeming whatsoeuer is done wel enough to be done soone ynough Yea the rather my louing companions haue we no cause to dreade death or wish life that are to die at the appointment of the gods and not by the iudgement of men for to the Person worthely condemned death is a double death it being farre more miserable to deserue it then to suffer it and yet though it be in the power of men to iudge men which I also thinke to happen but at sufferance of the gods Nature doth assure death vnto al not graunting to any one his life by pattent but at pleasure and that in such sorte that not the wysest man lyuing can say there then or thus I shall die and yet sure he is that die he shall Seeing therefore my good friendes that death is so certaine as nothing more sure and the order of his comming so vnsure as nothing lesse certaine and that an honest death is the goale of our liues howe happie are we if we could conceiue of our happinesse that shall die with such fauourable opportunitie of repentance well deseruing of our countrie lamented for of our friendes not laughed at of our fooes yea then when life is yrkenot some vnto vs that not on Ieobets as do Malefactors not in Prisons as doe Captiues not in Corners as doe Cowardes not in Quarrels as doe Cutters not in Chaines in our enemies Triumphes neither yet suddenly then which no death is more dreadfull but in a ship which doth argue vs venterous in the Seas not to be subdued by Cōquerours in our Prince his affaires as loyall subiectes with famine which confoundeth Mōsters with fame of former prowesse and by prayer which shall reuiue vs. What can we wish more of the gods or what should I say more to you whose deliuerie is not desperat but euē to sence vnpossible and vnto whom forlorne Soules death the ende of all wretchednesse ought especialy to be welcome Certes no more remaineth but to intreate you whom henceforth I shall neuer more exhort to be patient without grudging penitent without wauering prepared without dispayring dying to the flesh and lyuing to your soules yea lastly remember I beseech you that we are no sooner borne into the worlde but that wee liue to die from the world therfore ought rather to loue whether we must necessarily then from whence we must of necessitie Thus not able to comfort you as I woulde but willingly to counsell you as I may no more resteth but that I wish the continuance of so grieuous a life to haue deliueraunce by a godly death This said y e noble Duke turneth his face we might perceiue how the teares trilled down his cheeks at sight wherof we that did alwaies reuerēce him for his Grauity obay him for his Authority loue him for

his Lenity honour him for his Liberality could not but for cōpanie weepe Cap. 19. JMmediatlie as he had deliuered such his exhortation one of our weake fellow souldiers suddenly fainteth falleth downe and dyeth but loe an horrible thing yet considering that hunger breaketh stone-walles and necessitie suffreth no restraint at that time to be tollerated in vs no sooner was the breath out of the miserable mā his bodie but that stripping him out of his cloathes like famished dogges euerie of vs rent some one peece of his starued carcase wherupō we fed as of such delicate fare that no gold might haue bought the smalest portion therof and so pleasant seemed this vnnatural refection that we erwhile at point euerie man to haue tyred vppon his owne flesh did nowe as crowes the carren watch the like oportunitie in our fellowes growing in the end generally to this conclusiō that ech day Lots should be cast and he vpon whom it so lighted suffer such gentle death as him selfe would chuse if not as we should deuise and his bodie to be equally deuided amongst the Suruiuors neither would Duke Menophis our good generall bee exempted out of this deathfull Lotterie Diuerse dayes were past diuerse Martyred soules had performed this harde Composition in the ende the lot fell to me so that die I shoulde and in good sooth die I would neither did any of vs all desire to haue liued being perswaded either to perish and that shortly in the drenching waues or by this casuall crueltie or else in the ende by famine and which was not the least of our griefes who could willingly abide to see the butchered bodies of their deare friendes before their eyes whilst the flesh yet panted to be mangled into smale gobbits dealt about the blooddie ship for the others to feede vpon So that therfore with greater patience then I now liue I then prepared to die mine hungry companions in the meane while as eagarly whetting their stomackes on their teath Being almost at point to haue giuen my watchworde to him that standing at my backe should haue smitten of mine head euen at that verie instant a mightie Byllowe mounting vp into the ship had almost ouercouered the hatches with water so that the whole companie the ship being now in great danger were faine to leaue me at my prayers and I also to leaue praying and all at once to fall to their businesse In which meane time a dapper Lad of mine and as louing a boy as might serue any mā perceiuing y e storme somewhat to decrease and the thicke clowdes beginning to breake had of his owne accord clymed the Mast frō whence or euer breathing time serued againe to haue falne in hād with me the finishing of whose life they purposed to haue made their next worke the boy suddenly crieth Land land land reioyse my heartes I discrie Land but hearing such newes it was needelesse to bid vs reioise in my purse I had a round summe which I gaue y e boy for his tidings ech of vs rewarded him boūtifully By this time were the Seas iolyly calme the skyes perfitly cleare wherefore as it stoode vs vpon taking time whilest time serued and as well as we might supplying our brooken tacklings we ●are the shi●tes from of our backes to patch vp our ragged sayles and clapping on as manie as our ship might beare a merry winde contrary to al hope did shortly bring vs a shoare though not in the same place where we shoulde haue arriued yet in such a place wheras we were cōfortably releeued Thus as you may see Land Seas our selues are subiect to one and the same God and not to Chaunce THe three sorrowfull watchmen sorrowfull I say because not a litle greeued at the absence of the two brethren hauing with this such like talke driuen out the night when the morning Starre had a prittie while appeared brake vp their watch and anon Atys and Abynados hallow frō the shoare who being made ou● vnto with the Boate were merily receiued aboorde Where report of new matters was diuersly handled occasion of more straung aduentures as orderly doth follow was offred Pheone Calamus quartus Cap. 20. HAuing thus brought Atys and Abinados from the Castle to the ship being brauely vnder saile well furtheed with a smooth dāgerles Sea a gentle whisling wind when the two brethren had recounted al they had serue the three watchmen the effect of that they had sayed Belopares did then challeng the Pilot of his last-nights promise which was to declare the then propertie and purposed imploiment of those riches in that vnlucky viage as before remembred cast ouerboorde In deed answered the Pilot I assumed such a matter am redy to requite me of that promise now you shall haue it as my selfe did receiue it aswell from the eye as the eare and thus it was In the beginning of King Selchim his raigne cha●ced great warres betweene him the Indians but in the ende Selchim preuailing receiuied in hostage Staurobates the King of Jndia his only son this lustie yong prince during his aboad in the court of Cyciona became intierly enamored on Pheone a gallant beautifull Lady sister to King Selchim who also with equall loue subiected her libertie to his liking When this sweete passion long time had mutually increased betwixt them y t it was certified to Staurobates y t his father was dead that the Jndians attended his comming Coronation Staurobates did both easily obtaine a returne into his countrie and withall King Selchim his glad consent to match with Pheone But the yong Louers not esteeming it sufficient solemnly to haue plighted their faithes ech to other did also secretly bind vp y e bargaine with a nights lodging either of both then seuerally receiuing and deliuering two such Paunes as neither of both might after possibly redeeme Now when loue had caused Staurobates long to linger in Cicyona and that his vrgent affaires called him fast away he sorrowfully taking his leaue of Pheone departed with this promise that before a certaine time soone after following were expired he would sende shippes to waffe her into India vowing that nothing except death should hinder that his resolution no nor death it selfe but that by the time prefixed newes of such hinderance should be returned so taking her a Iewel from off his finger whispering certaine wordes in her eare he tooke ship the one gasing towards the shoare the other after the sayles so long as shoare or sayles might be discried Staurobates at his home comming found his country inuaded by y e armipotent Virago S●miramis whom which neuer hapned her else-where he incountred wounded lastly chased her mighty troupes frō out his Territories wholy deliuering himselfe in a short time of y e Assirians Scarcely was the armour cold from of his backe and the Scepter warme in his hād but that remembring his

the Hound as I fearing pursued them flying with purpose at lest by falling into their hands to haue died from such miseries in casting my eye aside I perceiued y e Ca●● and carcase of a Beare the whiche these men had newly slaughtered and vpon whose dismēbred limbes as might seeme I had euen now seene them feeding This facte of theirs as it seemed to participate a fearce and bestiall courage so such their food did argue in them a defect of humane conditiōs and both it and whatsoeuer else I here beheld presented ouer skatheful sights to mee euen nowe so wealthie and wanton a Lady Thus hitherto did I salute penury at the Threshold seeming to me an intollerable hansell But whilste I thus lingered a dying life Night the discomfortable Register and Remembrencer of all miseries had taken place of the opposite and ouershadowed all this Countrie then fleeted many thoughts in my minde not only of present ieoberdies but also of passed ioyes and by how much more nise and delicate education or to bee exact from so royall parentage made once to happinesse by so much more penurie and distresse added nowe to perplexitie and impatience for what thing can happen more vnkindly then that pleasaunt and good causes should varie in peruerse and bad effects or what leaue wee with more greefe then what we possessed with most ioy I that lately had all or more than I could readily aske could not aske now any one needefull thing I might possibly haue but as in better times I had superfluitie with supplies so in this change of fortune I suffered necessitie with decrease Beggers know in what and by whome to bee releeued but alas euen beggerie did by so muche better mine infortune by howe much I neither knew to begge nor found of whome to receiue and whereof Beggers are not restrained it lay not in my choise to make chaunge of the place whatsoeuer in charitie I founde in the people But by that time the torture of two or three of these dayly terrors and nightly torments had racked Uertue ●●om Necessitie I tried this Crosse both possible to happen and founde the same in euent profitable for as the Horse late pampered vp at the full manger and anon turned out to grasing doth not willinglye forsake his bare pasture againe to returne to his sweete Prouendor so I although my sufferaunce came at first by constraint yet constraint growing to a custome and custome to a confirmation of patience vsed the Libertie of these Woods as a Supersedias against the World yea when my Fleshe was mortified and my Spirits quickned I coulde then consider that Uertue and Riches sieldome couple in one body and when I was so farre secluded from the vain delights of the world that neither mine eyes might see thē mine eares heare them nor my hart hope for them I then easily deuerted from the Compounds of Education and reuerted to the Simples of Nature and in so needye a life I remembred my naked byrth and conceiued the like of my graue Thus profite we in diuine Uirtue when we decay in humaine presumption and herein onely differ we from brute beasts that they naturallye knowe not themselues but such ignoraunce in vs worketh vnkindly to brutishnesse Now credit me Arbaces all seemed th●● vaine whiche before time I had in most value for I remember and I thinke the world is as it was that in our Heads Heares Habbits and behauiours Uarietie so squared out Fashions according to our own Fantasies that whilst Nature seemed a Dotarde and Arte an Infant too-bad became a Brauerie that our faces so borrowed of Phao his Box that the interest exceeding the loan Beautie with some became a Banquerupt that our Feete proud Fooles so tr●ad vpon the earth as if earth disdained to touch earth But smile I must to remember how some with a Maske a Scarfe or a Plume could as formally keepe their olde or black and bad faces from sight as didde others their beautie from Sunne-burne neyther coulde ought be● tollerated in yong fayre and noble Dames for their pre●rogatiue that was not anon taken vp by olde foule and meane Drosels for pride so that we becomming May-ladies they would anon counterfeit Maid-marians and yet these Apes in purple in our fashions gate and nicenesse followed vs in nothing so effectuallye as did some men effeminatelye whose lockes were so like trimmed beautie so tended and all their ornaments so woman-like tempered that onely to haue taken their Swordes from their sides and then to haue giuen them Fannes in their hands had bene altogether to resemble with whom they did altogether desemble women This did I then remember and the vanities ●hereof seemed most ridiculous alas would I thinke to my selfe that sometimes was as nice as the nicest with what foolishnesse frequent we our bodies to costly balmes and curious ornaments which after a few dayes Death presenteth to the Graue and the Graue to the Wormes and why are we remisse carelesse in beautifying our soules fit presents for the Gods themselues with incorruptable vertues If more th●●kefully be it now spoken than the same was then accep●ed aduersity would offer vnto other Ladies or to whomsoeuer the same oportunitie to contemplate and consider of the World as was and is alotted to me Beautie would seeme Uanitie the losse of Riches the recouery of quietnesse a Ransome from Fortune and a discouerie of our selues and wee our selues shoulde appeare to our selues no other then Examples of weaknes Spoiles of Time the Game of Fortune Patternes of inconstancie Receptacles of miserie Markes for Enuie in conception loathsome in birth helpelesse in youth witlesse in age wretched of life vncertaine of death sure and consequently wel shall they that thus say Post hominem vermis post vermem f●tor horror Sic in non hominem vertitur omnis homo Cum f●x cum limus cum res vilissima simus Vnde superbimus ad terram terra redimus Therfore should we behaue our selues here not as though we liue only for our bodies but as though we coulde not liue without bodies neither so to follow the worlde that we also fall with the world which being ours we are not our own But hitherto haue you not heard how I fell in with these Ilanders the order whereof I shall now tell you Cap. 58. THese considerations my deare Arbaces at the fyrste vrged of necessitie and then vsed as necessarie besides the place it selfe whiche seemed a seconde Elysium or of pleasure and plentie Nature her Store-house wherein eche Hill might seeme a Parnassus eche Ualley an Edon eche Groue a Tempe and eche Water a Tagus and more-ouer which did not a little delight with these the people also the men and nimble Ladds of this Ilande vnto whom if wee graunte their then Attire and wildnesse and from these other except their 〈◊〉 like Members and Manners they shoulde seeme righte Fani or Satirs or rather in respecte of their personages

eche man with a contrarie countinance and dismisse them all at hir pleasure hauing sotted their sences and soaked them of their substance For small goodnes shee claymeth great commendations but for great euill hateth any controulemente hauing charge ouer all shee complaineth of seruitude being abridged of parte shee exclaymeth of mistruste if shee be wise at the least in her owne conceite then with a pre●●se singularitie shee will ouerrule all if foolish then with a peeuishe simplicitie shee will not bee ruled at all the first will be to brauely minded the latter to baselie manered the one opinionate the other obstinate but both combersome Politicklie is shee wone and peeuishly is shee 〈◊〉 either doth not the rich mans daliances feede 〈…〉 or the poore mans diet fitte hir dalyaunces 〈◊〉 imperious impatient importunate selfewilled thankelesse and full of reuenge Shunne yong men I say shun except out of golden cuppes you will drinke poisoned draughts to be guests in the guiles of these sweete sower Panthars otherwise make account to find them such waiward fooles to please and such foolish wantons being pleased that if in winning they did trauell you in wearing they will vtterlye tire you But see lauish fellow how rashly hath my tongue run counter ouermuch choler I feare me hath so mistempered my wits that it is doubtfull whether I haue vsed decorum in words If therefore any modest matron wife or maiden had bene here present either I would thā haue spoken in the booke or could be contented to beare a Fagot for any probable heresie and no doubt they woulde pardon my glibbe toung in respect of my gauled hart for blamelesse may loosers chaufe Well best is no women are here to trauerse my cholerick alligations for hardly finde wee any pleading so formall wherein the iudge especiallye if labouring the cause cannot or at the leas● doeth not assigne errors Cap. 10. THis my digression gentlemen qd the Scythian Lord hath longer detained your teeth from your victuals then y e discourse it selfe might haue displeased your eares for the villanie and yet would I borrow your patience a little farther for as I haue spoken some what of the infirmitie of the feminine sexe being the matter wroughte so would I breefely touche the impietie of lust the meane wo●●●ng by both whiche I haue bene wronged and by 〈…〉 you may be warned From his freating frenzie though of most vile and base condition neither the mightie Potentate nor the meane pessant the valiant victor nor the cowardly curle haue ben or be exempted And the reason why it so easilye ouercommeth and so extremely outrageth is for that it promiseth to them trust whom it killeth with blindnesse leading men euen with willing cordes to the pleasaunt court of vanitie being garded thether by conducte of Aboundaunce and Prosperitie in which courte Gluttonie doth dyet them Letcherie doth chamber them Pride doth apparell them Sloth doth accompanie them and Follie in all thinges followeth their humours But whilste Tediousnesse doeth here perswade that none maye come to heauen vnlesse they iournie barefooted vpon sharpe pointed booking Securitie dryueth on his sleepie Chariote and bringeth them to Hell as it were on softe Feather-beds Like as fire worketh wood altogether into fire so Lust wholy alienateth man into lasciuiousnesse for if once it entreth the eye it anon scaleth the head and at length sacketh the heart and then alas the heart by degrees readily delighteth consenteth fulfilleth continueth despayreth confirmeth commendeth and not but too too late repenteth the act This lasciuious passion I saye besides that that it bringeth wealth to want great possessions into smal purses it also effeminates the mind enfeebleth the body slandereth the person endangereth the soule yea it leaueth the body in such debilitie that it maketh the same altogether v●apt to any good action and so infe●teth the mynd that it vtterly dishaboreth euen the least motion to amēdment so that body mind and man become wholy vitious Lust hauing forerunners Heate and Wantonnesse companiōs Scurilitie Uncleannesse pursuers G●erfe and Repētance whose matter is Gluttonie whose 〈◊〉 is Pride whose sparckles is Ribaldrie whose 〈…〉 Infamie whose ashes is Filthinesse and whose ende is V●r●is vmbra flagillum frigus ignis Demonis aspectus celerum confusio luctus And albeit the pleasure passeth away in a tri●e no soone done but forgotten and the punishment is permanent yet so delightfull is the present sweete that we neuer remember the following sower Cap. 11. FRom whence then may we fetche tried medecine to applie to this vntoward maladie when Agnus Castus is so geason to cure and Mandragora so commō to procure beleeue me my guests for the auoiding both the mischiefe it selfe and the inconuenience growing thereby six rules are especially to be obserued as maximies The first whereof is Sobrietie in diet for it is often 〈◊〉 that in wine many thinges are done vnaduisedlye Saturitie working accesse to venerie and they haue ben at a wanton banquet willingly conquered that but euen now disdained parlie with the assailent The seconde is some bodily labour or studious excercise in some honest action wherby is preuented all such lewd toyes and vaine meditations wherevnto the minde neuer but well or ill occupied is easily entised for ydlenesse is to a liuing man a sepulcher but labour the minds medicine The third is decentnesse in attire and outwarde ornaments the which we are to vse for colde not for colour as couerings of our nakednesse not as allurements to licentiousnesse for with the Gods to intend is to trespasse to will is to worke and in either the offence all one The fourth is discreetely to restraine the libertie of our sences not so to looke on the sunne that we dim our eyes with the brightnesse not so to touch the berrie that wee 〈◊〉 blood with the brier not so to taste home that wee bless●●g of the Bee not so to heare melodie that we neglect modestie nor so to smell sweet odours that wee sen●e not vnsauer is ordoures but so to see touche taste heare and smell the intising lullabies of beautie and flattering preparatiues to Venus that by forecasting the inconuenience we may the easilier escape the mischiefe for repentaunce was neuer but a looser The fift is Sieldome wordes and those with sobrietie not by euill speeches to corrupte good manners for what contenteth the eare to that readilye consenteth the hart And because if for no other cause he that is still accustomed to speake ill is by good reason suspected not to doe well Ribaldrie is therefore not slightly to be reprooued for well it is sayde that the mindes image is the toung and sometimes of wordes spoken but in meriment haue proceeded occasions working to a mischiefe The sixt and last is To conquer opportunitie whensoeuer we are offered the executing of our purposed lewdnesse for albeit we find the person pliant to performe the place apt for performaunce and the time conuenient for performing

proue that the seas are not more displeasing for perils then the land perilous for pleasures to attain maintain which pleasures what mischiefes may be numbred that are not there attēpted Men there for the most parte are either idle and so vtterly vnprofitable or else neither idle nor yet well occupied some fall to banquets with the appurtenaunces some to bickering with the inconueniences one blazeth the borrowed beautie of some Circeis another deformeth himselfe with fashions the Usurer he fleeceth if not fleaeth the gentleman the gentleman he racketh if not ouerreacheth the farmer the farmer he hourdeth and so hoysteth the markets euery man shifteth for one and that one sitteth on the skirts of some other and himselfe in his own light in fewe the court wanteth not flatterers nor the citie extortioners the Priests auarice nor the Laitie Ambition the barres plaintes nor the benches delayes temples Non-residents nor Theatres superattendants schooles sectes nor lawes quilli●s Hermaphrodits maintenance nor Soldiours immunity good men maligners nor ill men bolsterers Cormerāts crueltie nor Beggars impacience the ritch mallice nor the poore miserie Brothels ribalds nor Prisons offēdors the Diuell work nor the Gallowes vse and yet for breuitie I omit a milion of mischiefes whereof in the end to their own preiudice the Actors only feele the accidents Because therefore that Beautie bewitcheth none but her busie inspectors Couitousnes catcheth none but such as are hopled with goldē fetters Gluttonie entertaineth none but currant guests to his banquets nor Pride pranketh vp any but intruding courtiers seing I say that by following the tract we fall into the trappe and by senting the bait we swallow the bayne haue not those think you reason are not they happy nay are not they to bee honoured that eschewing these mollifying instigations to vanitie and ensuing mortif●ing contemplations to eternitie loth such securitie in braue cities and beautifull palaces and like better a life solitarie amidst the rough seas and wrestling surges where their faire fingers are not as occasion serueth priuileged the foule cables so that their hands being excercised with labours their thoughts be not enueigled with ydle fantasies and the rather for that oportunitie being taken awaye no hope remaineth here to practise what vainly they might purpose but on the Seas in a calme they vse mirth with modestie in a storme they pray patiently and at all times liue as if they should die hourely and if any perill happen then such perill say I prepareth Saints to Heauen whereas pleasures feele some procure soules to hell And yet Belopares let vs not aggrauate the daunger otherwise then the case requireth for as I cannot denye but that perils happen here sometime so if I shall speake no more then troth I must say they chaunce but sieldom for which of vs three that haue bene sailers almost al our dayes cannot alredie assure our selues to die loden with as many white heares as commonlye the oldest Citizen that dieth not so much as hauing vewed the Seas Thou also giuest out that they must worship new gods and forsake their old religion but I say that wise trauailers passe by safe-conduct amongst their league friends are from those matters exempted either keepimg aloofe from where they doubt in these things to be sifted or else being there rashly or violently ariued matters maye bee auoided with such discretion that without preiudice to their gods or offence to their owne consciences they may reuerently pray in a strange temple to their known god whose altars are absent and yet doe no reuerence at all to the vnknown god whose Image is present for though there be necessitie that they kneele by the shrine yet is it not necessarie that they kisse the Saint in zeale not in shewe consisteth deuotion and a speedye returne is in suche cace the surest resistaunce or if sifted beyond gods-forbod then a godlye martyrdome is a glorious enlargement And not in this only hast thou shot wide but in the rest also missed the white that is in iudging so of trauelers I say not Land-leapers wherof in deede there are not a few which leaue their countrey not for the number of vices which there abound but for the misliking of a fewe vertues whiche they are neyther willing nor able to obaye such as sucke corruption as fast from the vitious as the Toade poyson from the earth but I meane thou art to bee controuled in iudging so absurdlye of men betaking themselues to painfull trauels eyther by their prowes and actiuitie wanting the like occasion at home to purchase renowne by their skill and venter to discouer obscure people and places beneficiall to themselues and commodious to their countries or else vppon any other good or the same intentions before remembered yea were it no more then to get experience learne languages or to auoyde idlenesse for suche as are these men doe not peize their prosperitie by the quantitie of the externall pleasures they forgo but by the qualitie of the eternall vertues they pursue As for the sundry vices frequented in those countreys by thee seuerally named my aunswere is that out of bitter shelles we haue sweete kernels that in one and the same place are had presidents both of vice and vertue and one and the same man may be holpen or hindered by eyther example the well disposed Trauailer doth learn to immitate in the good their commendable qualities and to abhorre in the badd their condemnable maners applying both presidents good bad to one vertuous purpose More might I say Belopares and more would I say were it not that I know the lawdable thing to be of sufficiency ynough not only to contend but also to defend it self against al vituperating detractions whatsoeuer and therfore I conclude Such a Trauailer is wel aduised at his going out well amended at his returning home profitable to himself not preiudicial to others but well meriting of all Nay qd the Pilot vndertaking to bee a stickler in the strife no more of this matter ynough is as good as a feast and too much of one thing is good for nothing here is a businesse in deede as if all the 〈◊〉 nothing but swallowing whirlepooles and all the shoare nothing but consuming whirlewinds But might I moderate your contention you shoulde deuide this sentence betwixt you that neither sea nor shoare are lesse perilous the one than the other and yet neyther of both dampnifying farther than is permitted by ineuitable Destinie or more truly the Giuer Guider of destinies who hauing made both land seas and all therein and with them vs hath no doubte reserued to himselfe y e prerogatiue of a Creator ouer his creatures to dispose of all things after his owne pleasure neither do I thinke there is any necessitie that the trauailer or any other violently become vitious except the same volentarily desist to be vertuous Neuerthelesse I dare not be curious in these contingents that cannot yield any absolute reason