Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	fish_n	great_a	sea_n	3,519	5	6.8793	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70701	A treatise of direction, how to travell safely and profitably into forraigne countries written by Thomas Neal ...	Neale, Thomas, 1614-1646?	1643 (1643)	Wing N358; ESTC R3203	36,777	188

Custome is so dangerous that sometimes ordinary things disused bring on the necessity of death Wherefore by degrees the forces of custome are to be mollifyed or hardned according to the nature and customes of the place to which we intend to Travell that when we come to the mature places of observation we may shew no infections of bitternesse and spleene This preparation being orderly practised we ought to proceed warily to the chiefest places of the Kingdome I call not those places the chiefest wheré the Court doth usually reside which sometimes chooseth the most pleasant not famous places but those Cities which are most ancient populous noble best served with merchandizes and if thou hast any smacke of learning where there is some Academy as in France Paris and Monpellier in Italy Rome Bonona and Padua in Spaine Toledo and Salamanca in Germany Strausburg and Basill from the happy concurrence of which famous places not only all sorts of exquisite learning but the very genius of urbanity and civility and the sum of all profitable Conversation is to be enjoyed In which places commerces of all sorts are used the Treasure of all humane knowledge is layed up and all other conveniences to advance a Travailour to the height of civill knowledge are to be found out Here also are not only bookes Containing all sciences which may perhaps not over please the unstable heads of some jetting passengers but the most humane and lively Volumes of famous men whose discourses exercises and polite conversations if they be seriously admitted into a mans minde are the best epitomes of those regions In such places as in the Cyerhan groves and Parnassean hils a Travellour resolving to stay he ought so to frame and settle himselfe that his mind be not precipitate and unconstant and so may loose by to nimble and frequent motion its due and observable considerations and least by to nimble departing out of the right path of Iudgement it may not shew the sudden Capacity of an Ingenious understanding but the heady rashnesse and too apprehensive wearinesse ofa stable happinesse To this observation succeedeth that a Travellour having Conversation with learned men should first rather endeavour to learne then be ready to speake and to understand then to teach First it is a great and especiall hinderance of wisedome to speake much and to desire the opinion of a ready orator without knowledge or sufficiency For pride and a bolder Carriage then usuall are vices most contrary to the humility of Instruction which vices striving to send forth the sounds of an arrogant expression often shew a selfe love and ignorant vanity in the speaker We must therefore labour to observe with a gentle and quiet behaviour being qualified rather with the desire of Instruction then wearied with the distast of information Neither as many doe let us thinke our selves in the gallery before we are entered into the parlour For many as Seneca well adviseth had arrived unto the perfection of learning if they had not supposed themselves perfect to soone This evill is to be avoided because it is most common and yet not so common as dangerous For now a daies nothing is so usuall as for some proud swelling empty unskilfull gul gallant to fall into the extremity of arrogant babling and being intoxicated with the heat of vaine glory and selfe love to boile out trifles and ridiculous language And although this vice be to be abhorred every where as a mischiefe which is a very great enemy unto all quiet and sober communication yet especially it is to be shunned by a Travellour into forraigne Countries unto whom all things ought to seeme strange and new unlesse he desire to appeare imprudent or at at leastwise improvident And therefore Lipsius speaketh aptly Almost every man of the meanest sort can babble wander discourse foppishly and ramble without feare or wit from one place to another but few can learne and search with quietnesse and discretion which is the true end of Travelling Refer therefore more to thy Instruction and sufficiency reall then to the vaine glorious ostentation of babling and to that infectious itch of immethodicall prating Neither unfitly only doth the over-nimble discourser in forraigne Countries let slip his words but sometimes dangerously For it is a very hard thing for a man that talketh much sometimes not to faile although he knoweth the matter of which he discourseth but it is imposible for a man which knoweth not the manners and customes of the men and place before whom and where he is to deliver his minde not to erre and sometimes most grossely to be deceaved Therefore let every wise Travellour with as much care as he may sacrifice unto the two shrines to wit of memory and silence to memory that he may hold fast all things which are good and profitable for he shall according to the phrase of Martiall see some few good things many indifferent and very many ill examples and that also he may refuse the things which are not Convenient for a well nurtured education to follow like those strong and profitable scaines or nets which reserve the great and large fishes but let the worthlesse small fry drop backe againe into the sea Let him also sacrifice to silence if not equally yet in a plentifull measure because he which according to the Poet is like water in a sieve is to full of holes to reserve with judgement any matter of important consequence But thou art ready to reply or rather peremptorily question me Dost thou prohibit a Travellour to use thebenefit of his Tonuge which is most acceptable to most men and often serveth better then a carvoch to passe away the dull houres I answer that my purpose is not to stop their mouthes which with discretion can bridle their discourse but only thus much I admonish thee that thou beest not a perpetuall utterer of thy owne concernements Take liberty in gods name faith a wise man of speaking not only on the way but in the Inne if thou findest fit company yea in any convenient place neither only before supper but at and after it But let thy speech tend to some one of these ends which seeke and enquire of the manners lawes site and condition of each city I adde which discourse of the Princes warres Events and whatsoever is rare and unusuall But alwaies thinke more wisedome to be placed in few then many words so the questions be apposite and pithy Seeke and enquire therefore rather like a scholler then like a Teacher Discourse of other mens actions resound not thy owne knowledge or vaine glorious praises For that Travellour which can abstaine from any glosse of his owne commendations cometh neere the rundell of perfection and is both happy and Iudicious To the discreet modesty of which elocution two observations do occur the first is alwaies to endeavour if thou hast not given thy name unto the muses and their instructions whereby to increase or at least wise lay