As courtly as the French, but in condition
Quite oppofite: put the cafe that you my lord
Could be more rare on horfeback than you are,
If there, as there are many, one excell'd
You in your art, as much as you do others,
Yet will the English think, their own is nothing
Compar'd with you, a ftranger; in their habits.
They are not more fantaftick, than uncertain:
In fhort, their fare, abundance, manhood, beauty,
No nation can difparage but it self.
John Ford's Love's Sacrifice.
Why fir, do gallants travel?
Anfwer that question; but that at their return
With wonder to the hearers, to discourse of
The garb and difference in foreign females.
As the lufty girl of France, the fober German,
The plump Dutch froe, the ftately dame of Spain,
The Roman libertine, and fpriteful Tuscan,
The merry Greek, Venetian courtezan,
The English fair complexion, that learns fomething
From every nation, and will flie at all.
Maflinger's Guardian.
Hearken ye gallants that will cross the feas,
And are industrious for a new disease ;
If you would needs be gadding, and despise
For foreign toys, our home bred rarities,
Take this example with you; if you go,
Travel not from religion. Why, although
You never touch at Rome, or elfe perchance
You scarce fee Spain, and glean but part of France,
be weary, think your travel great.
What angle of the earth must be my grave?
The fea and fun have bounds, and know their course,
The fons of men have none :
Limitless he wanders the foreign defarts,
And begets more wonders every
Taught travell'd youth, what 'tis it fhould have done :
For't has indeed too strong a custom been,
To carry out more wit, than we bring in.
What need I travel, fince I may
More choicer wonders here furvey?
What need I Tyre for purple feek;
When I may find it in a cheek?
Or fack the eastern fhores; there lies
More precious diamonds in her eyes?
What need I dig Peru for ore,
When ev'ry hair of hers yields more?
Or toil for gums in India,
Since she can breath more rich than they?
Or ranfack Africk, there will be
On either hand more ivory?
But look within, all virtues that
Each nation would appropriate,
And with the glory of them reft,
And in this map at large expreft;
That, who would travel, here might know
'The little world in folio.
Cleveland He foreign countries knew, but they were known Not for themselves, but to advance his own: As merchants trade i'th' Indies, not live there, Traffick abroad, but land their prizes here.
By's travels, he could make the fun appear,
A young and unexperienc'd traveller.
Sir William Davenant on Colonel Goring. Mifguided travellers that rove,
Oft find their way by going fomewhat back.
Sir William Davenant's Gondibert.
If fir, faid he, we heedlefly pass by
Great towns, like birds that from the country come
But to be fcar'd, and on to forests fly;
Let's be no travell'd fools, but rooft at home.
I fee, reply'd his friend, you nothing lack
Of what is painful, curious, and discreet
In travellers; elfe would you not look back,
So often, to obferve this house and street:
Drawing your city map with coafter's care,
Not only marking where foft channels run,
But where the fhelves and rocks, and dangers are;
To teach weak ftrangers what they ought to fhun.
Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert,
Thou art a right traveller ;
An old acquaintance in every town
Abroad, and a new ftranger ftill at home.
Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite.
Man is a stranger to himself, and knows
Nothing fo naturally as his woes;
He loves to travel countries, and confer
The fides of Heav'n's vaft diameter;
Delights to fit in Nile, or Thetis lap,
Before he hath fail'd over his own map;
By which means he returns, his travel spent,
Lefs knowing of himself than when he went.
Who knowledge hunt, kept under foreign locks,
May bring home wit to hold a paradox;
Yet be fools ftill. Therefore might I advise,
I would inform the foul before the eyes:
Make man into his proper opticks look,
And fo become the ftudent and the book.
All travellers thefe heavy judgments hear,
A handsome hostess makes a reck'ning dear.
TREASON.
Thou art a Traytor and a mifcreant ;
Too good to be so, and too bad to live;
Since the more fair and crystal is the sky,
The uglier feem the clouds that in it fly.
Shakespear's King Richard II. It is not poffible, it cannot be,
The king fhould keep his word in loving us ;
He will fufpect us still, and find a time
To punish this offence in other faults:
Sufpicion, all our lives fhall be stuck full of eyes;
For treason is but trufted like a fox,
Who, ne'er fo tame, fo cherish'd, and lock'd up,
Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
Look how we can, or fad, or merrily,
Interpretation will mifquote our looks;
And we shall feed like oxen at a stall,
The better cherish'd, still the nearer death.
Shakespear's First Part of K Henry IV.
Treafon and murder ever kept together,
As two yoak-devils fworn to either's purpose:
Working fo grofly in a natural cause,
That admiration did not whoop at them.
But thou, 'gainft all propotion, didst bring in
Wonder to wait on treafon, and on murther:
And whatsoever cunning fiend it was,
That wrought upon thee fo prepoft'roufly,
Hath got the voice in hell for excellence :
And other devils, that fuggeft by treasons,
Do botch and bungle up damnation,
With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd
From glift'ring femblances of piety:
But he that tempted thee, bad thee stand up;
Gave thee no inftance why thou should'st do treason,
Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.
Shakespear's King Henry V.
Smooth runs the water, where the brook is deep;
And in his fimple fhew he harbours treason.
The fox barks not, when he would fteal the lamb.
Shakespear's Second Part of King Henry VI.
He that ftands up 'gainst traitors, and their ends,
Shall need a double guard of law, and friends:
Especially in fuch an envious state,
That fooner will accuse the magistrate,
Than the delinquent; and will rather grieve
The treafon is not acted, than believe.
They're mighty ones; and we must so provide,
That while we take one head from this foul Hydra,
There spring not twenty more.
Of fuch a swarm of Traytors, only him,
Our cares and fears might feem a while reliev'd;
But the main peril would bide still inclos'd
Deep in the veins and bowels of the state:
As human bodies labouring with fevers,
While they are toft with heat, if they do take
Cold water, feem for that short space much eas'd,
But afterward are ten times more afflicted.
What minifters men must for practice ufe !
The rash, th' ambitious, needy, defperate,
Foolish, and wretched, ev'n the dregs of mankind,
To whores and women! ftill it must be fo;
Each have their proper place, and in their rooms
They are the beft: grooms fitteft kindle fires. ;
Slaves carry burdens, butchers are for flaughters,
Apothecaries, butlers, cooks, for poison;
As these for me.
For his thoughts they brake not into deeds;
Time was the caufe, not will: the mind's free act
In treafon, ftill is judg'd as th' outward fact.
Chapman's Second Part of Byron's Confpiracy.
Treafon
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