A direction for travailers / taken [by Sir J. Stradling] out of J. Lipsius [his 'Epistola de peregrinatione italica'] and enlarged for the behoofe of the young Earle of Bedford.

  • Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606
Date:
[1592]
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Credit: A direction for travailers / taken [by Sir J. Stradling] out of J. Lipsius [his 'Epistola de peregrinatione italica'] and enlarged for the behoofe of the young Earle of Bedford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    firTrmkrs. the Poets) God grant you maye with as great fafetiefailebyit,asby Gods grace and good gouernement you fl>all. The other is behinde , and that is a quick- fandorbottomleflcgulfe, (you may tearmeit as others haue Carybdis) heerc whatfhall I fay,or do for you ? fo may I be faued as I heere feareyour fafetie .* vnlefle God & good coun¬ fell doo helpe you ; fo great dread haue I of your yoong and flippcrie age,and fo ouer fure of the alluring and intrapping natures of the Venetian and Italian Curtefanes .• yet Noble Lord) take of me thefe two precepts: that you refraine your Eyes, and your Eares. Firft fhut your eies that they fee not vany- tie, next your eares that they heare not follye. Loue creepeth in at the windowes of the eier, vividi,vtdrfi f faith the Poet :I fawe, and! fighed. F&minx vrit videndo, Loues dwelling is in Ladies ei'es,from whenfc he fhootes his daintie darts into the luftie gal¬ lants hartes, faith one5 therefore as Iudges a- mong the Athenians were woont to be blind- folde that they fhould not haue any refpeii of perfbns : fofhould they that wil not be taken by that blind boy Cupid. As your eies, fo mufte your eares bee alfo chart, and fortified againft all not only leche¬ rous,but lafeiuious talke. For loue talke bree- - - * .»