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 honest man is a mixed man;" that is, one who has something in him, in point of knowledge, of all nations.

CHARLES V. made nine voyages into Germany; six into Spain; seven into Italy; four into France; ten into the Low Countries; two into England; as many into Africa. He also passed the Ocean and Mediterranean seas, eleven times.

The Emperor Hadrian travelled over a great part of the world; and with his head bare, though it were cold and wet: and so fell into a deadly disease. Whence the verses of Florus the poet.

Ego nolo Caesar esse, Ambulare per Britannos, Scythicas pati pruinas.

I will in no wise Caesar be, To walk along in Britainie, The Scythic frost to feel and see.

To which the Emperor answered in like strain.

Ego nolo FLORUS esse, Ambulare per tabernas, Latitare per popinas, Culices pati rotundas.

And I will never FLORUS be, To walk from shop to shop, as he, To lurk in taverns secretly, And there to feel the Rome wine fly.

Whoever, since the beginning of things and men, hath been so often, by royal employment, sent Ambassador; or to so many princes, so distant in place, so different in rites, as Sir ROBERT SHIRLEY? Two Emperors, RONDOLPH and FERDINAND; two Popes, CLEMENT VII. and PAUL; twice the King of Spain; twice the Polonian; the Muscovite also; have given him audience: and twice also—though not the