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Rh and Ruines; Libraries; Colledges, Disputations, and Lectures, where any are; Shipping and Navies; Houses, and Gardens of State and Pleasure, neare great Cities; Armories; Arsenals; Magazens; Exchanges; Burses; Warehouses; Exercises of Horsemanship; Fencing; Trayning of Souldiers; and the like: Comedies, Such wherunto the better Sort of persons doe resort; Treasuries of Jewels and Robes; Cabinets and Rarities; And, to conclude, whatsoever is memorable in the Places where they goe. After all which the Tutors or Servants ought to make diligent Enquirie. As for Triumphs, Masques, Feasts, Weddings, Funeralls, Capitall Executions, and such Shewes, Men need not to be put in mind of them; Yet are they not to be neglected. If you will have a Young Man to put his Travaile into a little Roome, and in short time to gather much, this you must doe. First, as was said, he must have some Entrance into the Language, before he goeth. Then he must have such a Servant, or Tutor, as knoweth the Country, as was likewise said. Let him carry with him also some Card or Booke describing the Country where he travelleth, which will be a good Key to his Enquiry. Let him keepe also a Diary. Let him not stay long in one Citty or Towne; More or lesse as the place deserveth, but not long: Nay, when he stayeth in one City or Towne, let him change his Lodging from one End and Part of the Towne to another, which is a great Adamant of Acquaintance. Let him sequester himselfe from the Company of his Country men, and diet in such Places where there is good Company of the Nation where he travaileth. Let him, upon his Removes from one place to another, procure Recommendation to some person of Quality, residing in the Place whither he removeth, that he may use his Favour in those things he desireth to see or know. Thus he may abridge his Travaile with much profit. As for the acquaintance which is to be sought in Travaile; That which is most of all profitable is Acquaintance with the Secretaries and