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 tens long miles, and sweetens bad usage; that is, makes a bad dinner go down, and a bad horse go on.

Others will say, That I fill my book with too much Latin: But these must be minded, that I am writing of the Latin Country; and that I am carving for Scholars, who can disgest solid bitts, having good stomacks.

''Others will say, I jeere now and then: And would any man have me go through so many divers Countries, and praise all I see? Or in earnest, do not some things deserve to be jeered? when things cannot be cured but by jeering, jeering, saith Tertullian, is a duty; and I think the Cynick Philosophers struck as great a blow at Vice, as the'' Stoicks.

Others will say, I change stile often, and sometimes run smoothly, sometimes joltingly: True, I travelled not alwayes upon smooth ground, and paceing horses: Swisserland and Savoy, are much different from Campania, and Lombardy; and its one thing to describe a Pleasant Garden, an other thing to describe a Venerable Cathedral: and if in the one, and the other, we have several lookes; much more