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 ''bleman from surfeiting of his parents, and weans him from the dangerous fondness of his Mother. It teacheth him wholesome hardship; to lye in beds that are none of his acquaintance; to speak to men he never saw before; to travel in the morning before day, and in the evening after day; to endure any horse and weather, as well as any meat and drink. Whereas my country gentleman that never travelled, can scarce go to London without making his Will, at least without wetting his hand-kerchief. And what generous mother will not say to her Son with that antient''? Malo tibi malè esse, quàm molliter: I had rather thou shouldst be sick, then soft. Indeed the coral-tree'' is neither hard, nor red, till taken out of the Sea, its native home. And I have read that many of the old Romans put out their children to be nurced abroad by Lacedemonian nurces, till they were three years old; then they put them to their Uncles, till seven, or ten; then they sent them into Toscany to be instructed in Religion; and at last into Greece to study ''Philosophy.

3. Travelling takes my young noble-