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 ''man four notches lower, in his self-conceit and pride. For, whereas the country Lord that never saw any body but his Fathers Tenants, and M. Parson, and never read any thing but John Stow, and Speed; thinks the Lands-end to be the Worlds-end; and that all solid greatness, next unto a great Pasty, consists in a great Fire, and a great estate. Whereas my travelling young Lord, who hath seen so many greater men, and Estates then his own, comes home far more modest and civil to his inferiours, and farr less puft up with the empty conceit of his own greatness. Indeed nothing cured Alcibiades his pride so much, as to see in a Map (shewed him for the nonce by Socrates) that his house and lands, of which he was so proud, either appeared there not at all, or onely a little spot or dab: and'' nemo in pusillo magnus.

4. Travelling takes off, in some sort, that aboriginal curse, which was laid upon mankind even almost at the beginning of the World; I mean, the confusion of Tongues: which is such a curse indeed, that it makes men, who are of one kind, and made to be so-