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 of Salomon. ''It makes a wiseman much the wiser by making him see the good and the bad in others. Hence the wiseman saith'': Sapiens in terram alienigenarum gentium pertransiet: bona enim & mala in hominibus tentabit. It makes a man think himself at home every where, and smile at unjust exile: It makes him wellcome home again to his Neighbours, sought after by his betters, and listened unto with admiration by his inferiours''. It makes him sit still in his old age with satisfaction; and travel over the world again in his chair and bed, by discourse and thoughts. In fine, its an excellent Commentary upon histories; and no man understands Livy and Cæsar, Guicciardin and Monluc, like him, who hath made exactly the Grand Tour of France, and the Giro of ''Italy.

8. Travelling makes my young Nobleman return home again to his Country like a blessing Sun''. For as the Sun, who hath been travelling about the world these five thousand and odd years, not onely enlightens those places which he visits; but also enricheth them with all sorts of ''Fruits,