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 and mettals: so, the Nobleman by long traveling, having enlightened his understanding with fine notions, comes home like a glorious Sun; and doth not only shine bright in the firmament of his Country, the Parlament house; but also blesseth his inferiours with the powerful influences if his knowing spirit.

9. In fine, Examples (the best Philosophy) shew us, that the greatest Princes Europe hath seen, these many years, to wit, Charles the V. and the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus, were both of them great Travelers; the first had been twice in England, as often in Africk, four times in France, six times is Spain, seven times in Italy, and nine in Germany: The second had travelled incognito (as M. Watts writes of him) into Holland, France, Italy, and Germany in his youth: which made him say afterwards to the French Ambassador Mareschal Breze, in a kind of threatning way, that he knew the way to Paris, as well as to Stockholme''. Adde to this, that the wisest and greatest among the antient ''Philosophers, Plato, Pythagoras,