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 Anaxagoras, Anacharsis, Apollonius, Architas, and Pittacus, which last left his Supream Command of Mytelen to travel) were all great travellers; and that St. Hierome (who being no Bishop, and consequently not obliged to residence) having travelled into France, Italy, Greece, and the Holy Land, purchased to himself such rare acquisitions of Learning, by his travels and Languages, that among all the ancient Fathers and Doctors, the Church, in her Collect on his day, calls him only, Doctorem maximum, the greatest Doctor. And so much for the profit of Travelling.

Now for as much as concernes the second Lesson, to wit, the Travelling with Profit, divers things are to be taken notice of; some by the Parents of those that travel; others by those themselves that travel: of all which I will speak briefly.

As for the Parents, their greatest care ought to be of providing there children (I speak to men of high condition) a good Governour, to travel with them, and have a care of their Persons, and breeding: that is, play the part of the Archangel Raphael