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 Parents, or School masters, and to have the fingering of a pretty allowance; and these men when they come into France, care for seeing no Court, but the Teniscourt: delight in seeing no Balls but Tennis-balls; and forsake any company, to toss whole dayes together with a tattered Marker in the Tripot.

Others desire to go into Italy, onely because they hear there are fine Courtisanes in Venice; and as the Queen of the Amazons, in Justin, went thirteen dayes journey out of her Country, onely to have a nights lodging with Alexander the Great, so these men travel a whole moneth together to Venice'', for a nights lodging with an impudent woman. And thus by a false aiming at breeding abroad, they return with those diseases which hinder them from breeding at home.''

Others travel abroad, as our ship-boyes do into the Indies: for whiles these boyes might bring home Jewels, Pearls, and many other things of valew, they bring home nothing but firecanes, Parots, and Monkies; so our young Travellers, whiles they