OF TRAVEL
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder,
a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he
hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to
travel. That young men travel under some tutor, or grave servant,
I allow well; so that he be such a one that hath the language, and
hath been in the country before; whereby he may be able to tell
them what things are worthy to be seen, in the country where they
go; what acquaintances they are to seek; what exercises, or disci-
pline, the place yieldeth. For else, young men shall go hooded, and
look abroad little. It is a strange thing, that in sea voyages, where
there is nothing to be seen, but sky and sea, men should make dia-
ries; but in land-travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the
most part they omit it; as if chance were fitter to be registered, than
observation. Let diaries, therefore, be brought in use. The things
to be seen and observed are: the courts of princes, especially when
they give audience to ambassadors; the courts of justice, while they
sit and hear causes; and so of consistories ecclesiastic; the churches
and monasteries, with the monuments which are therein extant; the
walls and fortifications of cities, and towns, and so the heavens and
harbors; antiquities and ruins; libraries; colleges, disputations, and
lectures, where any are; shipping and navies; houses and gardens of
state and pleasure, near great cities; armories; arsenals; magazines;
exchanges; burses; warehouses; exercises of horsemanship, fencing,
training of soldiers, and the like; comedies, such whereunto the bet-
ter sort of persons do resort; treasuries of jewels and robes; cabi-
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder,
a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he
hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to
travel. That young men travel under some tutor, or grave servant,
I allow well; so that he be such a one that hath the language, and
hath been in the country before; whereby he may be able to tell
them what things are worthy to be seen, in the country where they
go; what acquaintances they are to seek; what exercises, or disci-
pline, the place yieldeth. For else, young men shall go hooded, and
look abroad little. It is a strange thing, that in sea voyages, where
there is nothing to be seen, but sky and sea, men should make dia-
ries; but in land-travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the
most part they omit it; as if chance were fitter to be registered, than
observation. Let diaries, therefore, be brought in use. The things
to be seen and observed are: the courts of princes, especially when
they give audience to ambassadors; the courts of justice, while they
sit and hear causes; and so of consistories ecclesiastic; the churches
and monasteries, with the monuments which are therein extant; the
walls and fortifications of cities, and towns, and so the heavens and
harbors; antiquities and ruins; libraries; colleges, disputations, and
lectures, where any are; shipping and navies; houses and gardens of
state and pleasure, near great cities; armories; arsenals; magazines;
exchanges; burses; warehouses; exercises of horsemanship, fencing,
training of soldiers, and the like; comedies, such whereunto the bet-
ter sort of persons do resort; treasuries of jewels and robes; cabi-
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