Verguença. Hisp. opprobrium, pudor.

Viraginia Lat. Verulanium Lat.

Vinicella. Latin.

Vortunius. Lat. à vertendo.

Zornus. fl. Germ. Iratus, furiosus.

Zouffenberga, à Germ. Zauffen. quod sig. Gall. carouser. Zuckerii coll. Germ. pro saccharo, zucker.

QUO VADIS?

A JUST CENSURE OF TRAVEL,

AS IT IS COMMONLY UNDERTAKEN BY THE GENTLEMEN OF OUR NATION.

VOL. XII.

BY JOSEPH HALL, D. D.

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In a volume of Tracts, preserved in the British Museum, is a broadside, or large single page, headed," Bishop Hall's Sayings Concerning Travellers; to prevent Popish and Debauched Principles;" consisting of fiftysix paragraphs, or sentences, collected out of the "Just Censure of Travel." The sheet is surmounted by a copper-plate, representing a ship, with passengers embarking, and the following couplet underneath :

"Coin and good counsel are the traveller's eyes;
"He does but stay abroad, wants those supplies."

Subjoined is the date of 1674.-H.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MY SINGULAR GOOD LORD,

EDWARD LORD DENNY,

BARON OF WALTHAM.

RIGHT HONOURABLE:

Ir ever any man had reason to be in love with the face of a foreign entertainment, those are they, which were admitted to the attendance of the truly generous and honourable Lord Hay, your most noble Son, in his late embassage to France: in which number my unworthiness was allowed to make one; who can, therefore, well witness, that no man could either receive more honour from a strange country, or do more honour to his own. What wanted there, that might make men confess themselves more welcome than strangers? Neither doubt I, but, that after many ages, France itself will wonder at the bountiful expressions of her own favours.

But, while others were enjoying the noble courtesies of the time, my thoughts entertained themselves with searching into the proof of that ordinary Travel, wherewith I saw men commonly affected: which, I must needs confess, the more I saw, the less I liked. Neither is it in the power of any foreign munificence, to make me think ours any where so well as at home. Earthly commodities are no part of my thought: I looked, as I ought, at the soul; which I well saw, uses not only to gather no moss in this rolling, but suffers the best graces it hath to moulder away insensibly in such unnecessary agitation.

I have now been twice abroad: both times, as thinking myself worthy of nothing but neglect, I bent my eyes upon others, to see what they did, what they got. My enquiry found our spiritual loss so palpable, that now, at last, my heart could not chuse but break forth at my hand, and tell my countrymen of the dangerous issue of their curiosity.

I meddle not with the common journeys to the mineral waters of the Spa: to which many sick souls are beholden for a good excuse; who, while they pretend the medicinal use of that spring, can freely quaff of the puddle of Popish Superstition, poisoning the better part, instead of helping the worse. These I leave to the best physician, Authority; which, if it may please to undertake the cure, may perhaps save as many English souls from infection, as that water cures bodies of diseases.

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I deal only with those, that profess to seek the glory of a perfect breeding, and the perfection of that which we call civility, in travel of which sort I have, not without indignation, seen too many lose their hopes and themselves, in the way; returning as empty of grace and other virtues, as full of words, vanity, mis-dispositions.

I dedicate this poor discourse to your Lordship, as, besides my daily renewed obligations, congratulating to you the sweet liberty and happy use of your home: who, like a fixed star, may well overlook these planets; and, by your constant settledness, give that aim to inferior eyes, which shall be in vain expected from a wandering light.

The God of Heaven, to whose glory I have intended this weak labour, give it favour in the sight of his Church; and return it back, but with this good news, that any one of the sons of Japhet is hereby persuaded to dwell ever in the tents of Shem. Unto that divine protection, I humbly betake your Lordship, justly vowing myself,

Your Lordship's humbly devoted,

in all faithful and Christian obedience,

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JOSEPH HALL.