fitte a place, as some do counte it, for yong men to fetch either
wisedome or honestie from thence. For surelie, they will make
other but bad Scholers, that be so ill Masters to them selues.
Yet, if a ientleman will nedes trauell into _Italie_, he shall do
well, to looke on the life, of the wisest traueler, that euer
traueled thether, set out by the wisest writer, that euer spake
with tong, Gods doctrine onelie excepted: and that is _Vlysses_ in
_Vlysses._ // _Homere_. _Vlysses_, and his trauell, I wishe our
_Homere._ // trauelers to looke vpon, not so much to feare
them, with the great daungers, that he many
tymes suffered, as to instruct them, with his excellent wisedome,
which he alwayes and euerywhere vsed. Yea euen those, that
be learned and wittie trauelers, when they be disposed to prayse
traueling, as a great commendacion, and the best Scripture they
haue for it, they gladlie recite the third verse of _Homere_, in his
first booke of _Odyssea_, conteinyng a great prayse of _Vlysses_, for
odys. a. // the witte he gathered, & wisdome he vsed in
his traueling.
Which verse, bicause, in mine opinion, it was not made at
the first, more naturallie in _Greke_ by _Homere_, nor after turned
more aptlie into _Latin_ by _Horace_, than it was a good while
ago, in Cambrige, translated into English, both plainlie for the
sense, and roundlie for the verse, by one of the best Scholers,
that euer S. Iohns Colledge bred, _M. Watson_, myne old frend,
somtime Bishop of Lincolne, therfore, for their sake, that haue
lust to see, how our English tong, in auoidyng barbarous
ryming, may as well receiue, right quantitie of sillables, and
trewe order of versifiyng (of which matter more at large here-
after) as either _Greke_ or _Latin_, if a cunning man haue it in
handling, I will set forth that one verse in all three tonges, for
an Example to good wittes, that shall delite in like learned
exercise.
<b>Homerus.</b>
pollon d anthropon iden astea kai noon egno.
<b>Horatius.</b>
_Qui mores hominum multorum vidit & vrbes._
<b>M. Watson.</b>
_All trauellers do gladly report great prayse of Vlysses,
For that he knew many mens maners, and saw many Cities._
_the brynging vp of youth._ 225
And yet is not _Vlysses_ commended, so much, nor so oft, in
_Homere_, bicause he was polytropos, that is, // | {polytropos.
skilfull in many mens manners and facions, as // | _Vlyss._ {
bicause he was polymetis, that is, wise in all // | { polymetis.
purposes, & ware in all places: which wisedome and warenes
will not serue neither a traueler, except _Pallas_ be // _Pallas_ from
alwayes at his elbow, that is Gods speciall grace // heauen.
from heauen, to kepe him in Gods feare, in all
his doynges, in all his ieorneye. For, he shall not alwayes
in his absence out of England, light vpon a
ientle _Alcynous_, and walke in his faire gardens // | _Alcynous._ od. 2.
full of all harmelesse pleasures: but he shall // |
sometymes, fall, either into the handes of some // |
cruell _Cyclops_, or into the lappe of some wanton // | _Cyclops._ od. 1.
and dalying Dame _Calypso_: and so suffer the // | _Calypso._ od. e.
danger of many a deadlie Denne, not so full of // |
perils, to distroy the body, as, full of vayne // |
pleasures, to poyson the mynde. Some _Siren_ // | _Sirenes._ }
shall sing him a song, sweete in tune, but // | }
sownding in the ende, to his vtter destruction. // | _Scylla._ } od.
m.
If _Scylla_ drowne him not, _Carybdis_ may fortune // | _Caribdis._ }
swalow hym. Some _Circes_ shall make him, of // | _Circes._ od. k.
a plaine English man, a right _Italian_. And at
length to hell, or to some hellish place, is he likelie to go: from
whence is hard returning, although one _Vlysses_, and that by
_Pallas_ ayde, and good counsell of _Tiresias_ once // od. l.
escaped that horrible Den of deadly darkenes.
Therfore, if wise men will nedes send their sonnes into
_Italie_, let them do it wiselie, vnder the kepe and garde of him,
who, by his wisedome and honestie, by his example and
authoritie, may be hable to kepe them safe and sound, in the
feare of God, in Christes trewe Religion, in good order and
honestie of liuyng: except they will haue them run headling,
into ouermany ieoperdies, as _Vlysses_ had done many tymes, if
_Pallas_ had not alwayes gouerned him: if he had not vsed, to
stop his eares with waxe: to bind him selfe to // od. m.
the mast of his shyp: to feede dayly, vpon that // od. k.
swete herbe _Moly_ with the blake roote and // Moly Her-
white floore, giuen vnto hym by Mercurie, to // ba.
auoide all the inchantmentes of _Circes_. Wherby, the Diuine