TRAVELLER

Whither travels thy tongue ill nurtur'dman? thy manners show madness, thy nakedness poverty, thy resolution folly; since none will undertake thy presump cion; let me descend, that I may make thy ignorance know how much it hath injured sacred ears. Shall I now chide or pity thee? thou art as mice rabble in life, as foolish in thy opinion; answer me; dost thou think that all happiness consists in solitariness? And are they unhappy that abide in society? Dost thou esteem it a good thing to live? Hadst thou not a Father and Mother? Did they not live in society? And Wertenberg not thou one of their society, when they bred thee, instructing thee to go, and speak? Thy birth then and speech in spite of thy spleen make thee sociable, go, thou art but a vainglorious counterfeit, and wanting that which should make thee happy, contemnest the means; view but the heavens, is there not above us a Sun and Moon, giving and recei ving light? are there not millions of Stars that partici pate their glorious beams? is there any Element simple? is there not a mixture of all things? and wouldst thou on lie be singular? Actium is the end of life, virtue the crown of Actium, society the subject of virtue, friendship the band of society, solitariness the breach. Thou art yet young, and fair enough, Wertenberg thou not barbarous; thy soul poor wretch is far out of tune, make it musical, come, follow me, and learn to live. Verily by thy discourse thou hast Traveled much, and I am ashamed of my self that I come so far behind thee; as not once to have yet mentioned Venus or Cupid, or any other of the gods to have appeared to me. But I will henceforth boast truly, that I have now seen a Diety as far beyond theirs, as the beauty of light is beyond darkness, or this Feast whereof we have had our share, is beyond thy Salads. Sing that sing can, for my partly I will only while you sing, keep time with my gestures. A la more du France. Let us give place, for this place is fitter for Die ties then us. A Hall, a hall for men of moment; Rationals, and Irrationals; but yet not all of one breeding. For I and Academic am, refined by travel that have learned what to Courtship belongs, and so divine a pre sense as this; if we press passed good manners, laugh at our follies, for you cannot show us more favour, then to laugh at us. If we prove ridiculous in your sights, we are graci ous; and therefore we beseech you to laugh at us. For mine own partly (I thank my Stars for it) I have been laughed at in most parts of Christendom.