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more pleasure, and less fear of running into error. 

 But I must not yet forsake the waters, by whose 

 help we have so many known advantages. 



And first, to pass by the miraculous cures of our 

 known baths, how advantageous is the sea for our 

 daily traffic ; without which we could not now sub- 

 sist ? How does it not only furnish us with food and 

 physic for the bodies, but with such observations 

 for the mind as ingenious persons would not want ! 



How ignorant had we been of the beauty of Flo- 

 rence, of the monuments, urns, and rarities, that yet 

 remain in, and near unto old and new Rome, so 

 many as it is said will take up a year's time to view, 

 and afford to each of them but a convenient consi- 

 deration ; and therefore it is not to be wondered at, 

 that so learned and devout a father as St. Jerome, 

 after his wish to have seen Christ in the flesh, and 

 to have heard St. Paul preach, makes his third wish, 

 to have seen Rome in her glory ; and that glory is not 

 yet all lost, for what pleasure is it to see the mo- 

 numents of Llvy, the choicest of the Historians : of 

 Tully, the best of Orators ; and to see the bay-trees 

 that now grow out of the very tomb of Virgil ! 

 These, to any that love learning, must be pleasing. 

 But what pleasure is it to a devout Christian to see 

 there the humble house in which St. Paul was con- 

 tent to dwell ; and to view the many rich statues that 

 are there made in honour of his memory ? Nay, to see 

 the very place in which St. Peter and he lie buried 

 together ? These are in and near to Rome. And how 



