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yeers, at his Fathers house in the Country, to the diligent 

 reading of the best Classic Authors, both Divine & Humane; 

 sometimes repairing to London, from w^^ hee was not farr 

 distant, for learning ]\Iusie and the IMathematies.-" 



Beeing now become Master of what useful knowledge was 

 to bee had in Books, and competently skill 'd amongst others, 

 in the Italian language, hee made choice of that Country to 

 travel into; in order to polish his Conversation, & learn to 

 know Men, And having receiv'd instructions how to demean 

 himselfe with that wise observing Nation, as well as how to 

 shape his Journy, from S** Henry Wotton, whose esteem of 

 him appeers in an elegant letter to him upon that Subject, 

 hee took his way-^ through France, In this-* Kingdom,^"^ 

 the manners & Genius of which hee had in no admiration, hee 

 made small stay, nor contracted any Acquaintance ; save that, 

 with the recommendation of Lord Scudamore,-'' our-^ Kings 

 Ambassador at Paris, hee waited on Hugo Grotius, who was 

 there under that Character from the Crown of Sweden. 



Hasting to Italy by the way of Nice, & passing through 

 Genua Lighorn & Pisa hee arriv'd at Florence, Here hee 

 liv'd^* two months in familiar & elegant conversation with 

 the choice Witts of that Citty and was admitted by them to 

 their private Academies ; an Oeconomy much practis 'd among 

 the Virtuosi of those parts, for the communication of Polite 

 literature, as well as for the cementing of friendships. The 

 reputation hee had with them they express 'd in several Com- 

 mendatory Verses, w^^ are extant in his book of Poems.^^ 



" The manuscript and Wood draw their material for this and suc- 

 ceeding paragraphs covering the period of travel from Milton's Defensio 

 Secunda, but Wood very often adopts the phraseology of the manuscript 

 in preference to INIilton's own words. 



^ Substituted for ' Journy.' 



" Substituted for ' wch.' 



" ' hee made no stay, having ' crossed out. 



-* ' hee waited ' crossed out. 



" Perliaps it may be inferred from this that the writer had lived in 

 the time of Charles I. 



^ Substituted for * pass'd.' 



^'The manuscript here closely follows the Defensio Secunda; Wood 

 follows the manuscript. 



