because he carries his Fever with him wheresoever he lies: so many young Men return home tired and dirtied, but not better and wiser, because they carried abroad their bad Customs and Manners with them. I would then that my young Traveller should leave behind him all wilfulness and stubborness; all tenderness, and seeking his ease too much; all effeminateness and delicateness; all Boyish Tricks with hands or Mouth, and mocking of others; all delighting in being the best Man in the Company; all familiarity with Servants, and mean Men; all Taverns, and intemperancy of eating and drinking; having that saying of Seneca often in his mouth and mind; Major sum & ad majora natus, quam ut mancipium sim corporis mei: I am too great a Man, and born to too great things, for to become the slave of my Body. In fine, I would have him imitate that young Gentleman of whom S. Ambrose speaks; who returning home from foreign Travels, and meeting with his old Mistress, a Wanton Woman, seemed not to know her; whereat she wondring, told him that she was such an one; it may be so, said he, but I am no more I. A rare Apothegm; which I would wish my young Traveller to take for his Mot-to,
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