frugality. "As soone as you are able, looke into
your estate, laboring not merely to conserve
it entire, but to augment it" (there was the
hand of the Earl Marshal in this) "by a wise
fore-thought, marriage, or some other thriftie
means."

"Be not so rash as to refuse good Counsell,
as Cæsar" (we cannot get on an inch without
him) "did, when he refused the booke of a
poore Scholler, wherein the intended plot was
discovered."

The gentleman must fail not of thrift in his
Apparrell; yet not be basely parsimonious, so
as to incur the ridicule attaching to a monarch
of France, in whose Exchequer accounts, yet
remaining, appeareth: "Item—so much for red
Satten to sleeve the King his old Doublet.
Item—a halfpenny for liquor for his Boots."

As touching our Diet, we must remember
that health, as well as gentility, is imperilled by
excess in eating and drinking, and also in
Tobacco taking—videlicet, Smoking. Avoid
superfluity and waste, and do not, like our
ubiquitous friend Cæsar, who, "in regard of his
Lybian triumph, filled, at one banquet, two-and-
twenty thousand rooms with ghests!" and, what
is more, actually paid the bill. Nor was this
all, for, besides entertaining this select circle of
say two hundred and twenty thousand, the
immortal Julius gave to every Roman citizen ten
bushels of wheat, ten pounds of oil, and three
pounds two-and-six in cash. This is hospitality
indeed. Excepting when an American gentleman
of our own day entertained a chosen party
of eight hundred at dinner, and bade four
thousand more to supper, we know of no such
private feasting, and it is very doubtful whether
the largest wine-party ever given by the Most
Hopefull at the Vniversitie, ever approached
such proportions. But what shall we say of a
gentleman named "Smyndirides," who was,
shocking to relate, so given to feasting, that he
saw not the sunne rise, nor set, in twenty years?

It is entirely due to those wicked Dutch, that
intoxication is occasionally noticed in England.
A drunken man was quite a curiosity in this our
sober isle, until we "had to doe in the quarrell
of the Netherlands," and therein learned the
virtue of Hollands, and the reprehensible custom
of pledging healths.

In the important matter of conversation, "let
your discourse be free and affable, with a sweete
and liberall manner, seasoning your talk, among
grave discourses, with conceipts of wit and
pleasant invention, as ingenious Epigrammes,
Emblems, Anagrammes, merry tales, Mistakings,
as a Melancholy Gentleman, sitting one day at
table, started vp, vpon the sudden, and, meaning
to say, 'I must goe buy a dagger,' by transposition
of the letters, said, 'I must goe dye a beggar,' "
which afforded the company the highest
satisfaction.

Have a care ever to speake the truth. The
Persians had a law that whoever had been thrice
convicted of falsehood, should never speak his
whole life afterwards. And Plato remarketh
that it is only permitted to physicians to lie.

As regards the complete gentleman's
Travaile, that point having been already touched
upon in his memorable observations on survey
of the earth, it is only necessary to warn you,
before entering upon such observations, to do
what is systematically omitted by travellers
from the land of Cockaigne—"seeke the
language, that you may be fit for conference,
furnishing yourself with the discreetest and most
able master. . . . Now, as well for neighbourhood's
sake as that the French tongue is chiefly
affected by our nobility, it being a copious
language and a sweete, I wish you (the Most
Hopefull) first of all to see France. You shall
find the French free and courteous . . . full of
discourse, quick-witted, sudden in action, and
generally light and inconstant, which Cæsar (the
indefatigable) implies when he calls their
determinations sudden and ill considered."

Spain and France being but one continent,
we may be permitted to cross the "Pyrenean
hils," in the suite of the Most Hopefull, and,
having accomplished this feat, shall find a
decided scarcity of victuals, the folk being by
constitution hot and dry, and not able to digest
good roast beef, and, consequently, subsisting
chiefly upon sallets and marmalade, a "dyet"
ineligible for British stomach. We shall find
the ladies both black and little, but
well-favoured, and for discourse admirable.

In Warre we can derive but little practical
wisdom from good Mr. Peacham; for so much as
"pykes," as instruments of strife, are nearly
obsolete, halberds scarce, and that description of
musquet which required no less than thirty-four
distinct movements before the final "give fire,"
hath undergone simplification.

And now, with one exception—his fyshinge
—behold our gentleman complete. Our teacher,
himself a zealous angler, will by no means
dispense with this "honest and patient recreation
for vacant howers." "For angling there be
divers kinds, but the most vsefull are but two—
either at the topp of the water with a flye, or at
the bottome with bayts. For lynes, they must
be framed according to the fish where you angle,
but, for small Fysh, vse three good hayres pluckt
from the tayl of a good cart-horse that is lusty
and in flesh, for your poor Iade's hayre is not so
good . . . ."

The most enthusiastic watcher of the float
will acquiesce in the opinion with which good
Mr. Peacham concludes his admirable Discourses,
that heigh Winds, great Raynes, Snow and
Hayle, Thunder and Lightning, Storms, or any
violent wind that cometh from the East, are,
very decidedly, "naught to Angle in."