II. But the too ordinary course of young Gentlemen's travels out of England now practised, I take to be but a most dangerous hazarding, if not a plain betraying them to utter undoing, and to make them afterwards the plagues of their Country, and the instruments of the common calamity. For, 1. They are ordinarily sent into Countries far worse and more dangerous than their own; where the temptations are stronger than they are fit to deal with: Into some Countries where they are tempted to sensuality, and into some where they are tempted to Popery or Infidelity. In some Countries they learn to drink Wine instead of Beer; and arising from the smaller sort to the stronger, if they turn not drunkards, they contract that appetite to Wine and strong drink, which shall prove (as Clemens Alexandrinus calleth gluttony and tippling,) a Throat-madness, and a Belly-devil, and keep them in the sin of gulosity all their days. And in some Countries they shall learn the art of Gluttony, to pamper their guts in curious, costly, uncouth fashions, and to dress themselves in novel fantastical garbs, and to make a business of adorning themselves, and setting themselves forth with proud and procacious fancies and affections, to be looked upon as comely persons, to the eyes of others. In some Countries they shall learn to waste their precious hours in Stage-plays, and vain spectacles, and ceremonious attendances and visits, and to equalize their life with death, and to live to less use and benefit to the world, than the Horse that carrieth them. In most Countries they shall learn either to prate against Godliness, as the humour of a few melancholy fools, and be wiser than to believe God, or obey him, or be saved; or at least to grow indifferent and cold in holy affections and practices: For when they shall see Papists and Protestants, Lutherans and Calvinists of contrary minds, and hear them reproaching and condemning one another, this cooleth their zeal to all Religion, as seeming but a matter of uncertainty and contention:
II. But the too ordinary course of young Gentlemens travels out of England now practised, I take to be but a most dangerous hazarding, if not a plain betraying them to utter undoing, and to make them afterwards the plagues of their Countrey, and the instruments of the common calamity. For, 1. They are ordinarily sent into Countreys far worse and more dangerous than their own; where the temptations are stronger than they are fit to deal with: Into some Countreys where they are tempted to sensuality, and into some where they are tempted to Popery or Infidelity. In some Countreys they learn to drink Wine instead of Beer; and arising from the smaller sort to the stronger, if they turn not drunkards, they contract that appetite to Wine and strong drink, which shall prove (as Clemens Alexandrinus calleth gluttony and tipling,) a Throat-madness, and a Belly-devil, and keep them in the sin of gulosity all their dayes. And in some Countreys they shall learn the art of Gluttony, to pamper their guts in curious, costly, uncouth fashions, and to dress themselves in novel fantastical garbs, and to make a business of adorning themselves, and setting themselves forth with proud and procacious fancies and affections, to be lookt upon as comely persons, to the eyes of others. In some Countreys they shall learn to waste their precious hours in Stage-playes, and vain spectacles, and ceremonious attendances and visits, and to equalize their life with death, and to live to less use and benefit to the world, than the Horse that carryeth them. In most Countreys they shall learn either to prate against Godliness, as the humour of a few melancholy fools, and be wiser than to believe God, or obey him, or be saved; or at least to grow indifferent and cold in holy affections and practices: For when they shall see Papists and Protestants, Lutherans and Calvinists of contrary minds, and hear them reproaching and condemning one another, this cooleth their zeal to all Religion, as seeming but a matter of uncertainty and contention:
