Shall then my travell ever endles prove, That I can heare no tydings of my Love?

Great God, the greevous travells I have past In restlesse search to finde her out at last; My plaints, my toiles, in lieu of my annoy Have well deserv'd my Lady to enjoy.

At last againe with him in travell ioynd, And with him far'd some better chaunee to fynde.

"Yet fell she not as one enforst to dye, Ne dyde with dread and grudging discontent, But as one toyld with travell downe doth lye, 255 So lay she downe, as if to sleepe she went, And closde her eyes with carelesse quietriesse; The whiles soft death away her spirit hent*, And soule assoyld** from sinfull fleshlinesse.

"But, as the mother of the gods, that sought For faire Euridyce, her daughter dere, Throughout the world, with wofull heavie thought, So will I travell whilest I tarrie heere, 466 Ne will I lodge, ne will I ever lin*, Ne, when as drouping Titan draweth nere To loose his teeme, will I take up my inne**.

So doe those that are hangd: all that travell & are weary doe not sleepe.

Midwives travell at night & are weary with eating groaning pyes, & yet sleepe not: shall I hooke you? Man.

Alq. 4 of my gentlemen shall along with him: Ile beare thy charges, soldier, to Madrid, 5 peeces of 8 a day in travell, & Lying still thou shalt have halfe that.

Is this the glorious mark of my deservings? Taynted and torne in honour must I perish, And must theis silver curles, ô you unthanckfull, Theis emblemes of my frostie cares and travells For you and for the State, fall with disgraces? Goe, fall before your new Prince!

My grave Lords, That it hath byn my happines to take in, And with so litle blood, so many Townes That were falne of, is a large recompence For all my travell; and I would advise That (since all now sing the sweet tunes of Concord, No Sword unsheathd, the meanes to hurt cut off, And all their stings pluckd out that would have used them Against the publique peace) we should end here

Besides Soldiers So often levied by my meanes for you, Which to particularize were teadious, Two millions and five hundred thousand pounds, For which the Provinces stood bound, I wrought Freely to be dischargd; the Townes they pawnd To be deliverd up; and after all Theis meritorious and prosperous travells T'unyte theis States, can Barnavelt be suspected To be the authour to undoe that knot Which with such toyle

Bethinck ye of the travells I had for ye, The throaes and grones to bring faire peace amongst ye; Bethinck ye of the dangers I have plundgd through And almost gripes of death, to make you glorious.

You are not the first Captaine that has seene no service: 'tis time lost to travell for't when a man may bee a Comander at home.

How farre travell you: me thinkes you are very finely accomodated.

And though my yeares have made me unfitt for travell, I do intend, upon returne of your Letters, personally to give you thankes for your respects to my Daughter, whome I shall receave as new blessing from you, and be happie upon any turne presented to expresse my selfe for your favours, your true friend and servant W. Littleland.

The darkest angle of this universe Shall not contayne him: through the bounded world Ile prosecute his flight with ceaslesse steps, And when long travell makes them dull or faynt, Bayting them fresh with Bellamiraes wrongs, Like Eagles they shall cut the flaxen ayre

Once more let suffice I quite your painfull travell but with thanks.

Since therefore all my travell is in vayne, Here will I take a truce with former care.

Are your legges growne so feeble on the suddeine They feyle when you shoold travell to your whores, But you must bringe them home and keepe them heere Under my nose?

I'th meanetyme I shall find leisure to surveigh the towne, The keyes, the temples, forts and monuments; For what's the end of travell but to better us In judgment and experiens?

And though my brother have no child alyve, As longe synce lost when I was rob'd of myne, Yet for the namesake, to my other travells I'l add this little toyle, though purposeles.

Surfeits maketh worke many times for the physician, who turning R into D giveth his patient sometime a Decipe for a Recipe; and so payeth deerely for his travell that hastneth him to his end.

A and B] then to travell for diseases, and returne following the Court in a nightcap, and die without issue.

Bac. That would be a shew indeed worth seeing: sirra be wise and take money for this motion, travell with it, and where the name of Bessus has been knowne, or a good Coward stirring, twill yeeld more then a tilting.