[30] "La doncques, Francoys, marchez couraigeusement vers ceste superbe cite romaine; & des serves depouilles d'elle, comme vous avez fait plus d'une fois, ornez vos temples & autelz.... Pillez moi sans conscience les sacrez thesors de ce temple Delphique ... Vous souvienne de vostre ancienne Marseille, secondes Athenes!" ("La Deffense et illustration de la langue Francoyse," 1549). [31] "The Scholemaster," London, 1570, 4to, p. 26; Arber's reprint, 1870, 4to, pp. 83, _et seq._ Ascham had died in 1568; this work was published by his widow. [32] Preface dated 1581 to "Civile Conversation," London, 1586, 4to. [33] The novelist Greene, for example, and the novelist Lyly. The latter writes in his "Euphues," 1579: "Let not your mindes be caryed away with vaine delights, as with travailing into farre & straunge countries, wher you shal see more wickednesse then learn vertue & wit" (Arber's reprint, 1868, p. 152). As for Greene, see _infra_, chap. iv. One of the most curious of these denunciations of travel was the "Quo vadis? a juste censure of travel," by Bishop Joseph Hall, 1617, 12mo. The author demonstrates that most of the vices of the English are of foreign importation, chiefly from France and Italy; good qualities alone are native and national. The best thing to do, then, is to keep at home. [34] Letter (in Latin) to the Archbishop of York, 1544. "Works," ed. Giles, London, 1865, 4 vol. 16mo, vol. i. p. 35. [35] "Toxophilus," 1545, in "Works," ed. Giles, vol. ii. p. 5. [36] "Scholemaster," 1570, Arber's reprint, p. 77. [37] "The Scholemaster," Arber's reprint, pp. 79, 80.