And yet is not _Vlysses_ commended, so much, nor so oft, in _Homere_, bicause he was polytropos, that is, // | {polytropos. skilfull in many mens manners and facions, as // | _Vlyss._ { bicause he was polymetis, that is, wise in all // | { polymetis. purposes, & ware in all places: which wisedome and warenes will not serue neither a traueler, except _Pallas_ be // _Pallas_ from alwayes at his elbow, that is Gods speciall grace // heauen. from heauen, to kepe him in Gods feare, in all his doynges, in all his ieorneye. For, he shall not alwayes in his absence out of England, light vpon a ientle _Alcynous_, and walke in his faire gardens // | _Alcynous._ od. 2. full of all harmelesse pleasures: but he shall // | sometymes, fall, either into the handes of some // | cruell _Cyclops_, or into the lappe of some wanton // | _Cyclops._ od. 1. and dalying Dame _Calypso_: and so suffer the // | _Calypso._ od. e. danger of many a deadlie Denne, not so full of // | perils, to distroy the body, as, full of vayne // | pleasures, to poyson the mynde. Some _Siren_ // | _Sirenes._ } shall sing him a song, sweete in tune, but // | } sownding in the ende, to his vtter destruction. // | _Scylla._ } od. m. If _Scylla_ drowne him not, _Carybdis_ may fortune // | _Caribdis._ } swalow hym. Some _Circes_ shall make him, of // | _Circes._ od. k. a plaine English man, a right _Italian_. And at length to hell, or to some hellish place, is he likelie to go: from whence is hard returning, although one _Vlysses_, and that by _Pallas_ ayde, and good counsell of _Tiresias_ once // od. l. escaped that horrible Den of deadly darkenes. Therfore, if wise men will nedes send their sonnes into _Italie_, let them do it wiselie, vnder the kepe and garde of him, who, by his wisedome and honestie, by his example and authoritie, may be hable to kepe them safe and sound, in the feare of God, in Christes trewe Religion, in good order and honestie of liuyng: except they will haue them run headling, into ouermany ieoperdies, as _Vlysses_ had done many tymes, if _Pallas_ had not alwayes gouerned him: if he had not vsed, to stop his eares with waxe: to bind him selfe to // od. m. the mast of his shyp: to feede dayly, vpon that // od. k. swete herbe _Moly_ with the blake roote and // Moly Her- white floore, giuen vnto hym by Mercurie, to // ba. auoide all the inchantmentes of _Circes_. Wherby, the Diuine 226 _The first booke teachyng_