Poete _Homer_ ment couertlie (as wise and Godly men do iudge) Psal. 33. // that loue of honestie, and hatred of ill, which _Dauid_ more plainly doth call the feare of God: the onely remedie agaynst all inchantementes of sinne. I know diuerse noble personages, and many worthie Ientle- men of England, whom all the _Siren_ songes of _Italie_, could neuer vntwyne from the maste of Gods word: nor no inchant- ment of vanitie, ouerturne them, from the feare of God, and loue of honestie. But I know as many, or mo, and some, sometyme my deare frendes, for whose sake I hate going into that countrey the more, who, partyng out of England feruent in the loue of Christes doctrine, and well furnished with the feare of God, returned out of _Italie_ worse transformed, than euer was any in _Circes_ Court. I know diuerse, that went out of England, men of innocent life, men of excellent learnyng, who returned out of _Italie_, not onely with worse maners, but also with lesse learnyng: neither so willing to liue orderly, nor yet so hable to speake learnedlie, as they were at home, before they went abroad. And why? _Plato_ y^t wise writer, and worthy traueler him selfe, telleth the cause why. He went into _Sicilia_, a countrey, no nigher _Italy_ by site of place, than _Italie_ that is now, is like _Sicilia_ that was then, in all corrupt maners and licenciousnes of life. _Plato_ found in _Sicilia_, euery Citie full of vanitie, full of factions, euen as _Italie_ is now. And as _Homere_, like a learned Poete, doth feyne, that _Circes_, by pleasant in- chantmentes, did turne men into beastes, some into Swine, som into Asses, some into Foxes, some into Wolues etc. euen so Plat. ad // _Plato_, like a wise Philosopher, doth plainelie Dionys. // declare, that pleasure, by licentious vanitie, that Epist. 3. // sweete and perilous poyson of all youth, doth ingender in all those, that yeld vp themselues to her, foure notorious properties. {1. lethen The fruits // {2. dysmathian of vayne // {3. achrosynen pleasure. // {4. ybrin. The first, forgetfulnes of all good thinges learned before: Causes // the second, dulnes to receyue either learnyng or why men // honestie euer after: the third, a mynde embracing _the brynging vp of youth._ 227