Note 98 — CABINET CYCLOPÆDIA. (continued 5)
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Ariosto seems to have had a horror of travelling under any circumstances:—
"Men's tastes are various: one prefers the church, The camp another; this his native soil, That foreign countries; as for me, who will May travel to and fro, to visit France, Spain, England, Hungary; but I love home. Lombardy, Rome, and Florence I have seen; The mountains that divide, and those that gird, Fair Italy, and either sea that bathes her; This is enough for me. Without expense Of innkeepers, I roam with Ptolemy O'er all the world beside, in peace or war; I sail on every sea, nor make vain vows When lightnings flash, for, safe, along the chart, I see more lands than from the reeling deck." Satire IV.