| Authorship Notes |
Coryat repeats his desire to 'encourage gentlemen and lovers of travell to undertake journeys beyond the seas'. The general thrust of his argument is that travel is the sweetest of all pleasures because it allows you to see the best of all lands, the most beautiful cities, the best universities, the wisest of men, the holiest and most famous of places, but also because it encourages the learning of languages. He follows this with a brief account of biblical and classical travellers, and ends with examples of learning and experiences he has gained from his own travels. This epistle occurs at sigs. b2r-b8r. |
