And now finally, or I leave mount Syon, I thinke it not amisse, to give the itching Travailer a frozen stomacke, who perhaps soweth Words in the Wind, conceptions in the Ayre, and catcheth Salmond swimming on Atlas: I will now (I say) justly cast up to him the charges I defrayed [VI. 289.]within the Wals of Jerusalem, not reckoning my journall expences and tributs else where abroad; arising to eighteene pounds sixteene shillings starling: And there a cooling card for his Caprizziat, and imaginary inventions: And it may serve also, to damnifie the blind conceit of many who thinke that Travellers are at no charges, goe where they will, but are freely maintained every where; and that is as false, as an hereticall errour. May the twelfth, and the eighteene day of my staying there, about mid-day, the other ten and I joyned with the Caravan, who formerly had conditioned with us to carry us to Ægypt, and to furnish the rest Camels or Dromidories to ride upon, (for I would never ride any) for nineteene Piasters the man, discharging us also all tributes and Caffars were to be imposed upon us by the way; and so we marched through the South-west part of Judea towards Idumea, or the Edomits land; and meane-while I gave The Authors good night to Jerusalem.Jerusalem this goodnight, &c.
Thrice sacred Sion, sometimes blazd abrode,
To be the Mansion, of the living God;
For Prophets, Oracles, Apostles deare
And godly Kings, who raisd great glory here:
Where Aarons rod, the Arke, and Tables two,
And Mannaes Pot, fire of sacrifice so
From Heaven that fell: were all inclos’d in Thee
Containing neare, what not contaynd could be:
To thee sweet Sion, and thine eldest daughter,