The Traveller and Rosalind the Tudor Rose

Rosalind:

A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to

be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see

other men’s; then, to have seen much and to have

nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

Jaques:

Yes, I have gained my experience.

 

De Vere, who from May 1575 to March 1576 travelled in Italy with Venice as his base, wrote home in September 1575:

By reason of my great charges of travel…I have taken up of Mr Baptisto Nigroni 500 crowns, which I shall desire your Lordship to see there repaid, hoping by this time my money which is made of the sale of my land is all come in. 

Rosalind/Eliza had given de Vere the Queen’s license to travel.