Shakespeare's World | Travel by Sea and Land
The words travel, to go from one place to another, and travail, to toil, were the same in Shakespeare's time. To go on a journey was to make an effort, to arrive at a destination only after something of a struggle, to endure a difficult and muddy road or a creaking vessel. When Richard Madox set out in 1582 on the Atlantic voyage from which he did not return, one of his first concerns was seasickness:
I was tawght many medcynes to avoyd the sycknes of the sea as namely a safron paper on the stomak or to drink the juse of wormwod, but I perceaved that the best...
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