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A Diſcourſe
Book I.

places where they lodge, and the Birds their Nests. The very Fishes themselves, in that vast and boundless Ocean, do yet delight in the enjoyment of some certain part of it. For what should I speak of Men? Who whether they are civiliz'd or still in Barbarisme; are yet so glew'd to their Native Earth, that whosoever is a Man will never doubt to dye for, and in it. And therefore Langius this new and rigid Wisdom of yours, (for the present) I neither embrace nor comprehend, I am rather the Disciple of Euripides more truly affirming, that

Necessity it self commands
All Men to love their Native Lands.

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