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Chap. 10. more limited and peculiar Country; unto which by a certain secret bond of Nature I have a nearer Obligation. Unless you do imagine that there is no force in our being swath'd and suckl'd in that our Native soil, which we have first greeted with this Body of ours; and first set foot upon, whose Air we have breath'd; in which our Infancy hath cri'd, our Childhood play'd, and in which our youth hath been educated and trained up. Where the Skies and Rivers, and Fields are familiar with our eyes: wherein in a continued order, are our Kindred and Friends, and Associates: and so many other invitations unto Joy; as we in vain hope to meet with in any other place of the Earth. Nor are these tyes (as you seem to assert) from the slender threads of Opinion, but from the strong Chains of Nature it self. Go to the Creatures themselves and behold the wild­est among them do love and own the Rh