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Chap. 11. those Women that, when time was, bare us too and fro, with a farre greater tenderness. Hath it nourish'd us? This Office it performs daily to Beasts and Trees, and all sorts of Grain, and so do also those great Bodyes; Heaven, Air and Water, as well as the Earth. To conclude, transport your self, and any other soil will performe the same. These are frothy light words, from which nothing can be extracted besides a certain vulgar and unprofitable juice of Opinion. Those are indeed our Parents, who have conceiv'd, begot, and gone with us; to whom we are seed of their seed, blood of their blood, and flesh of their flesh. Of all which if there is any thing which in any degree of comparison, may be fitly spoken of our Country: I am willing that all my attempts, against this kind of Piety, should prove but lost labour. But (say you) there are many learned and great Men, who Rh