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58 every where have spoken after this fashion. I acknowledge it, but it was then when they had respect to Fame only, not to truth; which if you will follow, you shall restore back that Sacred and August Name unto God; or (if you please) to your Parents, and command this Affection (when it is corrected) to be con­tented with the honest name of Charity. But thus far concerning the name only, let us now consider the thing; which truly I shall not wholly remove, but moderate, and pare (as it were) with the Pen-knife of Right Reason. For as the Vine unless you prune it, will very widely extend it self: So will those Affections more especially, whose Sails are swell'd with any gust of popularity. And I readily confess to you Lipsius (for I have not so put off at once, both the Man and the Citizen) that there is in every one of us, a kind of inclination and Love to this lesser country of ours: Rh