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62 Love, and others Ambition hath allur'd from their Country; and in our dayes how many hath the God Mammon in the same manner seduced? How many Italians are there, who quitting Italy the Queen of Countrys for gain alone have transported themselves into France, Germany, yea into Sarmatia and there fixed their habitations? How many thousand Spaniards, doth Avarice and Ambition yearly draw into remote Lands and of a different Climate? Certainly a great and strong proof, that this whole Obligation is but external and Opinionative; seeing some one or other Lust can with that facility dissolve or break it. But you erre also to purpose Lipsius, in the bounding of that Country, for you restrain it to that Native soil of ours wherein we have settled, and whereupon we have walk'd, and such other things as you tinckle with a vain sound of Words. For you will seek in vain from thence Rh