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2 cockered her too much, even to make her become Wanton. Witness luxuriant Lombardy, and Campania antonomastically Fœlix, which Florus, Trogus, and Livy think to be the best parts of the world, where Ceres and Bacchus are at a perpetual strife, whether of them shall court man the most, she by filling his Barns with Corn; he by making his Cellars swimme with Wine: Whiles the other parts of Italy are sweating out whole Forests of Olive-trees, whole Woods of Lemmons, and Oranges, whole Fields of Rice, Turky Wheat, and Muskmillions; and where those Bare Hills, which seem to be shaven by the Sun, and cursed by Nature for their Barrenness, are oftentimes great with child of pretious Marbles, the ornaments of Churches and Palaces, and the Revenues of Princes: witness the Prince of Massa, whose best Revenues are his Marble Quarries: Nature here thinking it a far more noble thing to feed Princes, than to feed sheep. It abounds also in Silks and Silkworms; out of which they draw