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confess it: If to be defended I shall acknowledge it, If death to be undergone for its sake, I shall not be against it; but shall never yield to that that we should also grieve, be cast down, lament,

If once our Country for it cry
'Tis sweet and glorious then to dye.

Said the Poet of Venusia with the loud applause of the whole Theatre, but then he said to dye, not to weep. For we ought so to be good Citizens, as that we may also be good Men; which we cease to be, as oft as we decline to the ejulations and laments of Children or Women. Finally, Lipsius, I impart that to you which is lofty, and known but to some few. That these are vain and counterfeit Countryes, if you consider the whole Man. That possibly for the Body there may be one found out here, but not any for the Soul, which de-