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forsake their own particularities, and attend and 

 conspire to uphold the public. 



So we see the iron in small quantity will ascend 

 and approach to the loadstone upon a particular sym 

 pathy : but if it be any quantity of moment, it 

 leaveth its appetite of amity to the loadstone, and, 

 like a good patriot, falleth to the earth, which is the 

 place and region of massy bodies. 



So again the water and other like bodies do fall 

 towards the centre of the earth, which is, as was said, 

 their region or country : and yet we see nothing 

 more usual in all water-works and engines, than that 

 the water, rather than to suffer any distraction or 

 disunion in nature, will ascend, forsaking the love to 

 its own region or country, and applying itself to the 

 body next adjoining. 



But it were too long a digression to proceed to 

 more examples of this kind. Your majesty yourself 

 did fall upon a passage of this nature in your gracious 

 speech of thanks unto your council, when acknow 

 ledging princely their vigilances and well-deservings, 

 it pleased you to note, that it was a success and 

 event above the course of nature, to have so great 

 change with so great a quiet : forasmuch as sudden 

 mutations, as well in state as in nature, are rarely 

 without violence and perturbation : so as still I con 

 clude there is, as was said, a congruity between the 

 principles of nature and policy. And lest that 

 instance may seem to oppone to this assertion, I may 

 even in that particular, with your majesty s favour, 

 offer unto you a type or pattern in nature, much re- 



