Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Country, common-weale.

We must affect our Country as our parents, And if at any time we alienate Our loue or industry from doing it honor, It must respect effects and touch the soule, Matter of conscience and religion, And not desire of rule or benefit. G. Peele.

Necessitie enforceth euery wight, To loue his natiue seat with all his might. A happie quarrell is it and a good, For countries cause to spend our dearest blood. G. Gascoigne.

That publike weale must needs to ruine go, Where priuate profit is preferred so. G. Geffrayes.

Home though it homely be, yet is sweet, And natiue soyle is best. S. I. Harr.

If so the temperature of Common-weale Be guided by the course of heauenly powers, Such as in deep affaires will iustly deale, Must haue an eye to those eternall bowres, And by their view direct this state of ours. Then how can he a perfect states man proue, That knowes not how celestiall bodies moue? Th. Stouer.

—The loue That men their country and their birth-right beare, Exceeds all loue, and dearer is by farre: Our countries loue, thē friends or children are. T. Kyd.