[1] And so (as I said before) vpon trust and confidence of the dukes promise, the bishop said: My singular good lord, since the time of my captiuitie, which being in your graces custodie, I may rather call it a libe|rall libertie, more than a streict imprisonment, in auoiding idlenesse, mother and nourisher of all vi|ces, in reading bookes and ancient pamphlets I haue found this sentence written, that no man is borne frée, and in libertie of himselfe onelie: for one part of dutie he oweth or should owe to his parents for his procreation, by a verie naturall instinct and filiall courtesie: another part to his fréends and kinsfolke; for proximitie of bloud and naturall amitie dooth eue|rie dutie chalenge and demand: but the natiue coun|trie, in the which he tasted first the swéet aires of this pleasant and flattering world after his natiuitie, de|mandeth as a debt by a naturall bond, neither to be forgotten, nor yet to be put in obliuion.