es Jonvillaeus_, who lived very familiarly with
that King for many Years; in which whole History there is not the least
Mention made of Guards or Garisons, but only of Porters or Doorkeepers;
which in his native Tongue, he calls Ushers.

Now as to the third Mark of _Tyranny_, which is when Matters are so
carried, that what is done tends more to the Profit and Will of the
_Person governing_, than to that of the _governed_, or the Good of the
_Commonwealth_; we shall hereafter prove, that the _Supreme_
Administration of the _Francogallican Kingdom was lodged in the Publick
Annual Council of the Nation, which in After-Ages was called the
Convention of the Three Estates_. For the Frame of this Government was
the very same which the _Ancient Philosophers_, and among them _Plato_
and _Aristotle_ (whom _Polybius_ imitates) judged to be the best and
most excellent in the World, as being made up and constituted of a
Mixture and just Temperament of the three Kinds of Government, _viz._
the _Regal, Noble_, and _Popular_. Which Form of a _Commonwealth,
Cicero_ (in his Books _de Republica_) prefers to all other whatsoever.
For since a _Kingly_ and a _Popular_ Government do in their Natures
differ widely from each other, it was necessary to add a _third_ and
_middle State_ participating of both, _viz._ that of the _Princes_ or
_Nobility_; who, by Reason of the Splendor and Antiquity of their
Families, approach, in some Degree, to the _Kingly Dignity_; and yet,
being _Subjects_, are upon that Account on the same Foot and Interest
with the _Commons_. Now of the Excellency of this Temperament in a
Commonwealth, we have a most remarkable Commendation in Cicero, taken by
him out of _Plato_'s Books _de Republica_; which, because of its
singular Elegancy, we shall here insert at length.

"Ut in fidibus (inquit) ac tibiis, atque cantu ipso, ac vocibus,
tenendus est quidam concentus ex distinctis sonis, quem immutatum ac
discrepantem aures eruditae ferre non possunt; isque concentus ex
dissimillimarium vocum moderatione concors tamen efficitur, & congruens;
Sic ex summis, & mediis, & infimis interjectis ordinibus, ut sonis,
moderata ratione _civitas_, consensu dissimillimorum concinit, & quae
_harmonia_ a musicis dicitur in _cantu_, ea est in _Civitate concordia_:
arctissimum atq; optimum in Repub. vinculum incolumitatis, quae fine
justitia nullo pacto esse potest. _i. e._ As in Fiddles and Flutes, and
even in Singing and Voices, a certain C