siness,
which is the constitution of one that has studied men more than books.
But there is nothing more hurtful in a State than that cunning men
should pass for wise.' His words are an oracle. As Dionysius, when he
could no longer exercise his tyranny among men, turned schoolmaster,
that he might exercise it among boys. Allow me but these orders, and
your grandees, so well skilled in the baits and palates of men, shall
turn rat-catchers.

"And whereas 'councils (as is discreetly observed by the same author
in his time) are at this day, in most places, but familiar meetings
(somewhat like the Academy of our provosts), where matters are rather
talked on than debated, and run too swift to order an act of council,'
give me my orders, and see if I have not puzzled your demagogues.

"It is not so much my desire to return upon haunts, as theirs that
will not be satisfied; wherefore if, notwithstanding what was said of
dividing and choosing in our preliminary discourses, men will yet
be returning to the question, Why the Senate must be a council apart
(though even in Athens, where it was of no other constitution than the
popular assembly, the distinction of it from the other was never held
less than necessary) this may be added to the former reasons, that if
the aristocracy be not for the debate, it is for nothing; but if it be
for debate, it must have convenience for it; and what convenience
is there for debate in a crowd, where there is nothing but jostling,
treading upon one another, and stirring of blood, than which in this
case there is nothing more dangerous? Truly, it was not ill said of my
Lord Epimonus, that Venice plays her game, as it were, at billiards or
nine-holes; and so may your lordships, unless your ribs be so strong
that you think better of football: for such sport is debate in a popular
assembly as, notwithstanding the distinction of the Senate, was the
destruction of Athens."

This speech concluded the debate which happened at the institution
of the Senate. The next assembly is that of the people or prerogative
tribe.

The face, or mien, of the prerogative tribe for the arms, the horses,
and the discipline, but more especially for the select men, is that of
a very noble regiment, or rather of two; the one of horse, divided
into three troops (besides that of the provinces, which will be shown
hereafter), with their captains, cornets, and two tribunes of the horse
at the head of them; the other of foot