or may
prevent the blow which is ready sometimes to fall ere the people be
aware of the danger. Wherefore there lies no appeal from the Dieci,
or the Council of Ten, in Venice, to the Great Council, nor from our
Council of War to the people. For the way of proceeding of this tribe,
or the ballot, it is, as was once said for all, Venetian.

"This discourse of judicatories whereupon we are fallen, brings us
rather naturally than of design from the two general orders of every
commonwealth, that is to say, from the debating part, or the Senate, and
the resolving part, or the people, to the third, which is the executive
part or the magistracy, whereupon I shall have no need to dwell, for the
executive magistrates of this commonwealth are the strategus in arms;
the signory in their several courts, as the chancery, the exchequer; as
also the councils in divers cases within their instructions; the censors
as well in their proper magistracy, as in the Council of Religion; the
tribunes in the government of the prerogative, and that judicatory; and
the judges with their courts; of all which so much is already said or
known as may suffice.

"The Tuesday lectures or orations to the people will be of great benefit
to the Senate, the prerogative, and the whole nation. To the Senate,
because they will not only teach your Senators elocution, but keep the
system of the government in their memories. Elocution is of great use to
your Senators, for if they do not understand rhetoric (giving it at this
time for granted that the art were not otherwise good) and come to treat
with, or vindicate the cause of the commonwealth against some other
nation that is good at it, the advantage will be subject to remain upon
the merit of the art, and not upon the merit of the cause. Furthermore,
the genius or soul of this government being in the whole and in
every part, they will never be of ability in determination upon any
particular, unless at the same time they have an idea of the whole.
That this therefore must be, in that regard, of equal benefit to the
prerogative, is plain; though these have a greater concernment in it.
For this commonwealth is the estate of the people; and a man, you know,
though he be virtuous, yet if he does not understand his estate, may run
out or be cheated of it. Last of all, the treasures of the politics will
by this means be so opened, rifled, and dispersed, that this nation
will as soon dote, like the Indians, upon glas