they may ship and bring, or cause such spoils to be brought to the
prize-office in Oceana, where they shall be sold, and the profit arising
by such spoils shall be divided into three parts, whereof one shall go
to the Treasury, another shall be paid to the soldiery of this nation,
and a third to the auxiliaries at their return from their service,
provided that the said auxiliaries be equal in number to the proper
forces of this nation, otherwise their share shall be so much less as
they themselves are fewer in number; the rest of the two-thirds to go
to the officers and soldiers of the proper forces. And the spoils so
divided to the proper forces, shall be subdivided into three equal
parts, whereof one shall go to the officers, and two to the common
soldiers, the like for the auxiliaries. And the share allotted the
officers shall be divided into four equal parts, whereof one shall go to
the strategus, another to the polemarchs, a third to the colonels, and a
fourth to the captains, cornets, ensigns, and under-officers,
receiving their share of the spoil as common soldiers, the like for the
auxiliaries. And this upon pain, in the case of failure, of what the
people of Oceana (to whom the cognizance of peculation or crimes of this
nature is properly appertaining) shall adjudge or decree."

Upon these three last orders the Archon seemed to be haranguing at the
head of his army in this manner:

"MY DEAR LORDS AND EXCELLENT PATRIOTS:

"A government of this make is a commonwealth for increase. Of those for
preservation, the inconveniences and frailties have been shown: their
roots are narrow, such as do not run, have no fibres; their tops weak
and dangerously exposed to the weather, except you chance to find
one, as Venice, planted in a flower-pot, and if she grows, she grows
topheavy, and falls, too. But you cannot plant an oak in a flowerpot;
she must have earth for her root, and heaven for her branches.

"'Imperium Oceano, famam quoe terminet astris.'

"Rome was said to be broken by her own weight, but poetically; for that
weight by which she was pretended to be ruined was supported in her
emperors by a far slighter foundation. And in the common experience of
good architecture, there is nothing more known than that buildings stand
the firmer and the longer for their own weight, nor ever swerve through
any other internal cause than that their materials are corruptible; but
the people never die, nor, as a political body