on in dreadful tragedy. Discite justitiam moniti, et non
temnere divos. Great and glorious Caesar the highest character of flesh,
yet could not rule but by that part of man which is the beast; but a
commonwealth is a monarchy; to her God is king, inasmuch as reason, his
dictate, is her sovereign power." Which said, he adjourned the Council.
And the model was soon after promulgated. Quod bonum, foelix, faustumque
sit huic reipublicoe. Agite quirites, censuere patres, jubeat populus.
(The sea roared, and the floods clapped their hands.)

LIBERTAS

The Proclamation of his Highness the Lord Archon of Oceana upon
Promulgation of the Model,

"Whereas his Highness and the Council, in the framing of the model
promulgated, have not had any private interest or ambition but the fear
of God and the good of this people before their eyes; and it remains
their desire that this great work may be carried on accordingly. This
present greeting is to inform the good people of this land, that as the
Council of Prytans sat during the framing of the model, to receive from
time to time such propositions as should be offered by any wise-hearted
or public-spirited man, toward the institution of a well-ordered
commonwealth, so the said Council is to sit as formerly in the great
hall of the Pantheon during promulgation (which is to continue for
the space of three months) to receive, weigh, and, as there shall be
occasion, transmit to the Council of Legislators, all such objections
as shall be made against the said model, whether in the whole or in any
part. Wherefore that nothing be done rashly or without the consent of
the people, such, of what party soever, with whom there may remain any
doubts or difficulties, are desired with all convenient speed to address
themselves to the said prytans; where, if such objections, doubts, or
difficulties receive solution to the satisfaction of the auditory,
they shall have public thanks, but if the said objections, doubts, or
difficulties receive no solution to the satisfaction of the auditory,
then the model promulgated shall be reviewed, and the party that was the
occasion of the review, shall receive public thanks, together with
the best horse in his Highness's stable, and be one of the Council of
Legislators. And so God have you in his keeping."

I should now write the same Council of the Prytans, but for two reasons:
the one, that having had but a small time for that which is already