done, I am over-labored; the other, that there may be new objections.
Wherefore, if my reader has any such as to the model, I entreat him to
address himself by way of oration, as it were, to the prytans, that
when this rough draught comes to be a work, his speech being faithfully
inserted in this place, may give or receive correction to amendment; for
what is written will be weighed. But conversation, in these days, is a
game at which they are best provided that have light gold; it is like
the sport of women that make flowers of straws, which must be stuck
up but may not be touched. Nor, which is worse, is this the fault of
conversation only: but to the examiner I say if to invent method and
teach an art be all one, let him show that this method is not truly
invented, or this art is faithfully taught.

I cannot conclude a circle (and such is this commonwealth) without
turning the end into the beginning. The time of promulgation being
expired, the surveyors were sent down, who having in due season made
report that their work was perfect, the orators followed, under the
administration of which officers and magistrates the commonwealth was
ratified and established by the whole body of the people, in their
parochial, hundred, and county assemblies. And the orators being, by
virtue of their scrolls or lots, members of their respective tribes,
were elected each the first knight of the third list, or galaxy;
wherefore, having at their return assisted the Archon in putting the
Senate and the people or prerogative into motion, they abdicated the
magistracy both of orators and legislators.

PART IV. THE COROLLARY

FOR the rest (says Plutarch, closing up the story of Lycurgus) when he
saw that his government had taken root, and was in the very plantation
strong enough to stand by itself, he conceived such a delight within
him, as God is described by Plato to have done when he had finished the
creation of the world, and saw his own orbs move below him: for in the
art of man (being the imitation of nature, which is the art of God)
there is nothing so like the first call of beautiful order out of chaos
and confusion, as the architecture of a well-ordered commonwealth.
Wherefore Lycurgus, seeing in effect that his orders were good, fell
into deep contemplation how he might render them, so far as could be
effected by human providence, unalterable and immortal. To which end he
assembled the people, and remonstrated to them: That