ove you as they do their own selves; honor you
as fathers; resolve to give you as it were obedience forever, and so
thanking you for your most good and excellent laws, they do pray for
you as the very worthies of the land, right honorable lords and fathers
assembled in Parliament."

Argus came off beyond his own expectation; for thinking right, and
speaking as he thought, it was apparent by the house and the thanks they
gave him, that they esteemed him to be absolutely of the best sort of
orators; upon which having a mind that till then misgave him, he became
very crounse, and much delighted with that which might go down the next
week in print to his wife and neighbors. Livy makes the Roman tribunes
to speak in the same style with the consuls, which could not be, and
therefore for aught in him to the contrary, Volero and Canuleius might
have spoken in no better style than Argus. However, they were not
created the first year of the commonwealth; and the tribunes of Oceana
are since become better orators than were needful. But the laws being
enacted, had the preamble annexed, and were delivered to Bronchus, who
loved nothing in the earth so much as to go staring and bellowing up
and down the town, like a stag in a forest, as he now did, with his
fraternity in their coats-of-arms, and I know not how many trumpets,
proclaiming the act of parliament; when, meeting my Lord Archon, whom
from a retreat that was without affectation, as being for devotion only
and to implore a blessing by prayer and fasting upon his labors, now
newly arrived in town, the herald of the tribe of Bestia set up his
throat, and having chanted out his lesson, passed as haughtily by him as
if his own had been the better office, which in this place was very well
taken, though Bronchus for his high mind happened afterward upon some
disasters, too long to tell, that spoiled much of his embroidery.

My Lord Archon's arrival being known, the signory, accompanied by the
tribunes, repaired to him, with the news he had already heard by the
herald, to which my lord strategus added that his highness could not
doubt upon the demonstrations given, but the minds of men were firm in
the opinion that he could be no seeker of himself in the way of earthly
pomp and glory, and that the gratitude of the Senate and the people
could not therefore be understood to have any such reflection upon him.
But so it was, that in regard of dangers abroad, and parties at home,
they d