sposed of, that knapsack, with the Marpesian
auxiliary, had been an inestimable treasure; the situation of these
countries being islands (as appears by Venice how advantageous such a
one is to the like government) seems to have been designed by God for
a commonwealth. And yet that, through the straitness of the place
and defect of proper arms, can be no more than a commonwealth for
preservation; whereas this, reduced to the like government, is a
commonwealth for increase, and upon the mightiest foundation that any
has been laid from the beginning of the world to this day.

"Illam arcta capiens Neptunus compede stringit:
Hanc autem glaucis captus complectitur ulnis."

The sea gives law to the growth of Venice, but the growth of Oceana
gives law to the sea.

These countries, having been anciently distinct and hostile kingdoms,
came by Morpheus the Marpesian, who succeeded by hereditary right to the
crown of Oceana, not only to be joined under one head, but to be cast,
as it were by a charm, into that profound sleep, which, broken at length
by the trumpet of civil war, has produced those effects that have given
occasion to the preceding discourse, divided into four parts.

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