Nevertheless an heiress shall enjoy her lawful inheritance, and a
widow, whatsoever the bounty or affection of her husband shall
bequeath to her, to be divided in the first generation, wherein
it is divisible according as has been shown.

"Secondly, for lands lying and being within the territories
of Marpesia, the agrarian shall hold in all parts as it is
established in Oceana, except only in the standard or proportion
of estates in land, which shall be set for Marpesia, at œ500.
And,

"Thirdly, for Panopea, the agrarian shall hold in all parts,
as in Oceana. And whosoever possessing above the proportion
allowed by these laws, shall be lawfully convicted of the same,
shall forfeit the overplus to the use of the State."

Agrarian laws of all others have ever been the greatest
bugbears, and so in the institution were these, at which time it
was ridiculous to see how strange a fear appeared in everybody of
that which, being good for all, could hurt nobody. But instead of
the proof of this order, I shall out of those many debates that
happened ere it could be passed, insert two speeches that were
made at the Council of legislators, the first by the Right
Honorable Philautus de Garbo, a young man, being heir-apparent to
a very noble family, and one of the councillors, who expressed
himself as follows:

"May it please your Highness, my Lord Archon of Oceana.

"If I did not, to my capacity, know from how profound a