his third session, has his respective place and title during the
term of his life, which is all the honor conferred by this
commonwealth, except upon the master of the ceremonies, the
master of the horse, and the king of the heralds, who are knights
by their places. And thus you have the face of the Senate, in
which there is scarce any feature that is not Roman or Venetian;
nor do the horns of the crescent extend themselves much unlike
those of the Sanhedrim, on either hand of the prince, and of the
father of that Senate. But upon beauty, in which every man has
his fancy, we will not otherwise philosophize than to remember
that there is something more than decency in the robe of a judge,
that would not be well spared from the bench; and that the
gravest magistrate to whom you can commit the sword of justice,
will find a quickness in the spurs of honor, which, if they be
not laid to virtue, will lay themselves to that which may rout a
commonwealth.

To come from the face of the Senate to the constitution and
use of the parts: it is contained in the peculiar orders. And the
orders which are peculiar to the Senate, are either of election
or instruction.

Elections in the Senate are of three sorts: annual, biennial,
and extraordinary.

Annual elections are performed by the schedule called the
tropic; and the tropic consists of two parts: the one containing
the magistrates, and the other the councils to be yearly elected.
The schedule or tropic of the magistrates is as follows in --