been taken up by the wheel of magistracy, had overturned the
chariot of the Senate. And those of Lacedaemon, as to things, had
not been so quiet when the Senate trashed their business, by
encroaching upon the result, if by the institution of the ephors
they had not brought it about again. So that if you allow not a
commonwealth her rotation, in which consists her equality, you
reduce her to a party, and then it is necessary that you be
physicians indeed, or rather farriers; for you will have strong
patients, and such as must be haltered and cast, or yourselves
may need bone-setters. Wherefore the councils of this
commonwealth, both in regard of their elections, and, as will be
shown, of their affairs, are uniform with the Senate in their
revolutions; not as whirlpits to swallow, but to bite, and with
the screws of their rotation to hold and turn a business (like
the vice of a smith) to the hand of the workman. Without engines
of which nature it is not possible for the Senate, much less for
the people, to be perfect artificers in a political capacity. But
I shall not hold you longer from --

The seventeenth order, "Directing biennial elections, or the
constitution of the orb of ambassador-in-ordinary, consisting of
four residences, the revolution whereof is performed in eight
years, and preserved through the election of one ambassador in
two years by the ballot of the Senate to repair to the Court of
France, and reside there for the term of two years; and the term
of two years being expired, to remove from thence to the Court of
Spain, there to continue for the space of two years, and thence
to remove to the State of Venice, and after two years' residence
in that city to conclude with his residence at Constantinople for
a like term of time, and so to return. A knight of the Senate, or