cause, if I had time, I should open in this place the Empire of
Germany, and the Kingdoms of France, Spain, and Poland; but so
much as has been said being sufficient for the discovery of the
principles of modern prudence in general, I shall divide the
remainder of my discourse, which is more particular, into three
parts:

The first, showing the constitution of the late monarchy of
Oceana;

The second, the dissolution of the same; and

The third, the generation of the present commonwealth.

The constitution of the late monarchy of Oceana is to be
considered in relation to the different nations by whom it has
been successively subdued and governed. The first of these were
the Romans, the second the Teutons, the third the Scandians, and
the fourth the Neustrians.

The government of the Romans, who held it as a province, I
shall omit, because I am to speak of their provincial government
in another place, only it is to be remembered here, that if we
have given over running up and down naked, and with dappled
hides, learned to write and read, and to be instructed with good
arts, for all these we are beholden to the Romans, either
immediately or mediately by the Teutons; for that the Teutons had
the arts from no other hand is plain enough by their language,
which has yet no word to signify either writing or reading, but
what is derived from the Latin. Furthermore, by the help of these