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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87139	Valerius and Publicola: or, The true form of a popular commonwealth extracted e puris naturalibus. By James Harrington.	Harrington, James, 1611-1677.	1659 (1659)	Wing H824; Thomason E1005_13; ESTC R202585	21,762	40

a good part of the Lake antiently called Lucrine into the Sea Val. VVhat will you infer from hence Pub. VVhy that the new and extraordinary generation of a Star or of a Mountain no more causeth a Star or a Mountain to be a new thing in nature then the new and extraordinary generation of a Commonwealth causeth a Commonwealth to be a new thing in nature Aristole reports that the Nobility of Tarantum being cut off in a Battel that Commonwealth became popular And if the Powder-Plot in England had destroyed the King and the Nobility it is possible that popular Government might have risen up in England as the Mountain did at Putzuoli Yet for all these would there not have been any new thing in nature Val. Some new thing through the blending of unseen causes there may seem to be in shuffling but nature will have her course there is no other then the old game Pub. Valerius let it rain or be fair weather the Sun to the dissolution of nature shall ever rise but it is now set and I apprehend the mist Val. Dear Publicola your health is mine own I bid you goodnight Pub. Goodnight to you Valerius Val. One word more Publicola pray make me a present of those same Papers and with your leave and license I will make use of my memory to commit the rest of this Discourse unto writing and Print it Pub. They are at your disposing Val. I will not do it as hath been done but with your name to it Pub. VVhether way you like best most noble Valerius Octob. 22. 1659. A sufficient Answer to Mr. Stubbe THere is a Book newly put forth by Mr. Stubbe intituled A Letter to an Officer c. which in brief comes to this That he would have a select Senate for Life consisting of Independents Anabaptists Fifth Monarchy-men and Quakers for which he is pleased to quote Deut. 23. that he would have all such as adhered unto the Parliament against Sir G. Booth to be inrolled as the people of England That he would have all the rest of the people of England to be Holo●● Gibe●niter or Paysams This Book I have read and I have heard a Tale of one who to get something pretended the shewing of a strange Bea●● an Horse and no Horse with the Tayl standing where the Head should stand which when all came to all was a Mare with her Tayl ty'd to the Manger the lively Emblem of an Oligarchy Mr. Stubbe pretending to shew his Learning takes those things as it were changing the sex of them which I have written and in his writings turns their tails unto the Manger Now this as to the unlearned Reader is that upon which it is to no purpose to move any controversie and as to the learned I need no more then appeal whether in their proper stables or in the best Authors the heads of them stand as I have set them or the tails as Mr. Stubbe hath set them Only let me say That as to a select Senate understanding thereby a Senate not elected by the people there is no more of this in all story then the Senate of Rome only Whence it is undeniable by any man of common understanding that a select Senate bringeth in a select interest that a select interest causeth feud between that select interest and the common interest and so between the Senate and the popular Assembly which coal in England it is fitter for such as Mr. Stubbe and his Patrons to blow then for such as understand story Government or common honesty But their Reasons who decry the possibility or plausibility of such Acts or Orders as these it pleaseth him to call high Rodomontado's Now which are the higher Rodomontado's these or those which he useth in flourishing the Justitia of Anagon a patch in a Monarchy which his design is to translate by a select Senate into a Commonwealth I leave any man to judge even by the testimony of his own Authour Blanca and in a place cited by himself though not so well rendered Our ancestors saith Blanca have three ways secured our liberties by the Justitia by the great POWER of the Ricos hombres now he speaks and by the priviledge of the union The first was a civil and forensick curb a gown the second was a domestick and more restraining one I think so the purse and thence the power the third popular and warlike an excellent Militia Now let any man say even after Blanca if without the Nobility in whom was the balance of this Monarchy and their retainers and dependants of which consisted the Militia this Court of the poor Gown-man called Justitia must not have been a very likely thing to restrain a Prince or consider whether without this same Mummery of the Arragonians Houses of Peers and of Commons in other Monarchies have not every whit as much restrained their Kings and more seeing this toy as at every election of the Magistrate called Justitia it received not breath but from a King was blown away by a King His other instances as the thirty six Curators of the Publick appointed unto Lewis the eleventh of France by the three Estates and the twenty five select Peers given unto King John of England were like shifts and had less effect Security in Government must be from entireness of form and entireness of form must be from soundness or rightness of foundation But Mr. Stubbe founding himself upon the Authority of Aristotle That the Western parts are not capable of a right Commonwealth is declaredly for a wrong Commonwealth in England He minds not that Venice for the capacity is a righter Commonwealth then was ever any in Greece nor that the present State of England is of a far different if not a quite contrary nature to that of the Western parts in the time of Aristotle FINIS