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order_n	divers_a	establish_v	great_a	32	3	2.1187	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59396	A most excellent eloquent speech made, not by an irreligious, rebellious, improbous, impious, sedicious, pestiferous, pernicious, factious, flagitious, vicious, vafritious, mischievous, malicious, mutinous, luxurious, letcherous, &c. noble peer, but by a most noble and wise pious and vertuous emperor, viz., Alexander Severus to the common people of Rome, assembled before him in Pompey's Theatre : with the causes, as likewise the effects thereof, which were an humble and real cordial verbal address, to his imperial majesty, of all their lives and fortunes : being a rare pattern of pagan piety and obedience : with a few quintessential queries and remarques thereupon : calculated for the meridian of the famous city of London, buy may prove of singualr service and infallible use to all the atheistical, dissenting, disloyal, and phanatical subjects of His Sacred Majesty of Great-Brittain, France, and Ireland, &c. without the least preceptible error or mistake in the world / made English out of Greek.	Severus Alexander, Emperor of Rome, 208-235.	1683 (1683)	Wing S2818; ESTC R2688	10,392	20

there any other thing privately acted to our Detriment that hath displeased us And as for our accustomed Manners which so well liked and contented you we shall assure you we have not alter'd neither intend we to alter them For Tyranny as we have ever had it in extream detestation so do we now most fervently abominate and abhorr it The Corrupt Nature of our Predecessor had never place in us One Garden at one time brings forth deadly Poyson and wholesome Medicine We see that one Woman which by one Man hath many Children of them some be fair and personable some ill-favour'd and Deform'd some be Ingenious and apt to receive good Learning others we see be Fools and dull-witted one we see is Courageous and Hardy another is a Dastard and a Coward this Child is gentle and inclin'd to vertue that 's fierce and full of Vice Now this is no new thing but in daily experience and if this diversity and varity then happens to be in one Garden and in the Generation of one Father and also of one Mother then I hope we may well escape the cause of this Suspicion We and Heliogabalus had several Fathers and several Mothers and they as different in their Conditions as you your selves can bear witness who have known and seen experienced the Chaste living Sanctity and Prudence of our Reverend Mother and in what vertuous Discipline She hath nurtur'd us and brought us up unto the time that we were called to this Dignity by God and this ought certainly to suffice as well to persuade you that not any thing concerning our self hath moved us to displeasure towards you as also to Exclude all suspicion of Tyranny out of your minds and now shall you know the real cause why we be at this time discontented with you Although we said at the beginning that you went about to dissolve this Empire destroy this City and extinguish the Glorious Fame thereof which indeed is the cause of our displeasure and heaviness yet in those general Words you perceive not I suppose what we mean thereby wherefore be attentive and take good heed and you shall hear it more particularly declared unto you After Romulus had Built this City Romulus he by his Divine Reason considered and as I doubt not in the time of the Building Experience declared That in a confused multitude of People and they being of divers Wits and Conditions if Order were wanting there would be no perpetual Concord but the People of necessity would be compell'd by continual variance and discord either to abandon the City and dividing themselves to seek for sundry places to inhabit in or else abiding there in continual Sedition would shortly and easily be subdued or destroyed by their Neighbors dwelling about them Wherefore he proceeding from a Gentile and Noble House excelling the residue of the people in Noble Courage and fineness of Wit first devised and established this Order viz. That the Company which he had Assembled as well of them which he had brought unto him as of those which he out of divers parts had allured with him should generally be called by the Name of Romans for ever and that of them should be Three States or Degrees every one of them necessary for the Weal-Public of his Noble City in their sundry Administrations Stations Duties and Exercises For the first State he chose out of the whole Congregation an hundred Men Ancient in years which in Moderation of Living Soberness of Manners and sharpness of Wit were the principall Personages of all that number Of these he Estabished a Council whereby the Affairs of the City and the Appendices thereof should be Ruled and Ministred and these Counsellors for their Age should be called Senators Senators for Senes in Latine signifies old Men notwithstanding being saluted or spoken to they should be named Fathers as also the College or Company of them was Incorporate by the Name of the Senate Moreover out of this College should be Elected the chief Judges and Officers in the Weal-Public to whom should be committed the determination of Justice the Execution of Ceremonies and Solemn Sacrifices and other Authorities which belong to Government Wherefore he would that in this State there should be a Majesty which of all other Men should be had in singular Honour and Reverence Now as this State was ordained for Counsel and Government so likewise he Elected out of the redsidue which were Lusty in years Valiant Hardy and Courageous a greater number whom because in Wars they should be on Horse-back he called Equites Equites Equestris and the other he called Equestris to them should chiefly pertain the defence of the City against the Invasion of Enemies with other small Administrations about the necessary Provisions and Ornaments of this Noble City And this State also would he have Honoured of the rest of the People and to the intent they should be known from other Men he assigned them to wear a Ring and to bear Javelins in their hands from whence afterwards they were called Quirites Quirites which in the ancient Tongue of this Country signified Spear-Men Out of this State should be Elected the Senators when the just number of the Senate decayed The third State was of the base People The Commoners or Commoners to whom severally should not be Commited any Authority but should imploy and busie themselves in their proper Occupations and be ready at all times to Execute the Statutes and Ordinances made by the Senate Note That Romulus was none of the three States as also to be obedient to the chief Officers in what pertained to the Weal-Public And moreover when Wars requir'd that they should go forth then were they to be obedient and diligent at the Commands of their Captains and Leaders This Order being Established by Romulus as long as in every degree it was duely observed how marvelously did this City prosper yea how wonderfully did a few Romans in respect not only defend this little Territory against the great number and vast Puissance of divers and sundry people confederated against them but also beat them back to their own houses entred into their Cities despoil'd them of their substance and also compell'd them not only to desire perpetual Peace but moreover at the last to become their Subjects and Tributaries And when this good Order began to be broken your Common State aspiring to Government and Rule where they were ordain'd to obey only What Year I pray can ye find free from Sedition and Discord among you Who can number the Romans which have been slain in Civil Wars and Commotions Who could without tears The Ld. Russel would call these but Stirrs write the dolorous State of this City in the time of Cinna and Marius whom for disdain that they had for the Nobility you Elevated to the highest Dignities By this your Disorder sundry Calamities befell this City you chose Caligula to be your Emperor