country villages, our cities are less, is nothing to the purpose: put
three hundred or four hundred villages in a shire, and every village
yield a gentleman, what is four hundred families to increase one of
our cities, or to contend with theirs, which stand thicker? And
whereas ours usually consist of seven thousand, theirs consist of
forty thousand inhabitants.

569. Maxima pars victus in carne consistit. Polyd. Lib. 1. Hist.

570. Refraenate monopolii licentiam, pauciores alantur otio, redintegretur
agricolatio, lanificium instauretur, ut sit honestum negotium quo se
exerceat otiosa illa turba. Nisi his malis medentur, frustra exercent
justitiam. Mor. Utop. Lib. 1.

571. Mancipiis locuples eget aeris Cappadocum rex. Hor.

572. Regis dignitatis non est exercere imperium in mendicos sed in
opulentos. Non est regni decus, sed carceris esse custos. Idem.

573. Colluvies hominum mirabiles excocti solo, immundi vestes foedi visu,
furti imprimis acres, &c.

574. Cosmog. lib. 3. cap. 5.

575. "Let no one in our city be a beggar."

576. Seneca. Haud minus turpia principi multa supplicia, quam medico multa
funera.

577. Ac pituitam et bilem a corpore (11. de leg.) omnes vult exterminari.

578. See Lipsius Admiranda.

579. De quo Suet. in Claudio, et Plinius, c. 36.

580. Ut egestati simul et ignaviae occurratur, opificia condiscantur,
tenues subleventur. Bodin. l. 6. c. 2. num. 6,7.

581. Amasis Aegypti rex legem promulgavit, ut omnes subditi quotannis
rationem redderent unde viverent.

582. Buscoldus discursu polit. cap. 2. "whereby they are supported, and do
not become vagrants by being less accustomed to labour."

583. Lib. 1. de increm. Urb. cap. 6.

584. Cap. 5. de increm. urb. Quas flumen, lacus, aut mare alluit.

585. Incredibilem commoditatem, vectura mercium tres fluvii navigabiles,
&c. Boterus de Gallia.

586. Herodotus.

587. Ind. Orient. cap. 2. Rotam in medio flumine constituunt, cui ex
pellibus animalium consutos uteres appendunt, hi dum rota movetur,
aquam per canales, &c.

588. Centum pedes lata fossa 30. alta.

589. Contrary to that of Archimedes, who holds the superficies of all
waters even.

590. Lib. 1. cap. 3.

591. Dion. Pausanias, et Nic. Gerbelius. Munster. Cosm. Lib. 4. cap. 36. Ut
brevior foret navigatio et minus periculosa.

592. Charles the great went about to make a chan