"Wherefore there is nothing in art or nature better qualified
for the result than this assembly. it is noted out of Cicero by
Machiavel, 'That the people, though they are not so prone to find
out truth of themselves as to follow custom or run into error yet
if they be shown truth, they not only acknowledge and embrace it
very suddenly, but are the most constant and faithful guardians
and conservators of it.' it is your duty and office, whereto you
are also qualified by the orders of this commonwealth, to have
the people as you have your hawks and greyhounds, in leashes and
slips, to range the fields and beat the bushes for them, for they
are of a nature that is never good at this sport, but when you
spring or start their proper quarry. Think not that they will
stand to ask you what it is, or less know it than your hawks and
greyhounds do theirs; but presently make such a flight or course,
that a huntsman may as well undertake to run with his dogs, or a
falconer to fly with his hawk, as an aristocracy at this game to
compare with the people. The people of Rome were possessed of no
less a prey than the empire of the world, when the nobility
turned tails, and perched among daws upon the tower of monarchy.
For though they did not all of them intend the thing, they would
none of them endure the remedy, which was the agrarian.
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