She considers a field, and buys it:
with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. She perceives
that her merchandise is good. She stretches forth her hands to
the poor. She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for
all her household are clothed with scarlet. She makes herself
coverings of tapestry. her clothing is silk and purple. Her
husband is known (by his robes) in the gates, when he sits among
the senators of the land." The gates, or inferior courts, were
branches, as it were, of the Sanhedrim, or Senate, of Israel. Nor
is our commonwealth a worse housewife, nor has she less regard to
her magistrates; as may pear by --
The twenty-fifth order, "That, whereas the public revenue is
through the late civil wars dilapidated, the excise, being
improved or improvable to the revenue of ?1,000,000, be applied,
for the space of eleven years to come, to the reparation of the
same, and for the present maintenance of the magistrates,
knights, deputies, and other officers, who, according to their
several dignities and functions, shall annually receive toward
the support of the same, as follows:
"The lord strategus marching, is, upon another account, to
have field-pay as general.
Per Annum
The lord strategus sitting.
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