"There is some twelve miles distant the convallium upon the
river Halcionia, for the tribunes and the prerogative, a palace
capable of 1,000 men; and twenty miles distant you have Mount
Celia, reverend as well for the antiquity as state of a castle
completely capable of the Senate, the proposers having lodgings
in the convallium, and the tribunes in Celia, it holds the
correspondency between the Senate and the people exactly And it
is a small matter for the proposers, being attended with the
coaches and officers of state, besides other conveniences of
their own, to go a matter of five or ten miles (those seats are
not much farther distant) to meet the people upon any heath or
field that shall be appointed: where, having despatched their
business, they may hunt their own venison (for I would have the
great walled park upon the Halcionia to belong to the signory,
and those about the convallium to the tribunes) and so go to
supper. Pray, my lords, see that they do not pull down these
houses to sell the lead of them; for when -- you have considered
on it, they cannot be spared. The founders of the school in Hiera
provided that the boys should have a summer seat. You should have
as much care of these magistrates. But there is such a selling,
such a Jewish humor in our republicans, that I cannot tell what
to say to it; only this, any man that knows what belongs to a
commonwealth, or how diligent every nation in that case has been
to preserve her ornaments, and shall see the waste lately made
(the woods adjoining to this city, which served for the delight
and health of it, being cut down to be sold for threepence), will
you tell that they who did such things would never have made a
commonwealth.
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