Wherefore that
nothing be done rashly or without the consent of the people,
such, of what party soever, with whom there may remain any doubts
or difficulties, are desired with all convenient speed to address
themselves to the said prytans; where, if such objections,
doubts, or difficulties receive solution to the satisfaction of
the auditory, they shall have public thanks, but if the said
objections, doubts, or difficulties receive no solution to the
satisfaction of the auditory, then the model promulgated shall be
reviewed, and the party that was the occasion of the review,
shall receive public thanks, together with the best horse in his
Highness's stable, and be one of the Council of Legislators. And
so God have you in his keeping."
I should now write the same Council of the Prytans, but for
two reasons: the one, that having had but a small time for that
which is already done, I am over-labored; the other, that there
may be new objections. Wherefore, if my reader has any such as to
the model, I entreat him to address himself by way of oration, as
it were, to the prytans, that when this rough draught comes to be
a work, his speech being faithfully inserted in this place, may
give or receive correction to amendment; for what is written will
be weighed.
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