608.  De his Plin. epist. 42. lib. 2. et Tacit.  Annal. 13. lib.

609.  Vide Brisonium de regno Perse lib. 3. de his et Vegetium, lib. 2. cap. 3. de Annona.

610.  Not to make gold, but for matters of physic.

611.  Bresonius Josephus, lib. 21. antiquit.  Jud. cap. 6.  Herod. lib. 3.

612.  So Lod.  Vives thinks best, Comineus, and others.

613.  Plato 3. de leg.  Aediles creari vult, qui fora, fontes, vias, portus,
     plateas, et id genus alia procurent.  Vide Isaacum Pontanum de civ. 
     Amstel. haec omnia, &c.  Gotardum et alios.

614.  De Increm. urb. cap. 13.  Ingenue fateor me non intelligere cur
     ignobilius sit urbes bene munitas colere nunc quam olim, aut casae
     rusticae praesse quam urbi.  Idem Urbertus Foliot, de Neapoli.

615.  Ne tantillum quidem soli incultum relinquitur, ut verum sit ne
     pollicem quidem agri in his regionibus sterilem aut infoecundum
     reperiri.  Marcus Hemingias Augustanus de regno Chinae, l. 1. c. 3.

616.  M. Carew, in his survey of Cornwall, saith that before that country
     was enclosed, the husbandmen drank water, did eat little or no bread,
     fol. 66, lib. 1. their apparel was coarse, they went bare legged,
     their dwelling was correspondent; but since enclosure, they live
     decently, and have money to spend (fol. 23); when their fields were
     common, their wool was coarse, Cornish hair; but since enclosure, it
     is almost as good as Cotswol, and their soil much mended.  Tusser. cap.
     52 of his husbandry, is of his opinion, one acre enclosed, is worth
     three common.  The country enclosed I praise; the other delighteth not
     me, for nothing of wealth it doth raise, &c.

617.  Incredibilis navigiorum copia, nihilo pauciores in aquis, quam in
     continenti commorantur.  M. Ricceus expedit. in Sinas, l. 1. c. 3.

618.  To this purpose, Arist. polit. 2. c. 6. allows a third part of their
     revenues, Hippodamus half.

619.  Ita lex Agraria olim Romae.

620.  Hic segetes, illic veniunt felicius uvae, Arborei faetus alibi, atque
     injussa virescunt Graminia.  Virg. 1.  Georg.

621.  Lucanus, l. 6.

622.  Virg.

623.  Joh.  Valent.  Andreas, Lord Verulam.

624.  So is it in the kingdom of Naples and France.

625.  See Contarenus and Osorius de rebus gestis Emanuelis.

626.  Claudian l. 7.  “Liberty never is more gratifying than under a pious
     king.”

627.  Herodotus Erato lib. 6.  Cum Aegyptiis Lacedemonii in hoc congruunt,
     quod eorum praecones, tibicines, coqui, et reliqui artifices, in
     paterno artificio succedunt, et coquus a coquo gignitur, et paterno
     opere perseverat.  Idem Marcus polus de Quinzay.  Idem Osorius de
     Emanuele rege Lusitano.  Riccius de Sinia.