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 keep us in our Wits. Although if it be the black Broth which the Lacedemonians us'd, as some learned Authors are of Opinion, I grant it hath a sovereign Operation to strengthen politic Notions, especially such as concern Republics, and is the same which Lycurgus himself drank, when he form'd his Commonwealth; and among other excellent Constitutions, hit upon that excellent Law, that enjoins Women to wear Slits in their Petticoats, and Boys to steal Bread and Butter, as Plutarch writes in his Life; and I could wish Mr. Harrington may be desired by this Assembly to introduce it into his Oceana—But this is not that, which I purpose to propose at this Time, but something that does more immediately concern the present Government, which as yet we live under, for whose Service I suppose these Meetings are pe-