UNION OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 9 



because it was the best state of the world, and is the 

 best example of this point, \ve will chiefly insist 

 thereupon. 



In the antiquities of Rome, Virgil bringeth in 

 Jupiter by way of oracle or prediction speaking of 

 the mixture of the Trojans and the Italians : 



Sermonem Ausonii patrium moresque tenebunt : 

 Utque est, nomen erit : commixti corpore tantum 

 Subsident Teucri ; morem ritusque sacrorum 

 Adjiciam : faciamque omnes uno ore Latinos. 

 Hinc genus, Ausonio mixtum quod sanguine surget, 

 Supra homines, supra ire Deos pietate videbis. 



.En. xii. 834. 



Wherein Jupiter maketh a kind of partition or dis 

 tribution : that Italy should give the language and 

 the laws ; Troy should give a mixture of men, and 

 some religious rites ; and both people should meet 

 in one name of Latins. 



Soon after the foundation of the city of Rome, 

 the people of the Romans and the Sabines mingled 

 upon equal terms : wherein the interchange went so 

 even, that, as Livy noteth, the one nation gave the 

 name to the place, the other to the people. For 

 Rome continued the name, but the people were 

 called Quirites, which was the Sabine word, derived 

 of Cures the country of Tatius. 



But that which is chiefly to be noted in the 

 whole continuance of the Roman government ; they 

 were so liberal of their naturalizations, as in effect 

 they made perpetual mixtures. For the manner 

 was to grant the same, not only to particular persons, 



