64 OF GENERAL NATURALIZATION. 



collected out of the records of time, which is this : 

 that wheresoever several kingdoms or estates have 

 been united in sovereignty, if that union hath not 

 been fortified and bound in with a farther union, and 

 namely, that which is now in question, of naturaliza 

 tion, this hath followed, that at one time or other 

 they have broken again, being upon all occasions apt 

 to revolt and relapse to the former separation. 



Of this assertion the first example which I will 

 set before you, is of that memorable union which 

 was between the Romans and the Latins, which con 

 tinued from the battle at the lake of Regilla, for 

 many years, unto the consulships of C. Plautius and 

 L. ./Emilius Mamercus.* At what time there began, 

 about this very point of naturalization, that war 

 which was called &quot; Bellum sociale,&quot; being the most 

 bloody and pernicious war that ever the Roman state 

 endured : wherein, after numbers of battles and in 

 finite sieges and surprises of towns, the Romans in 

 the end prevailed and mastered the Latins ; but as 

 soon as ever they had the honour of the war, looking 

 back into what perdition and confusion they were 

 near to have been brought, they presently natura 

 lized them all. You speak of a naturalization in 

 blood ; there was a naturalization indeed in blood. 



Let me set before you again the example of 

 Sparta, and the rest of Peloponnesus their associates. 

 The state of Sparta was a nice and jealous state in 



* 169 years after that battle. There are extant at this day 

 coins or medals, in memory of a battle fought by this C. Plautius 

 at Privernum. Another copy hath of T. Manlius and P. Decius. 





