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That one soueraygne gouernour ought to be in a publyke weale. And what damage hath happened, wher a multytude hath hadde equall auctorite without any soue∣raygne. Cap. ii.
LYke as to a castel or fortres, suffiseth one owner or soue∣raign, and where any mo be of like power and authorite, seldome cometh the warke to perfection, or beynge all redy made, where the one diligently ouer∣seth, & the other neglecteth, in that conten tion all is subuerted and cōmeth to ruyne, In sēblable wise doth a publike weale, that hath no chiefe gouernours than one. Ex∣ample we may take of the Grekes, amonge whom in diuers cities, weare diuers four∣mes of publyke weales, gouerned by mul∣titudes: wherin one was moste tollerable, where the gouernance and rule was alway permitted to them, which excelled in ver∣tue, and was in the Greke tonge called A∣ristocratia, in latin Optimorum Potentia, in englishe, the rule of mē of best disposition. which the Chebanes of lōg time obserued.
¶ An other publyque weale was amonge the Atheniensis, where equalytye was of