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them all;OF THE DRUIDS. 199for they are, as many as be of them, dividedonely by narrow channels.This )vin^ hasnothing* of his own, but shares of every thins^ thatevery man has. He is by certain hiws obhs^'d toobserve equity: and lest avarice shou'd make himdeviate from the right way, he learns justice frompoverty; as having no manner of property, being'maintained upon the public expence. He has notas much as a wife of his own, but by certain turnsmakes use of any woman towards whom he hasan inclination; whence it happens, that he hasneither the desire nor the hope of any children."'Tis pity this author has not specify 'd those laws,by which equity was prescribed to the Hebudianmonarch, in injoying what was proper for him ofother men's goods : and that he has not told us,how those vicissitudes were regulated, whereby hehad the temporary use of other men's wives, whonevertheless were to father all the children. AsI showed thispassage one day to a couple of myfriends, one of them readily agreed, that the statemust needs find their account in this constitution;both as it sav*d theexpence of treasure in maintaininga numerous royal progeny, and as it sav'dthe expence of blood in settling their several claimsrum. Ad sequitatem certis Legibus stringitur; ac, ne aTaritUdivertat a Tero, discit paupertatc justitiam : utpote cui nihil sitrei familiaris, verum alitur e publico. Nulla illi datur fcemiua.• propria ; sod per vicissi(udines, in quacunque commotus »it, usurariamsurait uud« ci wee Totum, nee spee, Libarorura. Cerp. 22#