Numb. 356.
Mercurius Politicus,
COMPRISING
The sum of Forein Intelligence, with
the Affairs now on foot in the three Nations
OF
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, & IRELAND.
For Information of the People.
------ It à vertere Seria {Horat. de
Ar. Poet.
From Thursday April. 2. to Thursday April 9. 1657.
From Oceana, April 1.
SIR,
I Desire you would not fool your fingers any more
with your foolish Correspondent of Utopia; for,
the Agrarian-Wits of the five and fiftheth order,
of the Commonwealth of Oceana, do humbly
conceive, That no Government whatsoever is
of any Weight but in their Balance; and that if
you go to Venice to learn to Cog a Die with a
Balloting Box, you'll soon get money enough to
purchase a better Island then Utopia, and there you may erect a Commonwealth
of your own. For, (SIR) you are to know, its no great
Charge, when the accompt is call up, as it is set down by the learned