Now as to the third Mark of _Tyranny_, which is when Matters are so carried, that what is done tends more to the Profit and Will of the _Person governing_, than to that of the _governed_, or the Good of the _Commonwealth_; we shall hereafter prove, that the _Supreme_ Administration of the _Francogallican Kingdom was lodged in the Publick Annual Council of the Nation, which in After-Ages was called the Convention of the Three Estates_. For the Frame of this Government was the very same which the _Ancient Philosophers_, and among them _Plato_ and _Aristotle_ (whom _Polybius_ imitates) judged to be the best and most excellent in the World, as being made up and constituted of a Mixture and just Temperament of the three Kinds of Government, _viz._ the _Regal, Noble_, and _Popular_. Which Form of a _Commonwealth, Cicero_ (in his Books _de Republica_) prefers to all other whatsoever. For since a _Kingly_ and a _Popular_ Government do in their Natures differ widely from each other, it was necessary to add a _third_ and _middle State_ participating of both, _viz._ that of the _Princes_ or _Nobility_; who, by Reason of the Splendor and Antiquity of their Families, approach, in some Degree, to the _Kingly Dignity_; and yet, being _Subjects_, are upon that Account on the same Foot and Interest with the _Commons_. Now of the Excellency of this Temperament in a Commonwealth, we have a most remarkable Commendation in Cicero, taken by him out of _Plato_'s Books _de Republica_; which, because of its singular Elegancy, we shall here insert at length.